The Unwanteds

Title: The Unwanteds Author: Lisa McMann ISBN: 9781442407688 Pages: 390 pages Publisher/Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, c2011. “I’m not sure we’re doing the right thing at all by holding him back.” Claire sighed. “[...] Alex is spending all his free time alone–and frankly, I don’t blame him. Everyone’s angry with him, and [...]

The Other Half of My Heart

Title: The Other Half of My Heart Author: Sundee T. Frazier ISBN: 9780385734400 Pages: 296 pages Publisher/Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., c2010. The location of their birth got them on the evening news all across the country, but what got just as much attention, if [...]

Wish

Title: Wish Author: Alexandra Bullen ISBN: 9780545130952 Pages: 323 pages Publisher/Date: Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., c2010. “Nobody skips town in the middle of the school year for no reason,” he continued, narrowing his eyes into little slits. Olivia shrugged, crossing and uncrossing her ankles and staring at a patch of weeds pushing up between [...]

Dangerous Neighbors

Title: Dangerous Neighbors Author: Beth Kephart ISBN: 9781606840801 Pages: 172 pages Publisher/Date: Egmont USA, c2010 Reviewed from ARC furnished by We Love YA Books Publication date Aug. 24, 2010 Since I realize ARCs (Advanced Reader Copy) are not the finalized book and can go through the editing process still, I figured I’d quote from GoodReads.com [...]

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

Title: The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Author: Michael Scott Narrator: Denis O’Hare ISBN: 9780739350324 Discs: 8 CDs / 10 hours 2 minutes Pages: 375 pages Publisher: Random House, Inc. c2007. The skin on the man’s hand was moving. It was slowly flowing, shifting viscously down into his sleeve: it looked as [...]

Thirteenth Child

Title: Thirteenth Child Author: Patricia C. Wrede ISBN: 9780545033428 Pages: 344 pages Publisher/Date: Scholastic Press, c2009. “Everybody knows that a seventh son is lucky. [...] Nobody seems to think much about all the other sons, or the daughters. There’s nearly always daughters, because hardly anybody has seven sons right in a row, boom, like that. [...]

Lost and Found

Title: Lost and Found Author: Andrew Clements Narrator: Keith Nobbs ISBN: 9780743572736 Discs: 3 CDs / 3 hours Publisher/Date: Audioworks, c2008. Jay said, “They think there’s only one of us. So only one of us has to go to school, and I’ve got it all planned out. It’s going to be great. We have to [...]

Flip

Title: Flip Author: David Lubar ISBN: 0765340488 Pages: 304 pages Pulisher/Date: Starscape, c2003. “There aren’t any interstellar spaceships,” she said, resuming her lecture. “There aren’t any aliens. And there aren’t any artifacts.” “Really?”…””Then what’s this?” Ryan asked, pointing at a bed of weeds near his feet?” (16) Twin eighth-graders Ryan and Taylor McKenzie are nothing [...]