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It starts with a Ouija board. 玛丽亚和莉莉, roommates and girlfriends at the prestigious Acheron Academy, 买冲浪板是为了好玩, but after it moving on it’s own, strange shadows on the walls, and a fallen chandelier, their lives begin to change…for the worse. Billed as a story of revenge, Robin Talley’s 当我降临 is a riveting retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for a modern audience. At Acheron, Delilah Dufrey is the queen. She’s ranked first in the Senior class, captain of the soccer team, and she’s the “unanimously elected homecoming queen” (33). She’s also the first in line for the Cawdor Kingsley Foundation阅读更多→

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尽管他很温暖, 友好的, 和慷慨的天性, junior Lawrence Barry is on the verge of expulsion for his actions at a diversity assembly at Meridian High School while stoned.  Because his father is a powerful attorney of the law firm Barry, Yu and Singh and because his counsellor Mr. Lunley believes Lawrence has potential and simply needs to channel his energies in more positive directions, the expulsion hearing is thwarted.   However, with his dad’s threat of Langdon Military Academy hanging over his head, with Mr. Lunley’s having recruited him for the Buddy Club, and with Principal Stone scrutinizing his every action, 劳伦斯必须改革阅读更多→

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Readers who enjoy reading fantasy-adventure stories like the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull or the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer will likely find pleasure in the Secrets of the Pied Piper series by Matthew Cody. 在魔术师的钥匙里, the second book in Cody’s series, thirteen-year-old Max Weber and her younger brother Carter are separated after the Pied Piper used Carter to free himself from imprisonment in the Black Tower.  What had begun as a quick research trip to German so that Max’s father could work on his new book turned into something stranger than fiction.  Now Max’s parents are missing, her brother is阅读更多→

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热爱科学的女孩, 工程, and creativity; girls who are subversive and revolutionary; and girls who have moxie—that’s what 只有麻烦 by Jacqueline Davies is made of–forget sugar and spice and everything nice!  Although this is mostly Maggie Gallagher’s and Lena Polachev’s story, it is also the story of Grandpop, 夫人. 加拉格尔,夫人. Dornbusch, and any number of other secondary characters who reveal their ability to face difficulty with spirit, 勇气, 的决心, 和态度. 故事发生在小川川, a small town where the humiliations of childhood follow an individual forever, the plot of Davies’ book revolves around the town’s middle school, 它的老师, 学生,阅读更多→

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In: 历史小说(YA), 神秘 & 悬念(是的), 科幻小说 & 幻想(是的), Young Adult Book Reviews
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如果诗人, 音乐家, 画家, and actors—who have art and talent in their blood—could use their craft to weave magic, much like the magic that scientists work with chemical reactions, cymatics, and other means to make the impossible suddenly appear possible?  This is only one of the questions that Destiny Soria explores in her debut book, 铁铸.  Her plot and its conflicts make readers think more deeply to wonder why society is so e年龄r to marginalize those who are different.  Although differences in socioeconomic circumstances, 语言, 种族, 年龄, 比赛, 的地方, 宗教, 除外, 性别, and health have potential to cause division, 这个世界可能是阅读更多→

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In: 现实主义小说(YA), 浪漫(是的), 科幻小说 & 幻想(是的), Young Adult Book Reviews
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The year is 2118 and New York City is home to the Tower, a skyscraper that spans dozens of blocks and has a total of one thousand floors, “the biggest structure on earth, a whole world unto itself” (7). Telling the sprawling story of five teen年龄 tower dwellers of varying 年龄s, 性别, 比赛, 塔的水平, Katharine McGee intersects their lives into 第一千层, a drama worthy of comparison to television’s Gossip Girl or Pretty Little Liars. Avery Fuller is the wealthiest of the main cast, living on top of the world on the thousandth floor. It’s no secret to her friends that her阅读更多→

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Two young people, one twelve and the other only thirteen, aspire to change the world. 霍布森·斯迈思是缪尔, an ordinary human from a remote settlement called Dusk where everything is “cold and dull, a tiny outpost smothered in snow and pine needles” (106).  Hazel Faeregine is mehrùn, a magical being who has lived her entire life sheltered from hardship in Impyria, where everything is “an explosion of colors and sound, swift riptides of people and money” (106).   Despite their different backgrounds, both Hob and Hazel wish to matter, 为了有所作为, and to fight the injustices they see. Hazel’s family has ruled the阅读更多→