March 5, 2013
A Touch Menacing by Leah Clifford
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
From Goodreads:
Eden
is dying. For real, this time.
She is crumbling to ash, and an unnatural plague is ravaging mortals and
immortals alike. With both Heaven and Hell out to destroy her, Eden can no longer tell the difference
between good and evil.
Friends become enemies. And enemies are everywhere.
But don't underestimate Eden.
She'll fight for her life, for the lives of those she loves, and for every life
she has ever touched.
She'll fight for revenge. For redemption. For—just maybe—the chance to be
mortal again.
Everything began with forbidden love.
What will be sacrificed at the bitter end?
Flowers in the Sky by Lynn Joseph
Publisher: HarperTeen
From Goodreads:
Fifteen-year-old Nina Perez is faced with a future she never
expected. She must leave her Garden of Eden, her lush home in the Dominican Republic, when she's sent by her
mother to seek out a better life with her brother in New York. As Nina searches for some glimpse
of familiarity amid the jarring world of Washington Heights,
she must uncover her own strength. She learns to uncover roots within foreign
soil and finds a way to grow, just like the orchids that blossom on her fire
escape. And when she is confronted by ugly secrets about her brother's
business, she comes to understand the realities of life in this new place. But
then she meets him-that green-eyed boy- who she can't erase from her thoughts,
the one who just might help her learn to see beauty in spite of tragedy.
Requiem (Delirium #3) by Lauren Oliver
Publisher: HarperTeen
From Goodreads:
They have tried to squeeze us out, to stamp us into
the past.
But we are still here.
And there are more of us every day.
Now an active member of the resistance, Lena
has been transformed. The nascent rebellion that was under way in Pandemonium
has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena
is at the center of the fight.
After rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena
and her friends fled to the Wilds. But the Wilds are no longer a safe
haven—pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the
government cannot deny the existence of Invalids. Regulators now infiltrate the
borderlands to stamp out the rebels, and as Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous
terrain, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland as the fiancée of the young mayor.
Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings.
Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it.
But we have chosen a different road.
And in the end, that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free
to choose.
We are even free to choose the wrong thing.
The Collector (Dante Walker #1) by Victoria Scott
Publisher: Entangled Teen
From Goodreads:
He makes good girls...bad.
Dante Walker is flippin’ awesome, and he knows it. His good looks, killer
charm, and stellar confidence have made him one of hell’s best—a soul
collector. His job is simple: weed through humanity and label those round rears
with a big red good or bad stamp. Old Saint Nick gets the good guys, and he
gets the fun ones. Bag-and-tag.
Sealing souls is nothing personal. Dante’s an equal-opportunity collector and
doesn't want it any other way. But he’ll have to adjust, because Boss Man has
given him a new assignment:
Collect Charlie Cooper’s soul within ten days.
Dante doesn't know why Boss Man wants Charlie, nor does he care. This
assignment means only one thing to him, and that’s a permanent ticket out of
hell. But after Dante meets the quirky Nerd Alert chick he’s come to collect,
he realizes this assignment will test his abilities as a collector…and uncover
emotions deeply buried
When We Wake (When We Wake #1) by Karen Healey
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
From Goodreads:
My name is Tegan Oglietti, and on the last day of my
first lifetime, I was so, so happy.
Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027--she's
happiest when playing the guitar, she's falling in love for the first time, and
she's joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental
collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice.
But on what should have been the best day of Tegan's life, she dies--and wakes
up a hundred years in the future, locked in a government facility with no idea
what happened.
Tegan is the first government guinea pig to be cryonically frozen and
successfully revived, which makes her an instant celebrity--even though all she
wants to do is try to rebuild some semblance of a normal life. But the future
isn't all she hoped it would be, and when appalling secrets come to light,
Tegan must make a choice: Does she keep her head down and survive, or fight for
a better future?
Let the Sky Fall (Let the Sky Fall #1) by Shannon Messenger
Publisher: Simon Pulse
From Goodreads:i
Seventeen-year-old Vane Weston has no idea how he survived
the category five tornado that killed his parents. And he has no idea if the
beautiful, dark-haired girl who’s swept through his dreams every night since
the storm is real. But he hopes she is.
Seventeen-year-old Audra is a sylph, an air elemental. She walks on the wind,
can translate its alluring songs, and can even coax it into a weapon with a simple
string of commands. She’s also a guardian—Vane’s guardian—and has sworn an oath
to protect Vane at all costs. Even if it means sacrificing her own life.
When a hasty mistake reveals their location to the enemy who murdered both of
their families, Audra’s forced to help Vane remember who he is. He has a power
to claim—the secret language of the West Wind, which only he can understand.
But unlocking his heritage will also unlock the memory Audra needs him to
forget. And their greatest danger is not the warriors coming to destroy
them—but the forbidden romance that’s grown between them.
The Murmurings by Carly Anne West
Publisher: Simon Pulse
From Goodreads:
Everyone thinks Sophie’s sister, Nell, went crazy. After
all, she heard strange voices that drove her to commit suicide. But Sophie
doesn’t believe that Nell would take her own life, and she’s convinced that
Nell’s doctor knows more than he’s letting on.
As Sophie starts to piece together Nell’s last days, every lead ends in a web
of lies. And the deeper Sophie digs, the more danger she’s in—because now she’s
hearing the same haunting whispers. Sophie’s starting to think she’s going
crazy too. Or worse, that maybe she’s not…
Unremembered by Jessica Brody
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
From Goodreads:i
When Freedom Airlines flight 121 went down over the Pacific Ocean, no one ever expected to find survivors.
Which is why the sixteen-year-old girl discovered floating among the
wreckage—alive—is making headlines across the globe.
Even more strange is that her body is miraculously unharmed and she has no
memories of boarding the plane. She has no memories of her life before the
crash. She has no memories period. No one knows how she survived. No one knows
why she wasn’t on the passenger manifest. And no one can explain why her DNA
and fingerprints can’t be found in a single database in the world.
Crippled by a world she doesn’t know, plagued by abilities she doesn’t
understand, and haunted by a looming threat she can’t remember, Seraphina
struggles to piece together her forgotten past and discover who she really is.
But with every clue only comes more questions. And she’s running out of time to
answer them.
Her only hope is a strangely alluring boy who claims to know her from before
the crash. Who claims they were in love. But can she really trust him? And will
he be able to protect her from the people who have been making her forget?
Legacy of the Clockwork Key (Secret Order #1) by Kristin Bailey
Publisher: Simon Pulse
From Goodreads:
When a fire consumes Meg’s home, killing her parents and
destroying both her fortune and her future, all she has left is the tarnished
pocket watch she rescued from the ashes. But this is no ordinary timepiece. The
clock turns out to be a mechanical key—a key that only Meg can use—that unlocks
a series of deadly secrets and intricate clues that Meg is compelled to follow.
Meg has uncovered evidence of an elite secret society and a dangerous invention
that some will stop at nothing to protect—and that Meg alone can destroy.
Together with the handsome stable hand she barely knows but hopes she can trust,
Meg is swept into a hidden world of deception, betrayal, and revenge.
The Nightmare Affair (Arkwell Academy #1) by Mindee Arnett
Publisher: TorTeen
From Goodreads:
Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at
night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare.
Literally.
Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell
Academy, a boarding
school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy, is hard
enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot
more complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his
dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a
murder.
Then Eli’s dream comes true.
Now Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli’s dreams and out of them—to
stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns
what she’s up to and marks her as the next target.
March 7, 2013
Orleans by Sherri L. Smith
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
From Goodreads:
After a string of devastating hurricanes and a severe
outbreak of Delta Fever, the Gulf
Coast has been
quarantined. Years later, residents of the Outer States are under the
assumption that life in the Delta is all but extinct… but in reality, a new
primitive society has been born.
Fen de la Guerre is living with the O-Positive blood tribe in the Delta when
they are ambushed. Left with her tribe leader’s newborn, Fen is determined to
get the baby to a better life over the wall before her blood becomes tainted.
Fen meets Daniel, a scientist from the Outer States who has snuck into the
Delta illegally. Brought together by chance, kept together by danger, Fen and
Daniel navigate the wasteland of Orleans.
In the end, they are each other’s last hope for survival.
Crap Kingdom by D.C. Pierson
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
From Goodreads:
THE CHOSEN ONE MUST BE RETRIEVED FROM EARTH
HE WILL BRING DOWN THE WALL AND RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO GLORY
HIS NAME IS TOM PARKING
With this mysterious yet oddly ordinary-looking prophecy, Tom's fate is sealed:
he's been plucked from his life and whisked away to a magical kingdom to be its
Chosen One.
There's just one problem: The kingdom is mostly made of garbage from Earth.
Okay, well, two problems: the king hates Tom. Also, the princess likes to wear
fake mustaches. And being Chosen One seems to consist mainly of cleaning out
rats' noses at the Royal Rat-Snottery.
So, basically, the kingdom sucks.
When Tom turns down the job of Chosen One, he thinks he's making a smart
decision. But when Tom discovers he's been replaced by his best friend Kyle,
who's always been cooler, more athletic, and better with girls, Tom wants Crap
Kingdom back—at any cost. And the hilarity that ensues will determine the fate
of the universe.
March 8, 2013
Senshi (Katana #2) by Cole Gibsen
Publisher: Flux
From Goodreads:
Rileigh Martin just wants to do normal teenage things, like
go on romantic dates with Kim, her boyfriend and past life soul mate. Although
that seems impossible when she’s the reincarnation of Senshi, a fifteenth
century samurai warrior. After a ninja ambush leaves her unable to control her
ki powers, Rileigh vows to get them under control before her friends lose more
than their eyebrows. But when Kim leaves her for his past life betrothed and
the other samurai stop talking to her, Rileigh realizes she doesn’t have any
friends left to worry about.
As the ninja attacks increase, Rileigh learns that the reincarnated kunoichi, a
powerful female ninja, wants to kill her in order to reclaim her destructive
powers. Alone and with increasingly unstable powers, Rileigh’s only offer of
help comes from Whitley, her sworn past life enemy. Rileigh knows she doesn’t
stand a chance against the kunoichi by herself, but Whitley’s sudden allegiance
might be hiding a much deadlier agenda.
The Culling (Torch Keeper #1) by Steven dos Santos
Publisher: Flux
From Goodreads:
Recruitment Day is here...if you fail, a loved one will
die...
For Lucian “Lucky” Spark, Recruitment Day means the Establishment, a
totalitarian government, will force him to become one of five Recruits
competing to join the ruthless Imposer task force. Each Recruit participates in
increasingly difficult and violent military training for a chance to advance to
the next level. Those who fail must choose an “Incentive”—a family member—to be
brutally killed. If Lucky fails, he’ll have to choose death for his only living
relative: Cole, his four-year-old brother.
Lucky will do everything he can to keep his brother alive, even if it means
sacrificing the lives of other Recruits’ loved ones. What Lucky isn’t prepared
for is his undeniable attraction to the handsome, rebellious Digory Tycho.
While Lucky and Digory train together, their relationship grows. But daring to
care for another Recruit in a world where love is used as the ultimate weapon
is extremely dangerous. As Lucky soon learns, the consequences can be deadly...
