Monday, March 11, 2013

New YA

Graphic Novels:


Beautiful Creatures: the manga by Kami Garcia --  In a graphic novel adaptation of the book, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.









Broxo by Zack Giallongo -- Broxo, the only surviving member of a tribe of barbarians, spends his time on a mountain hunting and avoiding the man-eating walking dead until everything changes when Zora, a foreign princess, arrives on the mountain seeking Broxo's lost tribe.








I, Witness by Norah McClintock -- Boone and Robbie witness a violent murder and decide to keep it to themselves, but then Robbie is murdered and another friend soon after. Boone decides he needs to figure out who is killing his friends. And why. Soon, the cops and the bad guys are after him, and Boone has to decide what the truth is worth.

Cat's Cradle. Book 1, The Golden Twine by Jo-Ann Fioux -- With monsters slipping through the mountains into the valley of Galatea, Suri, an orphan, dreams of becoming a monster tamer.

Fiction:

Odette's Secrets by Maryann MacDonald -- When Odette's father becomes a Nazi prisoner-of-war and the Paris police begin arresting Jews, her mother sends Odette to hide in the Catholic French countryside where she must keep many secrets to survive.








Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell -- Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits -- smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.
Feral Nights by  Smith

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