Han, Jenny
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Lauren Myracle, a popular teen author, sums up this book more eloquently than I can:
‘’If I could live inside this amazing book, I would. I would inhale the ocean air and soak up the sun, and I would hang out all day with kind-wonderful-funny-awkward Belly and her two known-‘em-forever buds, Jeremiah and Conrad. I’d watch the three of them stop being kids and start being more…and I’d hope hope hope that when Belly falls in love – ‘cause you know she will – she’d give her heart to the exact right boy.’’ (ROMANCE)
Grant, Michael
Hunger: A Gone Novel.
It’s been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the Fayz. Three months since all the adults disappeared. GONE. The food ran out weeks ago, everyone is starving, but no one wants to find a solution. More and more kids are evolving, developing supernatural abilities that set them apart from the ‘’normal’’ kids. Each kid is out for himself and even the goods turn murderous. And just to add to the mix, a sinister creature, The Darkness, that has been buried deep in the hills, has awakened….and it’s hungry!!! Sequel to Gone (SCI-FI)
Ibbitson, John
The Landing
Will Ben ever escape the Landing? The hardscrabble farm on the shores of Lake Muskoka can't generate a living, so Ben's Uncle Henry sells goods and gas to cottagers from the dock known as Cooks Landing. It had never been much of a living and since the Depression hit, it's even less. Ben's thinking a lot these days, and it's making him miserable. He's thinking about how unfair it is that his uncle only cares about work. He's thinking about what he really wants to do: play the violin. These days, he's lucky to snatch the odd bit of practice between chores, playing to the chickens in the henhouse. A new job fixing up the grand old cottage on nearby Pine Island seems at first to be just one more thing to keep Ben away from his violin. After he meets the island's owner, Ben changes his mind. Ruth Chapman is a cultured and wealthy woman from New York who introduces Ben to an unfamiliar, liberating world. After Ben plays violin for Ruth and her admiring friends, it only makes him more desperate to flee. Then, during a stormy night on Lake Muskoka, everything changes. Won the Governor General's Award for 2008 (HISTORICAL FICTION)
Smith, Roland
I.Q., book one: Independence Hall
Step-siblings Q (Quest) and Angela are thrust into the work of the U.S. Secret Service and the Israeli Mossad when Angela realizes she’s being followed, and Q learns the secret about Angela’s real mother – a former Secret Service agent who was supposedly killed by a terrorist group. But who are the good guys and who are the bad guys? I.Q. readers are immersed in current issues affecting the world in this edge-of-your-seat, modern-day mystery adventure. And did I mention the ‘rents are a pop group and their new hit is # 1 on the charts? Book two, the White House is to be published soon. (ADVENTURE)
