Tuesday, April 20, 2010

New YA Books

The Dreamer - Pam Munoz Ryan and Peter Sis
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.

Enchanted Glass - Diana Wynne Jones
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives.

The Emperor's Code (Book 8 of The 39 Clues) - Gordon Korman
One belief has sustained fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, on their hunt for the 39 clues : they are the good guys. But then a shocking discovery about their parents shatters everything Amy and Dan think they know, dividing the two siblings for the first time ever. When Dan disappears in a country of more than a billion people. Amy has to make a terrible choice - find the next clue - or find her younger brother.

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