Tuesday, January 22, 2013

New YA Fiction


Ruins - Orson Scott Card
To prevent the destruction of his planet, teenaged Rigg Sessamekesh, who can manipulate time, must assume more responsibility when he and others travel back 11,000 years to the arrival of human starships.

Reached - Ally Condie
The final book in the Matched trilogy. "In search of a better life, Cassia joins a widespread rebellion against Society, where she is tasked with finding a cure to the threat of survival and must choose between Xander and Ky."-- Provided by publisher

Now -  Morris Gleitzman
Sequel to: Then. While her physician-parents are working in Africa, eleven-year-old Zelda is living with her grandfather, eighty-year-old Holocaust-survivor Felix Salinger, in Australia, when a disaster leads them both to deal with unresolved feelings about the first Zelda, Felix's childhood friend.

A Beautiful Lie - Irfan Master
In the days leading up to the partition of India in 1947, thirteen-year-old Bilal devises an elaborate scheme to keep his dying father from hearing the news about the country's division.


Days of Blood and Starlight - Laini Taylor
Sequel to Daughter of Smoke and Bone. "The otherworldly Karou struggles to come to terms with who and what she is, and how far she'll go to avenge her people."-- Provided by publisher

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