Clockwork Princess - Cassandra Clare
Infernal Devices, Book 3. When seventeen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray is kidnapped by the villainous Mortmain in his final bid for power, the London Institute rallies to save her, but is beset by danger and betrayal at every turn.
The Assassin's Curse - Cassandra Rose Clarke
Ananna of the Tanarau abandons ship when her parents try to marry her off to another pirate clan. But that only prompts the scorned clan to send an assassin after her. When Ananna faces him down one night, armed with magic she doesn't really know how to use, she accidentally activates a curse binding them together. To break the spell, Ananna and the assassin must complete three impossible tasks all while grappling with evil wizards, floating islands, haughty manticores, runaway nobility, strange magic...and the growing romantic tension between them. -- publisher
The Fire Horse Girl - Kay Honeyman
When Jade Moon, born in the unlucky year of the Fire Horse, and her father immigrate to America in 1923 and are detained at Angel Island Immigration Station, Jade Moon is determined to find a way through and prove that she is not cursed.
Hattie Ever After - Kirby Larson
In 1919, seventeen-year-old Hattie leaves the Montana prairie--and her sweetheart Charlie--to become a female reporter in San Francisco.
A Corner of White - Jaclyn Moriarty
Fourteen-year-old Madeleine of Cambridge, England, struggling to cope with
poverty and her mother's illness, and fifteen-year-old Elliot of the Kingdom of
Cello in a parallel world where colors are villainous and his father is missing,
begin exchanging notes through a crack between their worlds and find they can be
of great help to each other.
If You Find Me - Emily Murdoch
"There are some things you can't leave behind... A broken-down camper hidden
deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember.
The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot
being Carey's younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very
survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and
goes with greater frequency. Until that one fateful day their mother disappears
for good, and two strangers arrive. Suddenly, the girls are taken from the woods
and thrust into a bright and perplexing new world of high school, clothes and
boys. Now, Carey must face the truth of why her mother abducted her ten years
ago, while haunted by a past that won't let her go... a dark past that hides
many a secret, including the reason Jenessa hasn't spoken a word in over a year.
Carey knows she must keep her sister close, and her secrets even closer, or risk
watching her new life come crashing down"-- Provided by publisher
Scrivener's Moon - Philip Reeve
Book 3 in the Fever Crumb series. When she returns home after two years, Fever finds that her Scriven mother's creation, New London, the city on wheels, is nearly complete and ready to fight the nomad tribes of Britain--and Fever must journey to the north to find the ancient birthplace of the Scriven mutants and solve the mystery of her own past.
The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater -
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to
be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey,
one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he
has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix.
Hold Fast - Blue Balliett
Almost Home - Joan Bauer
"After escaping the ruthless desperados, master-of-disguise P.K. Pinkerton has
now set up a Private Eye business in Virginia City and is ready when a young
maid named Martha approaches him for help in escaping a killer"-- Provided by
publisher
Mistakes Were Made - Stephan Pastis
Third-grader Clementine's school field trip to Plimoth Plantation leads to all
kind of discoveries, from fourth grade eating rules to the source of the stink
on the bus.
Third Grade Angels - Jerry Spinelli
