CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 12, 2010
"The author depicts the journey to overcome a legacy of poverty, violence, addiction and ignorance as an arduous one, but Vera's path glimmers with grace and hope. (Fiction. 14 & up)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2010
"Told in the third person, this stark, surreal story sends an alarm to heed the warning signs of climate change or suffer a similar fate. (Science fiction. 12 & up)"
A gritty teen betrays his father and flees his grim existence in a post–global-warming Gulf Coast village to protect a young woman he barely knows in this gripping futuristic thriller.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 2010
This debut novel about an English teen's abduction and imprisonment in the Australian outback unfolds as a letter from captive to captor.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 1, 2010
"A chilling, atmospheric story that will haunt readers with its descriptions of a desolate terrain and Sig's difficult decisions. (author's note) (Thriller. YA)"
"Even the dead tell stories," begins Sedgwick's slim yet taut and complex thriller about a family barely surviving in 1910 along the Swedish-Finnish border, 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Feb. 9, 2010
"Gorgeously lyrical, as abetted by Aitken's translation, and dreadfully bleak. (Fiction. 13 & up)"
The seventh graders of Tæring School are much like any others, until Pierre Anthon has an existential crisis, climbs a tree and refuses to come back to school.
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