CHILDREN'S
Released: March 17, 2011
"Delicious. (Fantasy. 14 & up)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 2009
"Making good on the promise of his Way of the Jaguar (2000), Stork delivers a powerful tale populated by appealing (and decidedly unappealing) characters and rich in emotional nuance. (Fiction. YA)"
In what turns out to be considerably more than just another tale told by an intelligent narrator with a spectrum disorder, 17-year-old Marcelo Sandoval gets a life-changing taste of the "real world" when he's forced to take a summer job in his father's law firm.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2008
"Prefaced by an outline of volume one, this can stand alone, but readers who finish both will feel that they have been part of a grand and special adventure. (Historical fiction. 14 & up)"
In the sequel to The Pox Party (2006), Octavian Nothing escapes the College of Lucidity and flees to British-controlled Boston, where he will swear fealty "to whoever offers emancipation with the greatest celerity."
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2008
"Grace-full, in every sense. (Fantasy. 14 & up)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2008
"Lighter than Looking for Alaska (2005), deeper than An Abundance of Katherines (2006) and reminiscent of Gregory Galloway's As Simple as Snow (2005)—a winning combination. (Mystery. 13 & up)"
Printz Medal Winner and Honoree Green knows what he does best and delivers once again with this satisfying, crowd-pleasing look at a complex, smart boy and the way he loves.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: July 1, 2008
"Readers willing to dive in will be eager for the sequel. (author's note) (Fantasy/alternate history. 13 & up)"
Adult novelist and scholarly author Davidson crafts a YA alternate-history/murder-mystery romp—and mostly pulls it off.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 25, 2008
"A funny feminist manifesto that will delight the anti–Gossip Girl gang. (Fiction. YA)"
This cerebral and offbeat comedy of manners will appeal to fans of John Green's An Abundance of Katherines (2006).
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 9, 2007
"Cameron's power is his ability to distill a particular world and social experience with great specificity while still allowing the reader to access the deep well of our shared humanity. (Fiction. YA)"
Cameron's meticulously voiced novel begins as a comedy of manners, wittily disarticulating a certain class of New Yorker, so it takes the reader awhile to catch onto the fact that it's actually a story about the psychological pain that comes from loneliness and the difficulty in making emotional connections.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Jan. 1, 2007
A teenager's coming of age undergoes particularly harsh annealing in this intense, inwardly focused survival tale.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2006
"Unusual and thoughtful, but ultimately unsuccessful. (Fiction. 10-14)"
The author's acknowledgement at the end of this work reveals that the last chapter was originally a short story that subsequently inspired the rest.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2006
"This is the Revolutionary War seen at its intersection with slavery through a disturbingly original lens. (Historical fiction. YA-adult)"
A historical novel of prodigious scope, power and insight, set against the backdrop of the Revolutionary War.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: March 14, 2006
"Beautiful and important. (Fiction. 12+)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: March 1, 2005
These ten new tales from Down Under take readers to worlds like, yet tantalizingly unlike, their own.
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THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING, TRAITOR TO THE NATION: VOLUME II, THE KINGDOM ON THE WAVES
