CHILDREN'S
Released: Feb. 22, 2011
Fever 1793 (Laurie Halse Anderson, 2000) meets Newes from the Dead (Mary Hooper, 2008) in this absorbing diary of a fictional teen who witnesses the epidemic unleashed on turn-of-the-20th-century New York by the infamous "Typhoid Mary."
Read full book review >
CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 12, 2010
"The novel is rich with detail, and both the Brooklyn and Paris settings provide important grounding for the haunting and beautifully told story. (Fiction. 14 & up)"
Andi Alpers, a 17-year-old music lover, is about to be expelled from her elite private school.
Read full book review >
CHILDREN'S
Released: April 22, 2009
"Enough, at least. (Science fiction. 13-15)"
With eco-thrillers rapidly becoming the new vampire romance, it takes a special one to stand out.
Read full book review >
CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2006
"Plausible science fiction with a frighteningly realistic reminder of recent tragedies here and abroad. (Fiction. YA)"
Sixteen-year-old Miranda begins a daily ten-month diary documenting the survival ordeal her rural Pennsylvania family endures when a large meteor's collision with the moon brings on destruction of the modern world and all its technological conveniences.
Read full book review >
CHILDREN'S
Released: May 9, 2006
"Brilliant. (Fiction. YA)"
Long before WWI changes the world of privilege she inhabits, Sasha's family tries to deny her ability to see death coming.
Read full book review >
CHILDREN'S
Released: March 14, 2006
"Beautiful and important. (Fiction. 12+)"
