CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2010
"Fans of science fiction and the strange will eat this up. (Science fiction. 12 & up)"
Intrepid teen regulator Jake Durango leads a daring pack of fearless freedom fighters in a dystopian future where humans rage against ferocious, porcine creatures called Drau, who prey upon human flesh.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2009
"Though the author gives most of the active roles to the grown-ups, leaving Jack and his science-crazy new friend Isadora largely observers, his feeling for oddball characters and twists recalls Adam Rex's The True Meaning of Smekday (2007) and should draw the same audience. (Science fiction. 11-13)"
A small band of more-or-less ordinary Earth humans takes on a galactic empire in Teague's first full-blown novel (Funny Farm, 2009, etc.).
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 22, 2009
"Fans of the author's previous works will not be disappointed, and it may appeal to science-fiction and fantasy fans with a taste for dry humor as well. (Fantasy. 14 & up)"
In a marked departure from her Victorian-era Gemma Doyle trilogy, Bray offers a novel about a road trip undertaken by surly Cameron, a 16-year-old mad cow–disease sufferer, Gonzo, his hypochondriac dwarf hospital roommate, and a sentient garden gnome who is actually the Norse god Balder.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 8, 2009
"Cyrus's illustrations are integral and pretty darn amusing, too. (Fiction. 9-14)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 1, 2007
"Inspired but problematic. (Fiction. 11-15)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Oct. 1, 2006
"Jolly good fun, all around. (Fiction. 10-14)"
The glory of Empire meets Star Trek in this space fantasy-picaresque that Edgar Rice Burroughs would have loved.
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