TMS Library BookBlog: August 2006

Aaah, summer vacation! A mere memory now, as work and grad. school fill up the hours of each day. Hopefully, the healing waters of Manitou Springs will sustain me through this semester!

But enough silliness! In the future, this blog will include reviews of books for my Children's and Young Adult Literature class. Stay tuned for new postings...

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Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Demon in My View
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches. (Also: In the Forests of the Night, Midnight Predator, Shattered Mirror)

Black, Holly. Valiant
Seventeen-year-old Valerie, who has befriended an unusual group, now is bound into service with a troll. (Also: Tithe, Ironside)

Bray, Libba. A Great and Terrible Beauty
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world. (Also: Rebel Angels, Sweet Far Thing)

Cabot, Meg. Jinx
Sixteen-year-old Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like.

Cabot, Meg. Mediator: Shadowland
After moving from New York to California with her newly married mother, 16-year-old Susannah has to cope not only with her new stepbrothers, but also with the handsome ghost sitting in her new bedroom and the angry girl ghost haunting her new school.
(Mediator Series)

Cast, P.C. Marked
Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird is Marked as a fledging vampire and joins the House of Night where she will train to become an adult vampire. (House of Night Series)

Clare, Cassandra. City of Bones
In her first meeting with the Shadowhunters, a secret tribe of warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons, Clary must come to terms with her recently revealed gift of the Sight while dealing with her brother's near-death encounter with a demon and the sudden disappearance of her mother. (Mortal Instruments Series)

Cole, Stephen. Wounded
Sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson and seventeen-year-old Kate Folan try to escape Kate's werewolf family--and fight becoming werewolves themselves--by making a cross-country journey in search of a mysterious man who might have a cure. (Wereling Series)

Croggon, Alison. The Naming
The further translation of a manuscript from the lost civilization of Edil-Amarandah which chronicles the experiences of sixteen-year-old Maerad, a gifted Bard, as she seeks the answer to the Riddle of the Treesong and continues to battle the Dark forces.
(Pellinor Series)

De la Cruz, Melissa. Blue Bloods
Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.

Dunkle, Clare B. Hollow Kingdom
In nineteenth-century England, a powerful sorcerer and King of the Goblins chooses Kate, the elder of two orphan girls recently arrived at their ancestral home, Hallow Hill, to be his bride and queen. (First book in a Trilogy)

Dunkle, Clare B. By These Ten Bones
After a mysterious young wood carver with a horrifying secret arrives in her small Scottish town, Maddie gains his trust--and his heart--and seeks a way to save both him and her townspeople from an ancient evil.

Gray, Claudia. Evernight
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.

Hahn, Mary Downing. Look for Me by Moonlight
While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.

Jones, Frewin. Faerie Path
Anita, an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl, is transported from modern-day London to the realm of Faerie where she discovers that she is Princess Tania, the long-lost daughter of King Oberon and Queen Titania.

Leavitt, Martine. Keturah and Lord Death
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.

Mancusi, Marianne. Boys that Bite
Bitten by a vampire after being mistaken for her Goth twin sister, Rayne, sixteen-year-old Sunny is in a race against time as she tries to prevent herself from becoming a vampire permanently. (Also: Stake That; Girls that Growl)

Marr, Melissa. Wicked Lovely
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.

Mead, Richelle. Vampire Academy
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots. (Vampire Academy Series)

Melling, O.R. Hunter’s Moon
Two teenage cousins, one Irish, the other from the United States, set out to find a magic doorway to the Faraway Country, where humans must bow to the little people. (Chronicles of Faerie Series)

Noel, Alyson. Evermore
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries. (The Immortals Series)

Schreiber, Ellen. Vampire Kisses
Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true. (Vampire Kisses Series)

Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Tantalize
When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.

Somper, Justin. Demons of the Ocean
When twins Connor and Grace's ship is wrecked in a storm and Connor is rescued by pirates, he believes that Grace has been taken aboard the mythical Vampirate's ship, and he is determined to find her. (Vampirates Series)

Vande Velde, Vivian. Companions of the Night
When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices.

Westerfeld, Scott. Peeps
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.

Whitcomb, Laura. A Certain Slant of Light
After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts.

Whitcomb, Laura. The Fetch
Having been the first death escort to fall in love with a mortal girl and step from Heaven back to Earth, a series of events accidentally causes him to tear a wound in the ghost realm--resulting in an unexpected revolution by the spirits who have escaped.

Wooding, Chris. Poison
When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny.

This list was compiled by Stephanie Squicciarini (Teen Services Librarian, Fairport Public Library)
from a listing of titles suggested by members of YALSA-BK. August 2007; Updated December 2008

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