Title: The Aviary Author: Kathleen O’Dell Genre: Historical, Fantasy, Mystery, Middle Grade/Young Adult Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Publication date: September 2011 Hardcover: 337 pages Twelve-year-old Clara Dooley has spent her whole life in the Glendoveer mansion, where…
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Venom by Fiona Paul is a forthcoming historical Young Adult novel (with a hint of the paranormal, it seems) out this October, and is one of Penguin’s Breathless Reads (follow them on Facebook and on Tumblr for more information).…
Title: The Prisoner of Heaven Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón / Translated by Julia Graves Genre: Literary Fiction, Historical, Thriller Publisher: Harper Collins / Weidenfeld & Nicolson Publication date: July 2012 / June 2012 Hardcover: 279 pages Barcelona, 1957. It…
Title: HHhH Author: Laurent Binet / Translated by Sam Taylor Genre: Historical, Fiction?/NonFiction? / World War II Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Harvill Secker Publication date: April /May 2012 (first published in France in 2010) Hardcover: 336 pages…
Title: Racing the Moon Author: Alan Armstrong / Tim Jessell (illustrator) Genre: Historical, Middle Grade Publisher: Random House Children’s Books Publication date: June 26 2012 Hardcover: 224 pages In the spring of 1947, outer space was an unexplored realm.…
Title: Keeping the Castle Author: Patrice Kindl Genre: Regency, Historical, Young Adult Publisher: Viking Childrens Books Publication date: June 14th 2012 Hardcover: 224 pages Seventeen-year-old Althea is the sole support of her entire family, and she must marry well.…
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What She Said: Code Name Verity and The False Prince
Today we bring you the latest installment in our feature, “What She Said…” in which we both review books that the other has previously read and reviewed. This feature arose because of a very serious dilemma we faced at…
Title: The Boneshaker Author: Kate Milford / Illustrations by Andrea Offermann Genre: Historical, Fantasy, Horror, Americana, Young Adult, NOT-STEAMPUNK! Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication date: May 21st 2010 Hardcover: 372 pages Thirteen-year-old Natalie Minks loves machines, particularly automata—self-operating mechanical…
Title: A Drowned Maiden’s Hair: A Melodrama Author: Laura Amy Schlitz Genre: Historical, Young Adult Publisher: Candlewick Press Publication date: First published in 2006 Hardcover/paperback: 389 pages Maud Flynn is known at the orphanage for her impertinence, so when…
Title: Dragonswood Author: Janet Lee Carey Genre: Fantasy, Historical/Arthurian, Fairy Tales, Young Adult Publisher: Dial (Penguin) Publication Date: January 2012 Hardcover: 407 Pages Wilde Island is not at peace. The kingdom mourns the dead Pendragon king and awaits the…
