Кристина Кашор4.1 Даже в мире, где люди, наделенные необычайными и как правило опасными способностями, не редкость, Катсу боятся и избегают. В восемь лет она совершила свое первое убийство, и с тех пор никто не мог одолеть ее в схватке: Катса стала непобедимым воином… и палачом, безвольным орудием в руках своего дяди, короля Ранды. Она жаждет освободиться от Дара, который, кажется, приносит ей и окружающим лишь боль, искупить причиненные страдания, и объединяется с юным принцем из Лионида, чтобы раскрыть заговор и вырвать родные земли из рук короля-злодея. Ей еще предстоит выяснить, какую тайну скрывает ее собрат по оружию и сколько зла может совершить жестокий человек, наделенный властью над людским разумом.
Нина Лакур4.1 После смерти своей лучшей подруги Ингрид Кейтлин растеряна и не представляет, как пережить боль утраты. Она отгородилась от родных и друзей и с трудом понимает, как ей возвращаться в школу в новом учебном году. Но однажды Кейтлин находит под своей кроватью тайный дневник Ингрид, в котором та делилась переживаниями и чувствами в борьбе с тяжелой депрессией.
Скотт Вестерфельд4.2 Европа накануне войны. Но это другая Европа: здесь машины выглядят как живые существа, а живые существа создаются, как машины. Чтобы началась бойня, нужен лишь предлог, и этот предлог — убийство австрийского эрцгерцога. Его незаконнорожденному сыну, шестнадцатилетнему Александру фон Гогенбергу, тоже вынесен смертный приговор, однако ему удается спастись бегством. Единственное, что у него осталось, это шагающий штурмовик «Циклоп» и горстка верных людей. А тем временем в Стамбул с таинственной дипломатической миссией направляется британский живой летающий корабль «Левиафан». В числе воздухоплавателей юная искательница приключений Дэрин Шарп. Проверьте боеукладку и пристегните ремни – все только начинается!
Андерсон Лори Холс4.0 Мертвая идет! - мальчишки переговариваются в коридорах.
"Расскажи нам свой секрет" - перешептываются девчонки в туалетах.
Я та девочка.
Я то пространство между моими бедрами, через которое просачивается дневной свет.
Я те хрупкие, словно фарфор кости, так ими желанные.
Лиа и Кэсси - лучшие подруги, зимние девочки, замороженные в телах как спички, соревнующиеся в смертельном соревновании "Кто может быть самой худой?" Но что же будет после нулевого размера и двойного нулевого размера? Кэсси становится жертвой этих внутренних демонов, а Лиа чувствует, что её преследует беспокойный дух её подруги.
Л. К. Мэдиган0.0 Winner of the 2010 William C. Morris Award!
Fifteen-year-old Blake has a girlfriend and a friend who’s a girl. One of them loves him; the other one needs him.
When he snapped a picture of a street person for his photography homework, Blake never dreamed that the woman in the photo was his friend Marissa’s long-lost meth addicted mom. Blake’s participation in the ensuing drama opens up a world of trouble, both for him and for Marissa. He spends the next few months trying to reconcile the conflicting roles of Boyfriend and Friend. His experiences range from the comic (surviving his dad’s birth control talk) to the tragic (a harrowing after-hours visit to the morgue).
In a tangle of life and death, love and loyalty, Blake will emerge with a more sharply defined snapshot of himself.
Мариату Камара, Сьюзен Макклелланд4.2 As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers, many no older than children themselves, attacked and tortured Mariatu. During this brutal act of senseless violence they cut off both her hands. Stumbling through the countryside, Mariatu miraculously survived. The sweet taste of a mango, her first food after the attack, reaffirmed her desire to live, but the challenge of clutching the fruit in her bloodied arms reinforced the grim new reality that stood before her. With no parents or living adult to support her and living in a refugee camp, she turned to begging in the streets of Freetown. As told to her by Mariatu, journalist Susan McClelland has written the heartbreaking true story of the brutal attack, its aftermath and Mariatu’s eventual arrival in Toronto where she began to pull together the pieces of her broken life with courage, astonishing resilience and hope.
Malinda Lo3.4 In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted.
The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash's capacity for love-and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.
Entrancing, empowering, and romantic, Ash is about the connection between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformation can come from even the deepest grief.
Кэрол Линч Уильямс0.0 Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated community without questioning the fact that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters, with two more on the way. That is, without questioning them much--if you don't count her secret visits to the Mobile Library on Wheels to read forbidden books, or her meetings with Joshua, the boy she hopes to choose for herself instead of having a man chosen for her.
But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle--who already has six wives--Kyra must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her family forever.
Laurie Halse Anderson0.0 As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom.
From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling, impeccably researched novel that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both physical and spiritual.
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Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 10/21/2008 Pages: 320 Reading Level: Age 10 and Up
Энн Е. Бург0.0 A remarkable literary debut by a stunning new voice in children's fiction.
Two years after being airlifted out of war-torn Vietnam, Matt Pin is haunted: by bombs that fell like dead crows, by the family -- and the terrible secret -- he left behind. Now, inside a caring adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events force him to choose between silence and candor, blame and forgiveness, fear and freedom.
By turns harrowing, dreamlike, sad, and triumphant, this searing debut novel, written in lucid verse, reveals an unforgettable perspective on the lasting impact of war and the healing power of love.
Carl Hiaasen4.5
Bestselling author and columnist Carl Hiaasen returns with another hysterical mystery for kids set in Florida's Everglades.
Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, is missing. She disappeared after a school field trip to Black Vine Swamp. And, to be honest, the kids in her class are relieved.
But when the principal tries to tell the students that Mrs. Starch has been called away on a "family emergency," Nick and Marta just don't buy it. No, they figure the class delinquent, Smoke, has something to do with her disappearance.
And he does! But not in the way they think. There's a lot more going on in Black Vine Swamp than any one player in this twisted tale can see. And Nick and Marta will have to reckon with an eccentric eco-avenger, a stuffed rat named Chelsea, a wannabe Texas oilman, a singing substitute teacher, and a ticked-off Florida panther before they really begin to see the big picture.
Майкл Д. Бейл0.0 It all began with The Scream. And ended with . . . well, if we told you that, it wouldn’t be a mystery! But in between The Scream and The Very Surprising Ending, three friends find themselves on a scavenger hunt set up for a girl they never met, in search of a legendary ring reputed to grant wishes. Are these sleuths in school uniforms modern-day equivalents of Nancy, Harriet, or Scooby? Not really, they’re just three nice girls who decide to help out a weird lady, and end up hiding under tables, tackling word puzzles and geometry equations, and searching rather moldy storage rooms for “the stuff that dreams are made of” (that’s from an old detective movie). Oh, and there’s A Boy, who complicates things. As boys often do.
Intrigued? The Red Blazer Girls offers a fun, twisty adventure for those who love mystery, math (c’mon, admit it!), and a modest measure of mayhem.
Michael Beil, a New York City high school English teacher, makes his literary debut with this fun and brainy mystery.Hardcover, 304 pages
