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Basically you choose five books you are looking forward to reading and tell us a little bit about them. You can share your list in the comments or link to your blog!
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Basically you choose five books you are looking forward to reading and tell us a little bit about them. You can share your list in the comments or link to your blog!
Thanks for joining and enjoy!
#1 The Iron Trial (Magisterium #1)
by
Cassandra Clare and Holly Black (September 9th 2014, Scholastic
Press)
Most
kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial.
Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail.
All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him.
So he tries his best to do his worst - and fails at failing.
Now the Magisterium awaits him. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister, with dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future.
The Iron Trial is just the beginning, for the biggest test is still to come . . .
From the remarkable imaginations of bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a heart-stopping, mind-blowing, pulse-pounding plunge into the magical unknown.
Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail.
All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him.
So he tries his best to do his worst - and fails at failing.
Now the Magisterium awaits him. It's a place that's both sensational and sinister, with dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future.
The Iron Trial is just the beginning, for the biggest test is still to come . . .
From the remarkable imaginations of bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a heart-stopping, mind-blowing, pulse-pounding plunge into the magical unknown.
#2 Skulduggery Pleasant (Skulduggery
Pleasant #1)
by Derek
Landy (April 3rd 2007, HarperCollins)
Meet
Skulduggery Pleasant
Ace
Detective
Snappy
Dresser
Razor–tongued
Wit
Crackerjack
Sorcerer
and
Walking,
Talking,
Fire-throwing
Skeleton
—as
well as ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and
darkly talented twelve-year-old.
These
two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil.
The end
of the world?
Over
his dead body.
#3 Loot
by Jude Watson (June 24th 2014,
Scholastic Press)
On a
foggy night in Amsterdam, a man falls from a rooftop to the wet pavement below.
It's Archibald McQuinn, the notorious cat burglar, and he's dying. As sirens
wail in the distance, Archie manages to get out two last words to his young
son, March: "Find jewels."
But March learns that his father is not talking about hidden loot. He's talking about Jules, the twin sister March never knew he had. No sooner than the two find each other, they're picked up by the police and sent to the world's worst orphanage. It's not hard time, but it feels like it.
March and Jules have no intention of staying put. They know their father's business inside and out, and they're tired of being pushed around. Just one good heist, and they'll live the life of riches and freedom that most kids only dream about. . . . .
Hold on to your pearls, because this summer, the world's youngest criminal masterminds are coming for you.
But March learns that his father is not talking about hidden loot. He's talking about Jules, the twin sister March never knew he had. No sooner than the two find each other, they're picked up by the police and sent to the world's worst orphanage. It's not hard time, but it feels like it.
March and Jules have no intention of staying put. They know their father's business inside and out, and they're tired of being pushed around. Just one good heist, and they'll live the life of riches and freedom that most kids only dream about. . . . .
Hold on to your pearls, because this summer, the world's youngest criminal masterminds are coming for you.
#4 13 Treasures (Thirteen Treasures # 1)
by Michelle
Harrison (April 10th 2012, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Tanya
is no ordinary girl. She can see fairies. But not the fairies we imagine. Evil
fairies who cast spells on her, rousing her from her sleep and propelling her
out of bed. At wit's end with her daughter's inexplicable behavior, Tanya's
mother sends her away to live with her grandmother at Elvesden Manor, a secluded
countryside mansion on the outskirts of a peculiar Essex town.
There is plenty to explore, as long as Tanya stays away from Hangman's Wood- a vast stretch of forest, full of catacombs and notorious for people losing their lives. Fifty years ago a girl vanished in the woods, a girl Tanya's grandmother will not speak of. As Tanya learns more about this girl, she finds herself dangerously close to vanishing into the fairy realm forever.
Debut author Michelle Harrison weaves an intricate mystery into a beautiful and haunting fantasy that captures a rich world of fairy lore where only the color red can offer protection.
There is plenty to explore, as long as Tanya stays away from Hangman's Wood- a vast stretch of forest, full of catacombs and notorious for people losing their lives. Fifty years ago a girl vanished in the woods, a girl Tanya's grandmother will not speak of. As Tanya learns more about this girl, she finds herself dangerously close to vanishing into the fairy realm forever.
Debut author Michelle Harrison weaves an intricate mystery into a beautiful and haunting fantasy that captures a rich world of fairy lore where only the color red can offer protection.
#5 The Forbidden Library
Django
Wexler (April 15th 2014, Kathy Dawson Books)
Alice
always thought fairy tales had happy endings. That--along with everything
else--changed the day she met her first fairy
When Alice's father goes down in a shipwreck, she is sent to live with her uncle Geryon--an uncle she's never heard of and knows nothing about. He lives in an enormous manor with a massive library that is off-limits to Alice. But then she meets a talking cat. And even for a rule-follower, when a talking cat sneaks you into a forbidden library and introduces you to an arrogant boy who dares you to open a book, it's hard to resist. Especially if you're a reader to begin with. Soon Alice finds herself INSIDE the book, and the only way out is to defeat the creature imprisoned within.
It seems her uncle is more than he says he is. But then so is Alice.
When Alice's father goes down in a shipwreck, she is sent to live with her uncle Geryon--an uncle she's never heard of and knows nothing about. He lives in an enormous manor with a massive library that is off-limits to Alice. But then she meets a talking cat. And even for a rule-follower, when a talking cat sneaks you into a forbidden library and introduces you to an arrogant boy who dares you to open a book, it's hard to resist. Especially if you're a reader to begin with. Soon Alice finds herself INSIDE the book, and the only way out is to defeat the creature imprisoned within.
It seems her uncle is more than he says he is. But then so is Alice.
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