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STARTERS By: Lissa Price
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When the Spore Wars came only children and the very old were left alive, for they were the only ones vaccinated. So Callie and her little brother Tyler were left on their own, with new laws preventing her from working and living in abandoned buildings. Tyler is really ill and Callie has to make some money. Their is an alternative, not one that she want to take, but she doesn't seem to have a choice. So Callie goes to Prime Destination. Here she will have a chip put in her brain so that an Elder can rent her body. All she has to do is rent her body out three times and she will get enough money so they won't have to live on the streets anymore. But then weird things begin to happen and she can't go back to Prime, someone says they would kill her if that happened. What will she do?
A great novel that keeps you wondering until the last page. $17.99 Ages 12 on up. Delacorte Press
KATE AND PIPPIN By: Martin Springett
This is a true story of two unlikely companions. Kate, a great dane and Pippin a motherless fawn. When Isobel brings a fawn home that lost his mother, Kate takes to being Pippins mother. She cuddles her and lets her follow everywhere. When she is finally strong enough to go outside she disappears into the woods. What happens is remarkable.
I read this book to my four year old grandson and then followed up with a youtube visit to see them together. Aidan loved the book and was fascinated by the story. Ages 4 up. $16.99 Henry Holt
MAY B. By: Caroline Starr Rose
May B. is sent to help at a homestead fifteen miles from home. Her pa promises it is only till Christmas. May B. is to work for these newlyweds, cook, clean and help out with a homesick bride. But when the bride runs off and her husband follows, May is left on her own. Soon she realizes that no one is coming back. She is in a sod house in the middle of nowhere. It will be five months before her father comes to fetch her. Told in prose, you feel like you are in the sod house with May B. hoping that she will have enough food to make it till Christmas. Ages 9-12 Schwartz and Wade $15.99
EYE OF THE STORM By: Kate Messner
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After the last weeks of tornadoes this incredible book arrives for the store. You are taken to Placid Meadows, a community that is safe from all storms. All around houses are gone and tornadoes come all the time. No one in this futuristic time is safe anymore. Shelters are everywhere. Jaden is spending the summer with her father in this community he built. She is there to go to a science camp. Jaden and Alex are partners in the science camp, they uncover a dark secret in their research. Will they be able to change the outcome of the storms and save lives? This fast paced novel will keep you glued to the very last page.
Ages 12-18 $16.99 Walker
ELLIE MCDOODLE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER By: Ruth McNally Barshaw
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Ellie is really quite smart and loves to be in the Journey of the Mind club. But when her friends try to convince her to try out for the soccer team, she gives it her best shot. Especially since her dad is the the coach. But what she really wants to do is just be in her club. Then something unthinkable happens! Two tournaments on the same day, and Ellie is going to try and be in two places at the same time. Will she succeed? Ages 7-12 Bloomsbury $12.99
WHAT THE DOG SAID By: Randi Reisfeld
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Grace is overcome with grief at the loss of her father. She stops doing anything with her friends, homework and locks herself in her room. Her older sister Regan is the opposite and is determined to get into the Parson's School of Design with a brilliant essay. She has decided to rescue a dog from the shelter and train it to be a guide dog. When the sisters go to the shelter, one dog Rex starts talking to Grace. Only she can hear him and she convinces Regan to take that mange looking dog. But instead of Regan taking the dog for training, Grace is given the task. What happens is remarkable, with the help of Rex and his uncanny ability to help Grace with the grieving process, she also uncovers the murder of her policeman father. This book really shows what if feels like to lose someone you love. I would recommend it to anyone struggling to overcome loss. They say ages 9-12, but the Grace is 13 and I would got till age 14. $16.99 Bloomsbury
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NIGHTMARE GARDEN By: Caitlin Kittredge
Everything Aoife Grayson thought she knew about the world was a lie. The "necrovirus" that has supposedly been turning people into monsters is a hoax thought up by the government, and Aoife isn't infected by it like she was led to believe. But Aoife is different, like her brother, Conrad, she is half human and half Fae. She comes from the land of Thorn and has a destiny greater than they could ever comprehend. the world is ending, cities are crumbling, and the great engine that protects humans form the evil creature of Thorn is dying. And Aoife is the only one who can make things right again. Ages 12 and up. Delacorte $17.99 Reviewed by Maggie.
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