As he did in his acclaimed novel Endangered, a finalist for the National Book Award, Eliot Schrefer takes us somewhere fiction rarely goes, introducing us to characters we rarely get to meet. The unforgettable result is the story of a boy fleeing his present, a man fleeing his past, and […]
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This bewitching drama for young adults set in the very near future entwines Celtic myth and climate-changed destinies to answer the fundamental question: can we escape our apparent fate? If our lives are governed by forces outside our control, where can we find hope? Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Juna is the sole survivor of a team of surveyors marooned in the dense and isolated Tendu rain forest, an uninhabitable world for humans. Her only hope for survival is total transformation–and terrifying assimilation–into the amphibian Tendu species. Juna will learn more about her own human nature than ever before. […]
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A zookeeper fights to save the animal she loves, even as her own life crumbles around her… Mindy Mejia’s gripping debut novel highlights the perils of captivity and the astonishing ways in which animals evolve. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreA strikingly original debut novel that introduces two storytellers with different kinds of tales: one—in Victor’s unforgettable voice—a quirky, contemporary love story; the other—by Rose Anna—an ecological fantasy featuring a tiny heroic newt. Together, the teens explore the possibility of connections – to one another, the woods outside, and the […]
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This book is out September 23, 2014. In a future world of dust and ruin, fourteen-year-old Querry Genn struggles to recover the lost memory that might save the human race. Querry is a member of Survival Colony Nine, one of the small, roving groups of people who outlived the wars […]
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A fantasy set in Tsarist Russia. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar’s army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, […]
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From Goodreads: “Another genre-bending novel by David Mitchell also channels Stephen King and Carlos Ruiz Zafón.” This book is new as of September 2, 2014. It’s a YA novel with some environmental themes. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Note: This book is a free download at Smashwords. Thanks much to Mark Mann, the author, for bringing this YA fantasy to our attention. Twins Jack and Kaya live in a small seaside town in Australia. When they see a dazzling white light shining from a giant rock in the […]
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Thanks to author Don Bredes for joining our community discussion group and letting us know about his upcoming YA climate novel. Don Bredes’s new young adult (YA) fantasy is called “Polly and the One and Only World.” Don’s first novel, “Hard Feelings,” was an American Library Association Best Book for […]
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Thanks to H.A. Swain for submitting information about her new YA novel Hungry: Excerpts from reviews: “Fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Lois Lowry’s The Giver will flock to this story.” –School Library Journal “In a world where you take medication to ward off hunger and a supplement […]
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Welcome to the Wasteland. Where all the adults are long gone, and now no one lives past the age of nineteen. Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan’s post-apocalyptic debut is the first of a trilogy in which everyone is forced to live under the looming threat of rampant disease and brutal […]
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This series has also been adapted as manga. The Maximum Ride novels for young adults feature 6 teenagers who are 98% human and 2% avian. Later in the series, global warming becomes an issue for the teenagers to face. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Goodreads […]
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The future is bleak in the year 2102. The planet is in chaos and the weather patterns have completely shifted, turning most of the world into an uninhabited wasteland. Sixteen-year-old Maya has a gift, a power she thinks can heal the earth and make it habitable again. Goodreads Reviews Back […]
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“It’s about bunnies,” Sawyer from LOST A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over thirty years, Richard Adams’s Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in England’s Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows […]
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