Vic: Mongol by Jerry Gill follows the many adventures of a curious and spunky female Indiana Jones/Nancy Drew type character, Vic Challenger, as she embarks on a quest to find her soul-mate of another life. Vic has something similar to an alter ego, an avatar of a girl named Nat-ul, who lived more than a thousand years before Vic. Vic occasionally transforms into this girl in dreams and visions.
Sky Jumpers by Peggy Eddleman takes place in an isolated town called White Rock. It is surrounded by the green bombs left from WW III. This keeps the people of White Rock safe from bandits. However, the Bomb’s Breath, which is how the toxic gasses have been kno
This was a fun book! Arlene and Ilene are identical twins. Everything about them is alike and it makes them feel really special. Then a set of triplets moves in to their town and the girls start to question how special they really are. This is where the book gets really entertaining because the twins make-up an imaginary third sister two try to make themselves unique again!
Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year by Ramsey Beyer weaves together the events, experiences, and emotions of a small-town teenager in a poignant and uniquely illustrated format. As she leaves behind all that is familiar to her, the reader is provided with an insight into Ramsey's anxieties, inner battles, and general thoughts through her college experience.
Winter Falls, by Nicole Maggi, tells the story of Alessia Jacobs, a sixteen-year-old girl living in a small town in Maine. Living with her protective, Italian mother on a farm, Alessia dreams of getting out of her small town and seeing the world. However, things change after a new family moves into her town, and Alessia learns that she is apart of the Benandanti. In other words, she has the ability to separate her soul from her body and into a falcon.
Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kenninton-Jones (A.K.A. Alice-Miranda) and her two best friends, Millicent Jane McLoughlin-McTavish-McNoughton-McGill (A.K.A. Millie), and Jacinta Headlinton-Bear (A.K.A.Jacinta) are abord the royal yacht, Octavia, for a very special wedding. But then, trouble starts brewing and Alice-Miranda has one of her funny feelings. Wanting to halt the chaos, she begins to dig for answers. Can this daring little girl and her sea-faring friends set this cruse-line wedding back on course? Or will this turn into the worst disaster ever?
Monstrous Affections is "an anthology of beastly tales" and it's wonderful. There are a bunch of short stories written by pretty well known authors all having ideas on the definition of 'monster.' The introduction really draws you in, and each story has its own way of making you rethink who or what you've subconsciously deigned monstrous. My favorite story in the anthology is by Holly Black (author of the Spiderwick Chronicles) and is titled "Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (the Successful Kind)".
Taylor Mistry changed after a year in Italy. She used to be chubby and ignored. But after her time in Italy, losing weight, and meeting someone she has more confidence. However, when she returns, she finds an injured wolf and helps him. When she does, something scratches her. That one scratch changed her life forever. Her old crush finally notices her, the man she met in Italy shows up and she meets Harper. Her life will never be as simple as it once was.
Leila's parents and sister were killed in a car accident. The car accident caused Leila to forget everything, except a story about the northern lights. Now Leila is now on a quest to try and remember her life before the accident... by traveling up north. Along the way, she meets Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia, and changes their lives. But the question is can she remember hers?
The Fire Wish is a book about a girl named Zayele and a jinni named Najwa that end up switching places. Zayele lived in a small tribe named Zab, until the Vizier came. He said he was searching for a wife for the prince and that he was going to choose her. So, although she was against it with everything she had, her parents forced her, along with her cousin, to travel to Baghdad. On the last day of the three day journey, though, a jinni named Najwa appears. Since the creation of jinnis, there was a universal rule that if a human gets close enough to touch a jinn
