The book the Grave Winner was about a girl named Leigh whose mom had died. While she was at her funeral she thought she saw a ghost of her classmate come back from the dead. Leigh soon thought if she buried some of her mother's favorite things in her grave she wouldn't come back. While she was burying the "gifts," she was warned by someone named Tram to not give gifts to the dead.
Tallis hates her home with her uncle; he is always mean to her! She is excited to receive the news that she is going to move in with her Aunt Gabbie. Then things take a turn for the worse when she finds her Uncle Nories in the basement talking to ghosts.
This book is about a girl named Katrina who had seen the headless horseman and survived. Katrina is eighteen, and and she saw the horseman about ten years ago.
Penny's War is about two children named Penny and Peter. Penny is Peter's brother, and they were evacuated out of London in World War II and moved to Yorkshire and were adopted by a family who took care of them in a village house. The family seems nice, but the children soon find out their true identity.
Pendulum, by Ciara Knight, is a story of love, survival, and revenge. Semara, the main character, is a runaway princess fleeing from her cruel mother, the queen, to fight with the rebels. She and her friends barely escape with their lives and were only able to survive because of their supernatural abilities. Semara, along with her two friends, is part of the fabled triune. It was prophesized that they would be the downfall of the evil queen, which is why the rebels took them in.
Emma and her cousins (Gretchen and Penelope) are daughters of high dukes. Everything starts to fall apart at a ball when Emma finds a girl who broke her collarbone. When Emma runs to find help she runs into Cormac. Cormac and Emma had a slight relationship but then Cormac decided to leave. Cormac stops her from running to the ballroom because it had started on fire. Then together they help the girl outside. Emma meets up with her cousins and helps to put the fire out. When everything is under control, Emma goes to find a doctor. When she gets back to the girl, Emma finds her dead.
A story that beatifuly mixes love, tragedy, magical realism, and coming of age. The book starts with a history of the family (told by Ava, the main character). Ava is a normal girl except for one little thing: she is born with wings. When she is 16 she goes on a quest to discover who she is and why she was born this way. She is not prepared for the real world and goes through many trials and tribulations. It is a beautiful book with many themes like self discovery, the American dream, and what it means to be human.
This story is a paranormal twist on the fairy tale Cinderella. You have a girl, Quinn, whose life is hard with an evil stepmother and two equally evil stepsisters. Quinn has the ability to see ghosts everywhere in her small Savannah, Georgia town and is only days away from her 18th birthday where she gets her family house and fortune. But her evil stepfamily is making it difficult to wait. The evil stepmother is just half a villain in this suspenseful romance, though. A previous owner of the house over 100 years ago is seeking revenge on Quinn.
Two Lies and a Spy by Kat Carlton: 16 year old Kari and her little brother Charlie are the children of US super spies for the Agency. When she is given the Code Black signal they immediately go into hiding and discover her parents have been declared traitors. Kari and Charlie team up with Rita (best friend and hacker), Kale (best friend and master martial artist), Luke (Kari's crush), Lacey (Luke's annoying, popular big sister) and finally an annoying (yet cute!) tag along named Evan.
The book I chose - Bird Without Wings, was a mysterious and exciting book about a teenage girl who finds out who she "really" is. Scarlett is having trouble in the real world, being bullied, her father gone missing, no firends but she ends up finding a magical Fae world. In this Fae world, it's different than the regular world, more pure and more free. This Fae world brings her closer to finding her birth mom and father.
