This is the first book in a series that takes place a few decades after the original Unwanted series. Featuring old characters as well as new, it focuses mainly on the twin sisters, Thisbe and Fifer. Both have extreme power in magic yet are not very adept at controlling when it comes out and how, making them a danger to those living in Artime. Their older brother Alex is constantly restricting them from advancing in their magical training for fear that they will hurt somebody like they had done in the past.
When Alys was seven years old, a battle began between what seems to be good and evil. At this time, Alys was spared, along with all the children in her village, when two soul eaters destroyed the village. The two soul eaters were once children who faced an ugly version of paranoia amoung human nature. As they grew away from civilization they morphed into something that the people should fear, guided by the Beast.
A nineteen-year-old princess who only wants to travel the world is forced into waiting for the winning prince in the games to be her husband. But maybe her stepmother has a way out. Maybe there is a way out of waiting for the strongest prince to win her. Maybe there is a way she can marry someone of value. Maybe it involves a sneaky, old, tired but kind dragon.
The Cilantro in Apple Pie, Kimberley Nadine Knights’ contemporary young adult debut, reveals 16-year-old Trinidad and Tobago native Rubie Keane's journey to Mellowbrook, Massachusetts, where Rubie’s older sister Violet and Violet’s new husband Dennis Peterson live—and where Rubie’s ailing parents decide she’ll continue her education at nearby private high school Lumiere Hall, essentially a feeder school for the Ivy League.
Bryan Ney’s young adult historical fiction debut, Calamity Jane: How the West Began, follows his eponymous 15-year-old protagonist on an engaging, perilous journey during the Gold Rush days of yore. The novel opens in Bannack, Montana, where the Canary family now lives in abject poverty after selling their farm in Missouri.
