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What’s New in Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Supernatural Fiction for Children and Teens 2010/2011 Compiled by Susan Fichtelberg, Children’s Librarian, Woodbridge Public Library sfichtelberg@woodbridgelibrary.org Bonnie Kunzel, Youth Services and Adolescent Literacy Consultant bkunzel@aol.com Aguirre, Ann. Enclave. Feiwel & Friends, 2011. (Gr. 9+) SF In a post-apocalyptic future, Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the ways of the elders may be wrong. Alender, Katie. From Bad to Cursed: A Bad Girls Don't Die Novel. Hyperion, 2011. (Gr. 9+) Paranormal After taking an oath to a seemingly benevolent spirit, a high school girl finds herself changing in frightening ways. Angelini, Josephine. Starcrossed. HarperTeen, 2011. (Gr. 9+) Paranormal When shy sixteen-year-old Helen Hamilton starts having vivid dreams about three ancient, hideous women and suddenly tries to kill a new student at her Nantucket high school, she discovers that she is playing out some version of an old tale involving Helen of Troy, the Three Furies, and a mythic battle. Alexander, R. C. Unfamiliar Magic. Random House, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN Believing herself capable of greatness but unable to learn spells from her safety-minded mother, young witch Desi explores magic on her own when she is placed in the charge of her mother's cat familiar, a feline that is transformed into a sushi-eating teenage girl. Anthony, Joelle. Restoring Harmony. Putnam, 2010. (Gr. 7+) SF Having lived an existence of relative quiet on an isolated farming island, 16-year-old Molly of 2041 Canada is sent to find and rescue her grandparents from a U.S. suburb devastated by global economic collapse and organized crime. Anthony, Piers. Well-Tempered Clavicle. Tor, forthcoming 2011. (A/YA) FAN Picka Bones and his sister Joy’nt are off in search of adventure with three creatures newly arrived from Mundania –and not the sort of creatures you might expect! Join them in a madcap quest, in this 35th tale of the land of Xanth.. (Newest in the Xanth series.) Archer, Jennifer. Through Her Eyes. Harperteen, 2011. (Gr. 8+) PARANORMAL Sixteen-year-old Tansy is used to moving every time her mother starts writing a new book, but in the small Texas town where her grandfather grew up, she is lured into the world of a troubled young man whose death sixty years earlier is shrouded in mystery. Armstrong, Kelley. The Dark Powers #1: The Summoning. Harperteen, 2008. (Gr. 10+) SUPERNATURAL Teenagers with supernatural powers are being hunted by a mysterious organization. Sequels: #2 The Awakening, 2009; #3 The Reckoning, 2010. Armstrong, Kelley. The Gathering. Harpercollins, 2011. (Gr. 10+) SUPERNATURAL Strange things are happening in Maya's tiny Vancouver Island town. First, her friend Serena, the captain of the swim team, drowns mysteriously in the middle of a calm lake. Then, one year later, mountain lions are spotted rather frequently around Maya's home—and her reactions to them are somewhat . . . unexpected. Her best friend, Daniel, has also been experiencing unexplainable premonitions about certain people and situations. Sequel: The Calling, forthcoming 4/2012. Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Token of Darkness. Delecorte, 2010. (Gr. 7+) SUPERNATURAL After Cooper Blake wakes from a serious car accident to find himself in the company of an attractive, tormented ghost, he keeps his visions to himself until he discovers that two of his peers also hide supernatural abilities. Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. All Just Glass. Delacorte, 2011. (Gr. 7+) SUPERNATURAL Raised to distrust all vampires, Sarah, a member of a legendary family of vampire-hunting witches, is changed into a vampire by the boy she thought she loved and denounced by her loved ones, prompting her reliable older sister to question an order for Sarah's execution. Sequel to: Shattered Mirror, 2001. Augarde, Steve. X-Isle. David Fickling Books, 2010. (Gr. 8+) SF Granted coveted places on an island in a future world devastated by flooding, Baz and Ray quickly discover that their new home is ruled by an unpredictable religious fanatic whose violent system compels the boys to plan a dangerous rebellion. Bachorz, Pam. Drought. Egmont, 2011. (Gr. 7-10) SF Ruby Prosser longs for escape from the Congregation and the early-nineteenth-century lifestyle the community practices, even though she knows the Congregants need her blood to survive, but when she meets Ford, the new Overseer, who holds the promise to access to the modern world, her will to stay weakens.
Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship Breaker. Little Brown, 2010. (Gr. 9+) SF In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl. Baker, E. D. The Dragon Princess. Bloomsbury, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) FAN Although a princess, Millie cannot keep herself from turning unexpectedly into a dragon, so she ventures off to the Frozen North to find the Blue Witch, who she hopes will help her learn to control her dragon magic. Sequels: Dragon Kiss; A Prince among Frogs, 2010. Baker, E. D. The Wide-Awake Princess. Bloomsbury, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN A younger sister to a princess destined to be Sleeping Beauty, Princess Annie remains awake when her older sister pricks her finger, an act that causes all within the castle to fall asleep, and compels Annie to venture through a rose-covered hedge to find a spell-breaking prince. Baker, E. D. Fairy Lies. Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2/2012. (Gr. 6-9) FAN The fairy princess Tamisin has been kidnapped from her home in the human world by Oberon, king of the fairies, who thinks he's her father. When Tamisin's boyfriend Jak finds out, he sets off to rescue her. In this funny and heartwarming romp through a land of fairies, goblins, sphinxes, unicorns, and many more, Tamisin and Jak try to regain their romance even as they find their way back to the human world. Previous title: Fairy Wings, 2009. Baker, Kage. The Bird of the River. Tor, 2010. (A/YA) FAN Sharp-eyed orphan Eliss and her half-brother make a new home on a river barge and clash with a teen assassin amid an escalating series of pirate attacks on riverside cities. Previous titles: The House of the Stag, 2009; The Anvil of the World, 2010. Balog, Cyn. Sleepless. Delecorte, 2010. (Gr. 8+) PARANORMAL Communicating supernaturally in dreams shared with human charges he seduces into sleep, Eron experiences a forbidden attraction to Julia, whose sad dreams reveal the tragic death of her boyfriend and remind Eron of his own lost mortal life. Balog, Cyn. Starstruck. Delacorte, 2011. (Gr. 7+) PARANORMAL Gwendolyn "Dough" X doesn't think she has much going for her—she carries a few extra pounds, her family struggles with their small bakery and the other kids at her New Jersey high school don't seem to know that she exists. Thank the stars for her longtime boyfriend, Philip P. Wishman—or "Wish." He moved away to California three years ago, when they were 13, but then professed his love for her via e-mail, and he's been her long-distance BF ever since. At the beginning of her junior year, though, Wish e-mails that he's moving back to Jersey. But when she sees Wish at school, something amazing happens. He looks at Dough like she's just as gorgeous as he is. But Wish is acting a little weird, obsessed with the sun and freaked out by rain. And the creepy new guy working at the bakery, Christian, is convinced that there's more to Wish's good looks than just healthy eating and lots of sun. He tells Dough that a mark on Wish's neck marks him as a member of the Luminati—an ancient cult of astrologers who can manipulate the stars to improve their lives. Is Wish and Dough's love meant to be—or are they star-crossed? Barker, Clive. Absolute Midnight. Harpercollins, forthcoming 9/2011. (Gr. 8+) FAN Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, is the only person who can stop the evil Mater Motley who, now that the hour of midnight has come, is prepared to unleash the end of the world. Previous titles in The Books of Abarat: Abarat, 2002; Days of Magic, Nights of War, 2004. Barnes, Jennifer Lynn. Raised by Wolves. Egmont, 2010. (Gr. 9+) SUPERNATURAL A girl raised by werewolves must face the horrors of her past to uncover the dark secrets that the pack has worked so hard to hide. Sequel: Trial by Fire, 2011. Barnhouse, Rebecca. The Coming of the Dragon. Random House, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN Rune, an orphaned young man raised among strangers, tries to save the kingdom from a dragon that is burning the countryside and, along the way, learns that he is a kinsman of Beowulf. Companion novel: Peaceweaver, forthcoming 3/2012. Barron, T. A. Merlin’s Dragon. Philomel, 2008. (Gr. 5-8) FAN Basil, a small, flying lizard who is searching for others like himself, discovers that there is more to him than he knows, as he becomes engaged in Avalon's great war between the evil Rhita Gawr and the forces of good. Sequels: Doomraga's Revenge, 2009; Ultimate Magic, 2010. Barry, Dave and Ridley Pearson. The Bridge to Never Land. Hyperion, 2011. Aidan and Sarah cooper have no idea what they're getting into one afternoon when they discover a mysterious coded document in a secret compartment of an antique English desk their father recently bought at an auction. Something about the document seems familiar to Sarah, and that night she realizes what it is: the document seems to be referring to some books she has read-the Starcatchers series, about the origin of Peter Pan. But how could that be? The document seems far older than the books. And of course, the books are just stories. Curious, Sarah and Aidan begin to decipher the mysterious document. At first it's a game-unraveling the mystery piece by piece, each piece leading them to a new, deeper puzzle. But soon the game turns strange-and scary. Pursued by a being that can take any form and will stop at nothing to get what it wants from them, Aidan and Sarah embark on a desperate, thrilling quest for help-a quest that leads them to some unforgettable people in some unlikely places, including one that's not supposed to exist at all. Basye, Dale E. Fibble : The Fourth Circle of Heck. Random House, 2011. (Gr. 4-8) FAN When goth teen Marlo wakes up in Fibble, the part of Heck that is reserved for liars, she is disgusted to find that she is in her younger brother Milton's body. Previous titles: Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go, 2008; Rapacia: The Second Circle of Heck, 2009; Blimpo: The Third Circle of Heck, 2010. Bauer, A. C. E. Come Fall. Random House, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN Drawn together by a mentoring program and an unusual crow, middle school misfits Salman, Lu, and Blos form a strong friendship despite teasing by fellow students and the maneuverings of fairies Oberon, Titania, and Puck. Bearn, Emily. Tumtum and Nutmeg. Little Brown, 2009. (Gr. 4-6) FAN Wealthy, married mice Tumtum and Nutmeg find adventure when they secretly try to help two human siblings who live in a tumbledown cottage with their absent-minded inventor father. Sequel: The Rose Cottage Tales, 2010. Bedford, Martyn. Flip. Wendy Lamb Books, 2011. (Gr. 7+) PARANORMAL One December night, 14-year-old Alex goes to bed. He wakes up to find himself in the wrong bedroom, in an unfamiliar house, in a different part of the country, and it's the middle of June. Six months have disappeared overnight. The family at the breakfast table are total strangers. And when he looks in the mirror, another boy's face stares back at him. A boy named Flip. Unless Alex finds out what's happened and how to get back to his own life, he may be trapped forever inside a body that belongs to someone else. Bell, Hilari. The Last Knight. Eos, 2007. (Gr. 7 +) FAN In alternate chapters, eighteen-year-old Sir Michael Sevenson, an anachronistic knight errant, and seventeen-year-old Fisk, his street-wise squire, tell of their noble quest to bring Lady Ceciel to justice while trying to solve her husband’s murder. Sequels: Rogue’s Home, 2008; and The Player’s Ruse, 2010. Bell, Hilari. Trickster’s Girl. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. (Gr. 7+) FAN In the year 2098, grieving her father and angry with her mother, fifteen-year-old Kelsa joins the magical Raven on an epic journey from Utah to Alaska to heal the earth by restoring the flow of magic that humans have disrupted. Sequel: Traitor’s Son, forthcoming 3/2012. Bell, Hilari. The Goblin Gate. Harperteen, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN Jeriah uncovers a web of political intrigue while trying to obtain a spell from Master Lazur that might allow him to rescue his brother Tobin from the Otherworld, where he was taken by the beguiling hedgewitch Makenna and her legion of goblins. Sequel to: Goblin Wood, 2003. Bergren, Lisa Tawn. Waterfall. David C. Cook, 2011. (Gr. 7+) FAN American teen Gabi Bertarrini, spending yet another boring summer in Tuscany with her sister and parents, famed Etruscan scholars, finds life getting a lot more exciting when she places her hand on top of a hand print in an ancient tomb and is transported to fourteenth-century Italy where she is rescued from a fierce battle between warring knights by Prince Marcello Falassi, who takes her back to his father's castle-- which she has seen in ruins in her modern-day life. Sequels in The River of Time Series: Cascade, 2011; Torrent, 2011. Berkeley, Jon. The Hidden Boy. Katherine Tegen Books, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN When Bea and her family are transported aboard an underwater bus to a strange land, her younger brother Theo is lost during the voyage, and somehow it falls to Bea to find out what has become of him. First in The Bell Hoot Fables series. Sequel: The Sleeper’s Moon, forthcoming 10/2011. Bernobich, Beth. The Fox and the Phoenix. Viking, forthcoming 10/2011. (Gr. 8+) FAN Sixteen-year-old Kai, a magician's apprentice and former street tough, must travel to the Phoenix Empire, where his friend Princess Lian is studying statecraft, and help her escape so she can return home before her father, the king, dies. Berry, Julie. Secondhand Charm. Bloomsbury, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) FAN On her journey to the royal university to become a doctor, fifteen-year-old Evie, wearing potent gypsy charms, learns of her monstrous inheritance. Bick, Ilsa J. Ashes. Egmont, forthcoming 9/2011. (Gr. 10+) SF An electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device, wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions. Alex hiked into the woods to say good-bye to her dead parents and her personal demons. Now desperate to find out what happened after the pulse crushes her to the ground, Alex meets up with Tom—a young soldier—and Ellie, a girl whose grandfather was killed by the EMP. Billingsley, Franny. Chime. Dial, 2011. (Gr. 8+) FAN In the early twentieth century in Swansea, Wales, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about. Black, Holly. The White Cat. The Curse Workers #1. Margaret K. McElderry, 2010. (Gr. 9+) FAN Rendered an outsider because of his dubious family of magical con artists, Cassel struggles with lingering guilt over his role in a friend's death years earlier and begins experiencing bizarre dreams about a white cat that make him question his dead friend's actual fate. Sequels: Red Glove, 2011; Black Heart, forthcoming 4/2012. Black, Jenna. Shadowspell: A Faeriewalker Novel. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011. (Gr. 9+) FAN Faeriewalker Dana Hathaway, already in hiding from the Faerie Queen and her assassins, finds her life even more restricted when Arawn, the Erlking, arrives in Avalon, the only place on Earth where humans and Fae live together, and makes his interest in Dana obvious. Sequel: Sirensong, 2011. Black, Kat. The Book of Tormond 1: A Templar's Apprentice. Scholastic, 2009. (Gr. 6+) FAN While trying to harness his power for prophetic visions, a fourteenth-century Scottish boy joins a Templar knight on his sacred quest to unearth an ancient relic. Sequel: The Templar’s Gifts, 2011. Block, Francesca Lia. The Frenzy. HarperTeen, 2010. (Gr. 8+) SUPERNATURAL When she was thirteen, something terrifying and mysterious happened to Liv that she still does not understand, and now, four years later, her dark secret threatens to tear her apart from her family and her true love. Blubaugh, Penny. Blood and Flowers. HarperTeen, 2011. (Gr. 7+) FAN Three years ago, Persia ran away from her drug-addict parents and found a home with the Outlaws, an underground theater troupe. This motley band of mortals and fey, puppeteers and actors, becomes the loving family Persia never had, and soon Persia not only discovers a passion for theater but also falls in love with Nicholas, one of the other Outlaws. Booraem, Ellen. Small Persons with Wings. Dial, 2011. (Gr. 5-8) FAN Adopting a strictly scientific approach to life after being teased for her belief in fairies, Mellie learns that her family comes from a long line of fairy guardians, but their position is compromised when the fairies want their magic back, a power-hungry enchantress in disguise wants to steal it and Mellie is transformed into a frog. Bow, Erin. Plain Kate. Arthur A. Levine, 2010. Living in a magical world of talking cats and shadows that can bring back the dead, wood-carver's daughter Kate uses talismans to discover secrets and is accused of witchcraft when a bizarre sickness spreads across the countryside, a situation that prompts her to make a dangerous pact with a desperate man. Boyce, Frank Cottrell. Cosmic. Walden Pond Press, 2010. (Gr. 5-8) SF Frequently mistaken for an adult because of his mature appearance, 12-year-old Liam tires of the few benefits he's been able to take advantage of as a result and cons his way onto a spaceship for civilians by pretending to be an adult chaperone, a situation that lands him between worlds far from home. Bracken, Alexandra. Brightly Woven. Egmont, 2010. (Gr. 7+) FAN Sixteen-year-old Sydelle Mirabel, an unusually talented weaver and the village elder's daughter, must master her mysterious power and join a young wizard, Wayland North, to prevent an imminent war in their kingdom. Breitrose, Prudence. Mousenet. Hyperion, forthcoming 10/2011. (Gr. 4-6) SF Sent to live with her chef father and his wife in Oregon after having stayed with her inventor uncle and scientist mother in Cincinnati, ten-year-old misfit Megan is lonely until she starts working with some computer-savvy mice to try to save Mouse Nation--and the planet. Brennan, Herbie. The Faeman Quest. Bloomsbury, 2011. (Gr.7+) FAN Stubborn and feisty Mella, the daughter of Lord Henry and Queen Holly Blue, has the power to determine the fate of both the faerie and "analogue" worlds when she travels to the country of Haleklind and discovers rebel forces preparing for war. Previous titles in The Faerie Wars Chronicles: Faerie Wars, 2003; The Purple Emperor, 2004; Ruler of the Realm, 2006; Faerie Lord, 2007. Brennan, Herbie. The Doomsday Box : A Shadow Project Adventure. Balzer + Bray, 2011. (Gr. 6-9) SF Working on a highly-classified espionage project, four English teenagers go back in time to the Cold War in 1962 to prevent a global outbreak of the bubonic plague in the twenty-first century. Brennan, Sarah Rees. Demon’s Lexicon. Margaret K. McElderry, 2009. (Gr. 9+) FAN Aware that deadly magicians are plotting to take back a charm that was stolen by his mother, Nick turns to his brother, Alan, for help in keeping the demons away, but when he uncovers dark secrets about his family, Nick's trust in Alan is shaken to the core in the midst of their most dangerous mission. Sequels: The Demon’s Covenant, 2010 and The Demon’s Surrender, 2011. Brewer, Heather. Twelfth Grade Kills. Dutton, 2010. (Gr. 7+) SUPERNATURAL The Council of Elders, having been informed that Tomas still lives, puts off Vlad's execution, providing Vlad the opportunity to try to set some things right. Previous titles in The Chronicles of Vlad Tod: #1 Eighth Grade Bites, 2007; #2 Ninth Grade Slays, 2008; #3 Tenth Grade Bleeds, 2009; #4 Eleventh Grade Burns, 2010. Brewer, Heather. First Kill. Dial, forthcoming 9/2011. (Gr. 7+) PARANORMAL The summer before ninth grade, when Joss sets off to meet his uncle and hunt down the beast that murdered his younger sister three years earlier, he learns he is destined to join the Slayer Society. Briceland, V. The Glass Maker’s Daughter. Flux, 2009. (Gr. 10+) FAN Sixteen-year-old Risa's disappointment over an unprecedented event is devastating, but the evil and destruction that follows the king's death show her that the god and goddess have special need of her talents and those of her new, lower-class friends. Sequels: The Buccaneer's Apprentice, 2010 and The Nascenza Conspiracy, 2011. Brodien-Jones, Christine. The Owl Keeper. Delacorte, 2010. (Gr. 5-9) FAN Loving his grandmother's story about a pre-Destruction protector who once united sages and extinct silver owls against the powers of the dark, Maxwell Unger is challenged to be brave and protect an important secret when a mysterious girl comes to town. Buckley, Michael. Tales from the Hood. Abrams, 2008. (Gr. 4-6) FAN When the fairy-tale detectives rush to New York City hoping to find an Everafter who can cure Puck, they trigger a chain of events that includes a murder mystery, and learn many new things about their mother who, along with their father, is still in an enchanted sleep. Previous titles in the Sisters Grimm series: #1 The Fairy-Tale Detectives, 2005; #2 The Unusual Suspects, 2005; #3 The Problem Child, 2006; #4 Once upon a Crime, 2007; #5 Magic and Other Misdemeanors, 2007. Sequels: #7 The Everafter War, 2009; #8 The Inside Story, 2010. 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