Monday, January 13, 2014

Books that have just arrived!


The sequel to Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children is here!  The Hollow City picks up where the first book left off.  The photos are just as bizarre as in the first book, so flip through and look at those first. 

Engines of the Broken World is a first novel.  It promises a strange twist on the usual post-apocalyptic dystopian world story. Merciful and Gospel Truth have stored their recently deceased mother under the kitchen table because it is too cold outside to bury her. Thus begins a story of horror, guilt, sorrow and fear that promises to be a real page-turner. 

Man Made Boy is Jon Skovron’s (Struts & Frets and Misfit) new novel for teens. Boy is the son of Frankenstein’s Monster and the Bride (who knew they could reproduce?) In this take on Mary Shelley’s classic Prometheus story, the family lives under Times Square in New York rather than in England.  Boy ends up running away with the granddaughters of Jekyll and Hyde and begins a journey towards understanding what it means to be both a man and a monster.  Silly concept, but I am a fan of Skovron, so I hold high hopes for this one.

Altered by Gennifer Albin is the sequel to Crewel, a 2013 YALSA top 10 book for teens. If you’ve read Crewel, you will want to pick up this one, a more typical dystopian story. 

Pick up Why We Took the Car by Wolfgang Herrndorf if you like irreverent humor.  Two of the least popular kids embark on a roadtrip across Germany after being dissed for the thousandth time by popular classmates. They meet wacky people, get into trouble, and get hopelessly lost a few times. 

All of these books are soon to be on the New YA Fiction shelf, waiting for you! 

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