Imagine being a 17 year boy in a small town in Wisconsin that the town wants to forget along with it’s past history of Nazis. That is the life the lead character in Draw the Dark, Christian Cage, has been living since he was 3 years old. Christian his whole life dreams of his parents [...]
The Last Guardian is the eighth book that Eoin Colfer has written in the Artemis Fowl series that can be found in the Young Adult collection at TCPL. Artemis’ nemesis the pixie Opal Koboi is up to more than her usual mischief as she has disabled the fairy world and wreaking havoc on Artemis’ family [...]
The Traitor in the Tunnel by Y.S. Lee. Mysteries hold a special place in my fourth grade Nancy Drew-loving heart. Which is about the age you start to realize how much life isn’t particularly fair. At least with mysteries, you can count on a little justice at the end. Book 3 of The Agency series [...]
The City of Ember was a Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee from 2005-2006. It is the first of four children’s fantasy books called The Books of Ember from the author Jeanne DuPrau. The story follows two twelve year olds, Lina and Doon, as they challenge the only way of life that they have ever known, [...]
Imagine that when you are born, your brain is implanted with a chip that allows you to access a vast computer network called the Feed. The Feed allows you to quickly download any information you desire, communicate telepathically with your linked friends, and view a constant stream of advertisements that are tailored to your personality [...]
The Hunger Games is the first book of the Suzanne Collins trilogy which also includes Catching Fire and Mockingjay. This Young Adult series has gone viral across genre and age lines and has a lot to talk about…poverty, celebrity, genetic engineering, friendship, fashion, mental illness, love, hate, cake-decorating and war. Katniss is a teenager trying [...]
The first book in Megan Whalen Turner’s Attolia series. Followed by The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia and A Conspiracy of Kings. The main star of this fantasy series is Gen and his humble beginnings as a thief imprisoned in the lands of Sounis. Picture the Mediterranean. He boasted to be the cleverest [...]
Terrier by Tamora Pierce, 2006 – Book 1 of the Beka Cooper series Young Adult fiction Tamora Pierce has created a number of quartets featuring strong heroines – The Song of the Lioness, Protector of the Small, and Wild Magic – in the medieval fantasy land of Tortall. In Terrier, Pierce starts her new series [...]
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow is a big name in the science fiction and online worlds. He has written numerous articles on online culture and intellectual freedom. Little Brother is marketed as a teen novel, but I think adults could get a lot out of it as well. Published in 2008, it was [...]