Summary: Preparing to receive a government-mandated tattoo declaring her sexual readiness to the public at sixteen, Nina is shattered by a brutal attack on her mother, who before dying reveals to Nina a shocking truth about her past.
Speak
Author Archive
XVI, by Julia Karr
May 22, 2011Family by Micol Ostow
May 22, 2011
Summary: In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his “family” becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in.
Egmont
The False Princess, by Ellis O’Neal
May 22, 2011
Summary: The Demon Trapper’s Daughter, by Jana G. Oliver
May 22, 2011
Summary: In 2018 Atlanta, Georgia, after a demon threatens seventeen-year-old Riley Blackthorne’s life and murders her father, a legendary demon trapper to whom she was apprenticed, her father’s partner, Beck, steps in to care for her, knowing she hates him.
St. Martin’s Griffin
Beauty Queens, by Libba Bray
May 22, 2011
Summary: When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island’s other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
Scholastic.
Our 2011 Mock Printz Awards!
January 3, 20112011 Eva Perry Mock Printz Medal
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
2011 Eva Perry Mock Printz Honors
The Cardturner by Louis Sachar
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Nothing by Janne Teller
Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
January 3, 2011
Summary: In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother’s footsteps and become a bounty hunter. 458 p., Simon & Schuster.
Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde
January 3, 2011
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Elle falls in love with Frank, the neighbor who helps her adjust to being on her own in a big city, but learning that he is transgendered turns her world upside-down. 186 p., Alfred A. Knopf.
Our Favorites (So Far)
November 16, 2010We’ve been reading all year (yes, since January) for our 2011 Mock Printz Award. These are the titles that we like the best so far. What are your favorites?
- Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
- By the Time You Read This I’ll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
- The Cardturner by Louis Sachar
- Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg
- Nothing by Janne Teller
- Numbers by Rachel Ward
- The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
- Vultures Wake by Kirsty Murray
The Replacement, by Brenna Yovanoff
November 16, 2010
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Mackie Doyle knows that he replaced a human child when he was just an infant, and when a friend’s sister disappears he goes against his family’s and town’s deliberate denial of the problem to confront the beings that dwell under the town, tampering with human lives. 343 p., Razorbill.
