Summary: With a new boyfriend, asthma attacks that come when least expected, and a pesky younger brother, fifteen-year-old Savannah’s summer vacation takes many unexpected twists and turns.
Viking
Archive for the ‘NOT Mock Printz’ Category
Breathing, by Cheryl Herbsman
July 24, 2009Lipstick Apology, by Jennifer Jabaley
July 24, 2009
Summary: After her parents’ sudden death, sixteen-year-old Emily leaves Pennsylvania for her aunt’s New York City apartment, private school, and disconcerting new relationships, all the while puzzling over her mother’s mysterious apology to her.
Razorbill
The Book of Samuel by Erik Raschke
July 23, 2009
Summary: Living with his religious father, feminist mother, and racist grandmother in Denver, Colorado, during the early 1980s, twelve-year-old Samuel Gerard relates his school adventures and deals with his own prejudices towards Mexican immigrants.
361 pages, St. Martin’s Press
Anatomy of Wings, by Karen Foxlee
July 23, 2009
Summary: After the suicide of her troubled teenage sister, eleven-year-old Jenny struggles to understand what actually happened.
Knopf
The Other Girl: a Midvale Academy novel, by Sarah Miller
July 22, 2009
Summary: At a fancy New England prep school, Molly tries to break up her ex-boyfriend Gideon’s new relationship with sexy classmate Pilar after Molly finds herself inside the head of Pilar, hearing her innermost thoughts.
St. Martins Griffin
City of Screams, by John Brindley
July 22, 2009
Summary: This is the story of Phoenix, earthbound and to her own mind deformed, but who is in love with the image of perfection, the air Agle, Gabriel. What will she risk to be with him? The stakes are high: a delicate balance has been formed between the rodents, raptors and Agles in the rebuilt city. Is Phoenix willing to jeopardise their safety? What chance does she have when the Adults return, claiming civilisation for themselves once and for all.
Orion
Streams of Babel by Carol Plum-Ucci
January 18, 2009
Summary: Six teens face a bioterrorist attack on American soil as four are infected with a mysterious disease affecting their small New Jersey neighborhood and two others, both brilliant computer hackers, assist the United States Intelligence Coalition in tracking the perpetrators. 424 p., Harcourt.
The Ghost’s Child by Sonya Hartnett
January 9, 2009
Summary: When a mysterious child appears in her living room one day, the elderly Maddy tells him the story of her love for the wild and free-spirited Feather, who tried but failed to live a conventional life with her, and her search for him on a fantastical voyage across the seas. 176 p., Candlewick Press.
Jars of Glass by Brad Barkley
January 9, 2009
Summary: Two sisters, aged fourteen and fifteen, offer their views of events that occur during the year after their mother is diagnosed with schizophrenia and their family, including a recently adopted Russian orphan, begins to disintegrate. 246 p., Dutton.
Hero-type by Barry Lyga
December 30, 2008
Summary: Feeling awkward and ugly is only one reason sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity surrounding his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he steps into the limelight to encourage people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean. 290 p., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
