You wake up on train tracks with no memory of how you got there and no knowledge of who you are. Acting on instinct you run and try and find...
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Showing posts with label Em. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Em. Show all posts
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Recommendation: 'The vault of dreamers' by Caragh M. O'Brien
Welcome to the Forge School of the Arts, an elite school with a unique angle: the students spend 12 hours a day in the public eye through ...
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14+,
caragh m. o'brien,
conspiracies,
dreams,
Em,
mental illness,
mistakes,
schools,
science fiction,
social control,
thriller
Monday, December 22, 2014
Recommendation: 'Icons' by Margaret Stohl
They came from the sky, massive objects known as Icons. The Icons have remained in place for years as a constant and powerful reminder ...
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Labels:
13+,
aliens,
conspiracies,
Em,
margaret stohl,
social control,
supernatural,
thriller
Friday, December 5, 2014
Recommendation: 'Code red lipstick' by Sarah Sky
Jessica Cole has a rather unusual lifestyle - one, she is a teen model and two, her father is a retired MI6 operative who is now a private d...
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Labels:
13+,
adventure,
Em,
friendship,
models,
revelations,
sarah sky,
spies,
thriller
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Recommendation: 'Feral' by Holly Schindler
Claire Cain is a award winning student journalist who took a stand and told the truth to save her best friend - an act of truth and loyalt...
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Labels:
15+,
conspiracies,
death,
Em,
family,
friendship,
ghosts,
holly schindler,
mental illness,
murder,
PTSD,
schools,
supernatural,
thriller
Friday, November 7, 2014
Recommendation: 'The Jewel' by Amy Ewing
The Jewel is the glittering inner city of the island, a place where the elite live in luxury and decadence miles away from those who work an...
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Labels:
15+,
Amy Ewing,
conspiracies,
Dystopia,
Em,
romance,
social control,
The Jewel
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Recommendation: 'Some boys' by Patty Blount
It was just supposed to be a normal party in the woods, a chance to let her hair down and have some fun. Instead Grace was left unconsciou...
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Labels:
15+,
bullying,
date rape,
Em,
family,
friendship,
high schools,
Patty Blount,
rape,
Some Boys,
YA fiction
Monday, October 6, 2014
Recommendation: 'Perfected' by Kate Jarvik Birch
She is the perfect example of a pet, beautiful and graceful, bred in one of the best kennels in the country, trained to be talented and doci...
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Labels:
15+,
dystopian,
Em,
future,
Kate Jarvik Birch,
science fiction
Friday, September 26, 2014
Recommendation: 'The murder complex' by Lindsay Cummings
Meadow is a fighter and a survivor, she has spent her whole life learning how to fight and stay alive. What most people would call torture ...
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Labels:
15+,
action,
conspiracies,
dystopias,
Em,
future,
Lindsay Cummings,
social control,
teenagers,
thriller
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Recommendation: 'Free to fall' by Lauren Miller
Rory has just been accepted into the Theden Academy - an elite finishing school that will allow Rory to attend any university - a chance a...
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Labels:
13+,
coming of age,
conspiracies,
Em,
friendship,
Lauren MIller,
schools,
social control,
thriller
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Recommendation: 'The 100' by Kass Morgan
Hundreds of years ago mankind fled into space to survive the destruction of the Earth's surface. Their descendants now live a life of re...
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Labels:
13+,
dystopian,
Em,
friendship,
future life,
Kass Morgan,
social control,
space colonies,
survival
Friday, August 29, 2014
Retro read: 'Survival' by Chris Ryan
For most of the teenagers on the Phoenix it is the adventure of a lifetime, sailing on the ocean and working as a tightknit team to keep eve...
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Labels:
12+,
action,
Chris Ryan,
coming of age,
Em,
friendship,
survival,
team work,
thriller
Monday, June 16, 2014
Recommendation: 'Nearly gone' by Elle Cosimano
Nearly "Leigh" Boswell lives in a trailer park in Washington, DC. and has her sights set on one goal - win a scholarship and lea...
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Labels:
15+,
Elle Cosimano,
Em,
high schools,
romance,
serial murderers,
supernatural,
Teen fiction
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Recommendation: 'The naturals' by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Cassandra "Cassie" Hobbes is not your average teenager, at just seventeen she is able to read people more accurately than profes...
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Labels:
15+,
crime,
Em,
FBI,
friendship,
Jennifer Lynn Barnes,
profilers,
serial murderers,
thriller
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Recommendation: 'The here and now' by Ann Brashares
Prenna James lives a life controlled by the rules of her insular community - don't seek medical help from the outside world, don't...
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Labels:
action,
Ann Brashares,
conspiracies,
Em,
family,
friendship,
social control,
time travel
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Retro read: 'Graceling' by Kristin Cashore
Katsa is a Graceling, one of the rare people in her realm who was born with a Grace that makes them more than ordinary, makes them a maste...
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Labels:
adventure,
ages 14+,
conspiracies,
Em,
kristin cashore,
magic,
quests
Friday, October 18, 2013
Retro read: 'I am not Esther' by Fleur Beale
Kirby leads a comfortable life with her mother, even though at times it feels as though she is the parent. They don't have a lot of m...
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Labels:
ages 14+,
cults,
Em,
Fleur Beale,
New Zealand,
retro read
Friday, October 11, 2013
Recommendation: 'A girl named Digit' by Annabel Monahgan
For years Farrah (named after Charlie's Angel Farrah Fawcett) has hidden the fact she is a maths genius with more than a touch of OCD....
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Labels:
14+,
action,
annabel monahgan,
Em,
FBI,
OCD,
prodigy,
teen romance,
thriller
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Recommendation: 'Reboot' by Amy Tintera
Sometimes dead doesn't mean dead, and if you are unlucky enough to have the dreaded KDH virus when you die then you come back as a Re...
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Labels:
13+,
adventure,
Amy Tintera,
Central City Library,
dystopias,
Em,
future,
vampires,
zombies
Thursday, February 14, 2013
5 fantastically romantic 80s movies
Anna D’s post on awesome 80s movies inspired some of us (who were alive in the 80s, yes, we’re old) to come up with our fav 80s movies ...
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Labels:
80s,
Annie,
Em,
fantasy fiction,
movies,
romance,
Sue W,
Top 5,
Valentine's Day





