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This book would make a great serial TV show – the best of Lost, 彼得·潘, and other fantasy-adventure stories – find a breath-taking and fast-paced home in Nadia Aguiar’s debut novel, 罗望子岛.  One exciting episode after the next, each and every chapater ending with a cliff-hanger or surprise, keep the reader turning page after page. Maya lives at sea with her family – parents who are marine biologists, 她讨厌的哥哥西蒙, 还有他们的小妹妹佩妮.  在一场可怕的风暴中, their parents are washed overboard and the children find themselves drifting into a cove of the mysterious and magical阅读更多→

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In: 中级评价, 科幻 & 幻想
: 0welcome皇冠地址

Mari and her brother 雅克布 have been led away from Hamelin town by the enchanting music of the Pied Piper.  Through a hidden portal in the mountain, they find themselves in a magical wonderland, which is as dangerous as it is beautiful. 在她迷人的小说里, 野生的魔法, Cat Weatherhill enriches and expands the age-old story of the Pied Piper.  The story has 3 points of view: Marianna and her disabled brother, 雅克布, who can’t keep up with the others and becomes, 至少是短暂的, the only Hamelin child not trapped inside the Hill. 最后是吹笛手芬恩.  We learn he is half human, half elf, and阅读更多→

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In: 青少年书评
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Barry Lyga’s latest YA novel, Hero-Type, is an interesting examination of human behavior.  His sense of character and his astute window into a teen guy’s soul come through brilliantly in this book.  Lyga captures the struggles and feelings that define Kross and his friends and makes the reader agonize and cheer right along with them. Kross was in the right place at the right time and he saved a beautiful girl from being attacked and murdered.  Thrust into the national spotlight for stopping the attacks of a serial-killer, Kross is now the focus of everyone’s attention, which is almost more than he can bear.  然后,阅读更多→

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亲属, 霍莉·布莱克, is an engrossing dark urban fantasy about a girl seeking the truth about her past-and her future. 街, 典型的哥特青少年, discovers that she is able to see the faerie realm, 这是人类做不到的. After the mysterious disappearance of her mother, her father is arrested for allegedly murdering a student.  街 starts seeing strange people and creatures around her and begins to wonder if she is descending into madness.  Instead she discovers that her mother is a faerie, “好邻居”之一,和她的父亲, 一个凡人, 背叛了她, forcing her to leave the mortal realm.   渴望弄清楚她是谁阅读更多→

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In: 在边缘, 浪漫(是的), 青少年书评
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In Deadville, the latest YA novel by Ron Koertge, we meet Ryan.  他一直在逃避生活, primarily by smoking pot and isolating himself with his iPod, since his younger sister died of cancer two years ago. But when Charlotte Silano — a gorgeous, popular senior way out of his league — has a riding accident and falls into a coma, Ryan finds himself drawn to her hospital room almost every day, long after her friends stop coming around.  当他拜访夏洛特的时候, Ryan slowly starts to emerge from his own isolation – he reconnects with his parents, 停止吸食大麻, 去健身房锻炼, 甚至阅读更多→

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In: 中级评价
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The dictionary defines a fable as: “a fictitious narrative or statement: as a: a legendary story of supernatural happenings b: a narration intended to enforce a useful truth.”  I’ve been thinking a lot about this definition after having finished Sonya Hartnett’s lyrical novel 鬼的孩子.  On the surface it’s a lovely story about an old woman who comes home to find a mysterious boy in her parlor and proceeds to tell him the story of her life.  Matilda’s story spans most of the 20th century – from her shy childhood to the 2 year sea voyage she and her father went on looking for阅读更多→

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In: 浪漫(是的), 科幻小说 & 幻想(是的), 青少年书评
: 0welcome皇冠地址

I had fun reading Marked: A House of Night novel by P.C. 投 & 克里斯汀投.  Quick, fun and sassy, this was a great weekend read. Zoey Redbird’s world is a lot like our own, except that vampyres have always existed. She’s just been marked as a fledgling vampyre and has to go to a boarding school for her kind, 夜之屋.  She never really felt like she fit into “normal” life – at school or at home – and so she hopes that she can find friends and acceptance in her new school and in her new life.  她要被阅读更多→

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In: 在边缘, 青少年书评
: 1welcome皇冠地址

Sometimes books keep me up at night – not usually because I stay up into the wee hours just to finish them (I like my 8 hours of slumber) – but because thoughts, ideas and reactions to what I’ve read the day before keep rolling around in my mind, forcing me down rabbit holes or through mazes that I hadn’t expected. Jay Asher’s debut YA novel, 13个理由, did that to me last week.  In a series of cassette tape recordings, Hannah Baker reveals the web of reasons, 滚雪球效应, about why she has chosen to end her own life.  听众克雷阅读更多→