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Forgive My Fins | Tera Lynn Childs
Lily doesn't know how to say it. She's.... head over heels for swim-team god Brandon and wants to ask him to the dance, now that he's single for the first time in three years. And she's running out of...
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Behemoth | Scott Westerfeld
Picking up where Leviathan left off, Behemoth continues the tale of everyone's favorite midshipman and heir on the run in a steampunk alterna-WWI. It's hard to say much more without giving away the...
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Keeper | Kathi Appelt
Warning, this post will be a tease. I left this book where it sits, on my bed, read a hundred or so pages in. I know, I know, I normally lead the the summary of the plot, or a potential book talk, but...
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The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows | Jacqueline West
Olive has moved so many times to accommodate her mathematician parents' academic pursuits, but the house on Linden Street is different from their other white-walled apartments (and not just because...
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The Boneshaker | Kate Milford
Arcane, Missouri sits near a crossroads, the sort of crossroads where all sorts of strange things can happen. When a broken wagon wheel leads a traveling medicine show to town, Natalie, a mechanically...
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Wolven | Di Toft
When Nat asked for a dog, he never thought he'd get one like this - a howler with patchy white fur, orange eye and a strange tattoo. He quickly learns Woody is not a dog at all, but Wolven. Will his...
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The Apothecary | Maile Meloy
In 1952, Janie moves from Los Angeles to London after her parents are accused of being Communist sympathizers. She quickly befriends Benjamin, the local apothecary's son who'd rather be a spy than...
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Wildwood | Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis
After her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, Prue (followed by a local neighbor boy) enters the Impassible Woods and gets caught in a territory war. BOOOOORRRRRRIIIIIIIINGGGGGGGG. It's a 541-page...
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The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster
The classic children's book, in which Milo receives a mysterious tollbooth that leads him on an adventure to save the princesses Rhyme and Reason. This has been on the top of my librarian pile of...
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A Web of Air | Phillip Reeve
The second installment of the Fever Crumb series.The world building in this series seems so simple, so natural, I'm always surprised to look up and realize I don't live on a land barge. I enjoyed the...
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