Title: The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom Author: Written by Christopher Healy, Illustrated by Tod Harris Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling, Middle Grade Publisher: Walden Pond Press Publication Date: May 2012 Hardcover: 293 Pages (US) nter a world…
Title: Bitterblue Author: Kristin Cashore Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Dial (US) / Gollancz (UK) Publication Date: May 2012 Hardcover: 547 Pages Eight years after Graceling, Bitterblue is now queen of Monsea. But the influence of her father, a…
Title: Silence Author: Michelle Sagara Genre: Urban Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult Publisher: DAW Publication Date: May 2012 Hardcover: 256 Pages It began in the graveyard… Ever since her boyfriend Nathan had died in a tragic accident, Emma had been…
Title: The Chaos Author: Nalo Hopinkson Genre: Speculative Fiction, Contemporary, Young Adult Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books Publication date: April 17th 2012 Hardcover: 256 pages Sixteen-year-old Scotch struggles to fit in—at home she’s the perfect daughter, at school she’s…
Title: The Vicious Deep Author: Zoraida Córdova Genre: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Publication Date: May 2012 Hardcover: 384 Pages For Tristan Hart, everything changes with one crashing wave. He was gone for three days. Sucked…
Title: Enchanted Author: Alethea Kontis Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retellings, Young Adult Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books Publication Date: May 2012 Hardcover: 305 Pages It isn’t easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the…
Title: White Horse Author: Alex Adams Genre: Horror, Apocalypse, Speculative Fiction Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books Publication Date: April 17, 2012 Hardcover: 292 Pages Thirty-year-old Zoe leads an ordinary life until the end of the world arrives. She is cleaning…
Title: The Book of the Maidservant Author: Rebecca Barnhouse Genre: Historical, Medieval, Young Adult Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Publication date: October 2009 Paperback: 240 pages Johanna is a servant girl to Dame Margery Kempe, a renowned…
Title: 172 Hours on the Moon (Original title: DARLAH) Author: Johan Harstad Genre: Science Fiction, Horror, Young Adult Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (US) / Atom (UK) Publication Date: April 2012 (US & UK) Hardcover: 355 Pages…
Title: Changeling Author: Delia Sherman Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade Publisher: Viking Juvenile Publication date: August 2006 Paperback 256 pages A determined heroine, a quest adventure galore! Neef is a changeling, a human baby stolen by fairies and replaced with…
Title: Ash Mistry and the Savage Fortress Author: Sarwat Chadda Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade/Young Adult, PoC Publisher: Harper Collins Children / Arthur A Levine Publication date: March 1 2012 / October 2012 Paperback: 400 pages…
Title: Glamour in Glass Author: Mary Robinette Kowal Genre: Fantasy, Alternate History Publisher: Tor Publication Date: April 2012 Hardcover: 336 Pages Mary Robinette Kowal stunned readers with her charming first novel Shades of Milk and Honey, a loving tribute…
Title: The Wicked and the Just Author: J. Anderson Coats Genre: Historical, Medieval, Young Adult Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication date: April 17th 2012 Hardcover: 352 pages Cecily’s father has ruined her life. He’s moving them to occupied Wales,…
Title: Tankborn Author: Karen Sandler Genre: Dystopia, Science Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Tu Books Publication Date: October 2011 Hardcover: 373 Pages Best friends Kayla and Mishalla know they will be separated for their Assignments. They are GENs, Genetically Engineered…
Title: The Rebel Wife Author: Taylor M. Polites Genre: Historical, Literary Fiction, American Civil War, PoC Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication date: February 7 2012 Hardcover: 304 pages Brimming with atmosphere and edgy suspense, The Rebel Wife presents a…
Title: Goddess of Yesterday Author: Caroline B. Cooney Genre: Fantasy, Greek Retelling, Young Adult Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Publication date: First published in 2002 Paperback: 242 pages Anaxandra is taken from her birth island at age 6…
Title: The Comet’s Curse & The Web of Titan Author: Dom Testa Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Tor Teen Publication Date: November 2004 / December 2005 Paperback: 240 Pages / 272 Pages The Comet’s Curse, Book 1 When…
Title: Witch Hill Author: Marcus Sedgwick Genre: Contemporary, Horror, Middle Grade Publisher: Orion Children’s Books Publication date: First published 2001 Paperback: 154 pages At first, Jamie isn’t too worried about the bad dreams he’s been having since coming to…
Title: The Miseducation of Cameron Post Author: Emily M. Danforth Genre: Contemporary, LGBT, Young Adult Publisher: Balzer + Bray Publication date: February 7 2012 Hardcover: 480 pages When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking…
Title: The Sunbird Author: Elizabeth Wein Genre: Fantasy, Historical, PoC, Young Adult Publisher: Firebird Publication date: April 12th 2004 Paperback: 184 pages Telemakos is the grandson of two noble men: Kidane, member of the parliament in the African kingdom…
Title: The Traitor in the Tunnel Author: Y.S. Lee Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult Publisher: Candlewick Press (US) / Walker (UK) Publication Date: February 2012 (US) / August 2011 (UK) Hardcover: 373 pages Get steeped in suspense, romance,…
Title: Earthseed Author: Pamela Sargent Genre: Dystopia, Science Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Tor Teen (originally published by Harper & Row) Publication Date: March 2012 (originally published 1983) Paperback: 288 pages The classic YA science fiction adventure by Nebula and…
Title: The Dead of Winter Author: Chris Priestley Genre: Gothic, Horror, Historical, Young Adult Publisher: Bloomsbury (US & UK) Publication Date: January 2012 Hardcover: 218 pages An orphaned boy, a desolate house, and a poltergeist with a terrible itch…
Title: The Butterfly Clues Author: Kate Ellison Genre: Contemporary, Mystery/Thriller, Young Adult Publisher: EgmontUSA Publication Date: February 2012 Hardcover: 336 pages Penelope (Lo) Marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. Her dad’s consulting job means she’s grown up…
Title: Incarnate Author: Jodi Meadows Genre: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Dystopian, Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books (HarperCollins) Publication Date: February 2012 Hardcover: 384 pages New soul Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million…