Blind Spot
by Laura Ellen
Release date: October 23, 2012
Available as: hardcover, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 336
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Suggested tags: young adult, mystery, contemporary
From Goodreads:
"There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
Seventeen-year-old Tricia Farni’s body floated to the surface of Alaska’s Birch River six months after the night she disappeared. The night Roz Hart had a fight with her. The night Roz can’t remember. Roz, who struggles with macular degeneration, is used to assembling fragments to make sense of the world around her. But this time it’s her memory that needs piecing together—to clear her name . . . to find a murderer.
This unflinchingly emotional novel is written in the powerful first-person voice of a legally blind teen who just wants to be like everyone else."
Dark Star
by Bethany Frenette
Release date: October 23, 2012
Available as: hardcover, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 368
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Suggested tags: young adult, urban fantasy
From Goodreads:
"Audrey Whitticomb has nothing to fear. Her mother is the superhero Morning Star, the most deadly crime-fighter in the Twin Cities, so it's hard for Audrey not to feel safe. That is, until she's lured into the sweet night air by something human and not human--something with talons and teeth, and a wide, scarlet smile.
Now Audrey knows the truth: her mom doesn't fight crime at night. She fights Harrowers--livid, merciless beings who were trapped Beneath eons ago. Yet some have managed to escape. And they want Audrey dead, just because of who she is: one of the Kin.
To survive, Audrey will need to sharpen the powers she has always had. When she gets close to someone, dark corners of the person's memories become her own, and she sometimes even glimpses the future. If Audrey could only get close to Patrick Tigue, a powerful Harrower masquerading as human, she could use her Knowing to discover the Harrowers' next move. But Leon, her mother's bossy, infuriatingly attractive sidekick, has other ideas. Lately, he won't let Audrey out of his sight.
When an unthinkable betrayal puts Minneapolis in terrible danger, Audrey discovers a wild, untamed power within herself. It may be the key to saving her herself, her family, and her city. Or it may be the force that destroys everything--and everyone--she loves."
Other YA new releases for this week:
Middle Grade
The Vengekeep Prophecies
by Brian Farrey
Release date: October 23, 2012
Available as: hardcover, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 304
Publisher: HarperCollins
Suggested tags: middle grade, fantasy
From Goodreads:
"Enk vessara, enk talmin.
You can't convict what you can't confirm.
Jaxter Grimjinx is a born thief. At least, he's supposed to be. For generations, the Grimjinx clan has produced the swiftest, cleverest thieves in Vengekeep.
The problem is, Jaxter is clumsy. So clumsy that in his first solo heist, he sets the Castellan's house on fire and lands his family in the gaol. Even Jaxter's skill for breaking magical locks can't get them out of this bind.
Then a suspiciously convenient prophecy emerges naming the Grimjinx clan as the soon-to-be heroes of Vengekeep. It's good enough to get his family out of the gaol, but with a firestorm, a flood, and a host of skeletal beasts among the dangers listed in the prophecy, Jaxter is pretty sure a life in the gaol would be a better fate.
Now—like it or not—Jaxter Grimjinx will have to become the hero he was truly born to be."
Who Could That Be At This Hour?
by Lemony Snicket
Release date: October 23, 2012
Available as: hardcover, Kindle edition, ebook, audiobook
Pages: 261
Publisher: Little Brown
Suggested tags: middle grade, mystery
First in the All The Wrong Questions series. From Goodreads:
"In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows about. He started by asking questions that shouldn't have been on his mind. Now he has written an account that should not be published, in four volumes that shouldn't be read. This is the first volume.
The first volume in the four-part autobiographical account of his childhood, called All the Wrong Questions, will be released on Oct. 23, 2012. This will be Snicket’s first new series since the wildly popular A Series of Unfortunate Events."
Other Middle Grade new releases for this week:
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