The Island
Jen Minkman
Available as: paperback, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 138 (Kindle edition)
Publisher: Dutch Venture Publishing
Publication date: January 10, 2014
Suggested tags: young adult, dystopia
First in The Island Series. From Amazon:
" ‘I walk toward the sea. The endless surface of the water extends to the horizon, whichever way I look.
Our world is small. We are on our own, and we only have ourselves to depend on. We rely on the Force deep within us, as taught to us by our forefathers.
If I were to walk westward from here, I would come across a barrier – the Wall. Behind it, there are Fools. At least, that’s what everyone says.
I have never seen one.’
Leia lives on the Island, a world in which children leave their parents to take care of themselves when they are ten years old. Across this Island runs a wall that no one has ever crossed. The Fools living behind it are not amenable to reason – they believe in illusions. That’s what The Book says, the only thing left to the Eastern Islanders by their ancestors.
But when a strange man washes ashore and Leia meets a Fool face to face, her life will never be the same. Is what she and her friends believe about the Island really true?
Or is everyone in their world, in fact, a Fool?"
Leopard Moon
by Jeanette Battista
Available as: paperback, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 204 (Kindle edition)
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Publication date: March 4, 2012
Suggested tags: young adult, paranormal, shapeshifters
First in the Moon series. From Amazon:
"How do you disappear when you come from a family of predators?
A wereleopard, Kess is forced to flee her home and family in Miami once her brother's obsession with her turns violent. She runs from city to city, trying to stay one step ahead of the investigators her family has dispatched to bring her home. Kess ends up in the mountains of North Carolina and attracts the attention of Cormac, a young man with a secret of his own. As she attempts to live as normal a life as her were-nature allows, her brother Sek continues to hunt for her. He believes she is the key to revitalizing their weakened clan and is driven to extreme measures to ensure their continued existence. As Kess' relationship with Cormac deepens, Sek closes in, threatening Cormac's life and Kess' freedom.
When the moon rises, the hunt is on..."
The Park Service
by Ryan Winfield
Available as: paperback, Kindle edition, ebook, audiobook
Pages: 337 (Kindle edition)
Publisher: Birch Paper Press
Publication date: November 22, 2013
Suggested tags: young adult, dystopia
First in the Park Service Trilogy. From Amazon:
"What if the plan to save Earth includes the extinction of humankind?
Sometimes the best intentions ultimately lead to evil ends. That's what fifteen-year-old Aubrey VanHouten learns when he stumbles onto a post-apocalyptic paradise where the few remaining humans live on the run from deadly drones controlled by a mysterious Park Service. Beautifully written with challenging moral dilemmas and heart-melting friendships, The Park Service trilogy is an epic coming-of-age-story that will inspire and delight readers young and old."
The Wrong Girl
by C.J. Archer
Available as: paperback, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 219 (Kindle edition)
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Publication date: May 27, 2013
Suggested tags: young adult, paranormal, romance
First in the Freak House series. From Amazon:
"It's customary for Gothic romance novels to include a mysterious girl locked in the attic. Hannah Smith just wishes she wasn't that girl. As a narcoleptic and the companion to an earl's daughter with a strange affliction of her own, Hannah knows she's lucky to have a roof over her head and food in her belly when so many orphans starve on the streets. Yet freedom is something Hannah longs for. She did not, however, want her freedom to arrive in the form of kidnapping.
Taken by handsome Jack Langley to a place known as Freak House, she finds herself under the same roof as a mad scientist, his niece, a mute servant and Jack, a fire starter with a mysterious past. They assure Hannah she is not a prisoner and that they want to help her. The problem is, they think she's the earl's daughter. What will they do when they discover they took the wrong girl?"
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