by Greg Rothenberger
10. December 2010 11:10
More new Teen Scene books:
- The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
- After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race.
- Wildthorn by Jane England
- Seventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove is locked away in the Wildthorn Hall mental institution, where she is stripped of her identity and left to wonder who has tried to destroy her life.
- Beastly by Alex Finn
- A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
- Pies & Prejudice by Heather Vogel Frederick
- Four girls, and their mothers, continue their mother-daughter book club via videoconference between Massachusetts and England, reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice," and try to put friendship before romance.
- Crossing Stonesby Helen Frost
- In their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell of their experiences during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school, and Muriel fights for peace and women's suffrage.
- Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
- In a small southern town with a secret world hidden in plain sight, sixteen-year-old Lena, who possesses supernatural powers and faces a life-altering decision, draws away from her true love, Ethan, a mortal with frightening visions.
- Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis Gill
- On the planet Mars, sixteen-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders.
- Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, by Phillip Hoose
- Contents include First Cry: Jim Crow and the Detested Number Ten—Coot—"We Seemed to Hate Ourselves"—"It's My Constitutional Right!"—"There's the Girl Who Got Arrested"—"Crazy" Times—"Another Negro Woman Has Been Arrested"—Second Front, Second Chance—Playing for Keeps: Browder v. Gayle—Rage in Montgomery—History's Door.
- Firelight by Sophie Jordan
- When sixteen-year-old Jacinda, who can change into a dragon, is forced to move away from her community of shapeshifters and start a more normal life, she fall in love with a boy who proves to be her most dangerous enemy.
- My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, & Fenway Park, by Steve Kluger
- Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own.
OK, one more list tommorrow and we'll have everything done for new teen books.