A Plague Year
10 best books like A Plague Year (Edward Bloor): This Thing Called the Future, Three Black Swans, Frail, Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London, Joseph, Nobel Genes, Silhouetted by the Blue, Home, Rise of the Corpses, Chasing Orion
| Author | J.L. Powers |
| ISBN | 1933693959 |
Khosi lives with her beloved grandmother Gogo, her little sister Zi, and her weekend mother in a matchbox house on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. In that shantytown, it seems like somebody is dying all the time. Billboards everywhere warn of the disease of the day. Her Gogo goes to...
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0385738676 |
Lives are in the balance in bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney's newest young adult thriller, "Three Black Swans."
Missy and her cousin Claire are best friends who finish each other's sentences and practically read each other's minds. It's an eerie connection--so eerie that Missy has questions...
| Author | Joan Frances Turner |
| ISBN | 0441020704 |
Being human is a disadvantage in post-apocalyptic America...Now that the Feeding Plague has swept through human and zombie societies, it seems like everyone is an "ex" these days. Ex-human. Ex- zombie. Except for Amy, that is. She's the only human survivor from her town-a frail. And if the feral dogs,...
| Author | Andrea Warren |
| ISBN | 0547395744 |
Provoked by the horrors he saw every day, Charles Dickens wrote novels that were originally intended as instruments for social change — to save his country’s children.
Charles Dickens is best known for his contributions to the world of literature, but during his young life, Dickens witnessed...
| Author | Shelia P. Moses |
| ISBN | 1416917527 |
For Joseph Flood, life is tough. Tough because of Mama's addiction to drugs and alcohol. Tough because Daddy is away with the army fighting in Iraq. Tough because it looks like there's no way out once you're living in a homeless shelter in a North Carolina ghetto neighborhood. And tough because Joseph...
| Author | Rune Michaels |
| ISBN | 1416912592 |
It's tough to measure up to your parents' expectations. Imagine how much harder it would be if your mother told you that your biological father—whom you'd never met—was a Nobel prize-winning genius? What if, after years of testing and tutoring, you never showed that particular spark of brilliance?...
| Author | Traci L. Jones |
| ISBN | 0374369143 |
Seventh-grader Serena Shaw is trying to keep up at school while rehearsing for the lead role in the spring musical and dealing with a father so "blue" he is nearly catatonic. With the aid of a not-so-secret admirer as well as a growing sense of self-confidence, she faces the challenges of caring for herself...
| Author | Matthew Costello |
| ISBN | 1250012732 |
Besieged and attacked, a mother and her children must escape a post-apocalyptic nightmare world of cannibals and betrayal
Jack Murphy thought he'd found the perfect escape for his family from a world gone horribly mad. He thought wrong. Matthew Costello's Home begins mere minutes after...
| Author | Ty Drago |
| ISBN | 1402247850 |
On a sunny Wednesday morning in October, a day that would mark the end of one life and the beginning of another, I found out my grouchy next door neighbor was the walking dead. When you turn around expecting to see something familiar, and instead see something else altogether, it takes a little while for...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0763639826 |
When a beautiful teen with polio enters their lives, a girl and her older brother find themselves drawn into a web of lies in this compelling novel by a best-selling author.
Eleven-year-old Georgie loves science-fiction movies, but she won’t be going to the theater anytime soon. It’s...
Maggie Chen was born with ink in her blood. Her journalist father has fired her imagination with the thrill of the newsroom, and when her father is killed, she is determined to keep his dreams alive by interning at the local newspaper.
While assisting on her first story, Maggie learns that her...
| Author | Laura Resau |
| ISBN | 0385736533 |
Sixteen-year-old Zeeta and her flighty English-teaching mom, Layla, have traveled the world together, settling in a different country every year, making a whole new set of friends and adopting new customs. This year, they’ve chosen to live in Aix-en-Provence, France, an enchanting city full...
“Brezenoff’s enviable prose captures distinct, compelling characters as they struggle through the often heartbreaking work of becoming adults. Readers will identify with Lily, Noah, and Simon as they try to reconcile their longing for connection with their need to break free.”
—Sara...
| Author | Jane Breskin Zalben |
| ISBN | 0375862226 |
Allegra Katz has been playing piano since she was four. But these aren't just any piano lessons. She studies at the Julliard School in New York, where careers are being formed—or not.
Between strict practice schedules, music classes, and regular school, Ally doesn't have time for much else....
| Author | Philip Webb |
| ISBN | 0545317673 |
Will they find the lost treasure before time runs out? A gripping adventure about a desperate race through the wastelands of future London to find a relic of extraordinary power.
For Cass and Wilbur, life as scavengers is all they've ever known -- rummaging the ruins of London in search of a precious,...
The Rites & Wrongs of Janice Wills
| Author | Joanna Pearson |
| ISBN | 0545197732 |
The Japanese hold a Mogi ceremony for young women coming of age. Latina teenagers get quinceaneras. And Janice Wills of Melva, NC ... has to compete in the Miss Livermush pageant.
Janice loves anthropology--the study of human cultures--and her observations help her identify useful rules...
Luke King knows a lot of things. Like four different ways to disarm an enemy before the attacker can take a breath. Like every detail of every book he’s ever read. And Luke knows enough—just enough—about what his father does as a black ops infiltrator to know which questions not to ask. Like why does...
Searching these sinister stacks you will find:
A church picnic at a haunted reservoir where only a twelve year-old boy is aware that something waits in the water…
A burnt-out teacher that finds a friend… in his cancer…
The secret to surviving the zombie apocalypse…
An...
His life could change the world. His death could save it.
It all started with a book. The most boring book in the world! So boring that nobody would ever read it. The perfect place to hide a terrible secret. But now the book has emerged from its hiding place and the world may never be the same.
An...
Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield
When Masie and Felix's parents divorce, the twelve-year-old twins reluctantly move from New York City to Rhode Island with their Mom, who is distracted by a demanding new job. Their new home is a mansion that once belonged to their great aunt but is now owned by the local preservation society. Living...
| Author | Marcella Pixley |
| ISBN | 0374361746 |
Tess and Lizzie are sisters, sisters as close as can be, who share a secret world filled with selkies, flying horses, and a girl who can transform into a wolf in the middle of the night. But when Lizzie is ready to grow up, Tess clings to their fantasies. As Tess sinks deeper and deeper into her delusions,...
| Author | Brian Keaney |
| ISBN | 0375843353 |
“Keaney's concoction of sci-fi, horror, and fantasy is remarkably effective. Sigmundus is a villain who will haunt readers.”—The Bulletin
Beginning where Book 2, The Cracked Mirror, left off, this finale to the Promises of Dr. Sigmundus trilogy takes readers into bizarre realms...
DC Comics Ultimate Character Guide
| Author | Brandon T. Snider |
| ISBN | 0756682614 |
This compact guide is a handy reference book for all young comic-book fans, giving readers instant access to the essential facts and statistics about DC characters, good and evil. Arranged in an easy-to-use A-Z format, this book devotes a full page to each character, covering both major characters...
| Author | Mercedes Lackey |
| ISBN | 1599906848 |
Jett is a girl disguised as a boy, living as a gambler in the old West as she searches for her long-lost brother. Honoria Gibbons is a smart, self-sufficient young woman who also happens to be a fabulous inventor. Both young women travel the prairie alone – until they are brought together by a zombie invasion!...
