Space Demons

Author	John Marsden
ISBN	0440228603

A very interesting fly through read.. well done, John Marsden!!! Checkers is a book that explores teens with prominent and real social/family/health issues.. It's told in the perspective of a nameless girl, who is a voluntary patient in a Psychiatric Ward who refuses to talk about why she's there.....

Author	Paul Jennings
ISBN	0140342133

How do you make a cane toad eat a frog? What happens when Linda copies herself? How do kids get parts in TV shows? What does Rabbit do when he is put on FAST FORWARD? What does it feel like to kiss another teenage actor? How do you write a script?

The answers will send you round the twist. This book includes...

Author	Sherryl Jordan
ISBN	0590447297

Juniper is beautiful, brilliant, bubbling with vitality, buoyant with theories about life and immensely popular at school. She's also manipulative.

Dylan is creative, artistic, withdrawn, nerdish and desperately lonely.

Their home lives couldn't be more different.

Juniper's...

Author	Anna Ciddor
ISBN	1865086894

Set in a small Viking village, this story tells of Thora and Oddo who were switched at birth. Now a grown child, Thora is beginning to figure out that she doesn’t belong; the daughter of a spellmaker, Thora can’t seem to get her magic to work. Across the valley, Oddo, living with a family of farmers,...

Author	Fredrik Brouneus
ISBN	9780473195

What happens when we die?

This has been the third question on mankind’s FAQ list since the dawn of time (numbers one and two being: Is this edible? and Excuse me, would you care to breed?).
I know what happens. Believe me, I’d rather not. But I do.

There is a lighthouse, and it guides...

Author	Amanda Hemingway
ISBN	0345460790

A desperate mother spirits away her infant son, seemingly drawn (chased, perhaps?) to the small English village of Thornyhill. She ends up on the doorstep of old Bartlemy, a curious man who has lived on the forested land for as long as anyone can remember–and who comes to believe that the child is destined...

Author	D.M. Cornish
ISBN	1742990258

Bunting Faukes has a debt and no way to repay it—times are tough for grave robbers. But a way out is presented in the person of Atticus Wells, a sleuth with strange eyes that see into everything.

Virtue Bland is alone in the world. Packed off to Brandenbrass to serve the household of her late father’s...

Author

Catherine Jinks

“This is top-notch storytelling, full of wit, a colorful cast of rogues, and delectable slang.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review of How to Catch a Bogle

Jem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a wily old crook named Sarah Pickles—until she betrayed him. Now...

Author	Kierin Meehan
ISBN	0141000449

Hannah would much rather be back in Australia, starting high school with her friends. But Japan turns out to be nothing like she d imagined, and when Hannah and her new friend Miki find an ancient message in the stationery shop, they are drawn into solving a mysterious riddle. Why do the beans go berserk...

Author	Leonard S. Marcus
ISBN	0763626252

In a series of incisive interviews, Leonard S. Marcus engages thirteen master storytellers in spirited conversation about their life and work, providing inspiring reading for fantasy fans and future writers alike.

What kind of child were you? When did you decide you wanted to be a writer?...

Author

Michael Pryor

All Kingsley wants is to begin his career as an escapologist and conjurer . . . but it seems that it's not only his fiendishly difficult-to-control wolfishness that could put a spanner in the works.

There's also the Immortals, a triumvirate of thousand-year-old magicians who want to rule the...

Author	Victor Kelleher
ISBN	0803707584

Any more, fantasy novels are expected to be enormous epic-length ordeals -- look at the works of Tolkien, Martin, Goodkind, Rothfuss, and others. I have nothing against a long book, but too often authors feel that for their fantasy to be compelling it has to be massive, and often that leads to packing...

Author	Emily Rodda
ISBN	0688124488

The story is simple and yet complex. The characters are the sorts one can relate to - with the fantastical spin attached. For the targetted age-group, I think it's a solid piece of work...but upon reading it, I find it far too short.

By short, I mean two things: short in length (because the crux...

Author	Mary Victoria
ISBN	0732290988

An action-packed adventure set against a background of warring civilisations competing for ever scarcer resources ... a beautiful new epic fantasy of a world set in a tree.

the World tree rises up out of the seething clouds like a green mountain. All creation nestles in its green branches....

Author	N.R. Eccles-Smith
ISBN	0992274214

The dragons have mysteriously vanished from the lands of Valadae-except one. With no memory of his past, or what happened to his kin, Laeka'Draeon begins the daunting quest for answers, well aware the stakes are more than personal. If the dragons fail to return and restore the waning magic of the legendary...

Author	Vacen Taylor
ISBN	1922200204

After finding the Silvershade and escaping the attacking forces as the Wilder Forest city was scorched to the ground, Mai, Akra and Kalin must now face the evil that has consumed Long.

When they reach the land of Cruscar and enter the ice city of Algus, the children are confronted with an ice challenge...

Author	James Moloney
ISBN	0732292042

When Silvermay first set eyes on Tamlyn Strongbow, she knew there would be no other for her. It didn′t matter that he was one of the Wyrdborn, a race of wizards who care only for themselves.

It is half a year later and Silvermay has followed Tamlyn through dangers no sixteen-year-old should...

Author

Chris Morphew

Luke thought he knew who is enemies were. The Shackleton Co-operative. Calvin, the head of security. The whole town of Phoenix.

But then Luke wakes up strapped to a metal chair in an underground lab. There are more enemies - and they've been waiting his whole life to track him down.

Meanwhile,...

Author	John W. Otte
ISBN	1621840611

ON THE RUN TO SAVE HER BABY

A pregnant cyborg and a teenage boy fight against intergalactic governments to protect the unborn in this novel from a Christy Award-nominated author.

Why is Zain pregnant? She belongs to the Hive, a collective of cyborgs who choose to live apart from the...

Author	David Colbert
ISBN	0425205630

A quick read about the world of Narnia that offered an interesting take on C.S. Lewis' Chronicles. I feel like this is more aimed to a younger audience and seems to have a certain agenda behind it. The book did impart some fascinating information¸ but it felt a little light on and seemed to gloss over some...

Author

A.L. Tait

A map of the world? Why did the King want that? Everyone knew if you went too far in either direction you'd fall off the edge, into the jaws of Genesi, the fire-breathing dragon.

A reluctant adventurer.

A ship captained by a slave.

A mysterious sea monster.

And a race...