It’s two hundred years in the future, and after a number of man made calamities, people have found the way to keep the peace is the operation to make people Pretty. At age 16, the operation makes everyone beautiful, and improves everyone’s health. What they don’t know is that at the same time, their brains […]
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. There are two princesses in Bamarre – the elder, Meryl, is the brave one, who wants nothing more than to fight Bamarre’s battles, while her younger sister Addie is much more timid, and depends on Meryl’s strength and protection. Naturally, something terrible happens to Meryl, and it’s Addie
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. One day, a parcel containing a pair of gorgeous silver shoes is left outside Coriander’s home. She knows that they’re for her, but her mother is adamant that she cannot wear them. Still, the shoes call her name, and when Coriander gives in to that call, it starts
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. The Princetta is pretty standard sheltered girl rebels against what she considers to be a constricted life, runs away, has grand adventures, falls in love and returns to her life, realizing it isn’t as bad as she thought it was. And as adventures go, this book does those
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Read for the RIP VI and 2011 YA Reading Challenges. While this book isn’t a sure fit for the RIP Challenge categories (this picking things only out of my TBR stash is hard!), it is a great deconstruction of the take no prisoners dark lord tries to take over the world kind of stories, so
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Read for the RIP VI Reading Challenge. Young Samuel Johnson decided to show some initiative and trick or treat a full three days before Halloween. That’s why he happened to be at 666 Crowley Road when the Abernathys decided to raise a demon. Samuel figures out pretty early on that none of the adults are
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Read for the 2011 YA and RIP VI Reading Challenges. Sally Lockhart has recently lost her father, and is now living with an aunt she barely knows and having to find her own way in Victorian London. She had a rather unconventional childhood, her father always believed in teaching her to take care of herself
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. This book is a companion to Merlin’s Harp, which portrays the Fae as a primal people living alongside the human inhabitants of King Arthur’s Kingdom. In Arthurian legend, Sir Percival is raised far from court by his mother, because his father and older brothers have all died in
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Read fort the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. Gen landed in the King’s prison because of his bragging. After months chained in his cell, he’s released by the the Magus, the king’s scholar, who wants him to help him steal a treasure. Gen, the Magus, the Magus’ two apprentices and a guard leave Sounis and travel
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. The Morgan family lost their mother in an auto accident, and not long after, their father, David, decides to take the two younger children, Peter and Becky, to Wales with him, where he’s been given a visiting professor’s position at the university. Jen, the oldest, is to stay
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