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Pi in the Sky book cover Pi in the Sky
Author: Wendy Mass
Reviewed by: Elizabeth
Release date: Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Chapter 1 of Pi in the Sky opens with one of the funniest and at the same time the most profound observations from the greatest mind ever to tackle life, the universe and everything in it — Carl Sagan.

If you...

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Devine Intervention book cover Devine Intervention
by Martha Brockenbrough

On shelves 06/01/2012

Chalk this one up as a fortuitous discovery. Devine Intervention seems to be yet another humorously innocuous paranormal romance — light,...
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The Minority Council book cover The Minorty Council (4 Matthew Swift)
by Kate Giffin

On shelves 05/01/2012

Kate Griffin is the queen of urban fantasy!

With her series of books about an accidental supernatural being and reincarnated sorcerer by...
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Ship's Cat Doris book cover Ship's Cat Doris
by Jane Simmons

On shelves 04/01/2012

If you are looking for a lovely, un-sentimentalized, child's eye view of growing up, Ship's Cat Doris is the perfect book.

Doris...
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I Hunt Killers book cover I Hunt Killers
by Barry Lyga

On shelves 04/03/2012

Jazz was raised by the worst serial killer of the 21st century. His father taught him to follow in Dear Old Dad's footsteps, and Jazz's worst...
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Fated book cover Fated
by Alyson Noël

On shelves 05/22/2012

Daire Santos has been traveling the world with her mother, going to Internet school and hanging out with celebrities on the sets of the movies...
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The Killing Moon book cover The Killing Moon (1 Dreamblood)
by N. K. Jemisin

On shelves 05/01/2012

Just in time for the final battle in Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles — a book for those older teens and young adults who love the...
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The Drowned Cities book cover The Drowned Cities
by Paolo Bacigalupi

On shelves 05/01/2012

Paolo Bacigalupi's novels never fail to elicit increased heart rates and adrenaline levels. He does not write bedtime stories!

The...
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Revived book cover Revived
by Cat Patrick

On shelves 05/01/2012

Cat Patrick must have very strange dreams. Her first book, Forgotten, was a thriller centered on a girl who only retained "memories" of...
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Dust Girl book cover Dust Girl (1 American Fairy)
by Sarah Zettel

On shelves 06/26/2012

Sarah Zettel has finally done what even Rick Riordan failed to do. She has taken Old World European tropes like fairy creatures and grafted them...
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My Sister Lives on the Matelpiece book cover My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
by Annabel Pitcher

On shelves 08/14/2012

If you read just one book this year, make it this one.

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece is a raw story of grief and the...
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Shift book cover Shift
by Em Bailey

On shelves 05/22/2012

Shift wins the Most Difficult Book to Classify award. It is the story of Olive, a girl who has attempted suicide, who relies more on her...
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Deadweather and Sunrise book cover Deadweather and Sunrise (1 Chronicles of the Egg)
by Geoff Rodkey

On shelves 05/29/2012

Deadweather and Sunrise is a topsy-turvy Caribbean pirate tale set in a parallel time and place where things are just different enough....
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The Rock of Ivanore book cover The Rock of Ivanore (1 Celestine Chronicles)
by Laurisa White-Reyes

On shelves 05/15/2012

The Rock of Ivanore is epic fantasy, pure and simple. A group of boys must go questing for the Rock — though they don't know what it is...
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Dead Reckoning book cover Dead Reckoning
by Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill

On shelves 06/05/2012

One part spaghetti Western with a cross-dressing gunslinger searching for her Rebel Army vet brother, one part zombie horror tale, one part...
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Lies Beneath book cover Lies Beneath
by Anne Greenwood Brown

On shelves 06/12/2012

Mermaid tales are rarely charitable to the species, Disney excepted. This is a cold, vicious and inhuman race of creatures. The mer-creatures in...
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