Freaks, Kieran
Larwood. ISBN: 978-0545474245March 2013
Sheba is a wolf-girl raised as a side-show freak, and bought to join a
troupe in London, joining a Strongman, a women with a strange connection to her
rats, a monkey boy, and a mysterious ninja girl with cat eyes. When a
mudlark sneaks into the show, Sheba realizes life could always be worse.
Then the mudlark vanishes, and the poor desparate parents turn to the Freaks
for help, or vengeance. Set around the Great Exhibition. Creepy
villainess.
Orleans, Sherri L. Smith. ISBN: 978-0399252945
March 2013
YA virus/illness dystopia. Fen lives in the quarantined former American
states of Louisiana, Texas, and Florida. She, like most other residents,
suffers from an unspecified Fever that impacts different blood types
differently. Mainly an extended chase-escape narrative as Fen tries
desperately to rescue an infant (an amazingly durable infant) from the hell she
calls home.
Pretty Girl-13, Liz Coley. ISBN: 978-0062127372
March 2013
YA psychological thriller. Angie is kidnapped at age 13, and blocks the
whole multi-year experience. Relies heavily on psychobabble about
DID/multiple personality syndrome. Overly simplistic and lighthearted for
a very complicated and traumatic real-life subject matter.
The Incorrigible Childern of Ashton Place, Maryrose Wood (series in
progress)
The Mysterious Howling (ISBN: 978-0061791055) read 2010
The Hidden Gallery (ISBN: 978-0061791123) read 2011
The Unseen Guest (ISBN: 978-0061791185) read Spring 2013
Juv "manners" fiction, leaning fantastical. Brilliant.
For everyone who likes the wordplay of Snicket but needs something a little
less depressing. Werewolves and feral children and governesses with copper hair and mysterious pasts. Did I mention it was brilliant?
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