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FREAKSVILLE by Kitty Keswick

February 18th, 2011 by Kitty Keswick · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Winter 2010
  • Publisher: Leap Books
  • Release Date: January 8, 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
  • ISBN (paperback): ISBN-13:978-1-61603-001-8
FREAKSVILLE A group of teenagers, trapped in a haunted theater on the night of a full moon, discover that ghosts are the least of their worries… Every woman in the Maxwell family has the gift of sight. A talent sixteen-year-old Kasey would gladly give up. All she wants is a normal life. Shopping and talking about boys with her best friend and long-time sidekick, Gillie Godshall, consume her days. Until Kasey has a vision about Josh Johnstone, the foreign exchange student from England. The vision leads her into new… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Winter · California · Contemporary · Debut · Events · Fantasy · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Humor · Keswick, Kitty · Leap Books · Local · Love · Mystery · National · Paranormal · Rated PG-13 · Series · Young Adult

THE HOLLOW by Jessica Verday

February 7th, 2009 by Jessica Verday · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Fall 2009
  • Publisher: Simon Pulse
  • Release Date: October 6, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-4169-7893-0
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
When Abbey's best friend, Kristen, vanishes at the bridge near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, everyone else is all too quick to accept that Kristen is dead...and rumors fly that her death was no accident. Abbey has never felt so desperately alone. Then she meets Caspian, a gorgeous and mysterious stranger who shows up out of nowhere at Kristen's funeral and keeps reappearing in Abbey's life. Caspian clearly has secrets of his own, but he's the only person who makes Abbey feel normal again...but also special. Just when Abbey… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Fall · Death · Debut · Events · Fantasy · Friendship · Local · Mystery · National · Rated PG · Romance · Simon Pulse · Stand-alone · Tennessee · Verday, Jessica · Young Adult

PARIS PAN TAKES THE DARE by Cynthea Liu

October 14th, 2008 by Cynthea Liu · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Summer 2009
  • Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
  • Release Date: June 11, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0399250439
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Twelve-year-old Paris Pan’s life is a mess. She’s just moved to a tiny town in Nowheresville, Oklahoma; her family life is a comical disaster; her new friends are more like frenemies; and the boy she has a crush on is a dork. Things couldn’t possibly get worse, until she discovers that a girl mysteriously died years ago while taking a seventh-grade rite of passage–the Dare– right near Paris’s new house. So when Paris starts hearing strange noises coming from the creepy run-down shed in her backyard… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Summer · Contemporary · Debut · Events · Family · Friendship · G.P. Putnam's Sons · Humor · Illinois · Liu, Cynthea · Local · Middle Grade · Multicultural · Mystery · National · Paranormal · Quiz/Discussion Guide/Activity · Rated PG · Stand-alone