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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Treskellion by Will Peterson


With their parents embroiled in a bitter divorce, Rachel and Adam are sent from New York to stay with their grandmother in the English village of Treskellion. But there's something strange and sinister about Treskellion, something from another world is affecting life today and it is a something the villagers want to protect at all costs - even murder.


Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr


"I was thirteen when my Dad caught me with Tommy Webber in the back of Tommy's Buick. Tommy was seventeen and the supposed friend of my brother, Darren. I didn't love him. I'm not even sure I even liked him."


In a single moment Deanna's life changes - her father barely speaks to her and she's become the "school slut". But life goes on and this is the story of how Deanna copes and eventually deals with what happened to her.

The Lord of the Beasts by Justin Elliott


A Barghest is (according to the Oxford Dictionary) 'a goblin in the shape of a large dog, fabled to portend death or misfortune'.
And one's been set to kill Hunter Greenman.
After being attacked by the school bullies, Hunter's life changes forever. He discovers he has special powers and those powers threaten the world of the Fae. Hunter and his friends Donn, Brigid and Sara are drawn into a quest. They must find the dagger Athame and destroy the Barghest.
But that's not going to be the end of the story ...

Tim: Defender of the Earth by Sam Enthoven


Tim is actually short for 'Tyrannosaur: Improved Model', and he's been created by a top-secret military experiment. Problem is, the new Prime Minister doesn't think he's worth the billions of dollars spent on his development. Luckily, before he can be put down, Tim escapes. Lucky because at the same time in another feat of mad science, a Professor Mallahide has gone to the opposite extreme - nanoscience - and created a swarm of nanobots. These more than microscopic machines can take anything apart (like skyscrapers or people), atom by atom, and then put them back together - exactly the same or altered. It is diabolical plan to make the world as he wants it to be. In between these forces are Chris and Anna (Mallahide's daughter) who must stop the nanobots, before the United Nations nukes Britain.