Angelfire, Courtney Allison Moulton
A seventeen-year-old girl discovers she has the reincarnated soul of an ancient warrior destined to battle the reapers–monstrous creatures who devour humans and send their souls to Hell.
Blood Red Road, Moira Young
In a distant future, eighteen-year-old Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister Saba and nine-year-old Emmi are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured, too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an escape.
My Unfair Godmother, Janette Rallison
A fairy godmother-in-training is sent to help angry seventeen-year-old Tansy, who reluctantly is staying with her father and his new wife while her mother and sister are traveling, but the unfortunate result of this intended help is chaos and confusion.
The One That I Want, Jennifer Echols
Gemma thinks it is her lucky day when the star football player, Max, starts paying extra attention to her, until he asks out her best friend, Addison, and she is persuaded to spend more time together with both of them, which further complicates the situation, since Gemma still has strong feelings for Max.
She’s So Dead to Us, Kieran Scott
Told in two voices, high school juniors Allie, who now lives on the poor side of town, and Jake, the “Crestie” whose family bought her house, develop feelings for one another that are complicated by her former friends, his current ones, who refuse to forgive her for her father’s bad investment that cost them all.
Steel, Carrie Vaughn
When Jill, a competitive high school fencer, goes with her family on vacation to the Bahamas, she’s magically transported to an early-eighteenth-century pirate ship in the middle of the ocean.
The Talents, Inara Scott (Teen Book Festival 2012 Author)
Fifteen-year-old Dancia is recruited by a boarding school for teenagers with special abilities, where she makes friends for the first time, is attracted to a popular junior, and becomes involved with a dangerous classmate.
Viva Vermont (Carter House Girls), Melody Carlson
As Mrs. Carter becomes increasingly distracted by General Harding, her boardinghouse girls find more opportunities to get into trouble, especially during a weekend getaway to a luxurious Vermont ski lodge, to which some of the girls have invited boys.
What Momma Left Me, Renee Watson
After the death of their mother, thirteen-year-old Serenity Evans and her younger brother go to live with their grandparents, who try to keep them safe from bad influences and help them come to terms with what has happened to their family.
Published on March 16, 2012.
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