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Ending Fear by Deanna Fugett
Ending Fear by Deanna Fugett is a well-written dystopian\science fiction novel for middle grade set in a world of "haves" and "have nots." It was recently published by Love2ReadLove2Write Publishing (L2L2) on September 23.
SYNOPSIS (from Amazon)
Fourteen-year-old Fear learns she was a parachute baby, dumped over the edge of the Gliding Lands as an infant.
The Skin i'm in by Sharon G. Flake
If people aren't taunting Maleeka about her dark skin then they get at her about her homemade clothes or her good grades. She's learned to find a way to survive by keeping her head down. That is until a new teacher, whose face is blotched with a startling white patch, shows up to teach. … Read the rest
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Inside Out and Back Again is the second free verse middle grade novel that I've read and enjoyed recently. Perhaps, that's because it's the 2011 winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and a Newbery Honor Book for 2012.… Read the rest
Hunter by Mercedes Lackey
Hunter is the first in a YA fantasy trilogy set in post-apocalyptic America.
They came after the Diseray. Some were terrors ripped from our collective imaginations, remnants of every mythology across the world. And some were like nothing anyone had ever dreamed up, even in their worst nightmares.
The Hangman's Revolution
The Hangman's Revolution is a YA novel aimed at grade seven readers and up, and is the second book in the Warp Series written by the incomparable Eoin Colfer.
At the beginning of the story, seventeen-year-old Chevie lives in the present, a strange world where she is a cadet in the vast army of the Boxite Empire.… Read the rest
Julie by Catherine Marshall
Catherine Marshall is famous for her novel Christie. I don't want to review it here because it has won so many awards I have to believe everyone who reads Scriblerians is fully aware of the beautiful story. A true classic.… Read the rest
Peas and Carrots by Tanita S. Davis
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
Lety Out Loud by Angela Cervantes
The Final Paladin by T.J. Akers
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska