Title: The Iron Trial
Series: Magisterium,
#1
Authors: Cassandra Clare
& Holly
Black
Expected Publication
Date: September
9, 2014
Publisher: Doubleday
Children’s Books
SUMMARY
From two bestselling superstars, a dazzling and
magical middle-grade collaboration centering on the students of the
Magisterium, an academy for those with a propensity toward magic. In this first
book, a new student comes to the Magisterium against his will -- is it because
he is destined to be a powerful magician, or is the truth more twisted than
that? It's a journey that will thrill you, surprise you, and make you wonder
about the clear-cut distinction usually made between good and evil.
Title: Coin Heist
Author: Elisa Ludwig
Expected Publication
Date: June
10, 2014
Publisher: Adaptive
Studios
SUMMARY
The last place you’d expect to find a team of
criminals is at a prestigious Philadelphia prep school. But on a class trip to
the U.S. Mint – which prints a million new coins every 30 minutes – an
overlooked security flaw becomes far too tempting for a small group of students
to ignore.
United by dire circumstances, these unlikely allies – the slacker, the nerd, the athlete, and the "perfect" student – band together to attempt the impossible: rob the U.S. Mint. The diverse crew is forced to confront their true beliefs about each other and themselves as they do the wrong thing for the right reasons.
Elisa Ludwig's Coin Heist is a fun, suspenseful, and compelling thriller, told from the revolving perspectives of four teens, each with their own motive for committing a crime that could change all of their lives for the better—if they can pull it off.
United by dire circumstances, these unlikely allies – the slacker, the nerd, the athlete, and the "perfect" student – band together to attempt the impossible: rob the U.S. Mint. The diverse crew is forced to confront their true beliefs about each other and themselves as they do the wrong thing for the right reasons.
Elisa Ludwig's Coin Heist is a fun, suspenseful, and compelling thriller, told from the revolving perspectives of four teens, each with their own motive for committing a crime that could change all of their lives for the better—if they can pull it off.
Title: The Good Sister
Author: Jamie Kain
Expected Publication
Date: October
7, 2014
Publisher: St. Martin’s
Griffin
SUMMARY
The Kinsey sisters live in an unconventional
world. Their parents are former flower-children who still don’t believe in
rules. Their small, Northern California town is filled with free spirits and
damaged souls seeking refuge from the real world. Without the anchor of
authority, the three girls are adrift and have only each other to rely on.
Rachel is wild. Asha is lost. Sarah, the good sister, is the glue that holds them together. But the forces of a mysterious fate have taken Sarah’s life in a sudden and puzzling accident, sending her already fractured family into a tailspin of grief and confusion. Asha has questions. Rachel has secrets. And Sarah, waking up in the afterlife, must piece together how she got there.
Rachel is wild. Asha is lost. Sarah, the good sister, is the glue that holds them together. But the forces of a mysterious fate have taken Sarah’s life in a sudden and puzzling accident, sending her already fractured family into a tailspin of grief and confusion. Asha has questions. Rachel has secrets. And Sarah, waking up in the afterlife, must piece together how she got there.
Title: Sway
Author: Kat Spears
Expected Publication
Date: September
16, 2014
Publisher: St. Martin’s
Griffin
SUMMARY
High school senior Jesse Alderman, or Sway as he's known, could sell hell to a
bishop. He also specializes in getting things people want—term papers, a date
with the prom queen, fake IDs. It's all business with Jesse. He has
few close friends and he never lets emotions get in the way.
But when Ken, captain of the football team, leading candidate for homecoming king, and all around jerk, hires Jesse to help him win the heart of the angelic Bridget Smalley, Jesse finds himself feeling all sorts of things. While following Bridget and learning the intimate details of her life, he falls helplessly in love for the very first time. He also finds himself in an accidental friendship with Bridget's younger brother who's belligerent and self-pitying after spending a lifetime dealing with cerebral palsy. Suddenly Jesse is visiting old folks at a nursing home in order to run into Bridget, and offering his time to help the less fortunate, all the while developing a bond with this young man who idolizes him. The tinman really does have a heart after all.
A Cyrano De Bergerac story with a modern twist, Sway is told from Jesse’s point of view with unapologetic truth and biting humor. His observations about the world around him are untempered by empathy or compassion--until Bridget's presence in his life forces him to confront his quiet devastation over a life changing event a year earlier and maybe, just maybe, feel SOMEthing, again.
But when Ken, captain of the football team, leading candidate for homecoming king, and all around jerk, hires Jesse to help him win the heart of the angelic Bridget Smalley, Jesse finds himself feeling all sorts of things. While following Bridget and learning the intimate details of her life, he falls helplessly in love for the very first time. He also finds himself in an accidental friendship with Bridget's younger brother who's belligerent and self-pitying after spending a lifetime dealing with cerebral palsy. Suddenly Jesse is visiting old folks at a nursing home in order to run into Bridget, and offering his time to help the less fortunate, all the while developing a bond with this young man who idolizes him. The tinman really does have a heart after all.
A Cyrano De Bergerac story with a modern twist, Sway is told from Jesse’s point of view with unapologetic truth and biting humor. His observations about the world around him are untempered by empathy or compassion--until Bridget's presence in his life forces him to confront his quiet devastation over a life changing event a year earlier and maybe, just maybe, feel SOMEthing, again.
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