Edited to add: The winner of the giveaway is Andrea C. Andrea, please e-mail susan at readspace dot net so I can send you your prize! Bibliography: Nayeri, Daniel. (2011). Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press. ISBN: 9780763655266 Plot Summary: Four novellas representing four different genres. Toy Farm is a western [...]
Bibliography: Scarrow, Alex. (2010). Time Riders. New York: Walker Books. ISBN: 978-0-8027-2172-3 Plot Summary: They should all be dead. But when a mysterious man offered them a chance to live, they took it. Maddy escaped a plane crash, Liam the sinking of the Titanic, and Sal a horrible fire. From different times, they come together [...]
Bibliography: Dashner, James. (2010). The Scorch Trials. New York: Delacorte Books for Young Readers. ISBN: 978-0385738750 Plot Summary: Thomas and the Gladers solved the maze and escaped the Grievers, but it turns out there is more in store for them. Sun flares have destroyed the Earth and a deadly virus called the Flare is rampaging through the [...]
Bibliography: Ness, Patrick. (2010). Monsters of Men. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press. ISBN: 978-0763647513 Plot Summary: Todd and Viola are still separated by warring factions, each determined to claim victory before new settlers arrived. But neither group counted on the Spackle, native sentient species, exacting revenge ofor the murder and genocide inflicted upon them by the [...]
Bibliography: Gill, David Macinnis. (August 2010). Black Hole Sun. New York: Greenwillow Books. ISBN: 978-0061673047 Plot Summary: Durango is the chief of a small band of mercenaries who live by their own code of behavior on dystopian Mars. Joining Durango to defend a community of miners from the cannabalistic Draeu are second in command Vienne, [...]
