Tundra Books, October, 2005 ISBN: 0887767419 Available: New Lone Wolf is the sequel to Wolf Pack, This book follows four teenaged werewolves who try to adjust to life at Redstone High School. The teens are all facing regular teen trauma. Harlan, the smallest of the Brock children, is being picked on by a school bully, Tora is […]
Category: YA books
Book Review: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
November 16, 2018Scholastic Press, 2009 ISBN: 0545123267 Available: New When she was small, Grace was attacked by wolves in her backyard. However, one wolf saved her. Since then, she has been obsessed with that wolf. When she finally meets him her life is dramatically changed. Steifvater has a new, interesting take on werewolf lore- instead of […]
Book Review: Wolf Pack by Edo Van Belkom
November 12, 2018Tundra Books, October, 2004 ISBN: 0887766692 Available: New During a forest fire, forest ranger Garrett Brock rescues four wolf cubs only to discover that they are no ordinary wolves- they are werewolves. The werewolves, brothers Noble, Argus, and Harlan, and their sister, Tora are raised by Garrett and his wife Phyllis. Several years later, […]
Book Review: Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
November 7, 2018Laurel Leaf , September, 1999 ISBN: 0440226686 Available : New and Used Blood and Chocolate has become one of the core titles of any teen horror collection. The story follows Vivian, a teenage werewolf who has had to relocate to a Maryland suburb with her pack after an altercation where the actions of a few […]
Book Review: Raptor by Paul Zindel
November 2, 2018Raptor by Paul Zindel Hyperion Books For Children, 1998 ISBN: 0786823747 Available: New and Used When Zack and his Native American friend Ute explore the cave where Zack’s paleontologist father was mysteriously injured, they discover a strange nest with very large eggs. Zack, thinking they might be worth a lot of money, takes an egg […]
A Girl, a Ghost, and the Hollywood Hills by Lizabeth Zindel Viking Juvenile, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-0670011599 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition In the introduction to A Girl, a Ghost, and the Hollywood Hills, the author explains that her intent is to portray a “Hamlet-inspired ghost story unlike any other”, and there are obvious similarities. Holly has gone […]
Book Review: Touch of Gold by Annie Sullivan
August 23, 2018I’m a sucker for fairy tale reimaginings, from dark to modern, Fables to Tanith Lee. Touch of Gold touches on one I haven’t seen a lot from–the tale of King Midas. Kora is King Midas’ daughter. Curses run in their family line, from the superstition (possible curse) that made her father king to the famous […]
Anime Crash Course: Ouran High School Host Club
July 26, 2018Ouran High School Host Club is a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek manga and anime about Haruhi Fujioka, a scholarship student at an exclusive (expensive) private school who runs into some trouble with the school host club (more or less, they guys are escorts, without actual sex, playing doting, perfect boyfriends to rich, teenaged girls.) The club forces […]
Razorbill, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1595142917 Available: New The Evil Within is the second book in the Possessions series, of which I have not read the first; however, after completing this one, I’ll be picking up the first book and all that follow it. Nancy Holder has created an incredibly spooky tale full of scorned lovers, murders, attempted […]
Book Review: Sleepless by Thomas Fahy
April 24, 2018Simon & Schuster, 2009 ISBN: 9781416959014 Availability: New and Used After a trip to New Orleans, the students of Saint Opportuna High begin to have nightmares: horrible nightmares about killing people. The only problem is that they aren’t just nightmares. After several nights, the students wake up to realize that they actually have killed […]