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Book Review: Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
December 28, 2018Scholastic Press; 1 edition, 2010 ISBN-10: 0545123283 Available: New Hardcover and Kindle Linger is the second book in Maggie Stiefvater’s popular series The Wolves of Mercy Falls. While the first book was clearly a romance novel (albeit a flawed one) in which the main characters, Sam and Grace, alternate point of view and finally get their happy […]
Book Review: Red Rider’s Hood by Neal Shusterman
December 24, 2018Puffin, 2006 ISBN: 0142406783 Available: New Red Rider’s Hood is the second book in Neal Shusterman’s Dark Fusion series, which melds dark fantasy and horror with traditional fairytales. Red Rider’s Hood is a take on the story of Red Riding Hood. In this version, Red, a sixteen year old boy finds himself thrust into the world of the supernatural when […]
Take Two Review: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
December 21, 2018Scholastic, 2009 ISBN: 978-0545123273 Available: Hardcover, paperback, multiformat digital Grace has been fascinated by wolves since they attacked her in her backyard six years ago- and especially by a wolf with yellow eyes that seems to keep watch over her. Although she doesn’t know it, they are werewolves, whose change occurs not during the full […]
Book Review: The Wolving Time by Patrick Jennings
December 17, 2018Scholastic, 2005 ISBN: 0439395569 Available: New and Used Outside a village in sixteenth- century France, thirteen year old Laszlo Emberek and his parents tend their sheep. They are a most unusual group of shepherds: Laszlo’s parents are werewolves, and Laszlo himself is anticipating the time when he too may choose to make the change. […]
Book Review: Red Moon Rising by Peter Moore
December 14, 2018Hyperion, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-4231-1665-3 Available: New Hardcover and Kindle format. Danny (Dante) Grey and his sister, Jess, are half-vamp, half-wulf. Children of mixed race go through extensive genetic manipulation to eradicate their werewulf genes, and with Jess, the procedure was a success. She’s got the silvery hair and physical grace of a full vampyre, […]
Book Review: The Wereling: Resurrection by Stephen Cole
December 10, 2018Razorbill, April, 2005 ISBN: 1595140433 Available: New and Used The Wereling: Resurrection is the third book in the Wereling trilogy, Tom and Kate , still hunted by werewolves, go to Chicago to find out what is happening at a meeting of pureblood werewolves arranged by the power-hungry werewolf Takapa. Tapaka’s evil plan involves a mummy body found […]
Book Review: The Wereling: Prey by Stephen Cole
December 3, 2018Razorbill,March, 2005 ISBN: 1595140425 Available: New and Used The continued saga of Kate Folan, the daughter of werewolves, and Tom Anderson, who has turned into a wereling, a werewolf whose humanity is able to dominate his werewolf form. Kate and Tom are still on the run from Kate’s mother. They are trying to find […]
Book Review: Wereworld by Curtis Jobling
November 30, 2018Puffin Books, 2010 ISBN: 978-0670013302 Available: New Curtis Jobling is the creator of the children’s television show “Bob the Builder”, but with his young adult novel Wereworld, he’s gone in an entirely different direction. Wereworldintroduces us to Drew, who turns into a werewolf after he is attacked by one. The beast kills his mother, and his father, stumbling […]
Book Review: The Wereling: Wounded by Stephen Cole
November 26, 2018Razorbill, January, 2005 ISBN: 1595140417 Available: New and Used During a family camping trip, sixteen year old Tom Anderson goes off for a walk only to be chased by a bear and fall in to a river. When Tom comes to he finds that he was rescued by the Folan family. The Folans make […]