Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2010 ISBN: 978-0316068680 Available: Hardcover, Kindle ebook Sisters Red has a rocket blast of an opening, with a chaotic, first person view of a vicious werewolf attack on sisters Scarlett and Rosie. They survived, but their grandmother was brutally murdered, and Scarlett, in defending them, was badly scarred and lost […]
Book Review: Lone Wolf by Edo Van Belkom
November 19, 2018Tundra 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 […]
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 […]
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson Pegasus Books, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1681777528 Available: Hardcover, used paperback, Kindle edition, We know Mary Shelley as the daughter of revolutionary writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, and muse and wife to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who as a teenage girl who […]
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: Are You In The House Alone? by Richard Peck
October 29, 2018Are You In The House Alone? by Richard Peck Puffin, 2000 ISBN: 0141306939 Available: New and Used Editor’s note: Are You In The House Alone? was first published in 1977. I first read it in 1985, and our review of it is one of the earliest we published. While it is dated, given current events, it […]
Book Review: October by Michael Rowe
October 25, 2018October by Michael Rowe ChiZine, 2017 ASIN: B076ZMWGPN Available: Kindle edition, audiobook, MP3 CD Michael Rowe is one of those writers who can swing from the eloquent prose of a Peter Straub to the brutality of a Richard Laymon. His novels Enter, Night, and Wild Fell were excellent examples of pushing the envelope while holding onto what makes the […]