Tuesday, November 18, 2008

The highwayman's footsteps


The highwayman's footsteps - Nicola Morgan


In eighteenth-century England, William runs away from his father, only to be captured by an armed highwayman who turns out to be a girl, and together they seek vengeance against William's cruel father and the soldiers who killed the girl's parents. Inspired by Alfred Noyes' poem "The Highwayman.".


Monday, November 17, 2008

The Shadow Speaker

The shadow speaker - Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

In West Africa in 2070, after fifteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find Jaa, her father's killer, and upon finding her, she also discovers a greater purpose to her life and to the mystical powers she possesses.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Quaking

Quaking - Kathryn Erskine

In a Pennsylvania town where anti-war sentiments are treated with contempt and violence, Matt, a fourteen-year-old girl living with a Quaker family, deals with the demons of her past as she battles bullies of the present, eventually learning to trust in others as well as herself.


Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Game

Game - Walter Dean Myers

If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.


Monday, November 10, 2008

My Bonny Light Horseman

My bonny light horseman - L.A. Meyer

While trying to run a respectable shipping business in 1806, teenaged Jacky Faber finds herself in France, spying for the British Crown in order to save her friends.