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Genre: Science Fiction
The Last Apprentice: Clash of the Demons
“You can’t make alliances with witches and suchlike and hope to avoid being drawn toward the dark.” As the Spook’s apprentice, Thomas Ward’s first duty is to protect the County from ghosts, boggarts, and other dangerous creatures. But now his mother has come back from her homeland to seek his help. One of the most [...]
Other Descriptors: England (UK), Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Themes: Adventures, Apprentices, Fantasy, magics, scaries, Witches Leave a comment
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley
Neither Susan nor her brother, Colin, ever thought that war would be waged over a simple gemstone in her bracelet. But that’s what happens when the children visit Alderley Edge, a spooky place in a remote part of England. There, they meet the wizard Cadellin, who needs the stone to rouse his allies in the [...]
The Resistance
The year is 2140. Having escaped the horrors of Grange Hall, Peter and Anna are living freely on the Outside, trying hard to lead normal lives, but unable to leave the terror of the Declaration—and their experiences as surpluses—completely behind them. Peter is determined to infiltrate Pharma Corporation, which claims to have a new drug [...]
The Declaration
It’s the year 2140 and Longevity drugs have all but eradicated old age. A never-aging society can’t sustain population growth, however…which means Anna should never have been born. Nor should any of the children she lives with at Grange Hall. The facility is full of boys and girls whose parents chose to have kids—called surpluses—despite [...]
Other Descriptors: England (UK), Intermediate (Gr. 4-8) Themes: dystopia, ethics, Family Leave a comment
The House Of The Scorpion
The House of the Scorpion By Nancy Farmer is about Matthew who is a clone of El Patrón, a powerful drug lord of the land of Opium, which is located between the United States and Mexico. For six years, he has lived in a tiny cottage in the poppy fields with Celia, a kind and [...]
Other Descriptors: Latin America, Mexico, United States of America, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Themes: Cloning, Community, Drug, Friendship, future, Identity, Journey, Survival Leave a comment
The Iron Woman
Out of the sludge of a polluted swamp rises a huge, terrifying figure–the Iron Woman, about to vent her wrath on those who are destroying the land and sea and all wild creatures. Young Lucy, the first to see the giant, remembers that an Iron Man had appeared once before. Now she and the Iron [...]
Other Descriptors: England (UK), Intermediate (Gr. 4-8) Themes: Environment, pollution Leave a comment
Maphead
MapHead, a twelve year old from a parallel world, who can flash any map across his head but cannot quite grasp human language, comes to meet his human mother, and by searching for her, he discovers himself.
Other Descriptors: England (UK), Intermediate (Gr. 4-8) Themes: Acceptance, Coming of age, Identity, Mother, Self-Discovery, trust Leave a comment
Cherry Heaven
Kat and Tanka J leave the war-torn city, move with their adoptive parents to the New Frontier, and are soon settled into a home called Cherry Heaven, but Luka, an escaped factory worker, confirms their suspicion that New Frontier is not the utopia it seems to be.
Other Descriptors: England (UK), Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Themes: New home, orphan, Revenge, Secret, utopia, War Leave a comment
On October 20, 2010 at 7:00 P.M., Rosemary Wells, illustrator and author of the preschool series Max and Ruby, will be at Worlds of Words physical location on the 4th floor of the College of Education at the University of Arizona.
Revenge of the Witch (The Last Apprentice, Book One)