Must Read Fiction Blog
Make time for books! Columnist Mandi will share the fiction she most enjoyed reading this year, as well as her favorite music, and fashion tips. Stay with us on the LCLS TeenLib for great reviews and more. Be sure to contact us with ideas and suggestions.
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March 22, 2013
Croak & Scorch by Gina Damico
This book is currently one of my favorites and I have to tell you about this hilariously creepy novel starring the niece of the Grim Reaper.
Croak: Sixteen-year-old Lex Bartleby has sucker-punched her last classmate. Fed up with her punkish, wild behavior, her parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape. But Uncle Mort’s true occupation is much dirtier than that of shoveling manure.
He’s a Grim Reaper. And he’s going to teach her the family business…
Scorch: Sixteen-year-old Lex Bartleby is a teenage grim reaper with the bizarre ability to Damn souls. That makes her pretty scary, even to fellow Grims. But now Lex is a pariah in Croak, the little town she calls home. To escape the townspeople’s wrath, she and her friends embark on a wild road trip to DeMyse. Though this sparkling desert oasis is full of luxuries and amusements, it feels like a prison to Lex. Her best chance at escape would be to stop all the senseless violence that she caused—but how can she do that from DeMyse, where the Grims seem mysteriously oblivious to the bloodshed?
Enjoy these Creepy humor filled novels!!!!
March 5, 2013
Christopher Tozier: Coming to BookFest 2013
Christopher Tozier is the author of Olivia Brophie and the Pearl of Tagelus, the first in a middle-grade fantasy series set in the wilds of central Florida and published by Pineapple Press. He was selected as a 2011 State of Florida Artist Fellowship recipient and his poetry has appeared widely.
Olivia Brophie and the Pearl of Tagelus is written for middle-graders. It is fast paced, larger than life and filled with lessons on Florida habitat, above and below the ground. It is the first in a series, and by the end of this initial offering Olivia is in even more trouble than she was throughout the previous 214 pages. Tighten your harness the carnival ride is about to crank into overdrive.” The Florida Book Review.
You can meet this exciting author @4:30pm inside the Tavares Public Library on March 13th, March 14th at the Umatilla Public Library and at 6:30pm during the Author’s Reception at The W.T. Bland Public Library in Mount Dora on March 15th.
February 5, 2013
Shadow of Night
I recently picked up the All Souls series, a #1 New York Times bestseller by Deborah Harkness and it’s exceptionally captivating. A Discovery of Witches introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and the handsome geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont; together they found themselves at the center of a supernatural battle over an enchanted manuscript. Book Two of the All Souls Trilogy, Shadow of Night, plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London, a world of spies and subterfuge with a rich and splendid tapestry of alchemy, magic, and history.
Check it out in the online library catalog http://209.26.59.208/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/57/5/3?searchdata1=415550{CKEY}&searchfield1=GENERAL^SUBJECT^GENERAL^^&user_id=WEBSERVER