iBLURB for Teens 3
Phrase: Don't cry because of 1 person, remember there are still 7,094,277, 234 people to smile at.
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Their hidden world is about to be revealed....
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Their hidden world is about to be revealed....
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in
New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder — much less a murder
committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing
bizarre weapons. Clary knows she should call the police, but it's hard to
explain a murder when the body disappears into thin air and the murderers are
invisible to everyone but Clary. Equally startled by her ability to see them, the murderers explain
themselves as Shadowhunters: a secret tribe of warriors dedicated to ridding
the earth of demons. Within twenty-four hours, Clary's mother disappears and
Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque demon. But why would demons be
interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary
suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know....(City
of Bones has everything: vampires, werewolves, faeries, true love, and
stuff that blows up. What's more, Clare's characters are brilliant — she better
not kill any of them off in the next two volumes! Justine Larbalestier, author of Magic or Madness.)
Matched by Ally Condie
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right
choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's
face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal
mate... until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen
fades to black. The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and
that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But
Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia
begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible
choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path
that no one else has dared to follow. (continue the trilogy by reading Crossed and Reached - if you dare!)
Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Before Miles 'Pudge' Halter is done with his safe
life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with
famous last words has only made him crave 'the Great Perhaps' even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring
world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of
safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy,
self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an
event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great
Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then . . . & . . . After. Nothing is ever the same.
(This is
SUCH a good book: likable but flawed characters, interesting and poignant plot,
and the writing is phenomenal. It's targeted at young adults, but I'm a senior and I absolutely adore this book. It's always the first
recommendation I make when people ask me what books to read. - Mary Hudson)
