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Friday, 27 February 2009

Shadow Web-N.M.Browne

Title: Shadow Web
Author: N.M.Browne
Main Character(s): Jessica was bored & decided to surf(on the net)for her name.She found out another person with the same name.They decided to meet & both girls' are caltaputed into each another's world.
Summary/Plot: Jessica finds herself in a parallel London of 50 years ago, but the year is still 2008. In this parallel London, the history is different, key war memorials are missing, and the Jessica whose life she now inhabits was involved in a dark and sinister conspiracy. Jess must convince everyone she is the same girl, at all costs, if she wants to get back to her London-alive.
Themes: Parallel universe, adventure, fiction, conspiracy

The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney-Suzanne Harper

Title: The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney

Author: Suzanne Harper

Main Character(s): Sparrow's secret is that she is a psychic but she persistantly denies it till an appearance of a mule-headed ghost.

Summary/Plot: In Lily Dale, New York, a community dedicated to the religion of spiritism, tenth-grader Sparrow Delaney, the youngest daughter in an eccentric family of psychics, agonises over whether or not to reveal her spacial abilities in order to help a friend.

Theme: Fiction, Psychics, Staying true to oneself

Saturday, 14 February 2009

Gamer Girl-Mari Mancusi

Title: Gamer Girl
Author: Mari Mancusi
Main Character(s): Maddy's parents split up so she's stuck with her unicorn-manic grandma's house. She was nicknamed 'Freak Girl' on her first day of school. To get over these events, she takes refuge in her manga drawing and IRL games.
Plot/Summary: Struggling to fit in after her parents' divorce sends her from Boston to her grandmother's housre in the country. Maddy forms a manga club at school and falls in love through an online fantasy game.
Theme(s): Relations, Comic/Manga, High school life

The Juliet Club-Suzanne Harper

Title: The Juliet Club

Author: Suzanne Harper

Main Character(s): Kate is a down-to-earth girl who was dumped by her boyfriend someone else. She vows never to fall in love again.When she is accepted to a summer shakespeare symposium, she thought it will get her over her heartbreak.

Plot/Summary: When high school junior Kate wins an essay contest that sends her to Verona, Italy, to study Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" over the summer, she meets both American and Italian students and learns not just about Shakespeare, but about star-crossed lovers-and herself.

Themes: Interpersonal relations, literature

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Kumari: Goddess of Destiny-Amanda Lees

Title: Kumari: Goddess of Destiny

Author: Amanda Lees

Main Character(s): Kumari has to return to the World Beyond to avenge her mother.

Plot/Summary: Kumari has saved the Hidden Kingdom from disaster, and is longing to return to the World Beyond. Then a dramatic message from the gods sends the girl goddess on the most important mission of her life.

Theme: Relationship, Adventure

The Spell book of Listen Taylor-Jaclyn Moriarty

Title: The Spell book of Listen Taylor

Author: Jaclyn Moriarty

Main Character(s): Listen Taylor is left friendless when she was chucked out of her clique.

Plot/Summary: Listen learns a great deal from the eccentric and secretive Zing family as she learns to cope with a new school, problems with old friends and a spell book she found after moving in with her father's girlfriend.

Theme(s):Relationship, Fantasy, Life

Bewitching Season-Marissa Doyle

Title: Bewitching Season

Author: Marissa Doyle

Main Character(s): Persephone Leland is a reserved girl and keen about learning new things.

Plot/Summary: Persephone and Penelope are starting their first season in London when they found out that their beloved governess has disappeared.

Themes: Fantasy, Romance

War of the Witches-Maite Carranza

Title: War of the Witches

Author: Maite Carranza

Main Character(s): Anaid is different from her other schoolmates. But when her mother disappears, she discovers what makes her different: she is a witch.

Plot/Summary: When her mother disappears, Anaid sets out on a journey after hearing that her mother is a witch,prophesied to be the chosen one to end the ancient war between the two feuding clans.

Themes: Fantasy

The Seance-Iain Lawrence

Title: The Seance

Author: Iain Lawrence

Main Character(s): Scooter King works with her mother to make her seances look real.

Plot/Summary: Magician Harry Houdini arrives in the city to perform magic and expose fraudulent mediums but Scooter King needs his help to solve a murder.

Theme: Mystery

A School for Sorcery-E. Rose Sabin

Title: A School for Sorcery

Author: E. Rose Sabin

Main Character(s): Tria would have resigned herself to working on a farm and marrying a farmer but thanks to her mother's connections, she will be attending a renowned school: Simonton School for the Magically Gifted.

Plot/Summary: Tria attends the Simonton School for the Magically Gifted and has to cope to the changes in her new school life.

Theme: Fantasy