Okay, so, I'm going to be gone for three weeks. These are some books that I've read that I really want to post on, but I don't have the time. I read about a book a day, in some cases, and I never get to post on them all. So, if you want some ideas without a page full of my annoying critique, well, I have it all right here. Enjoy?
The Auslander--Paul Dowswell. Peter is a boy living in Poland when the Nazis invade. Declared a perfect Aryan specimen, he is taken back to Germany to live with a rich professor, his wife, and their three daughters. But Peter is shocked by the way the Germans are treating his old kinsfolk, the Poles, and he decideds to help his girlfriend, Anna, make a difference. Because no matter how hard he tries, Peter still feels like he's an outsider in the country that says it's his . . . An Auslander in Nazi Germany.
Paul Dowswell's website: www.pauldowswell.co.uk
Ruby Red--Kerstin Gier (translated from German by Anthea Bell). Gwen has grown up in a household of secrets. The Montrose house is full of them. But one secret she knows is that select women in her family can time travel. Everyone says that her cousin is going to be the prodidgal time-traveler. That's what's expected, isn't it? But as secrets and lies tend to do, the mystery shrouding the whole thing fall apart, and Gwen is left holding the secret of the centuries in her hands. Some things, though, are a secret even to her and the rest of the Montrose family, and Gwen is only looking at the tip of the ice-burg.
(This book was an international best-seller in Germany. It is the first of a triology, but I haven't been able to find the other two books. I know the second is called Saphire Blue, I think, but I don't know what the third one is.)
Ashes--Ilsa J. Bick. When an electromagnetic wave sweeps the nation, knocking out all the electrionics and turning most of the population into savage 'zombies', a girl who's battling cancer, a solider on leave, and a nine-year-old girl must band together to find safety and food. What safety they find, though, may be as sick and twisted as the rest of the world.
(I'm sorry, I don't really remember anything about this book other than the basic plot line and that the solider's name was 'Tom'. It was really good, though, and I recomend it if you're into the whole 'doomsday, 2012, nuclear winter' sort of deal.)
Define "Normal" --June Ann Peters. Antonia Dillion sgined up to be a peer counsler, sure, but she didn't sgin up to counsel the baddest girl in school--Jazz Luther, a leather-rocking, piercing-adorned, tattooed bad girl. Antonia is known as a 'ya-ya', a prissy girl, one who thinks she's better than everyone elses. She's not about to contradict anyone, lest they learn the truth. And when Jazz does, Anotina thinks that nothing will be normal ever again, even as Jazz introduces her to a very different type of normal.
(A definate read, even though it's sappy and made me cry. Hey, don't judge, you haven't read it yet.)
Ash--Malinda Lo. Ash's father and mother have both passed away, leaving her to work off her step-mother's debts as she watches her step-sisters dress up to go meet and (hopefully) marry rich boys. The faerie in the wood is the only thing that keep Ash sane, and her visits to him help her remember that she isn't just a servent. When Ash meets the king's huntress, though, she beings to long for more . . . maybe even something like love?
(This was called a "modern Cinderella" or something on the back of the book. It is, in a way, but it is sent in a mythical land in the era of fancy dresses, dukes, dutchesses, and formal courting. It also has blood and creepy fairytales, so that makes it okay. ;) )
Okay, so, I guess you did get a page full of my comentary. Sorry 'bout that. and sorry that there aren't as many books on here as I would like--I guess these were the only ones that were good enough to remember. So, have fun reading, I suppose, and I'll write again in three weeks!
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