Posts Tagged ‘young-readers-9-12’

It began in Ireland, the onslaught of zombies that leaves villages in ruins and corpses in their wake. As the carnage spreads, teenager “B Smith” is pulled into a terrifying adventure that forces her to confront her deepest insecurities and provocative moral dilemmas. Ferociously bold, furiously paced and deliciously horrifying, the Zom-B series is a…

It began in Ireland: the onslaught of zombies that leaves villages in ruins and corpses in their wake. As the carnage spreads, teenager B Smith is pulled into a terrifying adventure that forces her to confront her deepest insecurities and provocative moral dilemmas. Ferociously bold, furiously paced and deliciously horrifying, the Zom-B series is a…

As the Dead Kid Detective Agency embarks on its second (mis)adventure, October Schwartz and her five deadest friends are back, turning over metaphoric rocks and finding the centipedes underneath. In this latest volume, set against a backdrop of yuletide pandemonium, they discover dark supernatural forces at work in Sticksville and sleuth their way through a…

Does anyone ever see us for who we really are? Jo Knowles’s revelatory novel of interlocking stories peers behind the scrim as it follows nine teens and one teacher through a seemingly ordinary day. Thanks to a bully in gym class, unpopular Nate suffers a broken finger—the middle one, splinted to flip off the world.…

“This book was originally published in hardcover by Scholastic press in 2014”–Title page verso.

Thor’s hammer is missing again. The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon–the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds. But this time the hammer isn’t just lost, it has fallen into enemy hands. If Magnus Chase and his friends can’t retrieve the hammer quickly, the mortal worlds will be defenseless against an…