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Ages 12 & up • <strong>Young</strong> Adult Reads<br />
Tanith Lee<br />
INDIGARA ❖<br />
Jet and her robot dog, Otis, discover the<br />
unplumbed underworld that lurks below<br />
their planet’s film capital, Ollywood.<br />
There lies the beautiful and sinister<br />
otherwhere of Indigara. Even while girl<br />
and dog try to survive the dangers and<br />
terrors below, their Indigarian mirror<br />
images have replaced them, and are running<br />
amok in the real world above.<br />
5 x 7 192 pp. 2007<br />
978-0-14-240922-0 $11.99<br />
PIRATICA<br />
Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl’s<br />
Adventure Upon the High Seas<br />
A bump on the head restores Art’s<br />
memories of her mother and the exciting<br />
life they led, so the sixteen-yearold<br />
leaves Angels Academy for <strong>Young</strong><br />
Maidens, seeks out the pirates who were<br />
her family before her mother’s death,<br />
and leads them back to adventure on the<br />
high seas. “Presented in three acts with<br />
multiple scenes, Piratica is a refreshing,<br />
tongue-in-cheek, tangled tale that will<br />
entice readers who crave adventure and<br />
fantasy.” —School Library JournalH<br />
Rec: BL, C, KH, SLJH<br />
5 x 7 3/4 304 pp. 2006<br />
978-0-14-240644-1 $6.99<br />
WOLF QUEEN<br />
“Following Wolf Tower and Wolf Star,<br />
this conclusion to the Claidi Journals<br />
trilogy finds the intrepid Claidi aboard<br />
the sky-ship Star, in search of her<br />
beloved Argul, who has disappeared<br />
believing that Claidi willingly fled on<br />
their wedding day…readers enthralled<br />
by her previous adventures will enjoy this<br />
rousing finish.” —Booklist<br />
Rec: BL, PW, SLJ<br />
5 1/8 7 3/4 240 pp. 2003<br />
978-0-14-250187-0 $6.99<br />
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WOLF STAR<br />
The day before Claidi’s wedding, she is<br />
kidnapped and taken to a mountaintop<br />
palace in the shadow of an unearthly star.<br />
Wolf Star Rise is the stuff of nightmares,<br />
with rooms that change and move for no<br />
apparent reason. The only human there<br />
is Prince Venn. Neither Claidi nor Venn<br />
knows why they are at the Rise. Can the<br />
two escape from the maze of taboo, repression,<br />
and mystery surrounding both<br />
of their long-lost families?<br />
Rec: BL, K, SLJ<br />
5 1/8 7 3/4 240 pp. 2002<br />
978-0-14-230152-4 $6.99<br />
WOLF TOWER<br />
“Claidi, an orphaned lady’s maid to a<br />
cruel and mindless princess, jumps at the<br />
chance to escape with a handsome air<br />
balloonist who has been shot down and<br />
imprisoned. Leading Nemian through<br />
the dark tunnels and out into the Waste,<br />
however, she begins to have second<br />
thoughts, which she records regularly in<br />
the journal entries that form this enjoyable<br />
fantasy…The fantasy world is clearly<br />
and humorously described; its varied<br />
cultures are both amusing and believable…the<br />
practical and strong-willed<br />
Claidi is a likable heroine with whom<br />
fantasy readers can easily identify…”<br />
—School Library Journal<br />
Rec: K, SLJ<br />
5 1/8 7 3/4 240 pp. 2001<br />
978-0-14-230030-5 $6.99<br />
WOLF WING<br />
At last, Claidi and her beloved Argul are<br />
free to get married. But before they can<br />
start their life together, Claidi must face<br />
her past. They return to her birthplace,<br />
the House, to rescue the other slaves—<br />
and find that there has been a revolution,<br />
sparked by Claidi’s escape. Then the<br />
two are urgently summoned by Ironel<br />
Novendot of the Wolf Tower, who tells<br />
them that Ustareth is alive. Ustareth, the<br />
mother of Argul and Venn, the sciencesorceress,<br />
who has perhaps manipulated<br />
each of them for their entire lives. Now<br />
she wants them all to visit her—but to<br />
what end?<br />
Rec: BL, SLJ<br />
5 1/8 7 3/4 240 pp. 2004<br />
978-0-14-240247-4 $6.99<br />
LEITCH, WILL<br />
CATCH<br />
“The summer before college can be a<br />
stressful one, especially if you have a<br />
physically demanding, brainless summer<br />
job and you are in love with an<br />
older woman. Tim Temples has just<br />
these problems—as well as a reputation<br />
as a ladies’ man that he can’t live down<br />
and a golden-boy brother, who has just<br />
returned home without explanation…<br />
Leitch draws his characters with depth<br />
and charm…this substantive title will<br />
entice both male and female YA readers<br />
with its thoughtful, authentic, and<br />
romantic young man’s voice.”<br />
—Booklist<br />
Rec: BL, CH, SLJ, V<br />
5 1/2 x 8 3/16 304 pp. 2005<br />
978-1-59514-069-2 $7.99<br />
LENHARD, ELIZABETH<br />
CHICkS WITH STICkS<br />
It’s A Purl Thing<br />
“Scottie, trying to get over the death of a<br />
beloved aunt and a disruption in her relationship<br />
with her best friend, Amanda,<br />
stumbles across KnitWit, a knit shop<br />
whose owner, Alice, teaches her to knit<br />
and sooths her with just the right yarn.<br />
To Scottie’s relief and delight, Amanda<br />
discovers knitting, too, and so do two<br />
very different girls from their private<br />
school—biracial Bella, whose good cheer<br />
is disdained by the cool kids, and punky<br />
Tay, whose knitting is fueled by anger…”<br />
—Booklist<br />
Rec: BL, C, PW, SLJ, V<br />
5 1/2 x 8 3/16 288 pp. 2006<br />
978-0-14-240695-3 $6.99