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Penance: A Young Adult Superhero Novel
Penance: A Young Adult Superhero Novel by Paula Richey
First book in a series but has a story of its own.
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First book in a series but has a story of its own.
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the adult problem in a scene
Most of a work in progress solves the adult problem by having the narrator face age-appropriate problems. Only when she gets to be an adult does she face adult problems.
Except --
She's going on a trip where she has to witness something nasty and do something about it, even though it's past her skill set and rather hard at her age. And while I've set up reasons for the adults to fail -- they have to deal with something worse -- I still have to work out this one.
sigh
Except --
She's going on a trip where she has to witness something nasty and do something about it, even though it's past her skill set and rather hard at her age. And while I've set up reasons for the adults to fail -- they have to deal with something worse -- I still have to work out this one.
sigh
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Aurora Burning
Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
The Aurora Cycle book 2. Spoilers ahead for book 1.
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The Aurora Cycle book 2. Spoilers ahead for book 1.
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Aurora Rising
Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
In a future world, Tyler, though the top of his class, misses his chance to pick the best team by being absent, rescuing a young woman, Aurora, from a shipwreck lost in the Fold (interstellar FTL travel place).
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In a future world, Tyler, though the top of his class, misses his chance to pick the best team by being absent, rescuing a young woman, Aurora, from a shipwreck lost in the Fold (interstellar FTL travel place).
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Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters
Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters by Emily Roberson
The story of Ariadne, with Theseus and the Minotaur, and paparazzi, reality TV shows (the sacrifice of the Athenians is The Labyrinth Games, and her sisters have Cretan Paradoxes), and cell phones.
It's amazing how easily the legend fits in a celebrity culture. Ariadne herself doesn't like it, and Theseus is trying to do the right thing, having been a hero already, but it does not let them go so easily.
The story of Ariadne, with Theseus and the Minotaur, and paparazzi, reality TV shows (the sacrifice of the Athenians is The Labyrinth Games, and her sisters have Cretan Paradoxes), and cell phones.
It's amazing how easily the legend fits in a celebrity culture. Ariadne herself doesn't like it, and Theseus is trying to do the right thing, having been a hero already, but it does not let them go so easily.
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Obsidio
Obsidio by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Book 3. Serious spoilers ahead.
This is the capstone of the trilogy. Unlike Gemina, which did not need Illuminae absolutely, this needs both of the first.
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Book 3. Serious spoilers ahead.
This is the capstone of the trilogy. Unlike Gemina, which did not need Illuminae absolutely, this needs both of the first.
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Lessons In Etiquette
Lessons In Etiquette by Christopher G. Nuttall
Book the second. spoilers ahead for the first.
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Book the second. spoilers ahead for the first.
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Schooled in Magic
Schooled in Magic by Christopher G. Nuttall
Emily is going home from the library when she's abducted into another world by a necromancer who wants to sacrifice a "Child of Destiny" who has yet to master magic.
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Emily is going home from the library when she's abducted into another world by a necromancer who wants to sacrifice a "Child of Destiny" who has yet to master magic.
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Unearthed
Unearthed by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Out in interstellar space, in another galaxy, a mysterious portal brings people to a planet with ruins from an alien race, the Undying, which had sent a broadcast telling of their own death, and promising tests, and rewards for those who succeed.
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Out in interstellar space, in another galaxy, a mysterious portal brings people to a planet with ruins from an alien race, the Undying, which had sent a broadcast telling of their own death, and promising tests, and rewards for those who succeed.
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Frogkisser!
Frogkisser! by Garth Nix
The adventures of Anya, a second princess, out to disenchant the prince whom her sister Morven had been in love with, until her stepstepfather had not only turned this prince into a frog, but produced another prince to lure Morven's heart away. (Not that that's too difficult.)
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The adventures of Anya, a second princess, out to disenchant the prince whom her sister Morven had been in love with, until her stepstepfather had not only turned this prince into a frog, but produced another prince to lure Morven's heart away. (Not that that's too difficult.)
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Gemina
Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
The continuing high stakes adventure. Overlap with Illuminae is -- enough to make perhaps reading that one first wise.
Same epistolary point of view. Indeed, after a prologue of a tribunal's proceedings, the first document is a message about the events and the disaster they will be for BeiTech.
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The continuing high stakes adventure. Overlap with Illuminae is -- enough to make perhaps reading that one first wise.
Same epistolary point of view. Indeed, after a prologue of a tribunal's proceedings, the first document is a message about the events and the disaster they will be for BeiTech.
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Illuminae
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
A far future tale of a desperate flight from a merciless foe. Told in epistolary form. Indeed, with an explanation of how the documents were gathered.
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A far future tale of a desperate flight from a merciless foe. Told in epistolary form. Indeed, with an explanation of how the documents were gathered.
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Changeling's Island
Changeling's Island by Dave Freer
Tim Ryan is not quite caught shoplifting -- owing to a little help -- but gets in trouble, and finds himself shipped off from Melbourne to an island where his grandmother lives.
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Tim Ryan is not quite caught shoplifting -- owing to a little help -- but gets in trouble, and finds himself shipped off from Melbourne to an island where his grandmother lives.
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Sabriel
Sabriel by Garth Nix
Opens with a prologue wherein a man has to save his newborn daughter from death -- and a necromancer. And then to the girl herself, about to graduate from school on the other side of the Wall, out of the Old Kingdom and where the magic is weaker (though strong enough . She is considering what to do after when a dark shadow appears -- carrying a sack. It came from her father. It brings the sword and the bells, all magical, he uses in his role as the Abhorsen, to combat necromancers and the Dead. He must have been in great danger.
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Opens with a prologue wherein a man has to save his newborn daughter from death -- and a necromancer. And then to the girl herself, about to graduate from school on the other side of the Wall, out of the Old Kingdom and where the magic is weaker (though strong enough . She is considering what to do after when a dark shadow appears -- carrying a sack. It came from her father. It brings the sword and the bells, all magical, he uses in his role as the Abhorsen, to combat necromancers and the Dead. He must have been in great danger.
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Their Fractured Light
Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
The conclusion of the trilogy. Best to read the first two first. Particularly for the interchapters, which rove over the backstory.
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The conclusion of the trilogy. Best to read the first two first. Particularly for the interchapters, which rove over the backstory.
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Spinning Starlight
Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis
Liddi is home alone when, owing to not following her usual schedule, she realizes that armed men are breaking into the mansion. She flees. And learns that her eight older brothers, all extraordinary inventors, can not be contacted, and have not been in contact for several days.
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Liddi is home alone when, owing to not following her usual schedule, she realizes that armed men are breaking into the mansion. She flees. And learns that her eight older brothers, all extraordinary inventors, can not be contacted, and have not been in contact for several days.
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The Wee Free Men
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
The first book in the Tiffany Aching trilogy, the Discworld YA books. (Helps a bit if you've read some of the Witch books first.) I was at first wary because his first venture in YA did not impress me. This is much better.
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The first book in the Tiffany Aching trilogy, the Discworld YA books. (Helps a bit if you've read some of the Witch books first.) I was at first wary because his first venture in YA did not impress me. This is much better.
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Tunnel in the Sky
Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
One of Heinlein's juveniles. Though you've got to notice that it starts with a college course that has a final of being dropped on some planet -- and surviving. And bright kids can take it in high school.
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One of Heinlein's juveniles. Though you've got to notice that it starts with a college course that has a final of being dropped on some planet -- and surviving. And bright kids can take it in high school.
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Howl's Moving Castle
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Sophie Hatter knows her fate. When her widowed stepmother, Fanny, looks at the expenses and what the hat shop brings in, she thinks it only reasonable that Fanny apprentices her own daughter, Martha, to a witch, sends her other stepdaughter out to prentice at a bakery, and keeps Sophie with her as an apprentice in the shop. After all, as the oldest daughter, Sophie's fate will be the worst if she sets out to seek her fortune.
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Sophie Hatter knows her fate. When her widowed stepmother, Fanny, looks at the expenses and what the hat shop brings in, she thinks it only reasonable that Fanny apprentices her own daughter, Martha, to a witch, sends her other stepdaughter out to prentice at a bakery, and keeps Sophie with her as an apprentice in the shop. After all, as the oldest daughter, Sophie's fate will be the worst if she sets out to seek her fortune.
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These Broken Stars
These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Aboard the starship Icarus, the war hero Tarver Merendsen must attend a party with the upper crust -- expected after all his decorations -- and sees a lovely girl, without actually managing to recognize her as Lilac LaRoux, the daughter (and only child) of the richest man in the universe. She lets herself talk to him, but soon after, when he tries to talk to her again, she remembers how her father would react and repulses him.
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Aboard the starship Icarus, the war hero Tarver Merendsen must attend a party with the upper crust -- expected after all his decorations -- and sees a lovely girl, without actually managing to recognize her as Lilac LaRoux, the daughter (and only child) of the richest man in the universe. She lets herself talk to him, but soon after, when he tries to talk to her again, she remembers how her father would react and repulses him.
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