Archives for March 2009

You are so Undead to Me

by Stacey Jay
Megan Berry is a Zombie Settler, a talent/profession she inherited from her mother and a long line of settling ancestors.  The thing is that Megan has not been an active settler for five years, not since she was horribly attacked by some reanimated corpses, zombies who did not rise on their own but [...]

Shooting the Moon

by Frances O’Roark Dowell
Twelve-year-old Jamie and her older brother TJ have grown up living, breathing, and loving the army as children of the Colonel, as they call their father, so when TJ enlists and is sent to Vietnam, Jamie is thrilled for him.  Not only is she thrilled, she is also a little jealous (she [...]

Wherever Nina Lies by Lynn Weingarten

Two years ago Ellie’s older sister Nina mysterious disappeared.  She left one night and just never came back.  Ellie has never given up hope of one day tracking down her long lost sibling.  Though she has tried to move on — working at Mon Coeur, a coffee shop, and partying with her bestfriend Amanda — [...]

Vampire Knight

by Matsuri Hino
Yuki Cross has no memories of her life before the age of five.  Ten years ago, she was attacked by an evil vampire and saved by a powerful, pure-blood vampire, Kaname Kuran.  Kaname took her to live with an ally who opened the Cross Academy where there are two classes, the night class [...]

Hannah's Winter

by Kierin Meehan
Hannah finds herself not beginning the school year with her friends in Australia as expected but in Japan staying with her mother’s friends while her mother researches her next book.  Hannah’s mother is a larger than life agriculturist with purple hair who talks in ALL CAPS when emphasizing a point.  She refuses to [...]