The Mad Scientist's Daughter
Cassandra Rose Clarke The Mad Scientist’s Daughter is the heartbreaking story of the journey from childhood to adulthood, with an intriguing science fictional twist. There’s never been anyone – or anything – quite like Finn. He looks, and acts human,…
Altered
Jennifer Rush and Casey Holloway (Narrator) When you can’t trust yourself, who can you believe? Everything about Anna’s life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to…
Ante's Inferno
Griselda Heppel 12 year-old Ante Alganesh has a problem. It’s lunchbreak and Florence’s gang are after her. Desperate for a place to hide, she climbs the forbidden staircase to the old organ loft, from which a hundred years ago a…
2013 Book Challenges
At the start of 2012 The Big Book Little Book Team signed up to The Debut Author Challenge and The British book Challenge. We pledged to read twelve Middle grade or Young adult debut novels and twelve British novels. In…
Crewel
Gennifer Albin Incapable. Awkward. Artless. That’s what the other girls whisper behind her back. But sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys has a secret – she wants to fail. Gifted with the ability to weave time and matter, Adelice is exactly what the…
Undeadly
Michele Vail The day I turned 16, my boyfriend-to-be died. I brought him back to life. Then things got a little weird… Molly Bartolucci wants to blend in, date hottie Rick and keep her zombie-raising abilities on the down-low. Then…
Conjure
Lea Nolan Be careful what you search for Emma Guthrie expects this summer to be like any other in the South Carolina Low country- hot and steamy with plenty of beach time alongside her best friend and secret crush, Cooper…
League of Strays
L B Schulman This suspenseful debut follows a group of teenage misfits in their delicious quest for revenge on those who have wronged them at their high school. When a mysterious note appears in Charlotte’s mailbox inviting her to join…
The Girl Who Came Home – A Titanic Novel
Hazel Gaynor In a rural Irish village in April 1912, seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy is anxious about the trip to America. While the thirteen others she will travel with from her Parish anticipate a life of prosperity and opportunity, Maggie is…
Grave Mercy
Robin LaFevers Young, beautiful and deadly. Trained as an assassin by the god of Death, Ismae is sent to the court of Brittany, where she finds herself underprepared – not only for the games of intrigue and treason, but for…
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