The Vampire's Assistant coming to theaters Oct. 23

Got a thing for vampires?

Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan, is a fantasy-adventure about a teenager who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.

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Crash Into Me

Crash Into Me

By Borris, Albert

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Owen, Frank, Audrey, and Jin-Ae have one thing in common: they all want to die. When they meet online after each attempts suicide and fails, the four teens make a deadly pact: they will escape together on a summer road trip to visit the sites of celebrity suicides...and at their final destination, they will all end their lives. As they drive cross-country, bonding over their dark impulses, sharing their deepest secrets and desires, living it up, hooking up, and becoming true friends, each must decide whether life is worth living--or if there's no turning back.

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Sea Change

Sea Change

By Friedman, Aimee

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After major drama with her boyfriend and (now ex) best friend, 16-year-old Miranda Merchant is happy to spend the summer on small, mysterious Selkie Island. There, Miranda finds a place with a mysterious, mystical history, and Leo, who challenges everything she thinks she knows about boys--and reality.

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Wings

Wings
By Pike, Aprilynne
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When a flower blooms in the middle of her back, Laurel discovers that she is a faerie and was placed with human parents as a child. As Laurel learns about her true background and the dangers that face the faerie realm, she struggles to find her place in both worlds.

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"What a great modern-day twist on typical fairy stories! Laurel is that newbie high school girl who happens to find out she's really a fairy. Never believing in that sort of thing, she finds herself in situations and adventures she never dreamed of. I can't wait for the sequel!"
--Hallie Wilkins, Anderson's Bookshop, Naperville, IL


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After the Moment

After the Moment

By Freymann-Weyr, Garret

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Leigh Hunter is completely and forever in love with Maia Morland. But life is not a romance novel and theirs will never become a true romance. For when Maia needs him the most, Leigh betrays both her trust and her love, in this new novel by the Printz Honor-winning author Freymann-Weyr.

Publisher Comments

A new novel by the Printz Honor author Garret Freymann-Weyr, about a boy who discovers what happens when love fails us--or we fail love. Maia Morland is pretty, only not pretty-pretty. She's smart. She's brave. She's also a self-proclaimed train wreck.Leigh Hunter is smart, popular, and extremely polite. He's also completely and forever in love with Maia Morland.Their young love starts off like a romance novel--full of hope, strength, and passion. But life is not a romance novel and theirs will never become a true romance. For when Maia needs him the most, Leigh betrays both her trust and her love.Told with compassion and true understanding, After the Moment is about what happens when a young man discovers that sometimes love fails us, and that, quite often, we fail love.

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The Lovely Bones coming soon to a theater near you!

We're very excited that the film adaptation of The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold will be released on December 11, 2009! It's directed by Peter Jackson, who also directed the amazing Lord of the Rings trilogy, and stars Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci, and Susan Sarandon.

Watch the trailer, download the audiobook, and read (or re-read!) the book here.

Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz

Title: Eagle Strike (An Alex Rider adventure)

Author: Anthony Horowitz

Number of Stars: 4

What did you think was THE MOST INTERESTING THING ABOUT THE BOOK?
When Mlb didn’t believe Alex

WAS there a CHARACTER LIKE YOU?
Kind of

WHAT would you CHANGE about the story:
the ending

WHO else could you RECOMMEND this book to:
James Bond fans


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Twenty Boy Summer

Twenty Boy Summer

By Ockler, Sarah

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Beautifully written and emotionally honest, this debut novel explores what it truly means to love someone, what it means to grieve, and ultimately how to make the most of every single moment this world has to offer.

Blending love and memories
Review by Angela Leeper

Next-door neighbors Anna and Frankie have felt like sisters all their lives. In Sarah Ockler’s poignant debut novel, Twenty Boy Summer, the girls’ friendship is tested when a freak accident changes their lives forever.

Anna’s longtime crush on Frankie’s older brother, Matt, turns to love when he kisses her on her 15th birthday. They keep their romance a secret, since Matt wants to wait until his family’s summer vacation to break the news to his sister. But the night before the big trip, the three teens experience a tragic car crash which takes Matt’s life.

Now a year later, Anna joins Frankie’s family on their California excursion. While hanging out in all of Matt’s favorite locales, Anna meets Sam and finds instant, mutual attraction. She can’t help but worry, though, that falling in love with Sam means erasing her memories with Matt.

With friendship at the forefront, Anna explores grief and love and the pain and wonders of it all. The teen’s dilemma—how to remember Matt, move on with Sam and still be loyal to Frankie—gives a firm tug on the reader’s heart.

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