Seekers set off again
Seekers: Return To The Wild: Island Of Shadow Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: Harper, 283 pages F ANS of the Seekers series can rejoice with this first book of a new series Seekers:
Return To The Wild, featuring old friends from the original books. After the completion of their mission in the first series, bear friends Lusa, Toklo and Kallik now set their sights on going home, and are joined by white bear Yakone. With Toklo still badly affected by the loss of their friend Ujurak, the appearance of an orphaned bear cub just as they seem badly lost seems to be some sort of sign. But is it a good sign or a bad one?
Irises
Author: Francisco X. Stork
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books, 288 pages KATE is headed to become a doctor while her sister Mary only wants to stay home and paint. When their repressive but loving father dies, they are forced to come up with a way to support their family, which includes their mother who is in a permanent vegetative state.
Kate’s boyfriend offers to marry her and provide the stability she craves, but Andy gets into the picture and tempts her with more than just romance. Mary on the other hand is attracted to Marcos who is known for his violent past.
The sisters find new possibilities as well as difficulties in their new-found freedom, but it is their mother’s life – the question of if she lives and what’s worth living for – that threatens to divide them for good.
Under The Never Sky Author: Veronica Rossi
Publisher: Harper, 376 pages
THIS is a story about defying the odds. Exiled from the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria is aware that the chances of surviving the Death Shop, aka the outer wasteland, is slim. Either the cannibals would get her or she would die from the violent, electrified energy storms.
Then she meets Perry, a wild outsider who soon becomes her only hope of staying alive. A hunter for his tribe, Perry, however, sees Aria as a sheltered and spoilt girl – who holds the key to his redemption. The duo must work together if they want to survive the merciless land, and their incredible alliance creates a bond that will determine the fate of all who live under the never sky.
Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes Author: Lauren Child Publisher: Harpercollins, 390 pages
ONE can’t help but fall in love with Ruby Redfort, the genius, code-cracking, gadgetladen special agent who also happens to be just 13! The daring teenage detective and her side-kick butler Hitch may be chasing after criminals and villains, but they’re always ice cool in a crisis.
Look Into My Eyes takes readers back to Ruby’s start as an agent, which happened after she accepts a challenge from an anonymous caller.
She finds herself at the HQ of a top secretsecret agency called Spectrum. The agency enlists her help to crack a code but soon her desk job turns into a crazy, action-packed adventure.
The Girls of No Return Author: Erin Saldin
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books, 347 pages
EVERYONE has a secret in their lives, and the girls at the Alice Marshall School (AMS) are no different. But their secrets are the mistakes they’ve made in their lives that sent them to this special school.
In this book, we are introduced to Lida, whose skeleton remains hidden even after she arrives at the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area where AMS is located.
There, Lida meets Boone, an arsonist; Jules, the mysterious girl who seems far too happy to be confined to this particular school; and Gia, the glamorous girl who almost everyone she meets is attracted to.
As the girls start to prepare for their personal wilderness treks, Lida is excited yet terrified to be chosen as Gia’s friend.
Eventually, the truth about each girl comes out and with each secret revealed, the backlash increases.