from Kris:
Seems: the Glitch in Sleep by Hulme. I have a feeling there will be more...
The Seems is a parallel world responsible for making our world work properly, and if something goes wrong, a Fixer is called in to fix the problem. When a glitch is found in the Department of Sleep, keeping everyone awake when they should be sleeping, it takes every bit of talent & ingenuity that Fixer Becker Drane has to make it right. But since Becker is only 12, other Fixers wonder if he’s too young for the job, and the world will fall into irreparable turmoil.
YA HULME
Interworld by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves - an incredible book!! Loved it.
Preserving the balance of magic and science is the job of Walkers – those who travel intuitively between different dimensions. Joey Harker, who once got lost in his own house and is now lost in a parallel dimension eerily similar to his own, discovers that he is a Walker. If he stays, he loses his old life and family. If he returns to his old life, he loses all memory of who he is and what he can do.
YA GAIMAN
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Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis.
I loved this book and I loved Elijah! Curtis has the behaviors and speech patterns of this 11-year-old character spot-on, and Curtis knows how to draw a reader into the story. His historical facts are absolutely accurate, and the picture he paints of slavery and slave-traders gives younger readers the necessary context & chills associated with this timeframe. There’s no pontificating or belaboring slavery here, just a great story. I’m about ready to write C. P. Curtis a fan letter!
(I know this is a J book, but it's too good to pass up)
J CURTIS
Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande. Mena was so looking forward to high school, but since she wrote “the letter”, she has become an outcast. Her former church friends either ignore her or actively harass her, and her parents are upset with her because they’re being sued by those same church families – and all because she did the right thing.
YA BRANDE
God and I Broke Up by Katarina Mazetti
How do you live when your best friend, the one person you could say anything to, is dead? How do you handle being the one left behind? And how do you believe in God if he let something this awful happen?
YA MAZETTI
Pretty Tough by Liz Tigelaar
When Charlie starts high school, she’s recruited for the soccer team – long the domain of her perfect older sister. Rivalry between school teams is nothing compared to rivalry between sisters.
YA TIGELAAR
What-the-dickens (sic) by Gregory Maguire
Maguire is a master of creative fairy tale storytelling, and this is no exception. This story-within-a-story tells the tale of Dinah & her siblings' missing parents, a raging storm, and Gage, a slightly older cousin who distracts them with a tale of an orphan tooth fairy (aka: skibberee).
YA MAGUIRE
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