Title: What I Wore to Save the World
Author: Maryrose Wood
Year of Publication: 2009
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 276
First Line: "'And so, in the immortal words of Polonius--'"
Summary: Senior year's coming up fast and I still have no clue about college or a career -- the whole rest-of-my-life thing is basically a blank. Maybe it's because I spent this ( Read more... )

Title: Jane Bites Back
Author: Michael Thomas Ford
Year of Publication: 2010
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 299
First Line: "It was not, of course, exactly what Jane had written to her sister that long-ago Christmas Eve, but the sentiment was the same."

Summary: Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen is still surrounded by the literature she loves ( Read more... )

Title: The Resistance
Author: Gemma Malley
Year of Publication: 2008
Genre: YA, scifi, future
Pages: 323
First Line: "Overhead lighting, bleak and uncompromising, shone down into the small room like a prison guard's searchlight, picking out every speck of dust, every mark on the cheap carpet, every smudged fingerprint on the window sill."

Summary: ( Read more... )

Title: Captivate
Author: Carrie Jones
Year of Publication: 2010
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 273
First Line: "There are bizarre people who actually like physical education class."

Summary: Zara and her friends thought they'd solved the pixie problem. And they did -- sort of. The pixies are all locked away, deep in the woods. But the king's needs grow ( Read more... )

Title: Fancy White Trash
Author: Marjetta Geerling
Year of Publication: 2008
Genre: YA
Pages: 257
First Line: "There are five rules for falling in love."

Summary: Rule #1: Find someone new ( Read more... )

Title: Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
Author: Beth Fantaskey
Year of Publication: 2009
Genre: YA, fantasy
Pages: 351
First Line: "The first time I saw him, a heavy, gray fog clung to the cornfields, tails of mist slithering between the dying stalks."

Summary: Marrying a vampire definitely doesn't fit into Jessica's senior year "get-a- ( Read more... )

Title: Cupid
Author: Julius Lester
Year of Publication: 2007
Genre: YA
Pages: 196
First Line: "A long time ago, when Time was still winding its watch and Sun was trying to figure out which way was east and which way was west, there was a king and queen."

Summary: Cupid is the god of love and a tireless maker of mischief. When he breaks out his ( Read more... )

Title: Nothing but the Truth (And a Few White Lies)
Author: Justina Chen Hadley
Year of Publication: 2006
Genre: Young Adult
Pages: 241
First Line: "While every other freshman is at the Spring Fling tonight, I have a date with an old lady whose thumb is feeling up my belly button."

Summary: Not quite banana (Asian on the outside but white on the ( Read more... )

Title: Impossible
Author: Nancy Werlin
Year of Publication: 2008
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
Pages: 376
First Line: "On the evening of Lucy Scarborough's seventh birthday, after the biggest party the neighborhood had seen since, well, Lucy's sixth birthday, Lucy got one last unexpected gift."

Summary: Lucy Scarborough is seventeen when she ( Read more... )