Place holder post for 2009 YA Challenge. Not going to list any - am just going to get them throughout the year :)

1. Schooled by Gordon Korman - A commune-raised teenager gets thrust out into society when his grandmother is hospitalized and he's placed in a foster home. Totally unprepared for the outside world, Cap is elected 8th grade class ( Read more... )

The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan - Kick ass! Lots of action. Ringil, a former hero living off his legend, gets pulled back into action to find a cousin sold into slavery. He pisses off lots of people and finds members of a legendary, but long-missing race planning on reclaiming their former world. During his search, he's reunited with two old ( Read more... )

Keep It Together by Kirsten Lagatree - subtitled "200+ tips, tricks, lists, and solutions for everyday life" - some excellent information here.

X-Men: Visionaries - wasn't thrilled with this - it's excerpts from other stories, so you don't know how things began or how they end. But, hey, it's an X title :)(A to Z title)

both 100 books challenge

The Unseen by T.L. Hines - Lucas is an urban explorer, exploring buildings, going into places he's not supposed to go. Then he meets a member of a group of explorers, who've taken the exploring a bit further - and then he's approached by another man who wants him to spy on the group. Group members begin to die and Lucas is named as the killer. And ( Read more... )

Snow White, Blood Red - Childhood tales take on a darker, more adult hue in this collection. Quality, of course, varies, though most are good to very good.

The Association by Bentley Little - Watch out for your homeowner's association. They may just be annoying - or they could be supernaturally evil. Guess which one Barry and Maureen Welch get? ( Read more... )

Got called back into one of Tamora Pierce's worlds recently - ended up getting all the Circle books and reading them (re-reading a couple). Not going to do indepth reviews of each - just each series. All are teen fantasy, suitable for all ages, even adults ( Read more... )

101 books as of April 30. Go me!

( The books )

with five good entries in five series I really enjoy.

Night and Day by Robert B. Parker - A junior high school teacher performs a panty check at an eighth grade dance - there may not have been a crime, but Jesse Stone sure has a lot of angry parents to deal with. Plus there's a peeping tom, who just graduated to entering houses and forcing women ( Read more... )

Bone By Bone by Carol O'Connell - 20 years after his brother vanished, Oren Hobbs returns home to find out that his brother Josh is coming home - bone by bone. Except that Oren, ex-Army CID, realizes that there are two separate bodies and forces his father, a retired judge, to call in the police. Now Oren is determined to find out what happened all ( Read more... )

Midnight Graffit - Nice collection. From the mildly bizarre to the quite chilling. (100 books, A to Z title)

March stats: 21 books for the month, 69 (dude!) for the year.

Top five: Contagious by Scott Sigler, Whisper to the Blood by Dana Stabenow, Fortune and Fate by Sharon Shinn, Wings of Wrath by C.S. Friedman, and Voodoo River by Robert