Tuesday, November 29, 2011

My five favs of 2011

It was hard to narrow it down to five, but here's my list:

 5. Wither by Lauren DeStefano
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
Read my full review and watch a book video here: http://talkingteenbooks.blogspot.com/2011/04/wither-by-lauren-destefano.html

4. Shine by Lauren Myracle
When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town.
Read my full review here: http://talkingteenbooks.blogspot.com/2011/08/shine-by-lauren-myracle.html

3. All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin
In a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.
Read my full review and watch a book video here: http://talkingteenbooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/all-these-things-ive-done-by-gabrielle.html

2. Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick
Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.
Read my full review here: http://talkingteenbooks.blogspot.com/2011/10/ashes-by-ilsa-j-bick.html

1. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
Read my full review here: http://talkingteenbooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/beauty-queens-by-libba-bray.html

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