Another crop of YA books has arrived at MPL. Some titles have interesting tag lines, but are the stories any good? Guess you'll have to read and find out.
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
Call #: Y YOVANOF
Tag Line: Something's rotten beneath the town of Gentry.
Sixteen-year-old Mackie Doyle knows that he replaced a human child when he was just an infant, and when a friend's sister disappears he goes against his family's and town's deliberate denial of the problem to confront the beings that dwell under the town, tampering with human lives.
Solitary: Escape from Furnace by Alexander Gordon Smith
Call #: Y SMITH
Tag Line: In Furnace Penitentiary, secret horrors are breaking free.
(Escape from Furnace series, book 2) Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, fourteen-year-old Alex Sawyer thinks that he has escaped the hellish Furnace Penitentiary, but instead he winds up in solitary confinement, where new horrors await him.
King of Ithaka by Tracy Barrett
Call #: Y BARRETT
Tag Line: How far would you go to find the father you've never known?
When sixteen-year-old Telemachos and his two best friends, one a centaur, leave their life of privilege to undertake a quest to find Telemachos's father Odysseus, they learn much along the way about what it means to be a man and a king.
Grace by Elizabeth Scott
Call #: Y SCOTT
Tag Line: An unwilling terrorist. A chilling near future. One chance left.
Sixteen-year-old Grace travels on a decrepit train toward a border that may not exist, recalling events that brought her to choose life over being a suicide bomber, and dreaming of freedom from the extremist religion-based government of Keran Berj.
Trash by Andy Mulligan
Call #: Y MULLIGA
Tag Line: Pick it up and keep it hidden.
"My name is Rapheal Fernandez, and I am a dumpsite boy. People say to me, 'I guess you just never know what you'll find sifting through rubbish. Maybe one day you'll find something nice.' then one day I did." Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.
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