Dark Quetzal Katherine Roberts
Kyarra, the Dark One's daughter, has been raised as a Singer with no knowledge of her parents. When her father kidnaps her from the Isle of Echoes and takes her to his stronghold guarded by half creatures deep in the Quetzal Forest, she must choose between her dark heritage and the Echorium she calls home. With the opportunity to change history in her grasp, can she resist the power of the khiz-crystal in time to save her friends? The half creatures in this book can fly. They are named after real birds with beautiful plumage found in South America. I had a lot of fun writing about Night Plume, a quetzal boy with rare dark plumage whose flock worship and fear the Starmaker... their name for Frazhin, none other than the old Khizpriest, who wants revenge on the Singers who stole his wife and daughter. This book completes the Echorium trilogy.
Kyarra, the Dark One's daughter, has been raised as a Singer with no knowledge of her parents. When her father kidnaps her from the Isle of Echoes and takes her to his stronghold guarded by half creatures deep in the Quetzal Forest, she must choose between her dark heritage and the Echorium she calls home. With the opportunity to change history in her grasp, can she resist the power of the khiz-crystal in time to save her friends? The half creatures in this book can fly. They are named after real birds with beautiful plumage found in South America. I had a lot of fun writing about Night Plume, a quetzal boy with rare dark plumage whose flock worship and fear the Starmaker... their name for Frazhin, none other than the old Khizpriest, who wants revenge on the Singers who stole his wife and daughter. This book completes the Echorium trilogy.
Teen, Inc Stefan Petrucha
Legally, a corporation is a person, so why shouldn't they be able to adopt a child?
Fourteen year old Jaiden's family is a corporation and his home is an office building. When his parents are killed in an accident caused by a faulty piece of equipment manufactured by NECorp, the company adopts him and raises him in its headquarters. Now as a teenager, Jaiden, is longing for a normal life--attending high school, living in a house, having a girlfriend--and is starting to rebel in search of it.
With the help of his new friend, Jenny, he uncovers some disturbing and scandalous information about NECorp and must make the tough decision to stay loyal to his "family" or to follow his instincts.
Jaiden's funny and fresh voice makes this a quick, enjoyable read and the suspenseful plot will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
Legally, a corporation is a person, so why shouldn't they be able to adopt a child?
Fourteen year old Jaiden's family is a corporation and his home is an office building. When his parents are killed in an accident caused by a faulty piece of equipment manufactured by NECorp, the company adopts him and raises him in its headquarters. Now as a teenager, Jaiden, is longing for a normal life--attending high school, living in a house, having a girlfriend--and is starting to rebel in search of it.
With the help of his new friend, Jenny, he uncovers some disturbing and scandalous information about NECorp and must make the tough decision to stay loyal to his "family" or to follow his instincts.
Jaiden's funny and fresh voice makes this a quick, enjoyable read and the suspenseful plot will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
Shade's Children Garth Nix
Plunge directly into a nightmare--a scrawny boy flees monstrous trackers in an urban wasteland. Gradually the reader learns that Earth has been taken over by the terrible Overlords, the laws of physical reality warped, all adults killed, the brains and body parts of children raw material for endless war games. Led by an all-too-human artificial intelligence known as Shade, a forlorn resistance battles on, with hope only because the misfit warriors have special talents that came with the Change. Throughout the struggle, hints that Shade's sympathies are not irrevocably human add additional suspense. Although the trappings here are science fiction, Nix tells essentially the same story as he did in Sabriel: a desperate quest by a talented few, aided by a potentially treacherous Other, to destroy the source of the power of an evil force that has poisoned the world.
Plunge directly into a nightmare--a scrawny boy flees monstrous trackers in an urban wasteland. Gradually the reader learns that Earth has been taken over by the terrible Overlords, the laws of physical reality warped, all adults killed, the brains and body parts of children raw material for endless war games. Led by an all-too-human artificial intelligence known as Shade, a forlorn resistance battles on, with hope only because the misfit warriors have special talents that came with the Change. Throughout the struggle, hints that Shade's sympathies are not irrevocably human add additional suspense. Although the trappings here are science fiction, Nix tells essentially the same story as he did in Sabriel: a desperate quest by a talented few, aided by a potentially treacherous Other, to destroy the source of the power of an evil force that has poisoned the world.
