![]() ![]() The city she finds herself in is on the verge of a very important change. Laura, just like the previous Stravaganti before her, is unhappy in her life, she is actually a cutter, and when she finds her talisman, she gets transported to Talia. Being a Stravagante means that with the help of her talisman she can travel from our world to a parallel world, at a country, Talia, that is very similar to 16th-century Italy. This last book introduces us to another Stravagante, Laura. I started reading it back in 2004, when I was 14 and I immediately fell in love with the characters and the world. I think! Take a gander at the official website and watch the trailer.I can't believe that this series is over. The Eternal Ones, by Kirsten Miller (410 pages) – Not a reference to vampires, thank goodness, but rather people who are reincarnated repeatedly. But Taris doesn’t give up its hold so easily, and she is shocked to find the island held more secrets than any of them knew.’ Juno enjoys the new freedoms and choices now available to her in a future New Zealand. ‘Juno and the Taris inhabitants must leave their dying island to live on the Outside, a seemingly hostile place of pandemics and conflict. ![]() Adlington (315 pages) – Vesuvius, Pompeii, Italy during WWII and the Afghan War are all connected in this book.įirst line: ‘ Drenched in grey ash, grazed by a rain of rock, Gaius Justinius Aquila staggered along the beach, eyes wide at all the horrors.‘įierce September, by Fleur Beale (358 pages) – Book two of the Juno series. The fightin’ Nac Mac Feegles aren’t helping either.įirst line: ‘ Why was it, Tiffany Aching wondered, that people liked noise so much? Why was noise so important?‘īurning Mountain, by L. Tiffany is a witch, and isn’t finding the job too glamorous. I Shall Wear Midnight, by Terry Pratchett (249 pages) – The latest in a long line of Discworld novels. Also! Her dog died with her so he’s there as well.įirst line: ‘ Most people think that death is the end.‘ Some spirits don’t want to move on, and her first task to to find one such spirit. Radiance, by Alyson Noël (183 pages) – Riley Bloom dies in a car crash, and ffins herself in an afterlife where she gets a job as a Soul Catcher. But with pirates!įirst line: ‘ If she raised herself slightly from the stool she sat on, Flavia could see the masts of ships in the harbour.‘ Stravaganza : City of Ships, by Mary Hoffman (348 pages) – The fifth book in The Stravaganza Sequence, about time travelling teens who end up in Talia, a country in a parallel world, much like 16th-century Italy. Not the nice ones the ones we don’t like, who make us bow to them, make us show our identity cards and take a long time to examine them, even though they know perfectly well who we are and that we haven’t been anywhere outside of the Governer’s House in Tobolsk for months.‘ History is grim! However! There is some doubt as to their fates, and this book is “a haunting vision of the life – and imagined love story – of Russia’s last princess.”įirst lines: ‘ We are surrounded by guards. The first iron heat gathering, shimmering in bands across hard, thirsty slopes.‘Īnastasia’s Secret, by Susanne Dunlap (330 pages) – Anastasia Romanova was a daughter of the last Tsar of Russia, who, along with his family, were killed by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. Climate change and a fascistic government mean life is a raw deal for everyone else.įirst lines: ‘ Dawn in the mountains. The setting is a futuristic Britain ruled by Great Families who keep spare clones of themselves. The Selected, by Patrick Cave (405 pages) – This is a prequel/sequel to Sharp North (or is it the other way round? or both?). “An intense story of loss and shifting relationships.”įirst line: ‘ Something about the waves, something about their blue-gray depths, had been flowing down into Sandy, rushing in to fill a gaping hole.‘ Her mother seems to be coping a bit too well, and Sandy also distances herself from her best friend, who in turn has a difficult relationship with her mother. Somewhere in Blue, by Gillian Cummings (334 pages) – Sandy’s father has died and she wallows in grief. Rumpford’s ridiculously hard algebra final.‘ Will Carter has survived his freshman year at high school, and has somehow been cast in a film opposite Hollywood teen actress, Hilary Idaho.įirst line: ‘ On the last day of school, I’m happily strolling down the hall after Mr. ![]() Carter’s Big Break, by Brent Crawford (231 pages) – This is the follow-up to Carter Finally Gets It. ![]()
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