Novels for Teens
The Flooded Earth Trilogy by Mardi McConnochie
The Flooded Earth, The Castle in the Sea and The Skeleton Coast are three dystopian page turners for middle school.
While The Hunger Games was for older readers, these books have the feel of Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass: deliciously scary. The Flooded Earth books are set 50 years after a massive flood and climate change change the earth’ surface. Four kids set sail in search of secrets, hidden clues and their mysteriously disappeared father. With three sequels, there’s plenty to keep an avid reader spellbound here.
Pajama Press, ISBN 978-1-772278-049-9
ISBN 978-1-77278-083-3
ISBN978-1-77278-099-4
The Parkour Club by Pam Withers and Arooj Hayat is a high speed read for teens. This story features parkour courses, an unusual and fascinating focus.
Bronte moves from Egypt back to North America, and is coping with adjustments and making new friends at her new school. She follows her passion for parkour and makes friends in her new club. But some people are not who they seem. Is there a terrorist among them? Who can she trust and who is dangerous? A good read for teens.
ISBN 978-0995910324, also available as e-book.
Music for Tigers by Michelle Kadarusman is a fascinating, and fun, read for middle grade students interested in wildlife and extinction. Set in a unique place, Louisa travels to an aunt in Tasmania where she discovers both a diary and the mysterious shadows of an animal. Could the Tasmanian tiger still be present? A wonderful read, very well written, for kids of all ages.
Pajama Press
- ISBN-10 : 1772780545
- ISBN-13 : 978-1772780543