Patrice Kindl
Viking Press
261 pgs.
In order to support her family and maintain their ancient castle in Lesser Hoo, seventeen-year-old Althea bears the burden of finding a wealthy suitor who can remedy their financial problems.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Keeping The Castle by Patrice Kindl
Patrice Kindl
Viking Press
261 pgs.
In order to support her family and maintain their ancient castle in Lesser Hoo, seventeen-year-old Althea bears the burden of finding a wealthy suitor who can remedy their financial problems.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Katherine Tegen Books
2011
487p.
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Queen of Water by Laura Resau and Maria Farinango
Delacorte Press
2011
352p.
Living in a village
in Ecuador, a Quechua Indian girl is sent to work as an indentured
servant for an upper class "mestizo" family.
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