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		<title>New Books</title>
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Brooklyn Burning, by Steve Brezenoff (202 pages) &#8211; Kid and Felix, two kids living on the streets in Brooklyn, are madly in love. Felix leaves, and Kid is left as the suspect in an arson. But! A year later Scout appears on the scene and Kid gets another chance with love. He &#8211; or she! [...]]]></description>
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<p><em><img class="alignright" style="float:right" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780761375265/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="71" height="100" /><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0001053651">Brooklyn Burning</a></em>, by Steve Brezenoff (202 pages) &#8211; Kid and Felix, two kids living on the streets in Brooklyn, are madly in love. Felix leaves, and Kid is left as the suspect in an arson. But! A year later Scout appears on the scene and Kid gets another chance with love. He &#8211; or she! for gender of the main characters is never specified, remarkably &#8211; also gets to be in a band.  Punk rock!</p>
<p><small>First line: &#8216;<em>On the corner of Franklin and India streets in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is the north wall of Fish&#8217;s bar.</em>&#8216;</small></p>
<p><em><img class="alignright" style="float:right" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780802723055/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" /><a href="http://http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0001052625">Unforgettable</a></em>, by Loretta Ellsworth (256 pages) &#8211; Baxter can remember every little thing that happens, from emotions to numbers. When his ability gets his mother&#8217;s criminal boyfriend locked away for credit card scam, Baxter and his mum move to a distant town to forget the past (not that he can actually forget it! but you know) where he falls for a girl who he met years ago and never forgot (he can&#8217;t!) but who has forgotten him. But the criminal boyfriend might be back!</p>
<p><small>First line: <em>&#8216;It&#8217;s a warm spring day when Mom takes me to the playground near our apartment</em>.&#8217;</small></p>
<p><em><img class="alignright" style="float:right" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781595143235/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="68" height="100" /><a href="http://http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0001052655">All You Desire : Can You Trust Your Heart?</a></em>, by Kirsten Miller (423 pages) &#8211; Catalogue summary has a go: &#8216;Haven Moore and Iain Morrow have been living a blissful life in Rome, an ocean way from the Ouroboros Society and its diabolical leader. But the mysterious disappearance of Haven&#8217;s best friend sends the pair running back to New York, where they encounter the diabolical, scheming Horae.&#8217; So if that makes sense then you will know that this is from the <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0000821939">Eternal Ones</a> </em>series and you want to read the sequel.</p>
<p><small>First line: &#8216;<em>Haven Moore checked her watch and turned back towards the city</em>.&#8217;</small></p>
<p><em><img class="alignright" style="float:right" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780547595542/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="67" height="100" /><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0001052917">Water Balloon</a></em>, by Audrey Vernick (312 pages) &#8211; Marley&#8217;s parents have split! And her best friend might not be so friendly anymore. AND she has to take the worst job ever, looking after her grandmother, some five-year-old twins, and all in a place without the Internet. She is stretched as tightly as a water balloon (hence the title) but she does meet a boy. Will love blossom? More importantly will she ever get back on the Internet?</p>
<p><small>First line: &#8216;<em>The blitzing began five years ago, in second grade, on one of those amazing spring days that remind you how hot summer can be.</em>&#8216;</small></p>
<p><em><img class="alignright" style="float:right" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781869694777/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="65" height="100" /><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0001054464">The Scent of Apples</a></em>, by Jacquie McRae (183 pages) &#8211; Libby loves her grandfather, maker of cider and so scented by apples, but he is killed in a nasty accident. Faced with her parents&#8217; seeming indifference, Libby takes to hurting herself as a coping mechanism. She is sent to boarding school and meets Charlie, a girl who teaches Libby that life can be about &#8216;fishing, whanau and laughter&#8217;. Libby is involved in another accident, sadly, forcing &#8217;secrets to be revealed and truths told.&#8217;</p>
<p><small>First line: &#8216;<em>Weeping willows, their skinny arms covered in ghostly green leaves, hang out over the riverbanks.</em>&#8216;</small></p>
<p><em><img class="alignright" style="float:right" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062015792/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="65" height="100" /><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0001052896">Enthralled : Paranormal Diversions</a></em>, edited by Melissa Marr and Kelley Armstrong (452 pages) &#8211; The list of contributors that I am not prepared to type out are a real who&#8217;s who of teen paranormal fiction authors. There are sixteen stories in this collection, and while some are continuations of various series, many are new stories. Vampires! Fairies! Angels! Probably ghosts! AwoooooooOOOoooo</p>
<p><em><img class="alignright" style="float:right" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781742610320/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" /><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0001050453">Glow : Sky Chasers</a></em>, by Amy Kathleen Ryan (385 pages) &#8211; Earth is off the cards, so spacecraft are sent into space (of course) to colonise other planets. Young sweethearts Kieran and Waverly have only ever known life on board Empyrean, and when it&#8217;s attacked and most adults killed, their lives are drastically changed. This is the first book in a series.</p>
<p><small>First line: &#8216;<em>The other ship hung in the sky like a pendant, silver in the ether light cast by the nebula.</em>&#8216;</small></p>
<p><em><img class="alignright" style="float:right" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780547224855/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" /><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0001052627">Always a Witch</a></em>, by Carolyn MacCullough (276 pages) &#8211; &#8216;Haunted by her grandmother&#8217;s prophecy that she will soon be forced to make a terrible decision, witch Tamsin Greene risks everything to travel back in time to 1887 New York to confront the enemy that wants to destroy her family,&#8217; accurately predicts the library catalogue, reading the tea leaves. This is the sequel to <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0000804633">Once A Witch</a></em>.</p>
<p><small>First lines: &#8216;<em>I was born on the night of Samhain. Others might call it Halloween. Born into a family of witches who all carry various Talents. Others might call it magic.</em>&#8216;</small></p>
<p><em><img class="alignright" style="float:right" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780152065706/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" /><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0001052900">Pregnant Pause</a></em>, by Han Nolan (340 pages) &#8211; When sixteen-year-old Eleanor discovers she&#8217;s pregnant her parents want her to either go with them to Kenya, as missionaries, or move in with her older, married sister in California &#8211; in both cases, she has to adopt out the kid when it&#8217;s born. Instead she marries her true love and joins him at his parents&#8217; camp for overweight kids. She is very headstrong! But it&#8217;s for the best &#8230; or is it.? (I had to read the last paragraph to find out.)</p>
<p><small>First lines: &#8216;<em>Okay, I&#8217;m pregnant, and so here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m scared about. What if my kid turns out to be a mass murderer?</em>&#8216;</small></p>
<p><img class="alignright" style="float:right" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780312661038/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" /><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0001055308">Keeper of the Night</a></em>, by Kimberly Willis Holt (308 pages) &#8211; Isabel lives on the island of Guam. Her mother takes her own life, and Isabel is left to look after her family; her sister, who has night terrors, her brother, who starts carving words into his bedroom wall, and their father, who is distant, unable to cope, and sleeps on the floor where Isabel&#8217;s mother was found. So; a bit grim! But ultimately bouyant.</p>
<p><small>First lines: &#8216;<em>My mother died praying on her knees. Her rosary beads were still in her hands when we found her.</em>&#8216;</small></p>
<p><img class="alignright" style="float:right" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780545178433/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" /><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0001049294">Rip Tide</a></em>, by Kat Falls (314 pages) &#8211; Ty&#8217;s father runs a subsea farm, and his family must deal with the threat posed by sharks, killer whales, and squids. Giant squids! Maybe! Anyway a subsea farm sounds pretty cool to me. I don&#8217;t know why exactly. Ty discovers an entire township, dead, tied to a sunken submarine at the bottom of a trash vortex. His parents are kidnapped and Ty worries they might share a similar fate. This is the sequel to <em><a href="http://http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0000814868">Dark Life</a></em>, set in a post-apocalyptic world with futuristic undersea cowboys to which Disney has picked up the film rights. </p>
<p><small>First line: &#8216;<em>Easing back on the throttle, I slowed the submarine&#8217;s speed.</em>&#8216;</small></p>
<p><em><img class="alignright" style="float:right" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780802722928/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="67" height="100" /><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0001054842">Where the Truth Lies</a></em>, by Jessica Warman (308 pages) &#8211; Emily goes to school at an exclusive Connecticut academy for rich kids. Her father is the headmaster there; she has friends (who are rich), and her life is just wonderful. But she also has nightmares that may stem from something that happened to her when she was a kid. When the super-hot rebel Del Sugar arrives at school she is swept away. But! He is expelled! And Emily begins to question what she knows and doesn&#8217;t know, and soon nothing seems to be really what it seems to not be, sometimes. With a &#8220;bittersweet ending&#8221; which I just read and can confirm.</p>
<p><small>First line: &#8216;<em>I have insomnia.</em>&#8216;</small></p>
<p><em><img class="alignright" style="float:right" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780545033435/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" /><a href="http://http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0001052667">Across the Great Barrier</a></em><a href="http://http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0001052667">, </a>Patricia  C. Wrede (339 pages) &#8211; This is book two of &#8216;Frontier Magic&#8217; (the first is <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/easyfind/?hreciid=|library/m/wellington-carl|0000792747">The Thirteenth Child</a></em>), in which the wild west of the 1800s meets a world where magic is the norm. Catalogue helpfully says, &#8216;Eff is an unlucky 13th child. And yet, Eff is the one who had saved the day for the settlements west of the Great Barrier. Her unique ways of doing magic and seeing the world, and her fascination with the magical creatures and land in the Great Plains, push Eff to work toward joining an expedition heading west. But things are changing on the frontier.&#8217;</p>
<p><small>First line: &#8216;<em>Being a heroine is nowhere near the fun folks make it out to be.</em>&#8216;</small></p>
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		<title>New Books This Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Could ghosts be the new vampires? Here at the teen blog we&#8217;ve recently noticed a whole bunch of interesting ghost stories are being published, some of them with Victorian, 19th-century sensibilities. Could this be the new black? we wonder. We will keep an eye out for more.
The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater (409 pages) &#8211; The [...]]]></description>
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<p>Could ghosts be the new vampires? Here at the teen blog we&#8217;ve recently noticed a whole bunch of interesting ghost stories are being published, some of them with Victorian, 19th-century sensibilities. Could this be the new black? we wonder. We will keep an eye out for more.</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1051709"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780545224901/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" />The Scorpio Races</a></em>, Maggie Stiefvater (409 pages) &#8211; The Scorpio Races happen each year in November, where riders race waterhorses (presumably underwater). They&#8217;re a dangerous sport, and some riders don&#8217;t survive. Sean Kendrick has, he&#8217;s the current champion, back to defend his title. Then there&#8217;s Puck, who is going to be the first female rider ever, not fully aware of what she&#8217;s got herself in for. We&#8217;re thinking everyone&#8217;s going to get more than they bargained for.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1050756"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781606840993/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="65" height="100" />Human.4</a></em>, Mike A. Lancaster (231 pages) &#8211; When Kyle volunteers to be hypnotised at a talent show, he doesn&#8217;t expect the world to be completely changed when he wakes up. Now everyone behaves like he doesn&#8217;t exist, and TVs and computers just display a weird language. So, is this a new real world, or is Kyle still lost in a nightmare?</p>
<p><small>First sentence (Kyle Straker&#8217;s First Tape): <em>&#8230; Is this thing on?</em></small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1052297"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781442423732/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="65" height="100" />Drink Slay Love</a></em>, Sarah Beth Durst (386 pages) &#8211; (The title is an <em>Eat, Pray, Love</em> reference, if you hadn&#8217;t already noticed.) Pearl is your average run of the mill vampire until one day she is stabbed through the heart by a unicorn. Now she can be out in daylight, which is kind of useful for vampires, and her vampire family agrees, and puts Pearl to use, enrolling her in high school with the intention of luring innocent humans to the vampire King&#8217;s feast (as, you know, the feast). But Pearl starts having second thoughts &#8211; especially about one particular cute guy &#8211; and finds herself torn between having her friends killed and being killed herself.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>&#8220;One hour until dawn,&#8221; Pearl said</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1050713"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385739542/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="65" height="100" />The Summer I Learned to Fly</a></em>, Dana Reinhardt (216 pages) &#8211; Drew is a loner who hangs out in her mother&#8217;s cheese shop and owns a pet rat. One day she meets Emmett, a boy with an endless amount of mysteries surrounding him, and begins her first real friendship. The cover says &#8220;[it's] about a cautious girl swept up by new feelings. It&#8217;s about a charismatic boy in search of a miracle. It&#8217;s about what happens when they find each other&#8221;, which is quite nice.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>For some people it&#8217;s the smell of sunblock</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1052489"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781416999539/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="65" height="100" />He&#8217;s So Not Worth It</a></em>, Kieran Scott (360 pages) &#8211; the sequel to <em>She&#8217;s So Dead to Us</em>. &#8220;Told in two voices, Allie and Jake continue to be bombarded by family issues and pressures from the &#8220;Cresties&#8221; and their poorer counterparts as they spend a summer dealing with the fallout of their breakup.&#8221; (Catalogue)</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>I had imagined my reunion with my father so many times over the past two years, I had every last detail down</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1052875"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780765328656/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="68" height="100" />Anna Dressed in Blood</a></em>, Kendare Blake (316 pages) &#8211; Cas Lowood is a ghost-killer who travels the country with his mother and cat, following legends and stories to hunt down harmful ghosts and, well, kill them. They arrive in a new town on the trail of the ghost known as Anna Dressed in Blood, who has killed every person who has entered the house she haunts &#8211; except, mysteriously, she decides to spare Cas.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>The grease-slicked hair is a dead giveaway &#8211; no pun intended</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1053944"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316134026/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="65" height="100" />Daughter of Smoke &amp; Bone</a></em>, Laini Taylor (418 pages) &#8211; newly arrived, and featuring in our Most Wanted list: this one is &#8220;a sweeping and gorgeously written modern fantasy about a forbidden love, an ancient and epic battle, and hope for a world remade&#8221; (cover), which makes it sound fabulous!</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>Walking to school over the snow-muffled cobbles, Karou had no sinister premonitions about the day</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1054167"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780763652609/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" />A Long Long Sleep</a></em>, Anna Sheehan (342 pages) &#8211; This is a kind of fairytale-meets-futuristic-semi-dystopian-tale, which sounds really interesting. Rosalinda Fitzroy&#8217;s mega rich parents organised for her to &#8220;sleep&#8221; for sixty years in a stasis tube. When she is kissed awake by a strange boy she discovers the world quite changed, and must reestablish herself. But when an assassin threatens her life, things are turned up a notch, and Rose is forced to uncover some past truths and face the deadly threat head on.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>I&#8217;d try to hold on to my stass dreams as long as I could</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1054129"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780802798398/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" />Haunting Violet</a></em>, Alyxandra Harvey (344 pages) &#8211; Set in the 19th century. Violet&#8217;s mother is a fake medium, who holds séances to relieve various willing members of society of their cash. But at one particular session Violet is confronted by the ghost of a murder victim, who won&#8217;t rest until the killer is brought to justice.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>I was nine years old when my mother decided it was time I took part in the family business</em>.</small></p>
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		<title>Most Wanted: November 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Here&#8217;s the top ten most reserved young adult items for November. New entries include Daughter of Smoke &#38; Bone &#8211; a supernatural romance/thriller about angels and devils set in exotic parts (well, Marrakesh, and Prague for example) &#8211; Clockwork Prince &#8211;  the second in the Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare &#8211; Hades &#8211; the angelic follow up to Halo [...]]]></description>
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<p>Here&#8217;s the top ten most reserved young adult items for November. New entries include <em>Daughter of Smoke &amp; Bone</em> &#8211; a supernatural <img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781416975885/mc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="131" height="200" />romance/thriller about angels and devils set in exotic parts (well, Marrakesh, and Prague for example) &#8211; <em>Clockwork Prince</em> &#8211;  the second in the <em>Infernal Devices</em> series by Cassandra Clare &#8211; <em>Hades</em> &#8211; the angelic follow up to <em>Halo</em> &#8211; and <em>Crossed</em> &#8211; sequel to <em>Matched</em>, in which Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces to find Ky. Happy reserving!</p>
<p>1. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048021">People&#8217;s Republic</a></em>, Robert Muchamore <strong>[no change]<br />
</strong>2. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048984">Inheritance</a></em>, Christopher Paolini <strong>[up 1]</strong><br />
3. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=783850">The Hunger Games</a></em>, Suzanne Collins <strong>[down 1]<br />
</strong>4. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048993">Silence</a></em>, Becca Fitzpatrick <strong>[up 1]<br />
</strong>5. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=791325">Catching Fire</a></em>, Suzanne Collins <strong>[down 1]<br />
</strong>6. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1054114">Clockwork Prince</a></em>, Cassandra Clare <strong>[new]</strong><br />
7. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=817200">Mockingjay</a></em>, Suzanne Collins <strong>[down 1]<br />
</strong>8. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1051014">Hades</a></em>, Alexandra Adornetto <strong>[new]<br />
</strong>9. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048835">Crossed</a></em>, Ally Condie <strong>[new]<br />
</strong>9. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1053944">Daughter of Smoke &amp; Bone</a></em>, Laini Taylor <strong>[new]<br />
</strong>9. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048834">The Power of Six</a></em>, Pittacus Lore <strong>[down 2]</strong></p>
<p>Now, back to Angry Birds!</p>
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		<title>Most Wanted: October 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grimm</dc:creator>
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Here&#8217;s the top ten most reserved young adult items for October. Enjoy!
1. People&#8217;s Republic, Robert Muchamore [no change]
2. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins [no change]
3. Inheritance, Christopher Paolini [up 1]
4. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins [up 5]
5. Silence, Becca Fitzpatrick [up 2]
6. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins [no change]
7. The Power of Six, Pittacus Lore [down 2]
8. Passion, Lauren Kate [down [...]]]></description>
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<p>Here&#8217;s the top ten most reserved young adult items for October. Enjoy!</p>
<p>1. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048021">People&#8217;s Republic</a></em>, Robert Muchamore <strong>[no change]<br />
</strong>2. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=783850">The Hunger Games</a></em>, Suzanne Collins <strong>[no change]<br />
</strong>3. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048984">Inheritance</a></em>, Christopher Paolini <strong>[up 1]</strong><br />
<img class="alignright" style="float:right" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780439023498/mc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="134" height="200" />4. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=791325">Catching Fire</a></em>, Suzanne Collins <strong>[up 5]<br />
</strong>5. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048993">Silence</a></em>, Becca Fitzpatrick <strong>[up 2]<br />
</strong>6. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=817200">Mockingjay</a></em>, Suzanne Collins <strong>[no change]<br />
</strong>7. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048834">The Power of Six</a></em>, Pittacus Lore <strong>[down 2]<br />
</strong>8. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1034597">Passion</a></em>, Lauren Kate <strong>[down 5]<br />
</strong>9. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048845">Bloodlines</a></em>, Richelle Mead <strong>[up 1]</strong><br />
10. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=750348">Pretty Little Liars</a></em>, Sara Shepard <strong>[down 2]</strong></p>
<p>Also new and popular in town: <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1051014">Hades</a></em>, by Alexandra Adornetto (sequel to <em>Halo</em>), <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1049023">All These Things I&#8217;ve Done</a> </em>by Gabrielle Zevin, and <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1050740">Miss Peregrine&#8217;s Home for Peculiar Children</a></em>. Plus also, also <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1047645">Ouran High School Host Club 7</a></em> and <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1047653">Vampire Knight 13</a></em>.</p>
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		<title>New Books Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grimm</dc:creator>
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The Power of Six, Pittacus Lore (406 pages) &#8211; from the perspective of Number Seven as well as Number Four, this is the continuing story of the nine chosen Lorien teenagers sent to earth to escape the Mogadorians, those of the really bad teeth. Number Seven is in hiding in a convent with her minder, [...]]]></description>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048834"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780061974557/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" />The Power of Six</a></em>, Pittacus Lore (406 pages) &#8211; from the perspective of Number Seven as well as Number Four, this is the continuing story of the nine chosen Lorien teenagers sent to earth to escape the Mogadorians, those of the really bad teeth. Number Seven is in hiding in a convent with her minder, and they are at odds about the possibility of a Lorien uprising. Number Seven is keen to track down the now-famous Number Four, and leaves the convent, the Mogadorians in hot pursuit. Bernie Kosar most likely makes an appearance, you will be pleased to hear.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>My name is Marina, as of the sea, but I wasn&#8217;t called that until much later</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1040748"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316068659/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" />Sweetly</a></em>, Jackson Pearce (310 pages) &#8211; based on Hansel and Gretel. Gretchen&#8217;s twin sister disappeared several years ago while they were hunting a witch in the woods. Now Gretchen and her brother Ansel live with Sophia, a chocolatier, in South Carolina, and life does seem to be sweet, literally and metaphorically, until a handsome stranger arrives saying the witch is still around and Gretchen&#8217;s the next target. Gretchen decides to face the witch story head on, and her investigations dig up disturbing secrets.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>The book said there was a witch in the woods</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1050386">The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making</a></em>, Catherynne M Valente (247 pages) &#8211; it&#8217;s arrived! Mentioned in this post <a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/blogs/teens/index.php/2011/09/05/upcoming-fantasy/">here</a>.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her parents&#8217; house, where she washed the same pink-and-yellow teacups and matching gravy boats every day, slept on the same embroidered pillow, and played with the same small and amiable dog</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1049533"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781442413146/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" />Sometimes It Happens</a></em>, Lauren Barnholdt (312 pages) &#8211; It&#8217;s the first day of senior year, and Hannah gets to start fresh after her boyfriend dumped her on the last day of junior year. But things are going to go really awry because over summer Hannah has fallen for her friend Ava&#8217;s boyfriend, <em>and Ava knows</em>.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>I really should </em>not <em>be so scared</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1049541"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781416979203/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" />Dreams of Significant Girls</a></em>, Cristina Garcia (238 pages) &#8211; Set in the 1970s. Shirin is an Iranian princess, Ingrid is German-Canadian, and Vivien is a Cuban-Jewish girl from New York City. The three girls meet at a Swiss boarding school where they spend three consecutive summers becoming friends. It sounds idyllic, but they all have challenges to face and things to learn about love, hate, friends, and family expectations.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>Sometime I think my parents sent me to Switzerland because they didn&#8217;t want me around</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048845">Bloodlines</a></em>, Richelle Mead (421 pages) &#8211; the first in a new series set in the <em>Vampire Academy</em> world, promising new and more familiar characters. Read about the new series <a href="http://www.richellemead.com/books/bloodlines.htm">here</a>.</p>
<p><small>First sentences: <em>I couldn&#8217;t breathe. There was a hand covering my mouth and another shaking my shoulder, startling me out of a heavy sleep</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1047408"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385610964/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="69" height="100" />The Deserter</a></em>, Peadar O Guilin (441 pages) &#8211; the second in the <em>Bone World</em> trilogy, after <em>The Inferior</em>. There are two worlds, the stone-age Surface, and the hi-tech Roof above. Stopmouth, cannibal, and resident of the Surface must leave his world in search of Indrani, the woman he loves, as she&#8217;s the only one who knows how to save Surface. But he&#8217;s hunted by Roof agents, with their gadgetry and technology: can he prevail and save his world?</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>They&#8217;re hunting for Indrani, combing the Roof, projecting her picture everywhere</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1047388"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780857530202/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="62" height="100" />Blood Magic</a></em>, Tessa Gratton (405 pages) &#8211; &#8220;Silla is damaged and lost since the death of her parents. Nick is the new boy in town with a chilling past of his own. A mysterious spell book steeped in blood magic will bind Silla and Nick together. But at what cost?&#8221; (Book cover).</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>It is impossible to know who you really are until you spend time alone in a cemetery</em>.</small></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Here&#8217;s the top ten most reserved young adult items, as of now, the second week of September. They&#8217;re a melting pot of what&#8217;s hot in young adult fiction: spies, thrillers, dystopias, angels, aliens, action, romance, fantasy, exclusive academies, movie and tv-show adaptations. Enjoy!
1. People&#8217;s Republic, Robert Muchamore [up 5]
2. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins [no change]
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<p>Here&#8217;s the top ten most reserved young adult items, as of now, the second week of September. They&#8217;re a melting pot of what&#8217;s hot in young adult fiction: spies, <img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780375856112/mc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="135" height="200" />thrillers, dystopias, angels, aliens, action, romance, fantasy, exclusive academies, movie and tv-show adaptations. Enjoy!</p>
<p>1. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048021">People&#8217;s Republic</a></em>, Robert Muchamore <strong>[up 5]<br />
</strong>2. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=783850">The Hunger Games</a></em>, Suzanne Collins <strong>[no change]</strong><br />
3. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1034597">Passion</a></em>, Lauren Kate <strong>[down 2]<br />
</strong>4. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048984">Inheritance</a></em>, Christopher Paolini <strong>[new]</strong><br />
5. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048834">The Power of Six</a></em>, Pittacus Lore <strong>[up 5]<br />
</strong>6. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=817200">Mockingjay</a></em>, Suzanne Collins <strong>[up 3]<br />
</strong>7. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048993">Silence</a></em>, Becca Fitzpatrick <strong>[new]<br />
</strong>8. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=750348">Pretty Little Liars</a></em>, Sara Shepard <strong>[down 4]</strong><br />
9. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=791325">Catching Fire</a></em>, Suzanne Collins <strong>[no change]<br />
</strong>10. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1048845">Bloodlines</a></em>, Richelle Mead <strong>[new]</strong></p>
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		<title>Trailer Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://www.wcl.govt.nz/blogs/teens/index.php/2011/05/18/trailer-wednesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 00:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
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I was away yesterday, so here&#8217;s Trailer Tuesday on a Wednesday. It&#8217;s a good one! The new teaser for Tintin : The Secret of the Unicorn has been released, and doesn&#8217;t it look goooooooood

It&#8217;s in 3D, as usual, but I place my faith in Spielberg&#8217;s (and Peter Jackson&#8217;s!) immensely talented hands.
Here&#8217;s a new teaser for [...]]]></description>
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<p>I was away yesterday, so here&#8217;s Trailer Tuesday on a Wednesday. It&#8217;s a good one! The new teaser for <em>Tintin : The Secret of the Unicorn </em>has been released, and doesn&#8217;t it look goooooooood</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s in 3D, as usual, but I place my faith in Spielberg&#8217;s (and Peter Jackson&#8217;s!) immensely talented hands.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a new teaser for <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/blogs/teens/index.php/2011/02/08/trailer-tuesday-4/">Super 8</a></em>, which we&#8217;ve mention before. It&#8217;s mostly people screaming! And some explosions.</p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s a comedy called <em>Zookeeper</em>. I don&#8217;t know how I feel about talking animals. It&#8217;s kind of weird? Unless they&#8217;re animated, then it&#8217;s not <em>too </em>chilling.</p>
<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="560" height="349" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F6fcjdh0L_I?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F6fcjdh0L_I?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p>
<p>I wonder if Snowy talks in the Tintin movie?</p>
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		<title>New Books</title>
		<link>http://www.wcl.govt.nz/blogs/teens/index.php/2011/04/13/new-books-34/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grimm</dc:creator>
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Subject Seven, James A Moore (327 pages) &#8211; Subject Seven is an as-yet not activated lethal assassin in the body of a teenager. When he escapes from his lab intent on finding others of his kind and destroying their creators action ensues! And lots of it!
First sentence: The quiet of the compound was complete.
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<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1035270"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://content.tlcdelivers.com/zuul/servlet/Zuul?&amp;customerid=2540&amp;requesttype=bookjacket-sm&amp;existsonly=true&amp;isbn=1595143041&amp;button=true" alt="" width="66" height="100" />Subject Seven</a></em>, James A Moore (327 pages) &#8211; Subject Seven is an as-yet not activated lethal assassin in the body of a teenager. When he escapes from his lab intent on finding others of his kind and destroying their creators action ensues! And lots of it!</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>The quiet of the compound was complete</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1038256"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://content.tlcdelivers.com/zuul/servlet/Zuul?&amp;customerid=2540&amp;requesttype=bookjacket-sm&amp;existsonly=true&amp;isbn=0734411855&amp;button=true" alt="" width="65" height="100" />Enticed</a></em>, Jessica Shrivington (413 pages) &#8211; the sequel to <em>Embrace</em>, with <em>Emblaze</em> coming soon. In which Violet Eden, Grigori, must protect humans from exiled angels, a quest that takes her to the Sacred Mountains of Jordan in search of &#8220;the one thing that could forever tilt the balance of power&#8221; (back cover).</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>The angel had been ordered to make his choice</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1038259"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://content.tlcdelivers.com/zuul/servlet/Zuul?&amp;customerid=2540&amp;requesttype=bookjacket-sm&amp;existsonly=true&amp;isbn=9781444900842&amp;button=true" alt="" width="64" height="100" />Running in Heels</a></em>, Helen Bailey (312 pages) -  A riches-to-rags story in which Daisy finds her life takes a dive after her father is sent to jail for corruption &#8211; now she lives above a kebab shop and is getting a hard time from the school bully. We&#8217;re rooting for you Daisy!</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>Even if I hadn&#8217;t woken up this morning to find fourteen missed calls, seven </em>Where the hell are you when I need you? <em>texts and one tearful voice mail on my iPhone saying something totally terrible had <small>happened and to get my bony butt into town, like, yesterday, as I hurry along the pavement at our Starbucks rendezvous I can immediately tell from Mia&#8217;s body language she&#8217;s super-stressed</small></em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1034637"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://content.tlcdelivers.com/zuul/servlet/Zuul?&amp;customerid=2540&amp;requesttype=bookjacket-sm&amp;existsonly=true&amp;isbn=0761362126&amp;button=true" alt="" width="71" height="100" />The Freak Observer</a></em>, Blythe Woolston (201 pages) &#8211; Loa&#8217;s life is turned upside down by the death of her younger sister. &#8220;A starling debut about death, life, astrophysics, and finding beauty in chaos&#8221; (book cover &#8211; the picture does appear to be a heart)</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>Your beloved physics teacher, Mr Banacek, likes to sleep on a bed of nails</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1037260"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://content.tlcdelivers.com/zuul/servlet/Zuul?&amp;customerid=2540&amp;requesttype=bookjacket-sm&amp;existsonly=true&amp;isbn=0141325887&amp;button=true" alt="" width="64" height="100" />Dark Goddess</a></em>, Sarwat Chadda (371 pages) &#8211; the sequel to <em>Devil&#8217;s Kiss</em>. Billi SanGreal, Knight Templar, rescues a girl from a werewolf attack, to discover she is no ordinary girl. Not only are the werewolves after her, the Dark Goddess also wants her as a sacrifice, to harness her powers. Can Billi protect the girl and save the world?</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>The Rottweiler&#8217;s head lay in a bush, just off the snow-sprinkled path</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1035263"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://content.tlcdelivers.com/zuul/servlet/Zuul?&amp;customerid=2540&amp;requesttype=bookjacket-sm&amp;existsonly=true&amp;isbn=0547196202&amp;button=true" alt="" width="66" height="100" />Trickster&#8217;s Girl</a></em>, Hilari Bell (281 pages) &#8211; a novel in the paranormal romance/thriller genre, but with an environmental twist. The world is dying, and Kelsa must help Raven (gorgeous, but maybe crazy? or maybe he is a mythological creature, as he says) pull it back from the brink, even if this means endangering herself.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>Raven had spent too long on the hunt</em>.</small></p>
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		<title>Most Wanted: April 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.wcl.govt.nz/blogs/teens/index.php/2011/04/08/most-wanted-april-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grimm</dc:creator>
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Here they are, the Most Wanted for April 2011, resplendant and somewhat belated.
1. City of Fallen Angels, Cassandra Clare [no change]
2. Angel, James Patterson [no change]
3. I Am Number Four, Pittacus Lore [new]
4. Passion, Lauren Kate [up 6]
5. Grey Wolves, Robert Muchamore [down 1]
6. Glee: The Music: Volume 5 [new]
7. The Third Day, The Frost, [...]]]></description>
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<p>Here they are, the Most Wanted for April 2011, resplendant and somewhat belated.</p>
<p><img style="float: right" title="book cover courtesy of Syndetics" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781442403543/mc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="132" height="200" />1. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1033356">City of Fallen Angels</a></em>, Cassandra Clare <strong>[no change]<br />
</strong>2. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1031938">Angel</a></em>, James Patterson <strong>[no change]<br />
</strong>3. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=825729">I Am Number Four</a></em>, Pittacus Lore <strong>[new]<br />
</strong>4. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1034597">Passion</a></em>, Lauren Kate <strong>[up 6]</strong><br />
5. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1033377">Grey Wolves</a></em>, Robert Muchamore <strong>[down 1]<br />
</strong>6. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1039243">Glee: The Music: Volume 5</a></em> <strong>[new]</strong><br />
7. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=509147">The Third Day, The Frost</a></em>, John Marsden <strong>[no change]<br />
</strong>8. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1033866">Plague</a></em>, Michael Grant <strong>[new]</strong><br />
8. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=817200">Mockingjay</a></em>, Suzanne Collins <strong>[no change]</strong><br />
10. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=822364">Midnight</a></em>, L J Smith <strong>[new]</strong><br />
10. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=791325">Catching Fire</a></em>, Suzanne Collins <strong>[no change]</strong><br />
10. <em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=824329">Awakened</a></em>, P C and Kristin Cast <strong>[down 5]</strong></p>
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		<title>More New Books</title>
		<link>http://www.wcl.govt.nz/blogs/teens/index.php/2011/04/05/more-new-books-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grimm</dc:creator>
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Rose Sees Red, Cecil Castellucci (197 pages) &#8211; It is 1982 in New York and Rose is a ballet dancer who attends the High School of Performing Arts. Yrena is Rose&#8217;s neighbour, a visiting Russian dancer who, due to the Cold War between USSR and the United States, is all but a prisoner in her [...]]]></description>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1037940"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780545060790/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" />Rose Sees Red</a></em>, Cecil Castellucci (197 pages) &#8211; It is 1982 in New York and Rose is a ballet dancer who attends the High School of Performing Arts. Yrena is Rose&#8217;s neighbour, a visiting Russian dancer who, due to the Cold War between USSR and the United States, is all but a prisoner in her apartment. One night Yrena, intent on experiencing New York life, escapes through Rose&#8217;s apartment window, and the two hit the town for a wild night of adventure.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>I was black inside so I took everything black</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1035308"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781596436145/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" />The Children of the Lost</a></em>, David Whitley (357 pages) &#8211; the second book in the Agora trilogy that began with <em>The Midnight Charter</em>. Mark and Lily are exiled from the city of Agora, and find refuge in a small nearby village. Lily is happy, but Mark longs to return to Agora to take revenge and find answers.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>Gradually, Lily became aware that she was being watched</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1035314"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062004901/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" />Kick</a></em>, Walter Dean Myers and Ross Workman (197 pages) &#8211; Ross Workman wrote to Walter Dean Myers saying he was a fan of his books and Walter Dean Myers replied saying let&#8217;s write a book together, so they did. True story. <em>Kick </em>is about a troubled boy who&#8217;s an excellent football (soccer) player, on his way to the state cup final, until he ends up in jail. Can he and his mentor, a policeman called Sergeant Brown, turn his life around?</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>Bill Kelly and I had been friends since we played high school basketball together</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1031511"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780330509534/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="65" height="100" />I Was Jane Austen&#8217;s Best Friend</a></em>, Cora Harrison (342 pages) &#8211; Jenny Cooper is Jane&#8217;s cousin, and goes to live with the Austens, which is an education in the world of balls, beautiful dresses, turns about the room, gossip, and other such things. When she (Jenny) falls in love, Jane is there to help her out.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>It&#8217;s a terrible thing to write: Jane looks like she could die &#8211; but it&#8217;s even worse to have the thought jumping into your mind every few minutes</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1037047"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781416991762/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" />Pathfinder</a></em>, Orson Scott Card (657 pages) &#8211; Rigg is able to see into people&#8217;s paths, a secret he shares only with his father. When his father dies, Rigg learns that he&#8217;s been keeping a whole lot of other secrets, about Rigg and his family. Rigg has other powers&#8230;</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>Rigg and Father usually set the traps together, because it was Rigg who had the knack of seeing the paths that the animals they wanted were still using</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1036559"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780575095410/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="63" height="100" />Firespell</a></em>, Chloe Neill (278 pages) &#8211; Lily is a new girl at an exclusive academy and she doesn&#8217;t fit in and has no friends apart from her roommate Scout. When she discovers that Scout has magical powers and protects the city from supernatural monsters, Lily is keen to help, but can she, if she has no powers of her own?</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>They were gathered around a conference table in a high-rise, eight men and women, no one under the age of sixty-five, all of them wealthy beyond measure</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1031534"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781406315981/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="65" height="100" />The Body at the Tower</a></em>, Y S Lee (344 pages) &#8211; the second book in the <em>Agency </em>Victorian detective series (the first is <em>A Spy in the House</em>). Mary Quinn, under cover, investigates the mysterious scandals surrounding the building of the Houses of Parliament, but there are distractions (suspicious workmates, past secrets, and the return of James Easton).</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>A sobbing man huddles on a narrow ledge, clawing at his eyes to shield them from the horror far below</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1035310"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780061756474/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" />The Doomsday Box</a></em>, Herbie Brennan (328 pages) &#8211; a <em>Shadow Project </em>book. Time travel is possible, trouble is someone (secret codename Cobra) has used it to transport the black plague into the 21st Century. The supernatural teen spies of the Shadow Project must avert disaster, while also averting their own disaster, on the run from the KGB in Moscow in the 1960s.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>Opal fastened the strap around her ankle and stood up to admire her new shoes</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1034633"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780763643003/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="70" height="100" />Zora and Me</a></em>, Victoria Bond and T R Simon (170 pages) &#8211; based on events in the life of author <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston">Zora Neale Hurston</a>. When a young man&#8217;s body is found on train tracks in a small Florida town Zora thinks she knows who did it, so she and her friends set out to prove her theory and search for the truth. Narrated by Zora&#8217;s best friend Carrie, hence the title.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>It&#8217;s funny how you can be in a story but not realise until the end that you were in one</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1035166"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781606840795/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="66" height="100" />The False Princess</a></em>, Eilis O&#8217;Neal (319 pages) &#8211; Nalia believes herself to be princess of Thorvaldor, but discovers she&#8217;s actually a stand in. She&#8217;s cast out, called Sinda, and sent to live with her unwelcoming aunt in a village where she (Sinda) learns she has magic, which is Sinda&#8217;s ticket out, albeit a dangerous ticket. This one is called &#8220;A dazzling first novel&#8221; and &#8220;an engrossing fantasy full of mystery, action, and romance&#8221;, which sounds great.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>The day they came to tell me, I was in one of the gardens with Kiernan, trying to decipher a three-hundred-year-old map of the palace grounds</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1037995"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781416950097/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="70" height="100" />Fallout</a></em>, Ellen Hopkins (663 pages) &#8211; the companion to <em>Crank</em> and <em>Glass</em>. About Kristina&#8217;s three oldest children, who must climb out from under their mother&#8217;s meth addiction and the hold it has over the family. Novel in verse form.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>That life was good / before she / met / the monster, / but those page flips / went down before / our collective / cognition</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1036155"><img class="alignright" style="float: right" title="book cover" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781906427566/sc.gif&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=&amp;client=wellingtoncl" alt="" width="64" height="100" />Accomplice</a></em>, Eireann  Corrigan (259 pages) &#8211; Two friends stage a kidnapping as a joke and in order to gain notoreity. Of course this is going to be a very bad idea indeed.</p>
<p><small>First sentence: <em>The picture they usually use is one from the Activities spread of the yearbook</em>.</small></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=bid&amp;terms=1039858">Pride</a></em>, Robin Wasserman (231 pages) &#8211; one in the <em>Seven Deadly Sins </em>series, and we have the <a href="http://www.wcl.govt.nz/tools/opac-link/?search=author&amp;terms=wasserman,%20robin">complete set</a>.</p>
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