Trust Me, I'm Lying by Mary Elizabeth Summer

A book review by Madeline Soucie

Julep Dupree is a con artist. It's how she pays her tuition at St. Agatha's, the private school she attends. She runs little jobs for the students.

       

When she comes home one day to a trashed apartment and her father missing, things take a turn for the worst. Add to her stress, Tyler Richland -- a senior and the guy every girl wants.  Tyler takes an interest in Julep and wants to help her in any way possible. Following a trail of secrets and clues and stalkers won't be easy, but when is life ever easy.

       

Julep will soon find that she may be in over her head this time and that no amount of tricks will help her.

Find it in APL TEEN New Books YA FIC Summer, M.

The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima

  A book review by Madeline Soucie

            

In this first book, Fellsmarch is one of seven realms ruled by kings and queens, at war or held together by treaties. Chima is a great fantasy writer and I highly recommend her. If anyone has read the heir chronicles try this new series.

       

Hans Alister had grown up on the streets, a former thief, and only wants to be able to support his mother and sister. No matter what he does, he can't do enough. The silver cuffs he wears on his wrists are the only things he could sell, but they've been stuck on him since birth.

       

One day while hunting with his friend, Dancer, Hans runs into a couple of wizards and ends up with an old amulet that once belonged to the demon king -- an old wizard so powerful he almost destroyed the world a millennium ago. An amulet, Hans soon discovers, that isn't worth its trouble.

       

Princess Raisa is the heir to the Fells. She is returning after spending three years in the mountains cooped up in the castle like a bird in a cage on display with the clans she hates. She wants to rule her own life and be a great ruler like the first queen Hanalea -- the warrior queen. Sadly her mother has other plans, one that includes a marriage to a suitor that will break an ancient agreement and spark a war.

This is book 1 in the Seven Realms series.

Find it in APL TEEN Fiction YA FIC Chima, C.

The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson

 A book review by Madeline Soucie

               

Haley has spent the second half of her life on the road with her dad, Andy, trucking from place to place and learning as she went. Then her dad decides to move back to the town where he grew up so that Haley can have a normal senior year and prepare for college and the rest of her life.

But her dad's past haunts him and Haley can't do anything about it but watch. She struggles to fit in and get by. Soon the past will come out for all to see.

      

When Finn comes into the picture -- a sweet boy who cares about Haley -- he makes her think about the future for the first time in a way she has never been able to see it.

Find it in APL TEEN Fiction YA FIC Anderson, L.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

A book review by Madeline Soucie

Dante and Aristotle (Ari) become friends the summer of their 15th year over swimming lessons. Dante is very open, into drawing and poetry and introduces Ari to poetry. Ari is quiet and angry about a brother in jail he can barely remember and no one will talk about.

    

As Ari and Dante spend the summer hanging out, they will learn new things and Ari will come to terms with his feelings and things about his brother's past that he didn't know will be revealed.

Find it in APL TEEN Fiction YA FIC Saenz, B.