Best Books You Haven't Read

A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran
If Neil Gaiman - author of Sandman - says something is good, you know you've got to read it, right? This book's lush artwork and complex storyline are enough to keep any Sandman fan happy. Two teenage siblings with psychic powers, Liana and Jason, escape from a psych ward planning to finally live their own lives. They soon find themselves running from powerful strangers, however, and Jason is captured. Why? Their father was an alien from a distant planet and his children have inherited his psychic gifts. Liana and Jason's powers are so strong that they could overturn the ruling class on their father's native planet. Now two groups of aliens are after them, one trying to kill them and the other plotting to use their powers in a revolution. Part science fiction, part fantasy, with amazing storytelling - this is a must read.


The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

How far would you go to save someone you love?


All We Know of Heaven by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Bridget Flannery and Maureen O'Malley have been BFFs since forever. Then a brief moment of inattention on an icy road leaves one girl dead and the other in a coma, battered beyond recognition. Family and friends mourn one friend's loss and pray for the other's recovery. Then the doctors discover they have made a terrible mistake. The girl who lived is the one who everyone thought had died.

Based on a true case of mistaken identity, All We Know of Heaven is a universal story that no one can read unmoved: a drama of ordinary people caught up in an unimaginable tragedy and of the healing power of hope and love.

Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce
The servant girl Aeriel must choose between destroying her vampire master for his evil deeds or saving him for the sake of his beauty and the spark of goodness she has seen in him.

Dead Connection by Charlie Price
A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her.

Earthian by Yun Kouga (author of Loveless)
Angels are among us. They are scattered across the globe, living in our neighborhoods, observing humanity - the Earthian - in crisis. Chihaya and Kagetsuya have known each other since their days at school. They are friends . . . and possibly more. These two angels roam the world, compiling lists of the positive and negative traits of humanity. Will the angels allows the Earthians to survive? Or are they doomed?

Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a "living impaired" boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.

Hero by Perry Moore
The last thing in the world Thom Creed wants is to add to his father's pain, so he keeps secrets. Like that he has special powers. And that he's been asked to join the League - the very organization of superheroes that spurned his dad. But the most painful secret of all is one Thom can barely face himself: he's gay.

But becoming a member of the League opens up a new world to Thom. There, he connects with a misfit group of aspiring heroes, including Scarlett, who can control fire but not her anger; Typhoid Larry, who can make anyone sick with his touch; and Ruth, a wise old broad who can see the future. Like Thom, these heroes have things to hide; but they will have to learn to trust one another when they uncover a deadly conspiracy within the League.

To survive, Thom will face challenges he never imagined. To find happiness, he'll have to come to terms with his father's past and discover the kind of hero he really wants to be.

Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
"I will tell you . . . a story of magic and love, of daring and death, and one to comfort your heart. It will be the truest story I have ever told. Now listen, and tell me if it is not so."

Keturah Reeve is a beautiful young woman of sixteen who lives with her grandmother in a cottage near the forest owned by Lord Temsland. Keturah is renowned in the village for her captivating storytelling, and this beautifully woven novel is a response to a request from Keturah's eager audience for yet another of her fascinating tales. She tells of her experience of being lost in the forest, her eventual meeting with a dark figure on horseback who is Lord Death and her bargaining with him for her life - and for the lives of the villagers who are threatened by an onset of the plague.

Luna by Julie Anne Peters
Fifteen-year-old Regan's life, which has always revolved around keeping her older brother Liam's transsexuality a secret, changes when Liam decides to start the process of "transitioning" by first telling his family and friends that he is a girl who was born in a boy's body.


Riddle-Master: The Complete Trilogy by Patricia McKillip
For over twenty years, Patricia A. McKillip has captured the hearts and imaginations of thousands of readers. And although her renowned Riddle-Master trilogy (The Riddle-Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, and Harpist in the Wind) has been long out of print, it is considered her most enduring and beloved work. Now it is collected in one volume for the first time - the epic journeys of a young prince in a strange land, where wizards have long since vanished . . . but where magic is waiting to be reborn.


Shadow Star by Mohiro Kitoh
From a dying planet shall come the children of light . . . While on vacation on a small island, young Shiina Tamai dives under the water near an old shrine and discovers an unearthly starfish-like creature. She nearly drowns but is rescued by the silent, wide-eyed little animal, who Shiina befriends and names Hoshimaru. To Shiina's surprise and delight, the creature changes shape, lets Shiina stand on him, and the two fly off into the clouds. But what looks to be a young girl`s ultimate fantasy soon takes a darker turn as Shiina and Hoshimaru become entangled in a struggle between rival extraterrestrial factions who battle in the skies upon huge alien beasts called Shadow Dragons, with the fate of Earth hanging in the balance.