Category: Young Adult (Age 12+)

Bitten by Danyelle Leafty

Fourteen-year-old Cherrie Wilding stopped believing in fairies after her Grams had a stroke that left her a silent, empty stranger. But whether she believes in them or not, one of them bit her, and now the venom is spreading through her system and causing  . . . complications. Like an allergy to iron and a craving for milk.

It turns out that fairy venom has the power to turn mortals into small, winged versions of themselves. And it gets better. Grams’s stroke was the result of her light–her fairy soul–being stolen. The fairy who bit Cherrie demands her to help steal Grams’s light back.

As much as Cherrie wants to save Grams, her need to protect her older brother from the fairies and the rest of the real world wins out. Who knows what lurks in a world populated by winged menaces? But when the fairy talks Cherrie’s brother into going to the fairy realm, Cherrie mounts a rescue attempt to save him. To her surprise, it’s not her brother who needs rescuing–it’s the fairies. Someone is stealing their lights and imprisoning them, and it’s up to Cherrie and her brother to free them. But saving the fairies, keeping her brother safe, and returning home requires the help of the Phoenix. And the price for his aid doesn’t come cheap. If Cherrie wants to succeed, she must be willing to part with her greatest possession: her heart.

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Title: Bitten (A Novel of Faerie)

Author: Danyelle Leafty

Publisher: Self

Release Date: April 27, 2012

ISBN: 978-1475268126

Size: 388 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA Fantasy


Knee Deep by Jolene Perry

Shawn is the guy Ronnie Bird promised her life to at the age of fourteen. He’s her soul mate. He’s more uptight every day, but it’s not his fault. His family life is stressful, and she’s adding to it. She just needs to be more understanding, and he’ll start to be the boy she fell in love with. She won’t give up on someone she’s loved for so long.

Luke is her best friend, and the guy she hangs with to watch girlie movies in her large blanketopias. He’s the guy she can confide in before she even goes to her girlfriends, and the guy who she’s playing opposite in Romeo and Juliet. Now her chest flutters every time he gets too close. This is new. Is Ronnie falling for him? Or is Juliet? The lines are getting blurry, but leaving one guy for another is not something that a girl like Ronnie does.

Shawn’s outbursts are starting to give her bruises, and Luke’s heart breaks as Ronnie remains torn. While her thoughts and feelings swirl around the lines between friendship and forever, she’s about to lose them both.

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Title: Knee Deep

Author: Jolene Perry

Publisher: Tribute Books

Release Date: April 25, 2012

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Size: eBook

Genre: Young Adult


ExtraNormal by Suze Reese

I should have protested. Instead, I inhaled again, deeply.

He . . . he loved me. That was it. Warm and soothing love pulsed fiercely from his every pore. Not the kind of proud love my parents had for me. Nothing like the deep friendship Geery and I shared. And certainly nothing like the vile lust of other human males. This was something new. Something profound.

I closed my eyes and drank in his affection as if these were my very first breaths.

Mira Johns is pretty much like any other teenage girl.

Except that she knows how to harness electro-magnetic energy to communicate without words.

And she’s really, really far from home.

Her assignment as an emissary to Earth sounds fairly simple: blend in, observe, and stay away from the planet’s primitive males. But after she finds one mysterious boy too irresistible for stupid rules, she realizes the real reason she’s supposed to keep her distance: mates from her world can die if separated.

A series of serious accidents make it clear that someone wants to force her return. Mira decides her only hope is to uncover the truth to why she, the most mediocre of candidates, was actually chosen for this assignment—before the agency discovers her secret and sends her back home.

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Title: ExtraNormal

Author: Suze Reese

Publisher: Valarian Press

Release Date: April 22, 2012

ISBN: 978-0985133504

Size: 332 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal


Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Shaw Wolf

I can still see his face, the way he tilted his head. How excited he was for me to see the gift. The pain spreads from the back of my head, cuts across my right temple and curls around the smaller scar above my eye.

I’m saving something special to give you on your birthday.

My whole head throbs.

It hurts too much to remember.

Allie can’t remember the night her boyfriend, Trip died.

She knows they were driving on the cliff road.

That Trip lost control.

That she woke up later broken and bruised.

That somehow, she survived.

Allie lost everything the night her boyfriend, Trip, died in a horrible car accident—including her memory of the event. As their small town mourns his death, Allie is afraid to remember because doing so means delving into what she’s kept hidden for so long: the horrible reality of their abusive relationship.

When the police reopen the investigation, it casts suspicion on Allie and her best friend, Blake, especially as their budding romance raises eyebrows around town. Allie knows she must tell the truth. Can she reach deep enough to remember that night so she can finally break free?

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Title: Breaking Beautiful

Author: Jennifer Shaw Wolf

Publisher: Walker Childrens

Release Date: April 24, 2012

ISBN: 978-0802723529

Size: 368 pages, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult


Oldsoul by Dan Haring

Jason Gouvas doesn’t want to believe he has special abilities or that he’s an Oldsoul—a vessel for the souls of people who have passed away, but the dead girl in his mind can be very persuasive.

Her name is Erin, and through her Jason is able to access the knowledge and skills of the souls within him.

And with a group of power-hungry immortals bent on destroying the Oldsouls and overthrowing humanity, he’s going to need them all.

 

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Title: Oldsoul

Author: Dan Haring

Publisher: Pendrell Publishing

Release Date: April 24, 2012

ISBN: 978-0983558019

Size: 323 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal/Fantasy


Cobble Cavern by Erik Olsen

“What was that?” Pilt asked in alarm.

“Whatever it is, it’s coming our way, and fast!” Flin said. He searched futilely for a nearby refuge.

Another screeching hiss rose from below.

Flin took the torch and held it out in front of him. “I can see something moving down there!” he said, panic thick in his voice.

What starts out to be a fun field trip to Ireland for Flin and his school debate team turns into a life changing adventure when their bus ends up in an earthquake. Flin and his teammates get swallowed deep into the earth and become trapped under the ocean inside a clear dome where they discover an unknown civilization. Now they must fight their way back to the surface if they ever want to see home again. Join Flin and his classmates on a journey of a lifetime in this thrilling adventure story.

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Title: Cobble Cavern (Flin’s Destiny #1)

Author: Erik Olsen

Publisher: Sweetwater/CFI

Release Date: April 10, 2012 (originally self-published in 2010)

ISBN: 978-1462110094

Size: 304 pages, 5.5 x 8, hardcover

Genre: Middle Grade/YA Fantasy


A Royal Elf of Abalon by Anna del C. Dye

The deep relationship between Amaria, the princess of Abalon, and Marken, the chancellor’s son, comes to a halting stop after their kingdom is almost annihilated. However, death isn’t the only thing this battle brings. Elfs come to their rescue and, as a souvenir, take the princess home with them.

Blinded by fury, the overprotecting queen orders the extermination of the mighty elfs. Her captains know they can never win, so they are pleased when Amaria intervenes so desperately that she loses her mother. The unprepared princess is left to care for a kingdom that will demand her true love.

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Title: A Royal Elf of Abalon

Author: Anna del C. Dye

Publisher: CreateSpace

Release Date: April 17, 2012

ISBN: 978-1475216318

Size: 460 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: Fantasy

Series: The Elf and the Princess (bk 1), Trouble in the Elf City (bk 2), Elfs in a Conquered Realm (bk 3), Curse of the Elfs (bk 4)


Étude by Melinda R. Morgan

The cold rain drummed the memory of the horrible crash into my mind—Mom dead, my hand ruined. Then a year later, coming out of a coma to realize my full-ride scholarship was gone and I’d never play the piano again. But the worst of it was nobody believed me—the voices, someone holding me in the mangled car, Mom being ripped away from me.

So here I am in Anderson, Wyoming, living with Uncle Connor while Dad’s on assignment in Europe. School started and I met Jonathan, amazingly handsome Jonathan. He made me feel like life was beginning again—until I discovered that Mom’s death wasn’t an accident, that a supernatural realm was trying to draw me into a coterie hundreds of years old, and that my friend Eric wanted to destroy me.

Not the easiest way to begin my senior year..

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Title: Étude

Author: Melinda R. Morgan

Publisher: Silverton House Publishing

Release Date: April 2, 2012

ISBN: 978-1600650109

Size: 456 pages, 5.5×8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal


Deep Blue Secret by Christie Anderson

California teen Sadie James thinks her life couldn’t get any better. She has great friends, an energetic mother she adores, and the beach practically in her own backyard. But her carefree life is turned upside down when she’s rescued by a mysterious and strangely familiar boy who won’t even tell her his name.

Each time the boy appears, Sadie’s unexplainable attraction to him deepens along with her need to unravel his secrets. The boy is there to protect her, but as wonderful and exciting as it might be to have an irresistible boy with crystal green eyes protecting her every move, every minute of the day . . . why does Sadie need one?

As Sadie finds answers, she realizes her life isn’t as perfect as she thought. Not only is she caught in a world of dangerous secret agents she never knew existed, but it turns out her true identity may be the greatest secret of all.

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Title: Deep Blue Secret

Author: Christie Anderson

Publisher: CreateSpace/Self

Release Date: April 14, 2012

ISBN: 978-1463768591

Size: 351 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal


Fire Gate by Pendragon Inman

In a world where a Mystic’s torn flesh is worth more than six month’s wages and death-auctions are whispered about in every Okoru city, seventeen-year-old Mystic twins, Wyan and Lor, are determined to change it all—and survive.

Despite straining beyond his physical limits (not to mention his all ready thin patience), Wyan never inherited his Mystic abilities, and so mastery of Lor’s element would mean sanctuary for both of them. But when Lor’s plan unravels, Wyan is forced to take action on his own before the last of their kind—and his family—are sold to their graves.

Within a land of unforgiving Fire and Ice, Wyan must find the one ally and master-warrior he never would have trusted before: himself.

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Title: Fire Gate (Shenehah Saga, book 1)

Author: Pendragon Inman

Publisher: Self

Release Date: April 9, 2012

ISBN: 978-1468038019

Size: 356 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Dystopian


Lightning Tree by Sarah Dunster

The truth lies locked inside her dreams.

After surviving the tragic deaths of her parents and her baby sister and a harrowing trek across the plains to Utah, it s no surprise that Maggie’s nights are plagued by nightmares.

But after years of harsh treatment by her foster family and memories that seem to hint at an unthinkable crime, Maggie is forced to strike out on her own to separate the facts from the lies.

 

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Title: Lightning Tree

Author: Sarah Dunster

Publisher: Bonneville Books/Cedar Fort

Release Date: April 10, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599559599

Size: 384 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Historical


The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen

In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king’s long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. Sage knows that Conner’s motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a sword’s point — he must be chosen to play the prince or he will certainly be killed. But Sage’s rivals have their own agendas as well.

As Sage moves from a rundown orphanage to Conner’s sumptuous palace, layer upon layer of treachery and deceit unfold, until finally, a truth is revealed that, in the end, may very well prove more dangerous than all of the lies taken together.

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Title: The False Prince

Author: Jennifer A. Nielsen

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Release Date: April 1, 2012

ISBN: 978-0545284134

Size: 352 pages, 6×8, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy


Ethos: Morning Star by Desiree Finkbeiner

When a mysterious stranger interrupts Brianna’s mundane routine, her eyes are opened to the dark underbelly of reality—immortal rogues, ancient conspiracies, prophetic revelations, savage tribes, mammoth dragonflies.

She’s thrust into a race for her life when Kalen, a warrior from Ethos, discovers that she is harboring a secret… a secret that he’d give his life to protect. There’s just one little problem—they are tempted by a forbidden romance, which threatens to compromise a divinely appointed mission.

They are faced with a choice—love eternal, or the end of the world.

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Title: Ethos: Morning Star

Author: Desiree Finkbeiner

Publisher: Hydra Publications

Release Date: March 28, 2012

ASIN: B007PSUV2W

Size: 426 pages, eBook

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance


Barely Alive by Bonnie R. Paulson

In twelve weeks, seventeen-year-old Paul Ledger will be dead.

At least he hopes so.

Paul is trapped in the worst cult the United States has ever seen. Infected with a zombie virus, symptoms culminate in a dead body but thriving mind over a course of twelve weeks. If he doesn’t earn the final death he longs for, he’ll be chained in a basement facility, moaning for human flesh for eternity.

Sent out to kidnap girls for food, toys, or whatever the boss wants, Paul nabs Heather McCain. He’s not a fan of humans as a general rule, but even his graying skin and insatiable hunger for her flesh don’t stop her from reaching out to him. Give him the second chance he doesn’t know he needs.

Overcome by his cravings, Paul bites her delectable skin. Amazingly, she doesn’t develop the zombie-like side effects. When the boss discovers Heather’s immunity, he gives Paul an ultimatum—deliver up Heather and her family to continue the research or watch as Paul’s brother suffers the zombie fate.

Paul has a chance to endure his short zombie existence knowing his brother is safe. But he’ll have to sacrifice Heather to do it.

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Title: Barely Alive

Author: Bonnie R. Paulson

Publisher: CreateSpace/Self

Release Date: March 26, 2012

ISBN: 978-1475078480

Size: 290 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal


Protected by Cindy M. Hogan

She has the guy.

The terrorists have been taken care of.

She has a shot at becoming popular.

Life is great!

Until they find her.

Now she must run and leave behind everything she knows, including herself.

Protected is the sequel to Watched: Murder was Just the Beginning.

 

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Title: Protected

Author: Cindy M. Hogan

Publisher: O’Neal Publishing

Release Date: March 24, 2012

ISBN: 978-0985131807

Size: 341 pages, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Suspense

Series: Watched (Book 1)


Defenders of the Covenant by Angie Lofthouse

Hannah and her friends have been warned about the danger lurking outside of their secret refuge from the alien invaders who devastated the Earth years before. Their leaders have raised them in the Latter-day Saint faith, teaching them to trust God, but when McKenzie and her rebellious boyfriend, Jeremy, decide to run away, Hannah and Derek follow, determined to bring their friends home.

Once outside, the four teens soon realize they cannot return to the refuge without endangering everyone there. Captured, enslaved, and separated, Hannah, Derek, and McKenzie each learn the unique role they must play in liberating the Earth. The friends must battle with android soldiers and attack vessels, and face their own inner struggles to overcome the invaders. After all, not even an alien invasion can stop the work of God.

Title: Defenders of the Covenant

Author: Angie Lofthouse

Publisher: Walnut Springs Press

Release Date: March 14, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599928487

Size: 378 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction


On Little Wings by Regina Sorois

Jennifer’s mother is not an only child.

Jennifer’s aunt has thirty seven freckles.

And life just stopped making sense for this sixteen-year-old girl from Nebraska.

It will take one forbidden journey, an octogenarian movie star, three old pirates, and one scarred genius to put all the pieces back together.

If that is even possible.

When Jennifer finds a dog-eared photograph of a freckled girl, she never dreams the innocent picture will tear open a gaping wound to her mother’s concealed past.

Jennifer must leave her home, parents, and best friend in the wheat fields of Nebraska and travel to the rocky shores of Maine to find the aunt she’s never met. Her search for the truth is distracted by the strange and hilarious characters she finds in the tight-knit town of Smithport. From the 88 year old movie star who likes to show off her tattoo, to the fishermen who have a passion for rockets, to the aunt who recites poetry in the long, Maine nights, Jennifer is intrigued by the lives swirling around her.

In the midst of madness she meets Nathan, the tight-lipped, reluctant prodigy who is surrounded by women who need him to be brother, father, protector, provider, and now, first love.

A story about all the ways we get love wrong, and why, despite every disappointment, we keep fighting to get it right.

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Title: On Little Wings

Author: Regina Sorois

Publisher: CreateSpace/Self

Release Date: March 16, 2012

ISBN: 978-1468096477

Size: 362 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: Young Adult


Bound by Annie Oldham

After her mother dies, Elowyn Challis would do anything to bury the pain, but being shipped off to boarding school isn’t what she had in mind.

Things could be worse. Wyn finds a place for herself in the academy and living in the capital is just sparkling. But under it all, her mother’s death still haunts her.

Then Wyn discovers a secret that changes everything she believes: the bedtime stories her mother told her as a child are real, the faerie realm exists, and she is the Binder—the one mortal on earth with the power to seal the gate to Fae. It’s a power Wyn’s not sure she wants or can even wield. But she must confront her nightmares and her grief, or two worlds will be torn apart.

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Title: Bound

Author: Annie Oldham

Publisher: Self

Release Date: March 13, 2012

ISBN: 978-1470154684

Size: 304 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: YA Paranormal


The Savage Grace by Bree Despain

A troubled soul. An impossible choice. A final battle.

Wrestling with the werewolf curse pulsing deep inside of her, Grace Divine was finally able to find her brother, but it nearly cost her everything.

With her boyfriend, Daniel, stuck in wolf form and Sirhan’s death approaching, time is running out for Grace to stop Caleb Kalbi and his gang of demons. If she fails, her family and hometown will perish. Everything rests on Grace’s shoulders.

The final installment in The Dark Divine trilogy brings Daniel and Grace’s love story to a breathtaking conclusion.

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Title: The Savage Grace (book 3, Dark Divine Series)

Author: Bree Despain

Publisher: EgmontUSA

Release Date: March 13, 2012

ISBN: 978-1606842218

Size: 496 pages, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal

Series: The Dark Divine (book 1), The Lost Saint (book 2)


Unlovable by Sherry Gammon

Seventeen year-old Maggie Brown is the poster child for Heroin Chic, complete with jutting bones and dark-ringed eyes.

But drugs are not Maggie’s problem; her mother is.

Maggie’s struggling with her growing feelings for the new guy at school, Seth Prescott, and fears he is just another person who will let her down, like everyone in her life has done so far.

Seth Prescott is an undercover cop assigned to Port Fare High, and despite his job, he’s developed strong feelings for Maggie.

While Seth’s working tirelessly to flush out the sadistic drug peddlers that have invaded the small town of Port Fare, New York, Maggie’s fighting to stay alive as the fight turns deadly.

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Title: Unlovable

Author: Sherry Gammon

Publisher: Self

Release Date: March 10, 2012

ISBN: 978-1461060529

Size: 340 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA Contemporary


Psion Beta by Jacob Gowans

Sammy, a 14-year-old fugitive, accidentally discovers he has the powers of a Psion.

Plucked off the streets, he is thrust into the rigorously-disciplined environment of Psion Beta headquarters. As a new Beta, Sammy must hone his newfound abilities using holographic fighting simulations, stealth training missions, and complex war games. His fellow trainees are other kids competing to prove their worth so they can graduate and contribute to the war effort.

But the stifling competition at headquarters isolates Sammy from his peers. Learning to use his incredible powers is difficult enough, but when things go horribly wrong on a routine training mission, he must rely on the other Betas to stay alive.

The Silent War is at a tipping point; even one boy can be the difference.

But to do so, he must survive.

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Title: Psion Beta

Author: Jacob Gowans

Publisher: CreateSpace

Release Date: March 10, 2012

ISBN-13: 978-1456362683

Size: 372 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA Science Fiction


Violet by Cheree Alsop

Violet, the fourth book of the Silver Series, is about a teenage girl who awakens to the harsh reality of life as a werewolf. Protected by a wild werewolf with golden eyes, Colleen finds solace in his forest and control over her rapidly changing life. But Colleen’s control is put to the ultimate test when her loved ones are in danger, forcing her to choose between freedom or returning to the source of her nightmares.

Violet is a story of love amid loss and courage in the face of overwhelming odds. It is a story of finding a kernel of hope within a life torn apart by an accident and a cruel twist of fate.

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Title:Violet (The Silver Series, book 4)

Author: Cheree Alsop

Publisher: Self

Release Date: March 8, 2012

ISBN: NA

Size: 161 pages, eBook

Genre: YA Paranormal

Series: Silver (bk 1), Black (bk 2), Crimson (bk 3)


The Super Spies and the Cat Lady Killer by Lisa Orchard

In a small town in Michigan, fifteen-year-old Sarah Cole is stuck spending the summer at her Aunt and Uncle’s with her sister, Lacey. She’s not happy with the situation until she befriends a girl named Jackie.

The three girls stumble upon the ruthless murder of a reclusive neighborhood woman and what’s worse? One of the officers investigating the crime believes the girls are responsible for her death.

Fearing that this officer will frame them for the murder, the girls organize their own detective squad. They become the Super Spies and start their own investigation.

The Super Spies can’t understand why anyone would want to murder the “Cat Lady” until they start digging into her past and discover a horrible crime that happened thirty years ago. They uncover a connection between the two crimes and attempt to bring this information to the police, only to be reprimanded for meddling in the investigation. Not only are the girls upset by the admonition, but they also struggle with the fact that their exuberant investigating could provide a legal loophole allowing the killer to go free. Frustrated by this turn of events, the Super Spies realize it’s up to them to snare the Cat Lady killer.

Or die trying…

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Title: The Super Spies and the Cat Lady Killer

Author: Lisa Orchard

Publisher: Astraea Press

Release Date: March 12, 2012

ASIN: B007JZH61K

Size: 175 pages, eBook

Genre: YA Mystery


The Secret Life of Copernicus H. Stringfellow by Lorin Barber

Copernicus H. Stringfellow, a.k.a. Nick, is far from your average, run-of-the-mill genius. His brains are really more like brawn now that he’s learned to control things with his mind.

From fending off would-be muggers to rescuing down-and-out traverlers, there’s no job too small for this superhero, especially after he learns that Twinkies® by the caseload send his super powers skyrocketing!

But with powers so fantastic—he can stop a speeding automobile or stem internal bleeding—he’ll have to face more than a few enemies.

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Title: The Secret Life of Copernicus H. Stringfellow

Author: Lorin Barber

Publisher: Sweetwater (CFI)

Release Date: March 13, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599559292

Size: 304 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Young Adult Speculative