Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
Aishlinn can see fairies. Not your garden-variety, sweet flower fairies. Fairies that walk unseen in the human world, beautiful, capricious, fierce. If they are feeling mischievious might tie your shoe laces together, or hide you socks. Yet, on a whim, they can be far more sinister and cruel. Aishlinn has always been able to see them, and so can her grandmother. She has impressed upon her some fundamental rules.
- Don’t ever attract their attention
- Don’t speak to invisible fairies
- Don’t stare at invisible fairies
If they ever found out that she could see them, they might put out her eyes, or something far worse. She lives her life on edge, trying not to acknowledge the fairies all around her. But, the rules are changing. She is being stalked by several fairies, and she finds out that the Summer King has set his sights on her.
Sequels: Ink Exchange, Fragile Eternity
Readalikes: Tithe by Holly Black; The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
Hugo is an orphan. His father has died in an explosion, and he goes to live with his uncle in an apartment at the large Paris train station. His uncle’s job is to repair the many clocks at the station. His uncle, however, is an alcoholic, and one day doesn’t return. Hugo realizes that if anyone finds out that he is on his own, he will likely get hauled off to an orphanage, and he decides to try to keep the clocks running himself. If you are wondering how a kid can accomplish this, Hugo’s father was a watchmaker, and Hugo has inherited his father’s affinity for small machines. He has also inherited his father’s automaton, a mechanical man which if wound, can draw a picture such as a landscape, portrait, or map. Hugo’s automaton is broken, and he feels passionately that, if he could fix it, it may hold a clue or message to him from his beloved father. He begins stealing mechanical parts from the toymaker’s shop in the train station, and before too long, his secret is out.
In a post-apocalyptic place once known as North America, the land has been divided into 12 districts which surround the glittering, powerful capital city of Panem which rises at the center. In order to keep the citizens subjugated, each district must select two young people each year to participate in the televised Hunger Games. It is a fight to the death, and all are forced to watch.
The winners of the YRC awards were announced recently. Thanks to everyone who voted! No surprises with the senior division winner, which won in the Edmonton area by a landslide. I have to confess that I was pulling for 
The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, is going to be made into a movie, due to be released Feb 2010!
I just started reading 
The Lightning Thief 
Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series, has been signed up to write the sixth installment of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Take a look at Eoin Colfer’s blog to read & watch interviews…
I just read a post on YPulse that 
Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline and Stardust, was on The Colbert Report on March 16 to promote his latest novel, The Graveyard Book.
