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Tantalizing Trailers: The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

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Title: The School of Good and Evil
Series: the School for Good and Evil #1
Author: Soman Chainani
Publisher: Harper Collins Children’s Books
Publication Date: 6 June 2013

Synopsis from Fantastic Fiction

At the School for Good and Evil, failing your fairy tale is not an option.

Welcome to the School for Good and Evil, where best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime.

With her glass slippers and devotion to good deeds, Sophie knows she’ll earn top marks at the School for Good and join the ranks of past students like Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White. Meanwhile, Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks and wicked black cat, seems a natural fit for the villains in the School for Evil.

The two girls soon find their fortunes reversed – Sophie’s dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training, while Agatha finds herself in the School for Good, thrust among handsome princes and fair maidens for classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication.

But what if the mistake is actually the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are . . . ?

The School for Good and Evil is an epic journey into a dazzling new world, where the only way out of a fairy tale is to live through one.

Tantalizing Trailers: No Safety In Numbers by Dayna Lorentz

This one has been on my library wish-list for ages, it is out in paperback today :D It isn’t my sort of read (far too scary for me) but I know the ghoul loving fiends in the library will devour it.

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Title: No Safety in Numbers
Author: Dayna Lorentz
Publisher: Speak
Publication Date: 4 April 2013

Synopsis from Goodreads

Life As We Knew It meets Lord of the Flies in a mall that looks just like yours

A biological bomb has just been discovered in the air ducts of a busy suburban mall. At first nobody knows if it’s even life threatening, but then the entire complex is quarantined, people start getting sick, supplies start running low, and there’s no way out. Among the hundreds of trapped shoppers are four teens.

These four different narrators, each with their own stories, must cope in unique, surprising styles, changing in ways they wouldn’t have predicted, trying to find solace, safety, and escape at a time when the adults are behaving badly.

This is a gripping look at people and how they can–and must–change under the most dire of circumstances.

And not always for the better.

Tantalizing Trailers: The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson

Tantalising Trailers: Melody Burning by Whitley Strieber

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Title: The Madness Underneath
Series: Shades of London #2
Author: Maureen Johnson
Publisher: Harper Collins Children’s Books
Publication Date: 28 March 2013

Synopsis from Fantastic Fiction

After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Devereaux has been living in Bristol under the close watch of her parents. So when her therapist suddenly suggests she return to Wexford, Rory jumps at the chance to get back to her friends. But Rory’s brush with the Ripper touched her more than she thought possible: she’s become a human terminus, with the power to eliminate ghosts on contact. She soon finds out that the Shades – the city’s secret ghost-fighting police – are responsible for her return. The Ripper may be gone, but now there is a string of new inexplicable deaths threatening London. Rory has evidence that the deaths are no coincidence. Something much more sinister is going on, and now she must convince the squad to listen to her before it’s too late.

Tantalizing Trailers: Million Dollar Gift & The Hidden Gift by Ian Somers

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Title: Million Dollar Gift
Series: Ross Bentley #1
Author: Ian Somers
Publisher: O’Brien Press
Publication Date: 7 May 2012

Synopsis from Publisher

Ross Bentley has a gift – he can move things with his mind.

Ross has always known he was different, but he’s kept his talent secret, even from those closest to him. Everything changes when he hears about a contest called The Million Dollar Gift – a wealthy businessman has pledged a million dollars to anyone who can prove they have superhuman powers. It’s too good a chance to miss …

But Ross finds himself drawn ever deeper into a world of corruption and peril. His gift puts him in danger from powerful foes, but also introduces him to people and talents he can hardly believe exist …

A fast-paced ride into a hidden world of extraordinary gifts and deadly enemies.

Read an extract HERE

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Title: The Hidden Gift
Series: Ross Bentley #2
Author: Ian Somers
Publisher: O’Brien Press
Publication Date: 11 March 2013

Synopsis from Publisher

Ross Bentley has supernatural gifts – he can move things with his mind – but this doesn’t stop him feeling alone and miserable when he’s cut off from family and friends in a remote farmhouse with Hunter, the taciturn but powerful Guild-member tasked with protecting and training him.

But suddenly Hunter is summoned by the Guild. A gifted child has been kidnapped. Hunter needs to track her down, and he has no choice but to take Ross with him. The search for the missing child, and the dangers it uncovers, take Ross to the darkest place he’s ever been. He must face danger and great grief and learn to harness his powers to face down his greatest nemesis yet …

Read an extract HERE