Books I want. (Look at all the pretty!)

Books are like drugs for me. Lovely, world escaping, drugs. Here are some books that I came across that look delicious.

Enchanted by Alethea Kontis
Expected publication: May 8th 2012 by Harcourt Children’s Books

It isn’t easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday’s only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true.   When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland—and a man Sunday’s family despises.

The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past—and hers?

 

Winterling by Sarah Prineas
Expected publication: January 3rd 2012 by HarperChildrens

With her boundless curiosity and wild spirit, Fer has always felt that she doesn’t belong. Not when the forest is calling to her, when the rush of wind through branches feels more real than school or the quiet farms near her house. Then she saves an injured creature—he looks like a boy, but he’s really something else. He knows who Fer truly is, and invites her through the Way, a passage to a strange, dangerous land.  

Fer feels an instant attachment to this realm, where magic is real and oaths forge bonds stronger than iron. But a powerful huntress named the Mor rules here, and Fer can sense that the land is perilously out of balance. Fer must unlock the secrets about the parents she never knew and claim her true place before the worlds on both sides of the Way descend into endless winter.

 

Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce
Published December 15th 2007 by Harcourt Children’s Books

Flora knows better than to take shortcuts in her family home, Crackpot Hall—the house has eleven thousand rooms, and ever since her mother banished the magickal butler, those rooms move around at random. But Flora is late for school, so she takes the unpredictable elevator anyway. Huge mistake. Lost in her own house, she stumbles upon the long-banished butler—and into a mind-blowing muddle of intrigue and betrayal that changes her world forever.

 

 

Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis
Published April 5th 2011 by Atheneum

Katherine Ann Stephenson has just discovered that she’s inherited her mother’s magical talents, and despite Stepmama’s stern objections, she’s determined to learn how to use them. But with her eldest sister Elissa’s intended fiancé, the sinister Sir Neville, showing a dangerous interest in Kat’s magical potential; her other sister, Angeline, wreaking romantic havoc with her own witchcraft; and a highwayman lurking in the forest, even Kat’s reckless heroism will be tested to the upmost. If she can learn to control her new powers, will Kat be able to rescue her family and win her sisters their true love?

 

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Published January 1st 2006 by Greenwillow Books

“I can steal anything.” After Gen’s bragging lands him in the king’s prison, the chances of escape look slim. Then the king’s scholar, the magus, needs the thief’s skill for a seemingly impossible task – to steal a hidden treasure from another land.  To the magus, Gen is just a tool. But Gen is a trickster and a survivor with a plan of his own.

Friday Finds – Nov. 18

I’m still in the middle of NaNoWriMo, so I don’t have a lot of extra time to read on my hands. (I reached 30,000 words last night!) But I did come across some awesome books that I put on my TBR list.

The Princess Curse by Merrie Haskell. (I’ll be reviewing this book next week.)

Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George. (I’ll be reading this book next.)

Snow in Summer: The Tale of an American Snow White by Jane Yolen.

Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire. (There is a new Wicked Years book! Screams!)