Showing posts with label juvenile fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label juvenile fiction. Show all posts

Friday, October 18, 2013

Who Done It? by Jon Scieszka and 80-odd Other Authors

"Can you imagine the most cantankerous book editor alive? Part Voldemort, part Cruella de Vil (if she were a dude), and worse in appearance and odor than a gluttonous farm pig? A man who makes no secret of his love of cheese or his disdain of unworthy authors? That man is Herman Mildew."

This short story anthology opens with an invitation to a party, care of this insufferable monster, where more than 80 of the most talented, bestselling and recognizable names in YA and children’s fiction learn that they are suspects in his murder. All must provide alibis in brief first-person entries. The problem is that all of them are liars, all of them are fabulists, and all have something to hide...."
<from Amazon>

recommended by Anne.

H.I.V.E. The Higher Institute of Villainous Education by Mark Walden

"The worst, the most cunning, the most miscievous minds from around the world"--are the tweens who have been kidnapped and flown to H.I.V.E., a private school where leaving is not an option.

Can Otto and his friends find a way to escape?









recommended by Anne