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Lia has a lot of issues: with her parents, with friends, with herself. She deals with them by starving and cutting herself. Although she has been through inpatient therapy and promises to be better, her world comes crashing down once again when her former best friend is found dead in a hotel. Lia did not know that Cassie tried to call her (33 times) the night that she died, and that knowledge crushes Lia. She stops eating and starts cutting herself again in a desperate attempt to gain some control over her life and make her problems disappear. But, everything quickly spirals out of control. Laurie Halse Anderson tells the story from Lia’s perspective, confronting the topics of anorexia and “cutting” in this gripping novel.

Reviewed by Christine B., South County Regional

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North! Or Be Eaten follows the Igiby family where On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness left off. Things have gotten worse for the Igiby family and they must leave Glipwood and head for the Ice Praries where a resistance army has gathered to fight Gnag and the Fangs. But, on their way Janner and Tink get separated not only from their family, but also from each other. Both boys must escape from horrific situations and try to find their family in the Ice Praries. Full of page-turning adventures, daring fighting, and surprising revelations we see the Igiby children start to grow into their roles as Annieran royalty. A wonderful sequel that leaves the reader longing for more.

Reviewed by Jessica B., Mint Hill Branch

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Billy is a normal kid - single child, gifted artist, fun loving. But some weird stuff has been happening to him lately. Namely his breath is hot enough to set off a sprinkler system at school. His parents decide that they've kept the secret for to long and finally tell him the truth. His father was once a dragon, then changed by Merlin into a man to protect themselves against the knights who still hunt them. Billy soon meets a girl named Bonny who has a much more noticeable mark of her dragon heritage. She has wings. When Lord Devin makes himself known and the hunt begins again, will the dragons and their children make it out alive?

Reviewed by Elizabeth S., Charlotte, NC

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"I feel like someone parked a car on my brain." Set six years after a catastrophe of undefined origin left London submerged under water and centering on the daily struggles (some lethal) of the small, fractious group of dark-haired, violet-eyed, psionic 'wild talents' who may or may not have caused it, Warren Ellis' Freakangels, sumptuously illustrated by Paul Duffield, is one of the Internet's most attractive web-comics, only improved in collected hard-copy. Part Village of the Damned, part streampunk sideshow, seen through the bemused eyes of Alice Connor, a normal human being 'adopted' by the 12, Freakangels Vol. 1 leads the reader through a green, picaresque, peculiarly English sort of apocalypse. Let Warren Ellis park a car on your brain.

Reviewed by Paul B., Hickory Grove Branch

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The Opera Ghost is said to have lived under the Paris Opera House for as long as any one can remember. Never seen and as long as his demands are met, he will leave everyone and everything alone. But when Christine Daae sings she becomes his angel of music. She is his obsession, his love. He will kill to help her, but if her affections should change he will kill her, and the one she loves. He is the most selfish of beings and will not let go of his obsession. She has no choice. Will the Phantom ever let her go?

Reviewed by Elizabeth S., Charlotte, NC

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