Evergreen Award Books

2012-13

“SOMETIMES I

WONDER WHY WORDS

CAN’T ACTUALLY

MAKE US BLEED”

Readers seeking sensational violence should look elsewhere; this taut, complex family drama depicts abuse unflinchingly but focuses on healing, growth and learning to take responsibility for one’s own anger. - Kirkus Reviews

“Killing isn't free.

It takes

something out of

you every time

you do it. You get

their life; they get

a piece of your

soul. It's always a

trade.”

“Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.”

The lush, melodramatic urban fantasy setting of the Shadowhunter world morphs seamlessly into a steampunk Victorian past, and this new series provides the setup for what will surely be a climactic battle against hordes of demonically powered brass clockworks. - Kirkus Reviews

“I AM TRAPPED

IN GLASS AND I

WANT TO BREAK

OUT AND

BREATH DEEP

BUT I´M TOO

AFRAID THAT IT

WILL HURT.”

When Cassia is unexpectedly "matched" with two of her (male) friends, she struggles between a safe, predictable Society life with Xander and the unknown world of passions, choices, and possibly danger in the Outer Provinces with Ky. – Horn Book

As [Auden] learns what it means to have and be a friend, she sorts through the various ways she reminds herself of both her mother and father—unsettling self-knowledge, to be sure, but at least it’s not too late to do something about it. – Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

Flipping burgers was not exactly [Sam’s] life’s dream, but it beat being ripped to shreds by a werewolf, having a talking head for a best friend, and being kidnapped and locked in a cage with an unlikely cellmate. – Children’s Literature

“Most people felt lost after

high school. Sometimes I

felt like I'd never really

been found in the first

place.”

“I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy

endings.”

She might live on a school bus with her unfit mother and her rescued dog Bobby Big Boy, but Amber doesn’t let her seemingly grim existence shake her unquenchable optimism that she can make the world a better place by the sheer force of her positivity. – The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

“You named him

Festus? You know

that in Latin, ‘festus’

means ‘happy’? You

want us to ride off to

save the world on

Happy the Dragon?”

Percy Jackson fans can rest easy: this first book in Riordan's Heroes of Olympus spin-off series is a fast-paced adventure with enough familiar elements to immediately hook those eager to revisit his modern world of mythological mayhem. – Publisher’s Weekly

“A wrenching but ultimately

redemptive look at how pain

defines us and how love, whether

familial, romantic or friendly,

demands sacrifice and brings gifts

of its own.” -Kirkus Reviews (Starred review)

“There’s a reason why Brewster can’t have friends – why he can’t care about too many people. Because when he cares about you, things start to happen. Impossible things that can’t be explained. I know, because they're happening to me.”

This is a fast-paced, entertaining debut, reminiscent of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series in its story of a seemingly normal girl coerced to work for a supernatural agenda that she doesn’t always understand. - Booklist

“Tasers are a one-size-fits-all paranormal butt-kicking option. Mine’s pink with rhinestones.”