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Meet Hunger Game’s Author Suzanne Collins!

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Meet Suzanne Collins! Celebrate the release of MOCKINGJAY, the final book of The Hunger Games Trilogy.

Tuesday, August 31st, 1:00pm.

Ms. Collins will be giving a brief reading from Mockingjay and then will stamping (see note below about signing!) copies of the book for interested readers.

PLEASE NOTE:
This event will be first come, first serve. Tickets will be…

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The Diary of Pelly D.

Diary Of Pelly D, L. J. Adlington; Greenwillow Books

When Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs.

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The Running Man

The Running Man, Stephen King; Tandem Library

The year is 2025. The Running Man is America’s favorite television game show. Ben Richards is the program’s latest contestant-and the Hunters’ latest target in a rigged game of death…

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Epic

Epic, Conor Kostick; The O'Brien Press Ltd.

Generations ago, violence was banned on New Earth. Society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game, Epic. Everyone plays. If you win, you have the chance to go to university, get more supplies for your…

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The Knife of Never Letting Go

Knife Of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness; Candlewick Press

Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away…

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The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Adoration Of Jenna Fox, Pearson, Mary; Henry Holt

Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But…

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Life as We Knew It

Life As We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer; Harcourt Children's Books

Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents,…

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Mortal Engines

Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve; Scholastic Press

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea ... The great traction city london is on the move again. It has been lying…

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