Need
by Carrie Jones (ages 12 & up)
Bloomsbury USA
Zara White collects fears the way other people collect baseball cards or state quarters. She memorizes the names of obscure phobias and repeats them to herself, the better to ward off her own fears. “It’s a lot easier to understand things once you name them,” Zara thinks. “It’s mostly the unknown that freaks me out.”
Once an avid runner and a passionate supporter of Amnesty International, Zara’s world changed dramatically with the death of her father (“My stepdad, really. I call him my dad. He was my dad. He raised me.”) After a couple of months of watching Zara stumble through life like a zombie, her mother has decided to pack the high school junior off to Maine to live with her grandmother, ostensibly to "get her spunk back."
Almost immediately, Zara notices a several strange things about the tiny town of Bedford: it's very cold, colder than you’d expect; the boys all seem to be taller than average; almost all of the students at her new school are fast runners; and, oh yeah, it may be infested with pixies.
Just to be clear, we're not talking the Tinkerbell kind of pixie here. We're talking pixies that use glamours to disguise themselves as humans so that they can use local teens to feed their terrible needs.
Luckily for Zara, her new friends Issie, Devyn and Nick (as well as her grandmother, Betty) are made of stern stuff. She’s going to need all the help she can get when the evil lurking in the Maine woods comes calling for her.
1 comment:
Hey, this sounds good. Maybe I'll pick up a copy the next time we're in!
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