Young Adult Novels to Read over Winter Break

THE GIRL FROM THE WELL

“I am where dead children go.”

Okiku is the “girl from the well” of Japanese myth. She takes the lives of killers for vengeance, but it doesn’t bring peace. She’s forced to wander for centuries, drifting because there will always be those who kill. Then she meets Tark, a boy with something trapped inside him. Something dark, something that will kill if ever set free. Okiku knows the demon must be die, but if it does then so does Tark.

THE GIRL FROM THE WELL by Rin Chupeco promises to be a terrifying story and I can’t wait to see how the story unfolds since it’s told from Okiku’s point of view. Is she the monster everyone believes or is there more?

SPLINTERS

Mina has a serious problem. Shapeshifters are taking over her town. Are they as innocent as they look or is there more to this plot than she realizes? But when the monsters look like your friends, family, and neighbors who’s a girl to trust? Normally Mina would never even speak to Ben, a laid-back person who seriously doubts the paranormal, but these aren’t normal circumstances and Ben might be the only help she’s going to get.

With a creepy sci-fi, horror vibe, SPLINTERS thrusts Ben into Mina’s paranoid, obsessed monster-hunting world. The first in the Prospero Chronicles, SPLINTERS promises to keep you up at night and make you question if you can ever really know who to trust.

A NEW DARKNESS

A NEW DARKNESS begins a new chapter in Tom Ward’s Spook career. After the death of his master, Tom’s apprenticeship was cut short and no one trusts him to be a proper Spook. No one except Jenny that is. Jenny is the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter and she wants to be Tom’s apprentice, despite the fact that there are no female Spooks, and Jenny knows more about the three mysterious deaths. Together they will have to stop a new danger coming at them.