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Reading Craze

4U
Looking for a

Good
Book
to read during the long cold
days of winter?

Clean Reads 4 You


are appropriate for
youngsters and oldsters
alike.
Browse the list and pick a
relaxing read to warm up
your day!

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Reading Craze 4
U
Genre: MG & YA -- Fantasy,
Action
Elle Burton is enticed by winged

another
dimension to help them
creatures from

protect the children of Earth.

Evil forces

are

determined to make her fail.


Will she be strong enough to
complete the three challenges
predicted in the ancient scrolls?
Author: Peggy McAloon

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Reading Craze 4 U
Genre: Historical Fiction - Age:
12+
With her family,

Fernanda
Marquina,
of Spanish and Pima Indian
ancestry, joins

Juan Bautista de
Anzas historic colonization
expedition to California.
Author: Linda Covella

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Reading Craze 4 U
Action and adventure/fantasy for kids in
upper elementary, middle school, and high
school.

Twelve-year-old

Prince Jaymin, heir


to the throne of Alasia,
barely escapes with his life
when invaders from Malorn
attack.
As the search intensifies and
his enemys suspicions grow,
Jaymin seeks desperately for
a way to

save his kingdom


and himself.
Author: Annie Douglass Lima

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Reading Craze 4 U
Action and adventure/fantasy for kids in
upper elementary, middle school, and
high school

Enslaved when invaders take over


Alasia, ten-year-old Anya discovers
ways to

spy on the
enemy and slip

information to the resistance. A


stranger who seems to know her
secrets, holds her life in his hands,
claiming to have proof that her
father was involved in the

betrayal

that led

to the Invasion itself.

Author: Annie Douglass Lima

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Reading Craze 4 U
Action and adventure/fantasy for kids in
upper elementary, middle school, and
high school

One major obstacle stands between


seventeen-year-old

Prince

Korram

and the throne that


is his birthright: Regent Rampus.
Temporary ruler of Malorn, Rampus
has no intention of giving up his

the
crown prince
position when

comes of age or of allowing the


prince to live long enough to reach
that age.
Author Annie Douglass Lima

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Reading Craze 4 U
Genre: Contemporary RomanceAge if
Children: Teen and up

Sam never thought shed actually be


chosen for a

reality

show-but next thing she knew,


she was whisked away to Australia.
Can two people who are meant to be
together manage to fight the catty
contestants, crazy producer and find
true love on a reality show in the

Australian
Outback?
Author: Susan Stoker

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Reading Craze 4 U
Genre:Regency timeslip romance
Thirty year-old Devorah Asher is
blessed with beauty, brains, and
a great collection of

Georgette Heyer
novels. Desperate to find a
husband in her Orthodox Jewish
community she falls (literally)
when a handsome man
approaches and lands in
Georgette Heyers

Regency

England. Will she stay or try to


return home?
Author D. B. Schaefer

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Reading Craze 4
Genre: Contemporary
Christian
Women's Fiction
U
Jamie Walker lives like a widow
while her husband leaves for
weeks at a time on business.

childless,
lonely, and
depressed, and now
She is

her job as an editor at a


magazine is in jeopardy. She
has two options: swallow the
bottle of sleeping pills in her
husband's nightstand or reach

God

out to the
she's
been running from since she
was eighteen.

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Reading Craze 4 U
Genre: YAPirate/Fantasy

Shipwrecked on the Island of


Gealach -- an isle lost in the
mist of mythology and mystery
-- Captain Fish-Eye
finds himself pushed to his
limits. He must prove to

Wokey the Shrimp,


his first mate in a crew of one
(and more importantly to
himself) that he has what it
takes to be a true pirate
captain.
Author Isaiah T. Silkwood

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Reading Craze 4
U
An easy-to-read adventure for ages 7 and up.

Pibbin, the smallest


of treefrogs, is desperate
to get help for his injured turtle
friend. The other frogs warn him
that the doctor lives a long way off.
You'll run into

snakes

and that giant bullfrog, they say.


Black Snapping Crabs
might eat you! . . . The trip sounds
scary, and Pibbin wonders: is he too
small to be brave?
Author: Gloria Repp

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Reading Craze 4 U
Genre:Historical Mystery

Jane Austen meets

Sherlock

Holmes

when a crime wave


sweeps through 19th-century London's
Jewish community and the adventures

of wealthywidower-turnedsleuth
Ezra Melamed are recorded for posterity
by Miss Rebecca Lyon, a young lady not
quite at the marriageable age.
Author: Libi Astaire

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Reading Craze 4 U
Christian romantic suspense
"Don't bury yourself in that
wilderness!" her relatives say.
"Even though you're a

widow, you're still


young. Madeleine decides to
go. She'll help her aunt
restore the old house in the
Pine Barrens.What do the
good doctor and the writer
have to do with the

paperweight her
father gave her?
Author: Gloria Repp

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Reading Craze
4U
Genre: Literary/Women's Fiction

Jack and Sara retired years


ago to the house of their
dreams, and operated it as
a

Cape Cod B&B

named Blue Hydrangeas.


Jack has made an impossible
promise: He and Sara will

together

stay
in their
beautiful home no matter
what her Alzheimers brings.
Author: Marianne Sciucco

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Reading Craze 4
MG Fantasy
UFourteenyear-old flutist
Lee Ann Graves is a

survivor. During
chemo treatments, she
hears the song of a
Carolina wren. He reveals
himself as a Songcatcher
from the magical realm of
Finian Jahndra, a land in

danger

of being

consumed by a deadly
canker that only LeeAnn
can truly understand

Author: Kathy Huth Jones

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Reading Craze 4
U
Fantasy with a touch of romance:Exciting
enough for adults--Clean enough for
teenagers

Aloras life will be forever


altered as she discovers

another realm,
a strange world of magic and
gifts, where a man full of evil
power will use any means
possible to capture and

control

her or

else to end her life.

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Reading Craze 4 U
Genre: Contemporary action adventure, and romantic
suspense. (This is a"clean romance" with minor language and
violence.)

When a routine

USCG training
exercise
claims the life of another pilot, Micki
can't accept the initial report of
'pilot error.' Neither, it seems, can
Luke Hardigan, an outsider with a

secret agenda
that quickly puts Micki's world into
a tailspin.
Author: T.C. Ravenscraft

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Reading Craze 4
U
Genre: fantasy, adventure - for all
ages - upper elementary to adult

After the assassination of his


father the King of Yensenti,
Bern must flee for his own

Pipes of
the Guardians, Bern
life. Using the

calls the storm eagles to


assist him, but finds himself
stuck fifty years in the

Future.

Will he find
his way home to the throne?
Author: D. J. Colwell

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Reading Craze 4
U
Genre: Sweet contemporary
romance
HEARTS MELT and

EMOTIONS

SIZZLE

when the Queen of


Cakes clashes with the King of
Burgers and Fries! Lily Peradou is
named in a property inheritance
case, and is forced to fight the

accusation

that her chocolate cherry cordial


cakes had undue influence over
the late dress designer, Sally
James.
Author: Zelda Benjamin

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Reading Craze 4 U
Metaphysical
Fantasy/Drama/Adventure with a bit
of travel -- Target age 14+

It all began on New Year's


Eve. The villagers were
congregating at their local
pub talking about an

event that changed the


course of their village's
history. A drunken villager left
the pub and got lost inside
their surrounding (apparently)

haunted and spectral


forest ...
Author: Sophie Ann Russell

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Reading Craze 4
U
Genre: Fantasy, Age 10 and up

dream

Is stealing a
better than losing your
own? Fancy is supposed to
steal dreams. Its what her
family does for a living,
and now that shes fifteen,
the job is hers. The

choice is hers: Steal


dreams or lose her own.
Author: HL Carpenter

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Reading Craze 4 U
Genre: Fantasy; sweet romance - Age
10 and up

Some people say the

Fountain of Youth
is a myth. Jack Ponsi
Dileonardo Thomas knows
better. He drank from the
fabled fuente in 1513. Over the

five hundred years


since, hes given up believing
his life will ever again be
normaland that hell ever
rediscover the magical spring.
Author: HLCarpenter
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Reading Craze 4
U
Lydias 1860s-style
society is at

risk

when an

injured fighter pilots


parachute carries him

hidden
land.

to her

Author: Keely Brooke Keith

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Reading Craze
4U
Why would the

Guardian of the Six


Worlds choose a 14 year
old boy to stop a war
between merfolk and
humans? Everyone thinks a

mistake has

been made. To have any


chance of success Ben will
need to discover the secret
of his

own true self.


Author: Dianne Astle

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Reading Craze 4
U
Discovering the body of a friend
and colleague was not what
Adina Donati had in mind when
she moved to Washington D.C.
in search of

excitement. An
administrative assistant at a
prestigious think tank, Adina is
drawn into the middle of the
murder investigation and
discovers just how

dangerous

life in the
nations capitol can be.
Author: Cassidy Salem

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Reading Craze 4
U
Contemporary YA urban
fantasy
Homeschooled siblings April and
June Bliss are inadvertently sucked
into their older cousin Arlenes

2010 MWA Golden


Rose grand prize
winner.

troubled life

when
that street-savvy 17-year-old
disappears and then sends for

ancient
magical book and
their help via an

a silver ring.
Author: Shallana Collins

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Reading Craze 4
U
Some mistakes create

accidental
blessings
.

Jillian (Jewels) Whitman lives with her


mistakes and tries to move past the biggest
one of her life - Dillon Bleu - Rocker and
once her best friend. Nothing is ever as
easy as it seems... A southern tale of

rags to
riches

where a man's worth

is ultimately found in his heart.


Author: T. I. Lowe

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Reading Craze 4
U
Four mature women from
different parts of the world have

Tuscany

chosen
as their
retirement haven, expecting a
quiet and tranquil existence.
Little did they realize the
adventures that awaited them.

embrace

You will
retirement as you discover these
delightful women who will

dearest
friends.
Author: Sophia BarLev
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Reading Craze 4 U
Ellie is an ordinary,

nothing-special
girl
who feels invisible most of the
time. Her mom nags her for

dreamer

being a
and
the class bully makes her life
miserable; until she meets
someone. He knows her

darkest secrets, sees into


her dreams. Math class will never
be the same.
Author: Beth M. Honeycutt

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Reading Craze 4
U
Aurora falls into a wishing well,
leading her to the mystical land
of Paradan. Where

fairy tale

creatures

live happily until


King Tommit seizes the throne.
Forced into a marriage with the
king. Cassius, the stable boy,
rallies the kingdom to battle for
their freedom, and

Auroras heart.
Aurora concedes to protect
Evver, her lifeline a fairy, and
Cassius. Will Aurora be forced to
live her fairy tale with a

monster?
Author: Holly Zitting

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Reading Craze 4
U
Another murder in small town Cold
Creek has tensions rising. Clive Johnson,
the groundskeeper at Cold Creek

convenient
scape goat for a police chief
College, is a

who seeks an easy solution. Convinced


Chief Pfeiffe has it all wrong, professor
and psychologist Sheridan Hendley sets
out to help prove Clive's

innocence. But not

everyone is pleased by her enthusiastic


search for the truth. Just as her life is
looking up personally, it looks like she
might be the next

victim.

Author: Christa Nardi

This is the second


in the Cold Creek
series.
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