Going to be a slow September apparently. I’m super excited that I was approved for the secondĀ Mice of the Round Table by Julie Leung. I’ve hadĀ This Darkness Mine for a little bit now and I really need to get it off my review list since it comes out this October.Ā The Stolen Child is an old one but my teacher recommended it to me. Here’s all the back copy:
Mice of the Round Table: Voyage to Avalon
Author: Julie Leung
Pub Date: October 3, 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins
A mysterious curse sparks a dangerous quest in book two of the epic middle grade series ALA Booklist called āa charming blend of Arthurian legend and Brian Jacquesās Redwall series.ā
Young mouse Calib Christopher has nearly completed his training to become a squire to the Knights of Camelot when news of a deadly plague reaches the castle. Soon all of Camelot is showing signs of the illness, animals and humans alike. Desperate to find a cure, Calib and his friend Cecily set off on a voyage to find the healing land of Avalon. But even as their journey takes them over land and sea, back at home, Calibās human friend Galahad discovers that the true enemy may have already found a way inside the castle walls.ā¦
This Darkness Mine
Author: Mindy MicGinnis
Pub Date: October 10th, 2017
Publisher: Katherine Tegen books
Sasha Stone knows her placeāfirst-chair clarinet, top of her class, and at the side of her oxford-wearing boyfriend. Sheās worked her entire life to ensure that her path to Oberlin Conservatory as a star musician is perfectly paved.
But suddenly thereās a fork in the road, in the shape of Isaac Harver. Her body shifts toward him when he walks by, her skin misses his touch even though sheās never known it, and she relishes the smell of himāsmoke, beer, and troubleāall the things sheās avoided to get where she is. Even worse, every time heās near Sasha, her heart stops, literally. Why does he know her so wellātoo wellāand she doesnāt know him at all?
Sasha discovers that her by-the-book life began by ending anotherās: the twin sister she absorbed in the womb. But that doesnāt explain the gaps of missing time in her practice schedule or the memories she has of things she certainly never did with Isaac. As Sasha loses her much-cherished control, her lifeāand heartābecome more entangled with Isaac. Armed with the knowledge that her heart might not be hers alone, Sasha must decide what sheās willing to doāand who sheās willing to hurtāto take it back.
Edgar Awardāwinning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a dark and gripping psychological thriller about a girl at war with herself, and what it really means to be good or bad.
Stolen Child
Author: Keith Donohue
Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double.
On a summer night, Henry Day runs away from home and hides in a hollow tree. There he is taken by the changelingsāan unaging tribe of wild children who live in darkness and in secret. They spirit him away, name him Aniday, and make him one of their own. Stuck forever as a child, Aniday grows in spirit, struggling to remember the life and family he left behind. He also seeks to understand and fit in this shadow land, as modern life encroaches upon both myth and nature.
In his place, the changelings leave a double, a boy who steals Henryās life in the world. This new Henry Day must adjust to a modern culture while hiding his true identity from the Day family. But he canāt hide his extraordinary talent for the piano (a skill the true Henry never displayed), and his dazzling performances prompt his father to suspect that the son he has raised is an imposter. As he ages the new Henry Day becomes haunted by vague but persistent memories of life in another time and place, of a German piano teacher and his prodigy. Of a time when he, too, had been a stolen child. Both Henry and Aniday obsessively search for who they once were before they changed places in the world.
The Stolen Child is a classic tale of leaving childhood and the search for identity. With just the right mix of fantasy and realism, Keith Donohue has created a bedtime story for adults and a literary fable of remarkable depth and strange delights.