YABookReviews

  **Jellicoe Road** by Melina Marchetta is the 2009 Printz award winner (the award that the American Library Association gives to excellent young adult literature). It may take awhile to warm up to this book, but once I did, it became one of the best books I'd read in a long time. The intricate and intertwining plot lines are confusing at first, but soon suck you in to the need to know what happens next. Taylor Markham's mother abandoned her when she was eleven, down the street from the boarding school that took her in. Taylor is finally ready to find out why, in company with her sometimes enemies and friends.
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**Graceling** by Kristin Cashore is a light and enjoyable fantasy about Katsa, who is Graced with killing and used by the king to eliminate enemies. She is determined to find a way to escape his cruel requirements, and when she meets Prince Po, she knows she has found that way.