Bloodhound is the much-awaited second volume in the Beka Cooper series by Tamora Pierce. It’s set in Pierce’s fictional fantasy world of Tortall, home of her previous heroines found in the Song of the Lioness Quartet (the Alanna books), the Immortals Quartet (the Daine books), the Protector of the Small Quartet (the Kel books), and [...]

Because I work in a library, I don’t tend to be as up-to-date as Melissa and others who work in bookstores rather than libraries; I do try to browse through the new books truck whenever I get a chance, but with the volume of new material, it’s sometimes hard to keep up.  So while Melissa [...]

Impossible is the story of Lucy Scarborough, a 17-year-old whose unconventional life has been spent with foster parents due to her unusual and unstable birth mother.  At first, this sounds like it’s just going to be yet another of the many YA books with kids in foster care who manage to overcome challenging histories to [...]