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Paperback and ebook ,  416 pages. Expected publication: September 4, 2012  by Strange Chemistry (Angry Robot) Have you seen the cover art for Blackwood , a YA fantasy novel by Gwenda Bond? Here it is along with the blurb. Blurb: On Roanoke Island, the legend of the 114 people who mysteriously vanished from the Lost Colony hundreds of years ago is just an outdoor drama for the tourists, a story people tell. But when the island faces the sudden disappearance of 114 people now, an unlikely pair of 17-year-olds may be the only hope of bringing them back. Miranda, a misfit girl from the island’s most infamous family, and Phillips, an exiled teen criminal who hears the voices of the dead, must dodge everyone from federal agents to long-dead alchemists as they work to uncover the secrets of the new Lost Colony. The one thing they can’t dodge is each other. Blackwood is a dark, witty coming of age story that combines America’s oldest mystery with a thoroughly contemporar...

We recently received an email from the authors of a Spanish YA novel, The Star , and once we read the first chapter we knew we had to pass this on to our readers. First, here's the message we received: We are Javi Araguz and Isabel Hierro, authors of “La Estrella” (“The Star”) award-winning YA Spanish novel, and we write you because the materials of our book are now translated to English (first chapter, book-trailer, cover making of, web etc.) and we hope you enjoy them. Feel free to share the materials or publish in your site/blog. In this moment, we are working in promotion our work and we would like to reach all fans of English-speaking YA novels lit. “The Star” is published now in twenty Spanish-speakers countries, and in 2012 will be publish in Brazil (Portuguese) too, but not yet in English. Maybe, if the common readers know and like, soon will be publish in other languages! You can request it here: http://www.bookthestar.com/request.html We checked out the cover ...