book advent calendar for 2013 based on idea from SLN

1. Advent Calendar
A book suggestion for every day of advent

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3. Burn Mark by Laura Powell
'I'll win or I'll burn -- whatever it takes'
Witch crime takes to the streets of London
in the first of a captivating series of crime
thrillers with a fantasy twist.
Glory is from a family of witches and lives
beyond the law. She is desperate to develop
her powers and become a witch herself. Lucas
is the son of the Chief Prosecutor for the
Inquisition - the witches' mortal enemy - and
his privileged life is very different to the
forbidden world that he lives alongside.
And then on the same day, it hits them both.
Glory and Lucas develop the Fae - the mark
of the witch. In one fell stroke, their lives
are inextricably bound together, whether
they like it or not . . .
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4. Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
Maggot Moon tells the story of a
dyslexic schoolboy, Standish
Treadwell, who lives in an
alternative 1950s Britain ruled
by a ruthless regime.
As his family and friends
disappear around him, Standish
finds himself involved in a plot to
win the race to the moon.
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5. Velvet by Mary Hooper
Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian
steam laundry. With both her
mother and father dead, she is an
orphan and has to rely upon her
own wits to make a living. The
laundry is scalding, back-breaking
work and Velvet is desperate to
create a better life for herself.
Then Velvet is noticed by Madame
Savoya, a famed medium, who asks
Velvet to come to work for her.
Velvet is dazzled at first by the
young yet beautifully dressed and
bejewelled Madame. But soon
Velvet realises that Madame
Savoya is not all that she says she
is, and Velvet's very life is in
danger . . .
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6. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Two young women become unlikely
best friends during World War II,
until one is captured by the Gestapo.
Only in wartime could a stalwart lass
from Manchester rub shoulders with
a Scottish aristocrat. But then a
vital mission goes wrong, and one of
the friends has to bail out of a
faulty plane over France. She is
captured by the Gestapo and
becomes a prisoner of war. The
story begins in “Verity”‟s own words,
as she writes her account for her
captors. Truth or lies? Honour or
betrayal? Everything they've ever
believed in is put to the test... A
gripping thriller.
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7. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancy
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains.
After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And
after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive.
After the 4th wave, only one rule applies:
trust no one.
Now, it‟s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on
a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs
from Them. The beings who only look
human, who roam the countryside killing
anyone they see. Who have scattered
Earth‟s last survivors. To stay alone is to
stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets
Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious,
Evan Walker may be Cassie‟s only hope for
rescuing her brother—or even saving
herself. But Cassie must choose: between
trust and despair, between defiance and
surrender, between life and death. To give
up or to get up.
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8. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Blue has spent the majority of her
sixteen years being told that if she
kisses her true love, he will die. When
Blue meets Gansey's spirit on the
corpse road she knows there is only one
reason why - either he is her true love
or she has killed him. Determined to
find out the truth, Blue becomes
involved with the Raven Boys, four boys
from the local private school (lead by
Gansey) who are on a quest to discover
Glendower - a lost ancient Welsh King
who is buried somewhere along the
Virginia ley line. Whoever finds him will
be granted a supernatural favour. Never
before has Blue felt such magic around
her. But is Gansey her true love? She
can't imagine a time she would feel like
that, and she is adamant not to be the
reason for his death. Where will fate
lead them?
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9. Divergent by Veronica Roth
In sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior's
world, society is divided into five
factions -- Abnegation (the
selfless), Candor (the honest),
Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the
peaceful), and Erudite (the
intelligent) -- each dedicated to the
cultivation of a particular virtue, in
the attempt to form a "perfect
society." At the age of sixteen,
teens must choose the faction to
which they will devote their lives. On
her Choosing Day, Beatrice renames
herself Tris, rejects her family's
group, and chooses another faction.
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10. Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud by
Andrew Lane
The year is 1868, and Sherlock
Holmes is fourteen. His life is
that of a perfectly ordinary army
officer's son: boarding school,
good manners, a classical
education -- the backbone of the
British Empire. But all that is
about to change. With his father
suddenly posted to India, and his
mother mysteriously 'unwell',
Sherlock is sent to stay with his
eccentric uncle and aunt in their
vast house in Hampshire. So
begins a summer that leads
Sherlock to uncover his first
murder, a kidnap, corruption and a
brilliantly sinister villain of
exquisitely malign intent ...
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11. Delirium by Lauren Oliver
There was a time when love was the
most important thing in the world.
People would go to the end of the
earth to find it. They would tell lies
for it. Even kill for it. Then, at last,
they found the cure. Now,
everything is different. Scientists
are able to eradicate love, and the
government demands that all
citizens receive the cure upon
turning eighteen. Lena Haloway has
always looked forward to the day
when she'll be cured. A life without
love is a life without pain: safe,
measured, predictable, and happy.
But then, with only ninety-five days
left until her treatment, Lena does
the unthinkable
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12. Department 19 by Will Hill
In a secret supernatural battle
that's been raging for over a
century, the stakes have just been
raised -- and they're not wooden
anymore. When Jamie Carpenter's
mother is kidnapped by strange
creatures, he finds himself dragged
into Department 19, the
government's most secret agency.
Fortunately for Jamie, Department
19 can provide the tools he needs to
find his mother, and to kill the
vampires who want him dead. But
unfortunately for everyone,
something much older is stirring,
something even Department 19
can't stand up against!
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13. Artemis Fowl and The Last Guardian
by Eoin Colfer
Seemingly nothing in this world daunts
the young criminal mastermind Artemis
Fowl. In the fairy world, however, there
is a small thing that has gotten under his
skin on more than one occasion: Opal
Koboi. In The Last Guardian, the evil
pixie is wreaking havoc yet again. This
time his arch rival has reanimated dead
fairy warriors who were buried in the
grounds of Fowl Manor. Their spirits have
possessed Artemis's little brothers,
making his siblings even more annoying
than usual. The warriors don't seem to
realize that the battle they were
fighting when they died is long over.
Artemis has until sunrise to get the
spirits to vacate his brothers and go back
into the earth where they belong. Can he
count on a certain LEPrecon fairy to join
him in what could well be his last stand?
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14. Gods and Warriors by Michelle Paver
Hylas couldn't take it in. Last night he
and Issi had made a camp in a cave.
Now his sister was missing, his dog
was dead, and he was running for his
life. The Black Warriors - nightmares
of black rawhide armour and bronze
spears - want him dead. He doesn't
know why, but their pursuit will be
relentless. So begins his quest across
land and sea with only Pirra, the
rebellious daughter of a High
Priestess, and a dolphin called Spirit
for company.
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15. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third
Wheel by Jeff Kinney
Love is in the air, but what does
that mean for Greg Heffley?
A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's
school has turned his world upside
down. As Greg scrambles to find a
date, he's worried he'll be left out
in the cold on the big night. His best
friend, Rowley, doesn't have any
prospects either but that's small
consolation.
Then an unexpected twist gives
Greg a partner for the dance and
leaves Rowley the odd man out. But
a lot can happen in one night, and in
the end, you never know who's going
to be lucky in love . . .
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16. Wonder by R.J. Palacio
A boy named August (they call him
Auggie) who has a deformity on his
face. I know that doesn‟t sound nice,
but his ears look like tiny fists and his
eyes are too low and he has no
eyebrows or eyelashes. I don‟t know
how to explain him. Auggie has been
home-schooled until his parents decide
that it‟s time to send him to a real
school, Beecher Prep, and Auggie is
resistant at first. He‟s afraid. But
when his parents tell him that the
principal‟s name is Mr. Tushman, Auggie
laughs and decides to go. The rest of
the book is about his year at school
and how he manages to survive bullies,
„the plague‟ — and a jerk named Julian.”
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17. Time Riders: Gates of Rome by Alex
Scarrow
Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in
1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a
plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died
in a fire in 2026. But all three have been
given a second chance - to work for an
agency that no one knows exists. Its
purpose: to prevent time travel
destroying history ...Project Exodus - a
mission to transport 300 Americans from
2070 to 54AD to overthrow the Roman
Empire - has gone catastrophically wrong.
Half have arrived seventeen years earlier,
during the reign of Caligula. Liam goes to
investigate, but when Maddy and Sal
attempt to flee a kill-squad sent to hunt
down their field office, all of the
TimeRiders become trapped in the Roman
past.
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