Each year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great gifts. The following are young adult books published in 2016.
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Sometimes you pick up a book that has the right elements but just doesn’t resonate. That was the case with E. Katherine Kottaras’ “The Best Possible Answer.”
Michaela MacColl is known for taking famous writers and putting them into mysteries — her most recent, “Secrets in the Snow” features Jane Austen.
I began “Moon Chosen” with a lot of hope. P.C. Cast is an author known for sweeping series. Unfortunately, “Moon Chosen” wasn’t for me, but it might be for you.
What would happen if all your memories disappeared every 12 years? What would you do? In Sharon Cameron’s “The Forgetting” those questions are answered.
I have little knowledge of the video game franchise Assassin’s Creed, but Matthew J. Kirby changed that with “Last Descendants,” which is based on the games.
Mary Hooper’s “Poppy” is my kind of book — historical fiction set during wartime, featuring a strong protagonist. It’s a mix of “Downton Abbey” and PBS’s “Crimson Field.”
“All We Have Left,” by Wendy Mills, is a deeply moving YA novel that tells the stories of two girls whose lives are greatly impacted by the Sept. 11 attacks.
“Beauty and the Clockwork Beast” is yet another book in Shadow Mountain’s Proper Romance line. What comes as a surprised is the use of otherworldly characters in this interpretation of a classic tale.
What if Vlad the Impaler had been a woman? That’s the question Kiersten White explores in the Conquerors Saga. “And I Darken” is the first book in the trilogy.