This month will be one devoted to our love of Harry Potter!
We will be featuring everything from book recommendations and gift guides to book reviews and love letters to characters. But what’s more, we will be taking a trip back through the pensieve to rediscover the magic of this boy wizard and the many adventures we had growing up.
Here at YABC, we miss the wizarding world, thrilled that J.K. Rowling has kept the magic alive this year, eager to celebrate Harry Potter’s birthday, and everything else we so admire about this series.
So join us as we travel back through the pensieve this month to have a few more adventures in this wizarding world!
This week’s special post is Five Books To Read If You’re Slytherin!!
One of our awesome staff reviewers, Eden, has chosen the following five books to read!!
Check out her awesome list!!
Slytherin are. . .
Ambitious.
Clever.
Proud.
Cunning.
Resourceful.
Below are suggestions for books that Slytherins are sure to enjoy, or for members of the other Houses who would like to get inside their cunning counterparts’ heads for a short while.
Project Cain by Geoffrey Girard – http://www.yabookscentral.com/yafiction/15984-project-cain
Fifteen-year-old Jeff Jacobson had never heard of Jeffrey Dahmer, the infamous serial killer who brutally murdered seventeen people more than twenty years ago. But Jeff’s life changes forever when the man he’d thought was his father hands him a government file telling him he was constructed in a laboratory only seven years ago, part of a top-secret government cloning experiment called ‘Project CAIN’.
There, he was created entirely from Jeffrey Dahmer’s DNA. There are others like Jeff—those genetically engineered directly from the most notorious murderers of all time: The Son of Sam, The Boston Strangler, Ted Bundy . . . even other Jeffrey Dahmer clones. Some raised, like Jeff, in caring family environments; others within homes that mimicked the horrific early lives of the men they were created from.
When the most dangerous boys are set free by the geneticist who created them, the summer of killing begins. Worse, these same teens now hold a secret weapon even more dangerous than the terrible evil they carry within. Only Jeff can help track the clones down before it’s too late. But will he catch the ‘monsters’ before becoming one himself?
A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
Addictively dark and twisted, the latest groundbreaking novel from Mindy McGinnis explores the depths of madness within all of us. Grace Mae has been imprisoned in a mental institution for crimes committed against her. There Grace will be molded into an obedient lady, one without an inconveniently pregnancy. However, Grace gets taken under the wing of a doctor who takes her along to crime scenes that they attempt to solve together with the fledgling practice of criminal psychology. A MADNESS SO DISCREET has a unique style of writing and page-turning suspense; you won’t be able to put it down. Discover the hidden secrets of Grace’s past and present, and follow the plot’s dark and twisted turns alongside a strangely appealing criminal psychologist. Not for the faint of heart, MADNESS takes readers into the darkest depths of asylum life, violent crime, and domestic abuse. Highly recommended for those looking for thrilling historical fiction.
The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie – http://www.yabookscentral.com/yafiction/19845-the-abyss-surrounds-us
For Cassandra Leung, bossing around sea monsters is just the family business. She’s been a Reckoner trainer-in-training ever since she could walk, raising the genetically-engineered beasts to defend ships as they cross the pirate-infested NeoPacific. But when the pirate queen Santa Elena swoops in on Cas’s first solo mission and snatches her from the bloodstained decks, Cas’s dream of being a full-time trainer seems dead in the water.
There’s no time to mourn. Waiting for her on the pirate ship is an unhatched Reckoner pup. Santa Elena wants to take back the seas with a monster of her own, and she needs a proper trainer to do it. She orders Cas to raise the pup, make sure he imprints on her ship, and, when the time comes, teach him to fight for the pirates. If Cas fails, her blood will be the next to paint the sea.
But Cas has fought pirates her entire life. And she’s not about to stop.
Wink Poppy Midnight by April Tsucholke – http://www.yabookscentral.com/yafiction/19716-wink-poppy-midnight
Every story needs a hero.
Every story needs a villain.
Every story needs a secret.
Wink is the odd, mysterious neighbor girl, wild red hair and freckles. Poppy is the blond bully and the beautiful, manipulative high school queen bee. Midnight is the sweet, uncertain boy caught between them. Wink. Poppy. Midnight. Two girls. One boy. Three voices that burst onto the page in short, sharp, bewitching chapters, and spiral swiftly and inexorably toward something terrible or tricky or tremendous.
What really happened?
Someone knows.
Someone is lying.
The Cemetery Boys by Heather Brewer
Part Hitchcock, part Hinton, this first-ever stand-alone novel from Heather Brewer, New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series, uses classic horror elements to tell a darkly funny coming-of-age story about the dangerous power of belief and the cost of blind loyalty. When Stephen’s dad says they’re moving, Stephen knows it’s pointless to argue. They’re broke from paying Mom’s hospital bills, and now the only option left is to live with Stephen’s grandmother in Spencer, a backward small town that’s like something out of The Twilight Zone. Population: 814. Stephen’s summer starts looking up when he meets punk girl Cara and her charismatic twin brother, Devon. With Cara, he feels safe and understood—and yeah, okay, she’s totally hot. In Devon and his group, he sees a chance at making real friends. Only, as the summer presses on, and harmless nights hanging out in the cemetery take a darker turn, Stephen starts to suspect that Devon is less a friend than a leader. And he might be leading them to a very sinister end.
I read A Madness so Discreet and I have The Abyss Surrounds Us coming. Love this post. Need to see the other houses done. I’m Ravenclaw 😉