For tomorrow’s radio show, Heinzie has created another round of her patented young adult book game.
If you’ve never played, the way it works is that she looks up descriptions of 4 young adult titles, then makes up a description for a fifth. Your job is to pick out the Heinz original.
Below are the titles and descriptions used in tomorrow’s show. See if you can pick it out, then join us tomorrow and see if yous gots smarts.
-H.S.
Let the Game Begin!
1.) Leena Thomas’s senior year at boarding school starts with a cruel shock: Frost House, the cozy Victorian dorm where she and her best friends chose to live, has been assigned an unexpected roommate—confrontational, eccentric Celeste Lazar and her brother David.
As classes get under way, strange happenings begin to bedevil Frost House—frames mys-teriously falling off walls, doors locking by themselves, furniture toppling over. Celeste blames the housemates, convinced they want to scare her into leaving. And while Leena tries to play peacekeeper between her best friends and new roommate, soon the mysterious happenings in the dorm, an intense triangle between Leena, Celeste, and David, and the reawakening of childhood fears all push Leena to take increasingly desperate measures to feel safe. But does the threat lie with her new roommate, within Leena’s own mind . . . or in Frost House itself?
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2.) In “Old America” the 19th century was a time of westward movement and opportunity for people called Pioneers. Now, in the 25th century, Pioneers has taken on a new meaning. Saylan is part of a constantly traveling group called the Pickens. Every 5 years they travel 200 gruesome miles to the same 10 pre-established settlements with makeshift homes to upkeep the farms and keep order to the society. The Elders have set the strict rules of working to earn your keep for the sole reason of keeping the community together.
The ever rebellious Saylan, on the other hand, is constantly sneaking off and straying from the group only to result in her further alienation. It’s not until Saylan sees a bright, shining light amongst the distant mountains that all trust is broken amongst the community and life as the Pickens’ know it could be in jeopardy. Saylan flees the settlement one cold night with her faithful life-long friend Deryn and finds not only a life, but other survivors that will change the way she has come to know the “New World.”
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3.) Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That’s fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother, Lugh, is around. But when a monster sandstorm arrives bearing four cloaked horsemen, Saba’s world is shattered. Lugh is captured, and Saba embarks on a quest to get him back.
Suddenly thrown into the lawless, ugly reality of the world outside of desolate Silverlake, Saba discovers she is a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent—and she has the power to take down a corrupt society from the inside. Teamed up with a handsome daredevil named Jack and a gang of girl revolutionaries called the Free Hawks, Saba stages a showdown that will change the course of her own civilization.
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4.) Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness. Elisa is the chosen one. But she is also the younger of two princesses. The one who has never done anything remarkable, and can’t see how she ever will.
Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king—a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs her to be the chosen one, not a failure of a princess.
And he’s not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies, seething with dark magic, are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people’s savior, and he looks at her in a way that no man has ever looked at her before. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that is at stake.
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5.) Ava is welcomed home from the hospital by a doting mother, lively friends, and a crush finally beginning to show interest. There’s only one problem: Ava can’t remember any of them – and can’t shake the eerie feeling that she’s not who they say she is.
Ava struggles to break through her amnesiac haze as she goes through the motions of high-school life, but the memories that surface take place in a very different world, where Ava and familiar-faced friends are under constant scrutiny and no one can be trusted. Ava doesn’t know what to make of these visions, or of the boy who is at the center of them all, until he reappears in her life and offers answers . . . but only in exchange for her trust.