Waiting on Wednesday (4): The Lost Hero

"Waiting on" Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

This weeks selection:

The Lost Hero (Heros of Olympus, #1) by Rick Riordan

From: Hyperion Books for Children
Publication Date: October 12, 2010

Synopsis ( from Goodreads):

Jason has a problem. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she’s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.” What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea—except that everything seems very wrong.


Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he’s in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn’t recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on?


Leo has a way with tools. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. What’s troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper’s gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all—including Leo—related to a god

Waiting on Wednesday (2): Personal Demons

"Waiting on" Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

This week’s selection is:

Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers
From Tor/Macmillan
Publication Date: September 14, 2010

From Goodreads:

Frannie Cavanaugh is a good Catholic girl with a bit of a wicked streak. She's spent years keeping everyone at a distance—even her closest friends—and it seems her senior year will be more of the same...until Luc Cain enrolls in her class. No one knows where he came from, but Frannie can't seem to stay away from him. What she doesn't know is that Luc works in Acquisitions—for Hell—and she possesses a unique skill set that has the King of Hell tingling with anticipation. All Luc has to do is get her to sin, and he’s as tempting as they come. Frannie doesn’t stand a chance.

Unfortunately for Luc, Heaven has other plans, and the angel, Gabe, is going to do whatever it takes to make sure that Luc doesn’t get what he came for. And it isn't long before they find themselves fighting for more than just her soul.


But if Luc fails, there will be Hell to pay…for all of them.

 

Waiting on Wednesday: 13 to Life

 "Waiting on Wednesday" is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine where she features eagerly anticipated upcoming releases and here I will do the same! :-)

This week's selection is:

13 to Life by Shannon Delany
From St. Martin's Press
Publication Date: June 22, 2010

From Goodreads:

Something strange is stalking the small town of Junction…


When junior Jess Gillmansen gets called out of class by Guidance, she can only presume it’s for one of two reasons. Either they’ve finally figured out who wrote the scathing anti-jock editorial in the school newspaper or they’re hosting yet another intervention for her about her mom. Although far from expecting it, she’s relieved to discover Guidance just wants her to show a new student around—but he comes with issues of his own including a police escort.

The newest member of Junction High, Pietr Rusakova has secrets to hide--secrets that will bring big trouble to the small town of Junction—secrets including dramatic changes he’s undergoing that will surely end his life early.