Teaser Tuesday #7: A Little Princess by Francess Hodgson Burnett

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 

Synopsis: Sara Crewe leads a lavish lifestyle at Miss Minchin's boarding school. But when Sara's father dies, leaving her a poor orphan, Miss Minchin forces her to work very hard to earn her stay in a dingy attic. Her vivid imagination, strong will, and fierce determination help Sara to escape her dreadful life in the attic. See how Sara overcomes her hardships and finds happiness!

Teaser: "Soldiers do not complain, am not going to do it. I will pretend that his is part of a war. I am a prisoner in the enemy's camp"
p. 65, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett 
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Teaser Tuesday #6: Bewitched in Oz by Laura J Burns

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 

Synopsis: When Zerie Greenapple's friend is arrested for using her magic, she knows she must do everything she can to protect her own magic...even if it means traversing the dangerous landscapes of Oz and encountering strange creatures along the way. Zerie and two friends set out to find Glinda the Good, in the hope that she can help them defeat the evil Princess Ozma. But what they experience on their journey might just tear them apart. Will magic be enough to save these three friends?

Teaser: Just because people are in the same family doesn't mean they behave the same way, or think the same things, or even tell each other what they're doing. Ozma wouldn't assume that the whole family was guilty just because one person was using magic. 
p. 199, Bewitched in Oz by Laura J Burns
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Teaser Tuesday #5: Blind Spot by Laura Ellen

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 

Synopsis: There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.

Seventeen-year-old Tricia Farni’s body floated to the surface of Alaska’s Birch River six months after the night she disappeared. The night Roz Hart had a fight with her. The night Roz can’t remember. Roz, who struggles with macular degeneration, is used to assembling fragments to make sense of the world around her. But this time it’s her memory that needs piecing together—to clear her name . . . to find a murderer.

This unflinchingly emotional novel is written in the powerful first-person voice of a legally blind teen who just wants to be like everyone else.

Teaser:
Missy and Fritz started telling Tricia's bizarre story at school on Monday. Like a lit cigarette dropped into dry grass, the rumor quickly spread and took on a life of its own. 
p299, Blind Spot by Laura Ellen
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Teaser Tuesday #4: Star wolf Kathryn Lasky

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 

A great cold has seized the Beyond. The warmth of summer, the smell of sweet grass and the great caribou migrations are distant memories. Now the wolves know only ice, dark, snow and endless cold. The order that kept the wolf clans strong for thousands of years has broken down completely.

The wolves have only one chance for survival. They must find their way to a new land, a land of warmth and summer. But the journey will take them over a frozen sea and through thousands of miles of perilous territory. Will the wolves trust young Faolan to lead them? 

Teaser: 
Rags had seen many awful thing sin his life in the Outermost, but for the first time, he was truly frightened. As he watched the mad wolf bellow at the moon, it was as if a trickle of light had seeped into his head and illuminated his brain. He will lead us to our death because of his vengeance. He is as blind as an old wolf with the milk-eye sickness, this one. As dumb a brute as a musk ox. 
p95, Star Wolf by Kathryn Lasky
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Teaser Tuesday #3: The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 

An action-packed, blood-soaked, futuristic debut thriller set in a world where the murder rate is higher than the birthrate. For fans of Moira Young’s Dust Lands series, La Femme Nikita, and the movie Hanna.

Meadow Woodson, a fifteen-year-old girl who has been trained by her father to fight, to kill, and to survive in any situation, lives with her family on a houseboat in Florida. The state is controlled by The Murder Complex, an organization that tracks the population with precision.

The plot starts to thicken when Meadow meets Zephyr James, who is—although he doesn’t know it—one of the MC’s programmed assassins. Is their meeting a coincidence? Destiny? Or part of a terrifying strategy? And will Zephyr keep Meadow from discovering the haunting truth about her family?

Teaser: 

"Do it" she says through tears "I want to die. Do it. Please. We don't have a choice" 

"It'll be quick," i whisper. Then I drive the dagger right into her heart. 

p , The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings
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Teaser Tuesday #2: Letting Ana Go

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 

In the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky, a harrowing account of anorexia and addiction.

She was a good girl from a good family, with everything she could want or need. But below the surface, she felt like she could never be good enough. Like she could never live up to the expectations that surrounded her. Like she couldn’t do anything to make a change.

But there was one thing she could control completely: how much she ate. The less she ate, the better—stronger—she felt.

But it’s a dangerous game, and there is such a thing as going too far…

Her innermost thoughts and feelings are chronicled in the diary she left behind.

Teaser: 

"Wednesday, October 17
Weight: 110

I hate myself right now.
Everything was going great today. Got up this morning and did a hard forty five-minute run. I weighed in a pound lighter than i was on Sunday, the ate an egg, a plum, and a spoonful of peanut butter for breakfast. At lunch I only had a salad, and then Mom grilled fish for dinner and i had a few pieces of broccoli. Then I was upstairs doing my homework and I smelled it: cookies."
 p 211, Letting Ana Go by Anonymous

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Teaser Tuesday #1

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

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"At the back of the building is a large parking lot, filled with military trucks. Some have numeral 2 printed on the side, others 3, which i'm guessing represents the town the prisoners will be taken to after they've been registered." 
p 145, Wings by Elizabeth Richards