PIRATE CINEMA by Cory Doctorow

Set in the near future in England, 16-year-old Trent spends his time downloading and editing videos to create his own message.  Unfortunately, this is illegal.  He is caught, and his punishment consists of turning off the Internet for his entire family.   This means his sister must quit school, his mother cannot get her proper medication, and his father loses his job.  Trent is so upset he runs away to live in London where he falls in with a group of like-minded individuals who are trying to change these laws that they feel are unfair. 

This is an interesting book that raises issues relevant to our world today. 

THE DIVINERS by Libba Bray

In 1926, Evie is sent from her small town home in Ohio to live with her uncle in New York City after a "practical joke" backfires.  Her Uncle Will, who runs a museum in New York City dedicated to the occult, is soon called on by the police to help catch a serial murderer, and Evie joins in trying to catch the murderer before he can strike again.  We soon learn that Evie has a special power to know what a person is thinking, what he has seen, what he has experienced by holding an object that person owns.  This power is valuable in trying to catch the murderer.  Other intriguing characters in the book include a Ziegfeld girl, a bootlegger, and a numbers runner.  Romance, action, and suspense abound in this well written first volume of a planned trilogy.

Readers who enjoyed Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty series will definitely want to read this.  Like that series, The Diviners is historical fiction with a supernatural element.  Highly recommended.