Songs of Power by Hilari Bell. New York: Hyperion, 2000.   Imina is not sure who is trying to sabatoge the underwater colony where she lives and goes to school. What she does know is it is somehow related to her still developing magic skills.

Ages 12-14

Genre: Fantasy -magic powers; communicating with animals

Appealing aspects of this book – teen girls; peer relationships; underwater animal stories; futuristic fiction

Uses for this book in schools – examination of genre; native folktales across genres; examination of future-of-the-world theories across genres

Other books by this author:
The Goblin Wood
Matter of Profit
Navohar

To learn more about Hilari Bell visit her page at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America website: http://www.sfwa.org/members/bell/index.html

Recommendations:
Book Report, March 2000
School Library Journal, May 2000
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, April, 2000