Teaser Tuesday: Peter Green and the Unliving Academy by Angelina Allsop and The Pioneer by Bridget Tyler

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Books and a Beat. Bloggers choose two 

sentences out of our current read to pique others' curiosity.

Peter Green and the Unliving Academy by Angelina Allsop

 

Fourteen-year-old Peter Green can't remember how he died.

All he has are his pajamas, a silk tie, and a one-way bus ticket to Mrs. Battisworth's Academy and Haven for Unliving Boys and Girls, a strange and spooky school for dead orphans like himself. But that's all he needs: the Unliving Academy has everything, from vampires in the hallways, to monsters in the cafeteria, to ghosts in the basement.

And that's just the teachers; the students are far stranger.

As Pete learns to fit in with his new supernatural schoolmates, he starts to discover his own uniquely undead abilities, and even begins enjoying his life after death...but he just can't shake the feeling that he's forgotten something (or somebody!) important.

Somebody he left behind in the land of the living.

Somebody he loved very much.

Somebody who's in terrible danger.

Teaser: 

When Pete could look at the animals without feeling like he was going to pass out, he saw that the smallest wolf was a good food taller than him. The biggest had to crouch his head down to not hit the top of his cage, though when his rage broke, he snarled madly and slammed his head on the roof of his cage.

Jenn's:

The Pioneer by Bridget Tyler
 

When Jo steps onto Tau Ceti E, it should be the happiest moment of her life. After all, she’s been training for as long as she can remember to be a cadet pilot in the International Space Agency. She’s dreamed of the day she and her family would leave Earth forever and begin life as pioneers on a new planet.

But now she can’t stop thinking of everything that has gone wrong on their mission: the terrible accident that nearly destroyed their craft, that set their voyage back years, that killed her brother, that left her unable to fly…

As Jo struggles to live with her grief and figure out who she’s going to be now, she falls in love with her new world. It isn’t hard. Jo’s team is camped out by a pristine, tumbling river at the base of a mountain range that looks like huge prisms buried in the prairie. The soaring crystal peaks transform every sunset into rainbows full of colors human eyes have never seen before. And that’s just the beginning. Tau offers Jo and her family a lifetime of beauty and adventure.

Jo throws herself into helping her team, lead by her commander mother, establish their community on this amazing new world. But just when she starts to feel like her old self again, she uncovers a devastating secret her mother has been keeping from her people. A secret that could destroy her family’s pioneering dreams…if they survive that long.

With the fate of the pioneers in her hands, Jo must decide how far she’s willing to go to expose the truth — before the truth destroys them all.

Teaser: 
"There's a hull breach blocking our access to the engine room" she grits her teeth. " No more questions, Jo. You've got less than twelve minutes before core breach. Get moving." 
"What about you?"
"We can't get to the escape pods, either." Mom says. She swallows hard. "I love you, Now go!"