Abe Lincoln 2015 is over...

And the winner is...

Half-Korean sophomore Park Sheridan is getting through high school by lying low, never raising his hand in class, and avoiding the kids he grew up with. 

Then new girl Eleanor gets on the bus. Tall, with bright red hair and a dress code all her own, she’s an instant target. Too nice not to let her sit next to him, Park is alternately resentful and guilty for not being kinder to her. When he realizes she’s reading his comics over his shoulder, a silent friendship is born. 

And slowly, tantalizingly, something more. 

Rowell has a gift for showing what Eleanor and Park, who tell the story in alternating segments, like and admire about each other. Their love is believable and thrilling, but it isn’t simple: Eleanor’s family is broke, and her stepfather abuses her mother. When the situation turns dangerous, Rowell keeps things surprising, and the solution—imperfect but believable—maintains the novel’s delicate balance of light and dark.  - -Publishers' Weekly Review

Call # YA ROWELL, RAINBOW 

The Lonely Hearts Club sequel

When Penny Lane started The Lonely Hearts Club, the goal was simple: to show that girls didn't need to define themselves by how guys looked at them, and didn't have to value boyfriends over everything else. 

 Penny thought she'd be an outcast for life...but then the club became far more popular than she ever imagined it would be.

But what happens when the girl who never thought she'd date a good guy suddenly finds herself dating a great one?  

She doesn't need a boyfriend, but she wants it to work out with this particular boyfriend.  And he wants it to work out with her.

Penny needs to figure out how to balance what she wants with what everyone else wants.  She struggles to get to the heart of how hard relationships can be and why they are sometimes worth all the drama and comedy they create.

We Can Work It Out

Call #  YA EULBERG, ELIZABETH

What If...

...there's a place where the lost go to be found?

Would you go there?

Jam Gallahue is unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve. Her grief leads her parents to send her to The Wooden Barn, a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont. Here, Jam is selected to attend Mrs. Q.'s Special Topics English class where a journal-writing assignment  transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar.  At first, Jam and the four other classmates, all of whom have endured debilitating losses,  are reluctant to write in the journal, but when they begin to write in their pages, they are transported to their former lives, at least for a while. Call # YA WOLITZER, MEG

Happy in Slackerville!

Leon is perfectly satisfied being a slacker,

 in fact, he's embraced it.

But when Anna says she might be moving back from England,k Leon is desperate to get his act together.  Desperate enough to ask his best friend, Stan, for help.

Stan's orders?  Listen to the whole audiobook of Moby Dick.  Find the elusive white grape Slushee.  Join the yearbook committee.  And go out with a popular girl.

As each strange task takes him farther from slackerville,

 Leon has to wonder if maybe Stan really does have unholy powers after all...

Play Me Backwards

by Adam Selzer

Call # YA SELZER, ADAM

Summer Love?

It's gonna be an interesting summer!

To avoid running into her ex-boyfriend, a teenage girl leaves town to work the summer at a Renaissance fair.  All of Rowena Duncan's summer plans went kaput when she discovered her boyfriend was two-timing her. Hanging with her friends at the beach and working at a local restaurant was no longer an option, since those are places she would assuredly see him. 

Landing a job she finds online, Rowena winds up as a face painter at a Renaissance fair, far from civilization and reliable cellphone reception.  But , the place is rich with artists and performers. Her high-powered parents, however, want her to follow in their white-collar footsteps and only view the job as a topic for a standout college essay. 

Rowena settles in quickly thanks to sweet and attentive Will, a witty, whip-cracking magician who shows her the ropes. But it's the heart-stopping, black-haired, blue-eyed knight Christian who keeps Rowena's adrenaline pumping and soon she finds herself wrestling with Cupid all over again.  - Kirkus Reviews

Call # YA WETTERSTEN, LAURA

Mystery? Romance?

Little Blue Lies

by Chris Lynch

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YA LYNCH, CHRIS

Senior Year"s Gonna Be A Killer!

When student reporter, Millie, finds the dead body of the football team's coach, she is determined to beat rival reporter Vivienne to the story, especially since Viv keeps writing articles implicating Millie's dad: the assistant coach, mayor, and now lead suspect. 

Coach Killdare wasn't popular, though, and Millie's suspects encompass everyone from the pushover principal to the furious former quarterback. One of these suspects, current QB and handsome enigma Chase Albright, also seems to be investigating, despite Millie's attempts to shake him off.

 With only a stack of old Nancy Drew books to guide her, Millie sets out to solve the murder and save her father and try not to implicate Chase, who, Millie discovers, has a curious and elusive past...

Call # YA FANTASKEY, BETH

Going Away to College?

A novel about friendship, first loves, and random room assignments!

Elizabeth , EB for short, lives in New Jersey and is gearing up to head across the country to study landscape architecture at Berkeley in the fall.  She's leaving her mom, friends, and boyfriend (of whom she's not too interested in anymore) behind, and has secret hopes of finding her gay father, who lives in San Francisco and owns an art gallery.

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Lauren Cole is the oldest of six and an incoming freshman at Berkeley, too.  Though she's going on scholarship, she's been saving her earnings from her 2 jobs to pay for any extras she may need.  She requested a SINGLE room to have some much desired privacy, but the scholarship didn't cover that request.  Now she and EB have been assigned as roommates. 

The two future roommates get to know each other over the summer through emails filled with  mis-communications and surprisingly intimate connections. But changes at home are making life confusing for both girls, too!

Call # YA ZARR, SARA

Poor, Miserable April :(

April Sinclair would like to blame someone for her mostly miserable life, and since her parents won't take responsibility, she blames the stork. Her teenage years kick off with a humiliating 13th birthday party, where one of her younger sisters reveals April's crush and the other puts on a show of peeing behind a tree like a boy.

April can't wait to disown her loony family for a few weeks of summer camp 

with her two best friends.

 Meanwhile, she gets her first two kisses--from two different boys--and isn't sure how she feels about either one. But she's sure how she feels (horrified) when her parents cancel her camp plans in lieu of a family RV trip. Is there any silver lining to her summer?


Call #  YA FRIEDMAN, LAURIE

Do You Believe in Ghosts?

Well, Jeff didn't believe in ghosts either until he moved to California and started attending  Whitestone Academy.

Life After Theft
by Aprilynne Pike

Jeff and his family have just moved from Phoenix to Santa Monica, where he now attends a posh private school haunted by a ghost only he can see: Kimberlee Schaffer, once Whitestone Academy's queen bee. 

Jeff learns that Kimberlee, who drowned more than a year ago, was a serious kleptomaniac who had stolen from virtually every student and teacher at the school, as well as exclusive, expensive stores. Her ghost is unable to move on because she wants to return the stolen goods to their owners but ghosts can't physically move objects. 

So Jeff becomes her "hands", packaging and returning the items with an I'm Sorry sticker with a red rose on them.  

I'm Sorry
But soon everyone wants to know how all their items were returned and who did it.

Jeff's new girlfriend, Sera, knows it's Kimberlee, but how could it be?  To top it off, Jeff discovers Sera and Kimberlee had a seriously BAD past...and it would not be good if Sera found out Jeff was helping Kimberlee.

Call #  YA PIKE, APRILYNNE

(also available as a downloadable ebook)

Friend or Back Stabber?

Book 4 in THE IVY series

Callie Andrews returns from spring break to find herself facing expulsion. 

Someone has framed her as the author of a series of anonymous articles vilifying an elite social club and now, unless she can prove her innocence, she can kiss her college education good-bye. 

So who is the Ivy Insider?

Call # YA KUNZE, LAUREN NEW

Watch Out!

In this modern twist on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Harper is surprised by tumbling into an intense romance with Logan, a newcomer to her quiet, northwest Washington high school.

But soon Logan's sinister twin, Daemon,is pulling them apart.

Oh, and what exactly brought them to THIS town?

Call # YA  HUBBARD, MANDY NEW

Fresh Start

In the two years since 16-year-old Colby's mother died, Colby's grades have slipped, and her father's nonstop work as a trucker leaves her to fend for herself most of the time. When Colby's girlfriend dumps her for a guy, it's the last straw; Colby is distraught and defensive, and she further isolates herself by avoiding the gay-straight alliance meetings at school as well as her best friend Van. Things begin to change for the better when she adopts and forms an intense attachment to a three-legged stray dog. Colby befriends a vet and finds a new love interest, but neither of the girls has come out to her parents, and Colby is reluctant to open her heart again.

From the Author of the L.A. Candy Novels!

In Hollywood, fame can be found on every corner and behind any door.  You just have to know where to look for it. Nineteen-year-old Madison Parker made a name for herself as best frenemy of nice-girl-next-door, Jane Roberts on the hot reality show L.A. Candy. 

Now Madison's ready for her turn in the spotlight, and she'll stop at nothing to get it.  Sure, she's the star of a new show, but with backstabbing friends and suspicious family members trying to bring her down, Madison has her work cut out for her.

Plus - 

There's a new girl in "reality" town...aspiring actress Cameron Curtis, the daughter of Hollywood royalty.  She is a lot more experienced at playing the FAME GAME!

When the camera is rolling, whose star will shine brighter??