Will a Change Make Everything Better?

Allie is sure that surgery is the answer.

Once she has it, she will be perfect.

Everything will change. Her life would be different. And better.

She'd be more confident, popular, and get invited everywhere by guys who look like Josh Ryan.

People would never laugh behind her back, or in front of it...

She'd be free of her "prison"  once and for all!

Is It Worth Being in the Annum Guard?

Amanda Obermann. Code name Iris.

It's Testing Day. The day that comes without warning, the day when all juniors and seniors at The Peel Academy undergo a series of intense physical and psychological tests to see if they're ready to graduate and become government operatives. Amanda and her boyfriend Abe are top students, and they've just endured thirty-six hours of testing. But they're juniors and don't expect to graduate. That'll happen next year, when they plan to join the CIA--together.

But when the graduates are announced, the results are shocking. Amanda has been chosen--the first junior in decades. And she receives the opportunity of a lifetime: to join a secret government organization called the Annum Guard and travel through time to change the course of history. 

But in order to become the Eighth Guardian in this exclusive group, Amanda must say good-bye to everything--her name, her family, and even Abe--FOREVER.Who is really behind the Annum Guard? And can she trust them with her life?

The Eighth Guardian

by Meredith McCardle

Call # YA MCCARDLE, MEREDITH

Romance or Save the World

The Here and Now

by Anne Brashares

Prenna and her doctor mom are not your average immigrants: they have immigrated to New York from the 2090s, a future of climate-change extremes and mosquito-borne plagues that wipe out entire families and civilizations. 

The few who have survived the plagues and the journey back to 2010 have been charged with two challenges: change the course of environmental history and assimilate into the culture without disclosing their origins or becoming intimate with the natives.

When an elderly homeless man warns Prenna that she and Ethan must prevent a murder on May 17, 2014 just days away, Prenna realizes she must defy the community and its counselors for civilization's greater good.

Call # YA BRASHARES, ANN

Beginning of Everything?

Golden boy Ezra Faulkner seemed to lose it all: In one spectacular night, a reckless driver shatters Ezra's knee, his athletic career, and his social life.

No longer a front-runner for Homecoming King, Ezra finds himself at the table of misfits, where he encounters new girl Cassidy Thorpe. Cassidy is unlike anyone Ezra's ever met - achingly effortless and fiercely intelligent.

Together, Ezra and Cassidy discover flash mobs, buried treasure, and a poodle that might just be the reincarnation of Jay Gatsby. But as Ezra dives into his new studies, new friendships, and new love, he learns that some people, like books, are easy to misread. And now he must consider: If one's singular tragedy has already hit, what happens when more misfortune strikes?

The Beginning of Everything

by Robyn Schneider

Call #  YA SCHNEIDER, ROBYN

A Little Spooky!

Is there Wi-fi beyond the grave?

Jason has met the perfect girl: Lacey

She loves Indie rock.

Plays guitar, quotes cheesy 80's films.

Just 1 problem...

According to multiple newspapers, Lacey, who Jason has spent hours chatting with online, apparently died a year earlier!

Soon Jason finds himself caught in a disturbing mystery.  Has he found a way to Facebook message the dead?  Or is someone playing a dangerous trick on him?  Either way, Jason has to uncover the truth before it's time for him to meet Lacey...I.T.A.L.

 (in the afterlife!)

Call #  YA BARON, RUTH

Beth Kephart's newest teen novel: 

 Small Damages

It's senior year, and while Kenzie should be looking forward to prom and starting college in the fall, she discovers she's pregnant. Her determination to keep her baby is something her boyfriend and mother do not understand. So she is sent to Spain, where she will live out her pregnancy, and her baby will be adopted by a Spanish couple. No one will ever know.

Alone and resentful in a foreign country, Kenzie is at first sullen and difficult. But as she gets to know Estela, the stubborn old cook, and Esteban, the mysterious young man who cares for the horses, she begins to open her eyes, and her heart, to the beauty that is all around her, and inside her. Kenzie realizes she has some serious choices to make--choices about life, love, and home.

Lyrically told in a way that makes the heat, the colors, and the smells of Spain feel alive, Small Damages is a feast for the heart and the soul, and a coming-of-age novel not easily forgotten.