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

What Are You Reading?

Try Top Ten Clues You're Clueless 

by Liz Czukas

The day before Christmas, money goes missing from a donation box at GoodFoods Market and Chloe and her five of her teenage co-workers, held in the break room until the police arrive, try to identify the real thief.

It's Christmas Eve, and high schooler Chloe has to work all day at the local supermarket, along with a quirky assortment of cashiers, stockers, and baggers-especially handsome Tyson, who she has a big crush on.

 Then the store manager discovers that someone has stolen nearly $10,000 from the Christmas charity box, and decides to hold all of the employees in the break room until the police arrive or someone confesses. 

These unusual circumstances lend themselves to weird conversations, supermarket games, romantic encounters, a diabetes scare for Chloe, and speculation on who is behind the theft  (Publishers Weekly review)

I Am Number Four Sequel

Finally - 

They caught Number One in Malaysia.

Number Two in England.

Number Three in Kenya.

And Number Eight in Florida.

They killed them all.

I am Number Seven.

I will Make Them Pay.

Call # YA LORE, PITTACUS

Go on A Road Trip!

Five strangers. 

Countless adventures.

One epic way to get lost.

Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named LEILA. 

She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car

 at the moment they need someone the most.

There's HUDSON, a small-town mechanic who is willing to throw away his dreams for true love. And BREE, a runaway who seizes every Tuesday-and a few stolen goods along the way. ELLIOT believes in happy endings...until his own life goes off-script. And SONIA worries that when she lost her boyfriend, she also lost the ability to love.

Hudson, Bree, Elliot and Sonia find a friend in Leila. And when Leila leaves them, their lives are forever changed. But it is during Leila's own 4,268-mile journey that she discovers the most important truth: sometimes, what you need most is right where you started. 

And maybe the only way to find what you're looking for is to get lost along the way.

Call #  YA ALSAID, ADI

End of the World??

 16-year-old Austin Szerba chronicles the end of the world as it begins in his small Iowa town...

Grasshopper Jungle 

by Andrew Smith

Austin narrates the end of humanity as he and his best friend Robby accidentally unleash an army of giant, unstoppable bugs and uncover the secrets of a decades-old experiment gone terribly wrong.

Call #  YA SMITH, ANDREW

Into the Wild Nerd Yonder!

Check out this book trailer for an Abe Lincoln 2015 nominee 

and then come in and pick it up!

Into the Wild Nerd Yonder

My Life on the Dork Side

by Julie Halpern

Call # YA HALPERN, JULIE

What if You FOUND a Baby?

Saving  Baby Doe

by Danette Vigilante

13-year-old Lionel Perez and his best friend, Anisa Torres, live in Brooklyn. One day, while trespassing in a nearby construction site, they discover an abandoned baby in a Porta-Potty. 

Lionel and Anisa spring into action and vow to protect Baby Doe, even when adults try to take matters out their hands.  But Lionel wants the baby to feel wanted and loved.  So

he becomes involved with some neighborhood boys who sell drugs. He knows this is a bad idea, but Lionel feels it's the only way he can earn money to provide for the baby, whom he plans to "kidnap". 

 The real challenge comes, though, when Lionel discovers the baby's mother and must make the hard decision whether to tell or keep this knowledge a secret.

Call # YA VIGILANTE, DANETTE

Country Music, Adventure and Romance!

Open Road Summer

by Emery Lord

After breaking up with her bad-news boyfriend, Reagan O’Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways behind.

Country superstar and Reagan's best friend, Lilah Montgomery, is nursing a broken heart of her own. Fortunately, Lilah’s 24-city tour is about to kick off, offering a perfect opportunity for a girls-only summer of break-up ballads and healing hearts. 

But when Matt Finch joins the tour as its opening act, his boy-next-door charm proves difficult for Reagan to resist, despite her vow to live a drama-free existence. 

This summer, Reagan and Lilah will navigate the ups and downs of fame and friendship as they come to see that giving your heart to the right person 

is always a risk worth taking. 

Call # YA LORD, EMERY

Get Ready to Laugh!

Don't Even Think About It!

How many times have you said that?  

In this book, if you think about it, everyone around you will know it, too!

We weren't always like this. We used to be average high school sophomores. Until our homeroom went for flu shots. We were prepared for some side effects. Maybe a headache. Maybe a sore arm. 

We definitely didn't expect to get telepathic powers.

 But suddenly we could hear what everyone was thinking. 

Our friends. 

Our parents. 

Our crushes. 

Now we all know that Tess is in love with her BFF, Teddy. 

That Mackenzie cheated on Cooper. 

That, um, Nurse Carmichael used to be a stripper.

Call # YA MLYNOWSKI, SARAH

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

Any Day Could Be Her Last...

All she wants is a normal life.

Broken by C. J. Lyons

All Scarlet asks for is a chance to attend high school - a chance to be just like everyone else.  But Scarlet can feel her heart beating out of control with each slammed locker and vicious taunt.

Is this normal?

Really? 

Yet there's more going on than she knows.  

Chronically ill Scarlet, with the help of her new friends, faces down bullies, endures her school-nurse mother's smothering over protectiveness, and eventually discovers the truth behind her illness--a truth that puts much more than her life at risk.

Call # YS LYONS, C.J.

Sequel to Dead End in Norvelt

Adventures from Norvelt continue in the Jack Gantos sequel:

 Whodunit this time?

 There's a murder of yet another old lady.  Is it old Mr. Spizz, who is on the lam after confessing to the murder of nine others? Could it be Mr. Huffer, the local undertaker?

Well,  Miss Volker enlists Jack to help her solve this mystery. Perhaps not the best decision-making by the duo, but then the Cuban Missile Crisis looms and, as Jack says, Bad choices don't matter anymore... Since were all going to be blown up anyway. 

 Jack ends up sailing their decrepit VW Beetle along the back roads of Tennessee and Virginia attempting to find an answer... Miss Volker ready with a sharpened harpoon on the roof rack. Join them on a wild and challenging road-trip, murder mystery, meditation on American history, and love story all in one.

Call # YA GANTOS, JACK

The Night that Changes Everything...

A missing girl.  A beautiful dress.  The night that changes everything.

Quiet misfit Rose doesn't expect to fall in love with the sleepy beach town of Leonora. Nor does she expect to become fast friends with beautiful Pearl Kelly. It's better not to get too attached when Rose and her father live on the road, driving from one place to the next whenever Dad gets itchy feet. But Rose can't resist the mysterious charms of the town or the popular girl, try as she might.

Pearl convinces Rose to visit Edie Baker, a renowned dressmaker, now a rumored witch. Together Rose and Edie hand-stitch an unforgettable dress of midnight blue for Rose 

to wear at the Harvest Festival--

a dress that will have long-lasting consequences on life in Leonora, a dress that will seal the fate of one of the girls.

Call # YA FOXLEE, KAREN

and 

YA AUDIOBOOK BO-CD FOXLEE, KAREN

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

Some of us LIKE to be Invisible!

From the cover of Invisible by Marni Bates:

I’m invisible at my high school and I’m fine with it.  It’s kind of inevitable with a name like Jane Smith.  But when the school newspaper staff insisted that I write a cover story, I decided to find out just how much scandal one geeky girl could uncover.

Except I never expected to find myself starting a fistfight, auditioning for the school’s Romeo and Juliet musical, running away with a Romeo  of my own, befriending the most popular girl in school, or trying to avoid one very cute photographer, who makes it impossible to be invisible.

Call # YA BATES, MARNI

The Lorian Story Continues...

The Garde are finally reunited, but do they have what it takes to win the war against the Mogadorians?

 Even though we have come together, we barely escaped from the Mogadorians with our lives. And now we're in hiding, trying to figure out our next move.

The six of us are powerful—but we're not yet strong enough to take on their entire army. We haven't discovered the full extent of our Legacies. We haven't learned to work together. And there's still so much that we don't know about the Elders or their plan for us. Time is running out, and there's only one thing we know for certain: We need to find Number Five before they do.

They caught Number One in Malaysia.

Number Two in England.

And Number Three in Kenya.

I am Number Four. I was supposed to be next.

But I'm still alive.

This battle is far from over.

The Fall of Five

Call # YA LORE, PITTACUS

Found Money...Lots of it!

Based on a true story...

Four best friends-Jonathan, Sam, Schulz, and Eric-spend their time in the suburbs of Munich hanging out, skateboarding, playing video games, and getting stoned and drunk.

When the young men enter a deserted house and find a stack of envelopes filled with money, they steal it, opening up countless possibilities for exhilaration and self-destruction. Initially giddy with their new found freedom and power, the boys consume everything on the McDonald's menu, splurge on drugs and alcohol, and show off their riches in public.

 Yet their sudden affluence leads them to betray one another and cross legal and ethical boundaries. 

Do they realize the negative impact of the stolen money on their lives? Guilt and paranoia overshadow this "every man's fantasy" of having everything, but then dealing with the inevitable consequences.

Call # MATTHEIS, PHILIPP

Modern Take on Shakespeare's The Tempest!

Banished from the school's popular crowd, form "it" girl Miranda Prospero finds herself in a brave new world: holding dominion amongst a rag-tag crew of geeks and misfits at the Hot-Dog Kabob stand in the food court of her local mall.

Miranda has to repay the money she earned with a tutoring service turned cheating scam. Unfortunately, that means she has to work in the bowels of the mall food court and endure the taunts of her former prep-school friends as she serves hot dogs.

 Due to a significant snowstorm, what begins as a surprise plan to celebrate her coworker Ariel's 17th birthday turns into a night of mischief and crime solving as the staff of the mall is stranded along with Miranda's clique of ex-friends. Miranda finds herself handcuffed to the cynical game-store employee, Caleb, who provides running commentary and acts as her social conscience while she attempts to seek revenge for Ariel's humiliation at the hands of the private-school crowd. 

The night turns dangerous when it becomes obvious that a robber is also stranded in the mall with them. 

What A Night! Can it get any Worse?

Call # YA ASKEW, KIM

  

Ready for some laughs?

Now that Tallulah Casey has been officially admitted to the Dother Hall performing arts program, she knows she must stay focused and ignore the boys at Woolfe Academy if she wants to win this year's grand prize for best student performance.

Sequel to Wuthering Tights!

Call # YA RENNISON, LOUISE  NEW

Secrets can Change You...

If I Lie

A dramatic and powerful novel thatexplores the gray space between truth and perception. Cheater. Traitor. Slut. Quinn's done the unthinkable: she kissed a guy who is not Carey, her boyfriend. And she got caught. Shunned by everyone she knows, Quinn loses her friends, her reputation, and her identity. Because Carey's not just any guy--he's a Marine who's serving overseas, and beloved by everyone in their small, military town. But Quinn didn't cheat. She could clear her name, but that would mean revealing secrets she's vowed to keep--secrets that aren't hers to share. So she stays silent, and waits for Carey to come home. Then Carey goes MIA, and Quinn must decide how far she'll go to protect her boyfriend…and her promise.