Mystery and Suspense!

Sequel to Jane Casey's How to Fall

Jess Tennant has now been living in a tiny town on the English seaside for 3 months, and is just beginning to relax and think of it as home after a traumatic summer.

 But on Halloween night,  Seb Dawson is left for dead by the side of the road with a serious head injury. 

Jess might not have liked Seb much, but surely he didn't deserve this. The police don't seem to be taking the attack very seriously, but Jess can't just let it go, and she takes matters into her own hands. 

As she investigates, Jess discovers that Seb was involved in some very dangerous games. A secret predator around girls, he would do whatever it took to abuse them...lying,blackmail, and even spiking drinks. 

Could a group of vengeful victims be behind his attack? Or is there someone else with a grudge against Seb, who will stop at nothing to silence him?

Call # YA CASEY, JANE

Secrecy, Jealousy, Courage

Double Exposure

by Bridget Birdsall

Fifteen-year-old Alyx Atlas starts school in a new state with a new identity--as a girl--but a bully on the basketball court threatens to reveal that Alyx is an intersex person, which could disqualify Alyx and the team from playing in the state championship game. Will Alyx find the courage to stand up for the truth of her personhood, or will she do what she's always done - run away? Whatever she decides, she knows there's much more at stake than a championship win Call # YA BIRDSALL, BRIDGET

Dark, Gritty, Dangerous

The Lure tells the story of fifteen-year-old Blaise Montgomery, who lives on the dangerous outskirts of Washington, DC, where a stray bullet can steal a life on the way to school and death lurks around every corner. Drugs and violence are the only way to survive, so Blaise and her friends turn to gangs for safety, money, and love. And when Blaise is accepted into one of the toughest gangs in the city, she’s finally part of a crew. 

A family.

But as Blaise is put in increasingly dangerous situations—particularly as her gang’s newest lure—she begins to see that there’s more to lose than she ever realized. Should Blaise continue to follow the only path she’s ever known, or cut and run?

Call # YA EWING, LYNNE

Sometimes YOU Have To Be Your Own Hero

Sixteen-year-old Sarah Meadows longs for "normal." Born with a port wine stain covering half her face, all her life she’s been plagued by stares, giggles, bullying, and disgust. But when she’s abducted on the way home from school, Sarah is forced to uncover the courage she never knew she had, become a hero rather than a victim, and learn to look beyond her face to find the beauty and strength she has inside.

It’s that—or succumb to a killer.

Call # YA RAINFIELD, CHERYL

Who do you blame?

Ben could date anyone he wants, but he only has eyes for the new girl — sarcastic free-spirit, Ani. Luckily for Ben, Ani wants him too. She’s everything Ben could ever imagine. Everything he could ever want.

But that all changes after the party. The one Ben misses. The one Ani goes to alone.

Now Ani isn’t the girl she used to be, and Ben can’t sort out the truth from the lies. What really happened, and who is to blame?

Ben wants to help her, but she refuses to be helped. The more she pushes Ben away, the more he wonders if there’s anything he can do to save the girl he loves.

Call #: YA Desir, C.  

Wild new read!

Wild Cards

by

Simone Elkeles

After getting kicked out of boarding school, bad boy Derek Fitzpatrick has no choice but to live with his ditzy stepmother while his military dad is deployed. Things quickly go from bad to worse when he finds out she plans to move them back to her childhood home in Illinois. Derek’s counting the days before he can be on his own, and the last thing he needs is to get involved with someone else’s family drama.

Ashtyn Parker knows one thing for certain, people you care about leave without a backward glance. A football scholarship would finally give her the chance to leave. So she pours everything into winning a state championship, until her boyfriend and star quarterback betrays them all by joining their rival team. Ashtyn needs a new game plan, but it requires trusting Derek, someone she barely knows, someone born to break the rules. Is she willing to put her heart on the line to try and win it all?

Call #: YA Elkeles, Simone NEW

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

Could That Be Me?

What would you do if you saw a picture of a missing person...and it was a photo of YOU?

Chris Ramsay is living a normal life in Dallas, Texas.  He stays alone with his controlling father, in a home with bare walls and no family photos.

Then one evening, Chris turns on the TV program and sees a photo of a kid who was stolen from his mother in Canada 13 years ago.  A computer image of what the child looks like today is shown:

It's Chris.

It's a story of  Chris’s journey home to Kingston, to find the mother who is still alive -- not dead like his father always told him. Along the way, he meets strangers, assumes a new identities to escape detection by his father, and grabs opportunities as they are available.

When he finds himself almost home, 

he discovers it’s not over yet! 

Call # YA ELLIS, KATHRYN

Life in a New Country...

Sixteen-year-old Emma, daughter of a Canadian diplomat, has moved from country to country all her life, but after her parents' divorce, she is forced to move from the Philippines to a diplomatic compound in Islamabad, where her mother has been posted.

 Emma resents the numerous restrictions, the loss of her friends, and the dullness of life in Pakistan. She is angry about her father's desertion and her mother's constant work-related absences. She alienates other students on the first day at her new school when she gives an honest answer to the question, "How are you enjoying Pakistan?" but she eventually makes some tentative friendships and tries to address some of the poverty-related issues around her. 

Trouble brews, though, in the form of political tensions and her own ill-advised attraction to a handsome Pakistani classmate which leads to trouble.

However, the novel ends on a hopeful note with Emma reaching out to her family and new friends. 



Call # YA LAIDLAW, S.J.

Read a book about Early America!

Would you have been able to survive in America...before it WAS America?

Redemption
by Julie Chibbaro


The wet earth smells of mushroom and loam. I race through the trees. Branches reach for my eyes and tangle my hair. My kirtle rips, but I still run, faster through the woodland, escaping the murderous men who chase behind me with vicious, barking dogs. The men are my enemies and the woodland is my friend.


Narrated by 12-year-old Lily.  She and her mother are forced off their
English land by the baron's men. Her father has been missing for many months now, and they are to seek safety from religious persecution in passage to the New World.
 But all is not what it seems, and the nightmarish voyage, the evil baron, and Lily's loss of innocence on board the ship are just the beginning of Lily's travails.
When the ship literally crashes into the New World and breaks apart upon the rocks, Lily and the baron's son Ethan go ashore and begin a new life there. Set in the early 1500s.

Call #  YA CHI

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)

Coming soon...

The Moon and More

by

Sarah Dessen

Luke is the perfect boyfriend: handsome, kind, fun. He and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby, the beach town where they both grew up. But now, in the summer before college, Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough.

Enter Theo, a super-ambitious outsider, a New Yorker assisting on a documentary film about a reclusive local artist. Theo's sophisticated, exciting, and, best of all, he thinks Emaline is much too smart for Colby.

Emaline's mostly-absentee father, too, thinks Emaline should have a bigger life, and he's convinced that an Ivy League education is the only route to realizing her potential. Emaline is attracted to the bright future that Theo and her father promise. But she also clings to the deep roots of her loving mother, stepfather, and sisters. Can she ignore the pull of the happily familiar world of Colby?
 
Emaline wants the moon and more, but how can she balance where she comes from with where she's going?

Make a List!

Have you ever made a list of stuff to do to keep from being bored?  

Read Hercules' list!

12 Things to Do Before You Crash and Burn

by James Proimos

Sixteen-year-old James "Hercules" Martino has been given a list of 12 tasks to complete while spending two weeks in Baltimore with his Uncle Anthony, and gains insights into himself, his uncle, and his recently deceased father, a self-help author and daytime talk show host who was beloved by the public but a terrible father.

 Call# YA PROIMOS, JAMES

Some Truths Hurt...Badly

Period 8.  An hour a day. You can hang.  You can eat lunch.    You can talk, listen both or neither. 

Nothing is off-limits.

The only rule is that you tell the truth.

BUT SOMEONE IN PERIOD 8 IS LYING.

Period 8 has always been a safe haven and high school senior Paulie "The Bomb" Baum a constant attendee, but as Paulie, Hannah, their friends, and a sympathetic teacher try to unravel the mystery of a missing classmate, the ultimate bully takes aim at the school.

Call #  YA Crutcher, Chris NEW

One of the 2013 Abe Lincoln Nominees

Dark Song

by

Gail Giles

Ames is not the person she was a few months ago. Her father lost his job, and her family is crumbling apart. Now, all she has is Marc. Marc, who loves her more than anything. Marc, who owns a gun collection. And he'll stop at nothing--even using his guns--to get what he wants. Ames feels her parents have betrayed her with their lies and self-absorption, but is she prepared to make the ultimate betrayal against them?

Call #: YA GIL  ABE SHELF