Aliens in High School?

The final book in the Lux series.  

A special "prequel novella" Shadows is included

Katy knows the world changed the night the Luxen came. She can’t believe Daemon stood by as his kind threatened to obliterate every last human and hybrid on Earth. But the lines between good and bad have blurred.

Daemon will do anything to save those he loves, even if it means betrayal. But when it quickly becomes impossible to tell friend from foe, and the world is crumbling around them, they may lose everything to ensure the survival of their friends…and mankind.

Call #  YA ARMENTROUT, JENNIFER L.

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

World War III ... Truth or Lie?

A world ravaged by radiation with very few lucky survivors, living in the safety of Alaska...or so Juneau is told...

The survivors have lived in the Alaskan wilderness for the last 30 years living off the land, being one with nature, and hiding from whoever else might still be out there.  At least that is what Juneau has been told her entire life.

When Juneau returns from a hunting trip to discover that everyone in her clan has vanished, she sets off to find them. Leaving the boundaries of their land for the very first time, she learns something horrifying:  there never was a war.  Cities were never destroyed. The world is intact. Everything was a lie.

Now Juneau is adrift in a modern-day world she never knew existed.  But while she's trying to find a way to rescue her friends and family, someone else is looking for her.  Someone who knows the extraordinary truth about the secrets of her past.

After the End

by Amy Plum

Call # YA PLUM, AMY

Gripping, Mid-20th Century Historical Fiction

 World War II is over and Germany partitioned among the victors. 

For most in the Soviet-occupied zone, life is grim and anything but peaceful.

 Hunger's a constant companion, trust in short supply. 

Most despise their Russian masters

 and even more, the German police--Schupos--who do their bidding. 

After a childhood cut short by war and the harsh strictures of Nazi Germany, sixteen-year-old Wilm is finally tasting freedom. 

In spite of the scars World War II has left on his hometown, Leipzig, and in spite of the oppressive new Soviet regime, Wilm is finding his own voice.

 It’s dangerous, of course, to be sneaking out at night to leave messages on police buildings. But it’s exciting, too, and Wilm feels justified, considering his family’s suffering.

 Until one mission goes too far, and Wilm finds he’s endangered the very people he most wants to protect.

Call # YA BASS, KAREN

Could YOU Survive an Apocalypse?

 Seven billion humans have died in the months following the appearance of a giant mother ship. 

Wave 1: an electromagnetic pulse rendering all machines useless.

 Wave 2: tsunamis wiping out coastal cities.

 Wave 3: the Red Death, a deadly plague carried by birds.

 Wave 4: Silencers, humans who were implanted with alien intelligence as fetuses.

 We don't even want to know about Wave 5,  do we? 

A rare survivor of the invasion, 16-year-old Cassie, armed with an M16 rifle and her younger brother's teddy bear, is trying to reunite with her brother and escape the "Silencer" (assassin) trying to kill her.

Call # YA YANCEY, RICK

Oh No! An Aging Virus!!

A virus that ages its victims in hours is attacking 

Mia's school and town...

Sixteen -year-old Mia is afraid of the dark.

Darkness haunts her.

But  when her classmates and teachers at her ritzy Westbrook Academy start dying of old age from a bizarre and frightening virus that ages the victims in a matter of hours, Mia becomes haunted by a lot more than the dark.

Their gruesome deaths worry Mia and she fears that she and her friends will be next.

There's only one place to escape the armed soldiers in hazmat suits who want them in quarantine: The Cave - aka Fenton Electronics.  Mia know it's somehow connected and hopes her dad, the director of Fenton Electronics, who has been oddly secretive about his work, has the answers she needs, and more important, a cure to save everyone before the whole town succumbs to the mysterious virus!

If You Loved Hunger Games...

...don't miss the 1st book in the series from Joelle Charbonneau:

16-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University;a process that offers the only chance at a college education and training to become part of the next generation of leaders.  Students are selected from "colonies" all over the post-apocalyptic U.S. It is an honor to be selected. Students must pass 4 rounds of testing in order to be considered, of which one test is to successfully make the trek from Chicago to the University - a 700 mile journey where they encounter harsh terrain and mutated animals and humans .  The competition is so intense that students will do anything to secure their chance at entering the University...even if it means eliminating each other! Call # YA CHARBONNEAU, JOELLE

Computers Gone Haywire!

The Rule of Thre3

by Eric Walters

The Rule of Thre3:

A Person can last 

3 minutes without air

3 days without water

3 weeks without food

One shocking afternoon, computers around the globe shut down in a viral catastrophe. At sixteen-year-old Adam Daley’s high school, the problem first seems to be a typical electrical outage, until students discover that cell phones are down, municipal utilities are failing, and a few computer-free cars like Adam’s are the only vehicles that function. 

Driving home, Adam encounters a storm tide of anger and fear as the region becomes paralyzed. Soon—as resources dwindle, crises mount, and chaos descends—he will see his suburban neighborhood band together for protection. And Adam will understand that having a police captain for a mother and a retired government spy living next door are not just the facts of his life but the keys to his survival

Call # YA WALTERS, ERIC

Future America...with a Twist!

If you enjoy Dystopian novels, this one will certainly not disappoint!

A wall west of the Mississippi River divides the country into the infected (or at risk of being infected) and those who live west of the wall and are safe and virus-free. Smart, spunky Lane, is a kind person who believes in the innate worth of all living beings. 

But she is fascinated by the wall and what lies over it.

When Lane's father is away on one of his mysterious business trips, she is arrested and told that she must find him. What happens next changes not only everything she had learned about the Feral Zone, but changes her life.

Rafe, a guy who had grown up in the Feral Zone, is hardened by living with the very real threat of being bitten by a feral person and contracting the virus. He wears his scars from fighting the crazy creatures like medals. Everson, a soldier, grew up in the safety of the west. He has no scars, but he is intelligent and well-trained, and he wants to find a cure for the virus.  

The virus is brutal...its victims become bloodthirsty savages, even part animal/part human!

Call # YA FALLS, KAT

Hunger Games with Vampires?

The Trap

by Andrew Fukuda

Final Book in The Hunt Trilogy

 With the knowledge that they hold the key to reversing the dusker condition, Gene and Sissy find themselves back in the Palace, making an uneasy bargain with the Ruler, who is desperate to keep some secrets of his own. A dramatic confrontation with Ashley June, Gene's first love, who was left behind when they escaped The Dome and who subsequently turned into a dusker herself, sets up a reveal that turns the entire series on its head. 

The duskers are driven by a desire to eat the humans, which is as unfathomable as their methods are cruel, and each moment that Gene and Sissy can outlast them is a breathtaking victory!

Call # YA FUKUDA, ANDREW

The Fight Begins When You Survive!

Shy takes a summer job on a luxury cruise liner.

How bad can it be?

He'll rake in the tips and be able to help his mom with the bills.

But, then an earthquake more massive than any ever recorded hits California, and shy's life is changed forever.

First comes the storm.

Then comes the wave.

When the ship starts going down, there's just the wide-open sea...

and the TERROR.

Call #: YA Pena, Matt De La  NEW

Bk. 3 of Razorland Trilogy!

First was Enclave, then Outpost, and finally...

Horde

Suspense, romance, heartbreak

The settlements must unite to survive the newly cunning Freak horde. 

Deuce grows from fierce warrior to inspiring leader as she travels between settlements, recruiting fighters to join her war band. 

Fade is still traumatized from his time in captivity.

 Stalker is cold after Deuce's rejection.

Tegan is more healer than hunter.But 

they are with her until the end. 

Deuce's Company D harries the enemy, but an overture from an evolved, 

self-aware tribe of Freaks changes everything.

  

Call # YA AGUIRRE, ANN

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

Ready for an Intense Survival Story?

The Living 

by Matt De La Pena

 Shy Espinoza's summer gig working on a luxury cruise ship is not going as planned. On his first voyage, he witnesses a suicide up-close and personal; now he's having nightmares, and a mysterious man  wants to know what the dead man told Shy before went into into the ocean. 

Back in California, Shy's nephew has been diagnosed with the mysterious, border-jumping disease that killed his grandmother. 

Then, in the wake of a massive environmental catastrophe, Shy struggles to survive in a waterlogged life raft with Addie, a spoiled rich girl. 

What follows only deepens the mystery about the events battering Shy's life!

The Pirates Call Me Hostage Three...

The last thing Amy planned to do this summer was sail around the world trapped on a yacht with her father and her stepmother. Really, all she wanted was to fast-forward to October when she’ll turn eighteen and take control of her own life.

The Somali pirates who seize a British yacht dehumanize their victims by giving them numbers. Thus, millionaire banker James Fields and his new wife become Hostages One and Two. Hostage Three is his 17-year-old daughter, Amy, who narrates this perceptive and harrowing novel.

Amy initially greets her father's plan to sail around the world with apathy, but having a gun put to her head awakens her will to live, especially when the gunman is Farouz, the pirates' interpreter, with whom Amy has secretly developed a romance. Through Farouz, Amy learns about the Somalis' daily struggle to survive the desert and decades of war.

Call # YA LAKE, NICK

If Gore and Zombies are Your Thing...

...or your High School is full of MONSTERS, 

then you need to read Sick by Tom Leveen

 Brian, a senior, smart but a bit delinquent, finds himself holed up in the

 school's theater department while ravenous,

 geode-encrusted infected students run amok, killing or infecting everyone in sight.

 With the aid of his best friend, Chad and some drama kids, Brian attempts an intense rescue operation for sister, Mackenzie and ex-girlfriend, Laura.

Beware of graphic zombie antics, like mutilation, eating organs, gore and blood...basically all the things a zombie story should have!

Call #  YA LEVEEN, TOM

Based on a True Story...

Prisoner B-3087

10 concentration camps.  10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly.

This gripping novel follows a young Jewish boy from Poland who is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another, as World War II rages all around him.  He encounters evil he could never have imagined, but also sees surprising glimpses of hope amid the horror.

It takes all Yanek has to make it through without losing his will to live.

CALL # YA GRATZ, ALAN

New this Month...

...on Playaway - the all-in-one Audiobook!

Your heart beats only with their permission.

Everything changed on The Day. The day the windows shattered. The day the power stopped. The day Dol's family dropped dead. The day Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting.
Since then, Dol has lived a simple life in the countryside -- safe from the shadow of the Icon and its terrifying power. Hiding from the one truth she can't avoid.

She's different. She survived. Why?
When Dol and her best friend, Ro, are captured and taken to the Embassy, off the coast of the sprawling metropolis once known as the City of Angels, they find only more questions. While Ro and fellow hostage Tima rage against their captors, Dol finds herself drawn to Lucas, the Ambassador's privileged son. But the four teens are more alike than they might think, and the timing of their meeting isn't a coincidence. It's a conspiracy.
Within the Icon's reach, Dol, Ro, Tima, and Lucas discover that their uncontrollable emotions -- which they've always thought to be their greatest weaknesses -- may actually be their greatest strengths.

Call #  YA PLAYAWAY STOHL, MARGARET

Welcome to the Wasteland!

At Fifteen,

the citizens of Prin marry.

At Seventeen,

they reproduce.

And at Nineteen,

They die. 

2014 Abe Nominee!!

Ashes

by

Ilsa J. Bick 

In electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device, wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions.
Alex hiked into the woods to say good-bye to her dead parents and her personal demons. Now desperate to find out what happened after the pulse crushes her to the ground, Alex meets up with Tom, a young soldier and Ellie, a girl whose grandfather was killed by the EMP.

For this improvised family and the others who are spared, it’s now a question of who can be trusted and who is no longer human.

Call #: YA Bick, Ilsa J. Abe Shelf