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

Time-Travel to Steal? Maybe Not A Good Idea...

The year is 2061, and Caleb's world is crashing down around him.  

The small group of orphans who were also "adopted" by Uncle used to feel like family, but both the competition to be the top time-snatcher and the punishment for failure have gotten fierce.  Time traveling to steal priceless objects can be a thrill, but with bully Frank trying to steal his snatches, his partner Abbie falling for Frank's slimy charms, and Uncle planning to kidnap innocent kids to grow his business, Caleb starts thinking about getting out.

But there is no place on earth, past or present, that is safe from Uncle's tentacles, and runaways get the harshest treatment of all.  

Looks like Caleb will have to risk everything to fight for the future he dreams about.

Call # YA UNGAR, RICHARD

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

A Felix Taylor Adventure

It's been a year since Felix Taylor travelled back to ancient Rome and saved his world from a lethal plague. Again his knowledge of Latin seems useless now that life in the 23rd century has returned to normal.

 But is it really?

A stranger has discovered the time machine and used it to project back into the past. It becomes clear his purpose is to reverse Felix's success, to bring back the plague and doom future generations to death. 

To make matters worse, this stranger is very close to Felix.With help from his friend Carolyn, Felix must return to the world of Julius Caesar, as well as a later era divided by religion, to stop the re-emergence of the plague. 

If he fails to do so, his world will turn to dust like ancient Rome.

Call #  YA MAES, NICHOLAS

New Series!

From the author of Artemis Fowl

Warp: The Reluctant Assassin

by Eoin Colfer

Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims' dwellings.

 On one such escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges him to commit his first killing. Riley is saved from having to commit the grisly act when the intended victim turns out to be a scientist from the future, part of the FBI's Witness Anonymous Relocation Program (WARP) Riley is unwittingly transported via wormhole to modern day London, followed closely by Garrick. 

In modern London, Riley is helped by Chevron Savano, a nineteen-year-old FBI agent. Together Riley and Chevie must evade Garrick, who has been  altered by his trip through the wormhole: Garrick is now not only evil, but he also possesses all of the scientist's knowledge. He is determined to track Riley down and use the timekey in Chevie's possession to make his way back to Victorian London where he can literally change the world.

Call # YA COLFER, EOIN

Check out the Red Ruby Trilogy!

A quick, intense page-turner!

The Loop

by

Shandy Lawson

 Ben and Maggie have met, fallen in love, and died together countless times. Over the course of two pivotal day--both the best and worst of their lives--they struggle again and again to resist the pull of fate and the force of time itself. With each failure, they return to the beginning of their end, a wild road trip that brings them to the scene of their own murders and into the hands of the man who is destined to kill them.
As time circles back on itself, events become more deeply ingrained, more inescapable for the two kids trapped inside the loop. The closer they come to breaking out, the tighter fate's clutches seem to grip them. They devise a desperate plan to break free and survive the days ahead, but what if Ben and Maggie's only shot at not dying is surviving apart?

 

Call #: YA Lawson, Shandy NEW