Not Gonna Take It Anymore!

The high school cheerleading team takes over a soda vending machine's funds, which were previously collected by the pep band. "NO WAY!" says Gabe Johnson.   A sudden, drastic price increase makes his soda habit unaffordable, and the money that should have been funding summer band camp has been diverted to a new dance team for the cheerleaders. Tired of being a joke and pushover, Gabe fights back, organizing a campaign to save band camp. The animosity between band geeks and jocks quickly escalates, unjustly threatening band's existence, leading to a vending-machine heist.  CALL # YA HERBACH, GEOFF

Cyber-Stalking or Just Friends?

Who R U Really?

by Margo Kelly

Thea's overprotective parents are driving her insane!

 They invade her privacy, ask too many questions, and restrict her online time so severely that Thea feels she has no life at all. When she discovers a new role-playing game online, Thea breaks the rules by staying up late to play. She's living a double life: on one hand, the obedient daughter; on the other, a girl slipping deeper into darkness. 

Thea falls under the spell of Kit, an older boy whose smarts and savvy can't defeat his loneliness and near-suicidal despair. As Kit draws soft-hearted Thea into his drama, she creates a full plate of cover stories for her parents and then even her friends.

Should Thea fear Kit, or pity him? And now, Kit wants to come out of the screen and bring Thea into his real-life world. As much as she suspects that this is wrong, Thea is powerless to resist Kit's allure, and hurtles toward the same dark fate her parents feared most. 

Call #  YA KELLY, MARGO

Summer Love?

It's gonna be an interesting summer!

To avoid running into her ex-boyfriend, a teenage girl leaves town to work the summer at a Renaissance fair.  All of Rowena Duncan's summer plans went kaput when she discovered her boyfriend was two-timing her. Hanging with her friends at the beach and working at a local restaurant was no longer an option, since those are places she would assuredly see him. 

Landing a job she finds online, Rowena winds up as a face painter at a Renaissance fair, far from civilization and reliable cellphone reception.  But , the place is rich with artists and performers. Her high-powered parents, however, want her to follow in their white-collar footsteps and only view the job as a topic for a standout college essay. 

Rowena settles in quickly thanks to sweet and attentive Will, a witty, whip-cracking magician who shows her the ropes. But it's the heart-stopping, black-haired, blue-eyed knight Christian who keeps Rowena's adrenaline pumping and soon she finds herself wrestling with Cupid all over again.  - Kirkus Reviews

Call # YA WETTERSTEN, LAURA

From the Author of Wicked...

Egg & Spoon

by Gregory Maguire

Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar’s army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. 

But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg — a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena’s age. 

When the two girls’ lives collide, an adventure is set in motion, an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and  Baba Yaga, a witch, in her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs.

CALL # YA MAGUIRE, GREGORY

James Dashner sequel

If you loved the intensity of James Dashner's

The Eye of Minds, then you have read the next book in the Mortality Doctrine series:

The Rule of Thoughts

The Mortality Doctrine Book Two

Michael completed the Path. What he found turned everything he'd ever known about his life-and the world-completely upside down.  He barely survived. 

But it was the only way VirtNet Security knew to find the cyber-terrorist Kaine--and to make the Sleep safe for gamers once again.

 And, the truth Michael discovered about Kaine is more complex than they anticipated, and more terrifying than even the worst of their fears.  Kaine is a tangent, a computer program that has become sentient. And Michael's completing the Path was the first stage in turning Kaine's master plan, 

the Mortality Doctrine, into a reality.

   The Mortality Doctrine will populate Earth entirely with human bodies harboring tangent minds. Any gamer who sinks into the VirtNet risks coming out with a tangent intelligence in control of their body.

   And the takeover has already begun.

Call # YA DASHNER, JAMES

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.

Recipes for All Seasons!

Try your hand at some delectable recipes from around the country and around the world!

DYI salsa or mayonnaise. Smoothies and salads. Hummus, mini-pizzas and main courses.  Desserts, and even a recipe using organic rose petals!

The Green Teen Cookbook

Recipes for all season - written by teens, for teens

Call # YA 641.5 MAR

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

Three Wishes are not Enough!

Magic will change Margo's life forever - whether she likes it or not

Sequel to The Art of Wishing

Here's what Margo McKenna knows about genies: She's seen Aladdin more times than she can count; she's found a magic genie ring and made her three allotted wishes; she's even fallen head over heels in love with Oliver, the cute genie whose life she saved by fighting off another genie.

 

But none of this prepared her for the shock of becoming a genie herself.

Everything Margo's taken for granted--graduating high school, going to college, hating math, performing in the school musical, even being a girl--is in question. Just at a time when she's trying to figure out who she wants to be, Margo is forced to become whomever her master wants. 

But Margo is also coming into a power she never imagined she'd have. How will she reconcile the two? And where will she and Oliver stand when she's done?

The Fourth Wish

by Lindsay Ribar

Call # YA RIBAR, LINDSAY

Gripping Historical Fiction!

Mending Horses

by M.P. Barker

 In 1830s New England, Irish immigrant Daniel, formerly indentured as a servant, gains his freedom only to be accused of stealing his former master's horse, a rumor that quickly escalates to include mass murder and leads to his near lynching. 

After his rescue, the teen travels to a nearby town and falls in with his old friend Stocking, now accompanied by 12-year-old Billy. Soon Daniel discovers that Billy, who Stocking rescued from a drunken, ne'er-do-well of a father, is actually a girl in disguise. The three travel and work odd jobs until they find a place in a traveling circus, where Daniel's skills with horses and ponies, whose anatomical and behavioral scars he can mend, prove to be quite a boon. 

Meanwhile, obstinate and headstrong Billy learns tragic news about the family she has left behind.  - BookList Review

Call # YA  BARKER, M.P.

Some Secrets MUST Be Kept!

Based on Real-Life events...

The day Farrin meets Sadira, she no longer feels alone. And when the two fifteen-year-old girls become close friends, they dream of a future where they will live together, where they will make something of their lives, and where no one will notice or care that they love each other. 

But Farrin and Sadira live in Iran under a regime so repressive that it considers homosexuals as deviants who must be eradicated. Unless they learn to hide their relationship from their families and the overzealous school monitor who watches their every move, Farrin and Sadira will never have a future together. And if they are reported to the Revolutionary Guard, only a miracle will save them.

Call # YA ELLIS, DEBORAH

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

Another Abe Lincoln Nominee

Check out the trailer...then check out the book 

(or audio book)!

The 5th Wave

by Rick Yancey

Call # YA YANCEY, RICK

and YA BO CD YANCEY, RICK

Walter Dean Myers

Read for the first time or re-discover Walter Dean Myers...

Monster

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken. CALL # YA MYERS, WALTER DEAN

Mystery? Romance?

Little Blue Lies

by Chris Lynch

Watch the video about his new book...

check our new book section!

YA LYNCH, CHRIS

Could YOU Forgive?

Would you know what to do if this happened to you?

Hidden

by Helen Frost

When Wren and Darra meet at age 14, they recognize each other instantly, though they've never actually seen each other.  It has been 6 years since something happened that affected them both profoundly: Darra's father stole a car and drove it home, not knowing that Wren was hiding in the back.  Darra was the only one who guessed that Wren stayed hidden in their locked garage.

For Wren, hungry, thirsty, trapped, and terrified, the hours dragged on as she searched for a way out.

Now in Cabin 8, each girl knows the other's most private secret- - and neither of them wants to talk about what happened...

Call # YA FROST, HELEN

July Book Discussion book available!

Join our Book Discussions on July 12

Just stop by the Teen reference desk to pick up a copy of the book and register for the Pizza & Pages book discussions!

12:00 pm       Jr. High selection:

The Eighth Day

 by Dianne K. Salerni

When newly orphaned Jax Aubrey awakes to a world without people the day after his thirteenth birthday, he thinks it's the apocalypse.  But then the next day is a regular old Thursday.  Has Jax gone crazy?  What's going on?

  

Jax just experienced the Eighth Day.

1:00 pm      High School selection:

Fire & Flood

by Victoria Scott

Tella's brother Cody is sick and getting worse, so when she finds instructions on how to become a contender in the dangerous Brimstone Bleed race where she can win a cure for him, she jumps at the chance--

but there is no guarantee that she will win, or even survive.

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

Someone Knows YOUR Secret!

"Eric, a gifted soccer player.

 Shelly, a "goth girl" who hides from her past.

Fatima, a dutiful daughter whose questions go too far. 

Three teens from different schools and different walks of life.  But they have one thing in common...

Each teen has received calls from an unnamed stranger who threatens to reveal their shameful secrets to the world if they do not cooperate with specific instructions to bully their classmates.

When the 3 finally meet in the mandatory anti-bullying counseling program, they team up to find the stranger who threatens them - before time runs out and their shattering secrets are revealed.

Call # YA BENOIT, CHARLES