New in April

The Highwayman's Footsteps: Nicola Morgan: 354 pages
In eighteenth-century England, William runs away from his father, only to be captured by an armed highwayman who turns out to be a girl, and together they seek vengeance against William's cruel father and the soldiers who killed the girl's parents. Inspired by Alfred Noyes' poem "The Highwayman."

The Opposite of Invisible: Liz Gallagher: 153 pages
Artistic Seattle high school sophomore Alice decides to emerge from her cocoon and date a football player, which causes a rift between her and her best friend, a boy who wants to be more than just friends.

Omega Place: Graham Marks: 253 pages
After running away from home and joining a radical action group called Omega Place, Paul Hendry finds himself in the midst of something very serious when his new activist friends initiate their campaign to let the public know the type of spying the government is doing with their closed-circuit TV cameras.

Reincarnation: Suzanne Weyn: 293 pages
When a young couple dies in prehistoric times, their love--and link to various green stones--endures through the ages as they are reborn into new bodies and somehow find a way to connect.

Robot Dreams: Sara Varon: 205 pages
Tired of being alone, Dog orders a mail-order robot kit and makes himself a special friend who happily partakes in all of his new friend's adventures, in a wordless graphic novel.

Brothers, Boyfriends & Other Criminal Minds: April Lurie: 289 pages
While living on the same block as several members of the Mafia does have the advantage of a lower crime rate, fourteen-year-old April and her brother find there are times when it is also a major disadvantage.

Fight Game: Kate Wild: 279 pages
When he gets in trouble with the police, Freedom Smith, a rogue Gypsy boy, agrees to go undercover to expose a high-tech fight club that uses street children in drug-manipulated death-matches.

First Shot: Walter Sorrells: 279 pages
David Crandall, haunted by his mother's murder two years ago, uncovers a dark family secret that leads him to believe that his father, headmaster of the military school in which David is currently a senior, is the killer.

Good Enough: Paula Yoo: 322 pages
A Korean American teenager tries to please her parents by getting into an Ivy League college, but a new guy in school and her love of the violin tempt her in new directions.

Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall: Wendy Mass: 251 pages
After getting knocked out during a game of dodge ball in gym class, unhappy teen Tessa believes she has floated away to heaven and, while on her mystical journey, finally comes to terms with her past while learning to appreciate the loved ones in her life in an entirely new way.