New in September

The Otherworldlies: Jennifer Anne Kogler: 385 pages
Eccentric and unusual looking, Fern, secure in her family's love and acceptance, has always been able to cope with the taunts and social ostracism of her schoolmates until a series of unnerving events reveal that she possesses supernatural powers that she barely understands and must learn to control if she is to escape being the pawn of two ancient enemies.

Jack: Secret Histories: F. Paul Wilson: 304 pages
Teenaged Jack, later to be known as Repairman Jack, begins to uncover some unsuspected talents in himself after he and his friends, the clever, imaginative Weezy and her brother Eddie, discover a corpse deep in the mysterious Pine Barrens near their New Jersey town.

Climbing the Stairs: Padma Venkatraman: 247 pages
In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.

Artichoke's Heart: Suzanne Supplee: 276 pages
While working in her mother's beauty shop where all the best town's gossip flies free, Rosemary Goode becomes determined to lose the weight that seems to be an all too common topic and starts keeping a journal to record the year-long experience in achieving her goals, her relationships with others, and her feelings about life in her tight-knit Southern community.

The Possibilities of Sainthood: Donna Freitas: 272 pages
While regularly petitioning the Vatican to make her the first living saint, fifteen-year-old Antonia Labella prays to assorted patron saints for everything from help with preparing the family's fig trees for a Rhode Island winter to getting her first kiss from the right boy.

The Ghost of Spirit Bear: Ben Mikaelsen: 154 pages
Completing his time in exile for assaulting a peer and having made peace with his victim, Cole looks forward to starting his life anew at the local high school, but when new troubles surface and tension mounts, Cole must find a way to manage his emotions in order to avoid another disaster. Sequel to Touching Spirit Bear.