New in October

Groosham Grange: Anthony Horowitz: 196 pages
Forced to attend Groosham Grange by his frustrated parents, thirteen-year-old David Eliot is shocked by the strange things he sees and quickly comes to understand the beastly nature of the people who attend and teach there after dark secrets are suddenly revealed.

Impossible: Nancy Werlin: 376 pages
When Lucy discovers that her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she also finds out that she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to break the curse save them both.

Shark Girl: Kelly Bingham: 276 pages
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.

Up All Night: A Short Story Collection: 227 pages
Six best-selling authors--Peter Abrahams, Libba Bray, David Levithan, Patricia McCormick, Sarah Weeks, and Gene Luen Yang--respond to the question: What keeps you up all night? with remarkable stories of revelations, confessions, murder, and mystery in each of the authors' powerful style.

Antsy Does Time: Neal Shusterman: 247 pages
Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.

Brooklyn Bridge: Karen Hesse: 229 pages
In 1903 Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom's life changes for the worse when his parents, Russian immigrants, invent the teddy bear and turn their apartment into a factory, while nearby the glitter of Coney Island contrasts with the dismal lives of children dwelling under the Brooklyn Bridge.

Beneath My Mother's Feet: Amjed Qamar: 198 pages
When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her.

Crossing to Paradise: Kevin Crossley-Holland: 339 pages
When fifteen-year-old Gatty, an illiterate field-girl who sings beautifully, is selected for a pilgrimage, she travels from her home on an English estate to London, Venice, and eventually Jerusalem, and experiences great changes in her circumstances and in herself.

Dead is the New Black: Marlene Perez: 190 pages
While dealing with her first boyfriend and suddenly being pressed into service as a substitute cheerleader, seventeen-year-old Daisy Giordano, daughter and sister of psychics but herself a "normal," attempts to help her mother discover who is behind a series of bizarre attacks on teenage girls in their little town of Nightshade, California.