New in December

Ashes
By Ilsa J. Bick

Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.





iBoy
By Kevin Brooks

Sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was an ordinary Londoner until an attack that caused fragments of an iPhone to be embedded in his brain, giving him incredible knowledge and power, but using that power against the gang that attacked him and a friend could have deadly consequences.






Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre World of Food: Brains, Bugs, and Blood Sausage
By Andrew Zimmern

Shares the author's adventures and experiences gained while traveling the world in search of highly unusual meals.







Little Women and Me
By Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Modern-day teen Emily March turns to Louisa May Alcott's famous book for a school assignment and finds herself mysteriously transported to the world of "Little Women," where she undergoes surprising changes.







Dark Inside
By Jeyn Roberts

After tremendous earthquakes destroy the Earth's major cities, an ancient evil emerges, turning ordinary people into hunters, killers, and insane monsters, but a small group of teens comes together in a fight for survival and safety.






You Are My Only
By Beth Kephart

Tells, in their separate voices and at a space of fourteen years, of Emmy, whose baby has been stolen, and Sophie, a teenager who defies her nomadic, controlling mother by making friends with a neighbor boy and his elderly aunts.






The Hunger Games Companion
By Lois H. Gresh

Go behind the scenes of the popular trilogy, examining characters, themes, and more.








Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
Edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant

A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, set in the age of steam engines and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.







The Beginning of After
By Jennifer Castle

In the aftermath of a car accident that killed her family, sixteen-year-old Laurel must face a new world of guilt, painful memories, and the possibility of new relationships.







Saga of the Sioux
Adapted by Dwight Jon Zimmerman

Chronicles the tragic saga of the Sioux nation from 1860 to the 1890 massacre through the experiences of its chiefs and warriors, allowing their voices to be heard about what befell their people.







Misfit
By Jon Skovron

Seattle sixteen-year-old Jael must negotiate normal life in Catholic school while learning to control the abilities she inherited from her mother, a demon, and protect those she loves from Belial, the Duke of Hell.







Past Perfect
By Leila Sales

Sixteen-year-old Chelsea knows what to expect when she returns for a summer of historical reenactment at Colonial Essex Village until she learns that her ex-boyfriend is working there, too, and then meets the very attractive Dan who works at a rival historical village.






Unforgettable
By Loretta Ellsworth

When Baxter Green was three years old he developed a condition that causes him to remember absolutely everything, and now that he is fifteen, he and his mother have moved to Minnesota to escape her criminal boyfriend and, Baxter hopes, to reconnect with a girl he has been thinking about since kindergarten.

New in November

Sign Language
By Amy Ackley

Teenaged Abby must deal with her feelings about her father's cancer and its aftermath while simultaneously navigating the difficult problems of growing up.







Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction 2: Build a Secret Agent Arsenal
By John Austin

This hilarious book provides instructions for building 30 miniature spy gear, such as a toothpaste periscope and a bionic ear. Also includes tips for how to conceal your gear.







Following Christopher Creed
By Carol Plum-Ucci

Legally-blind college reporter Mike Mavic hopes to get a story about a body found in Steepleton, believed to be that of long-missing teen Christopher Creed, but finds something odd about the town, including Justin Creed's obsessive drive to learn what really happened to his older brother.






Battle Fatigue
By Mark Kurlansky

Joel Bloom chronicles his life experiences during the 1960's which eventually lead him to oppose the war in Vietnam and to flee to Canada rather than be forced to kill Vietnamese.







The Siren's Cry
By Jennifer Anne Kogler

During a trouble-filled school field trip to Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Fern finds and tries to rescue fellow Unusual Miles Zapo, who is imprisoned at the National Zoological Park, using her abilities with teleportation and telekinesis.






The Name of the Star
By Maureen Johnson

Rory, of Boueuxlieu, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.







Ghosts in the Fog
By Samantha Seiple

Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Alaska's Aleutian Islands during WWII from the point of view of American civilians, and American and Japanese soldiers.







Fostergirls
By Liane Shaw

Sadie has been in thirteen group homes, and wants to get out of the system. But it isn't easy to be invisible in a small town.








Frost
By Wendy Delsol

After her boyfriend Jack conjures up a record-breaking snow storm, sixteen-year-old Kat LeBlanc finds herself facing an unusual rival in the form of an environmental researcher from Greenland who is drawn to their small town of Norse Falls, Minnesota, by the storm.






Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off!
By Glenn Murphy

Presents useful information and facts on some of the most common fears, from poisonous spiders and shark bites in the ocean to the probability of being struck by lightning or killed by a flesh-eating bacteria.






Crush Control
By Jennifer Jabaley

When Willow Grey was nine years old she hypnotized her best friend Max to ensure that they would remain best friends forever, but finds that she feels something different for Max now that she is seventeen.

New in October

A Plague Year
By Edward Bloor

A ninth-grader who works with his father in the local supermarket describes the plague of meth addiction that consumes many people in his Pennsylvania coal mining town from 9/11 and the nearby crash of United Flight 93 in Shanksville to the Quecreek Mine disaster in Somerset the following summer.





All These Things I've Done
By Gabrielle Zevin

In a dystopian future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.





Top Secret: Shady Tales of Spies and Spying
By Dorling Kindersley

This entertaining look at spying throughout history covers gadgets and tools, techniques, famous spies, tips for aspiring secret agents, and more.







The Poisoned House
By Michael Ford

As the widowed master of an elegant house in Victorian-era London slips slowly into madness and his tyrannical housekeeper takes on more power, a ghostly presence distracts a teenaged maidservant with clues to a deadly secret.






Dark of the Moon
By Tracy Barrett

Retells the story of the minotaur through the eyes of his fifteen-year-old sister, Ariadne, a lonely girl destined to become a goddess of the moon, and her new friend, Theseus, the son of Athens' king who was sent to Crete as a sacrifice to her misshapen brother.






Every Thing on It
By Shel Silverstein

This poetry collection includes more than 130 never-before-seen poems and drawings selected by Silverstein's family from his archives.







The Only Ones
By Aaron Starmer

After setting off from the island where he has been leading a solitary existence, thirteen-year-old Martin discovers a village with other children who have been living similarly without any adults, since the grown-ups have all been spirited away.






Silhouetted by the Blue
By Traci L. Jones

After the death of her mother in an automobile accident, seventh-grader Serena, who has gotten the ead in her middle school play, is left to handle the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself and her younger brother when their father cannot pull himself out of his depression.






First Kill
By Heather Brewer

The summer before ninth grade, when Joss sets off to meet his uncle and hunt down the beast that murdered his younger sister three years earlier, he learns he is destined to join the Slayer Society.







Alice in Time
By Penelope Bush

As her self-centered behavior spirals out of control, fourteen-year-old Alice gets an unusual chance to fix her whole disastrous life when she is mysteriously spirited back in time.







Children's Book of Mythical Beasts & Magical Monsters
By Dorling Kindersley

Shares tales of adventure, quests, magical creatures from around the world.








The Day Before
By Lisa Schroeder

Sixteen-year-old Amber, hoping to spend one perfect day alone at the beach before her world is turned upside down, meets and feels a strong connection to Cade, who is looking for his own escape, for a very different reason.






Wolf Mark
By Joseph Bruchac

When Lucas King's covert-ops father is kidnapped and his best friend Meena is put in danger, Luke's only chance to save them--a skin that will let him walk as a wolf--is hidden away in an abandoned mansion guarded by monsters.

New in September

The Lost Crown
By Sarah Miller

In alternating chapters, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia tell how their privileged lives as the daughters of the tsar in early twentieth-century Russia are transformed by world war and revolution.






Life on Mars: Tales from the New Frontier
Edited by Jonathan Strahan

Presents thirteen short stories by various science fiction authors which center around the theme of life on the planet Mars.








Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto
By Paul B. Janeczko

Janeczko's powerful poems, accented with historic illustrations by actual inmates, convey the horrors of the Czech concentration camp Terezín.








How I Stole Johnny Depp's Alien Girlfriend
By Gary Ghislain

Fourteen-year-old David, the son of a famous French psychologist, falls in love with Zelda, a new patient who believes she is from outer space, and soon they are tearing through Paris in search of her chosen one, Johnny Depp, so that she can take him to her home planet, Vahalal.






The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills
By Joanna Pearson

Aspiring anthropologist Janice Wills reports on the socio-cultural ordeals of being an almost-seventeen-year-old in Melva, North Carolina, including "Beautiful Rich Girls," parties, and the Miss Livermush pageant.







87 Ways to Throw a Killer Party
By Melissa Daly

Offers party planning advice with themes and suggestions for games, movies, and activities.








Daughter of Xanadu
By Dori Jones Yang

Emmajin, the sixteen-year-old eldest granddaughter of Khublai Khan, becomes a warrior and falls in love with explorer Marco Polo in thirteenth-century China.







Sidekicks
By Jack D. Ferraiolo

Scott Hutchinson has an alternate identity as Bright Boy, the sidekick of Phantom Justice, but with the help of his rival sidekick, Monkeywrench, Scott begins to question whether Phantom Justice is really a hero, which leads to a dangerous confrontation.






Corsets and Clockwork
Edited by Trisha Telep

Collects thirteen original stories set during the Victorian era, including tales of steam-powered machines, family secrets, and love.








Science: The Incredible Visual Guide
By Clive Gifford

Introducing the key aspects of science, this book covers all the crucial topics from atoms and evolution to explosive chemical reactions.







Putting Makeup on Dead People
By Jen Violi

Donna's discovery, that she wants to be a mortician, helps her come into her own and finally understand that moving forward doesn't mean forgetting someone you love.







The Absolute Value of Mike
By Kathryn Erskine

Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan.






Displacement
By Thalia Chaltas

After tragedy strikes her family, Vera runs away to a small desert town where she tries unsuccessfully to forget her grief and sorrow.