Tuesday, March 01, 2011

New in March

The Water Wars
By Cameron Stracher

In a world where water has become a precious resource, Vera and her brother befriend a boy who seems to have unlimited access to water and who suspiciously disappears, prompting a dangerous search challenged by pirates, a paramilitary group, and corporations.





Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
By Candace Fleming

Tells the story of Amelia Earhart's life - as a child, a woman, and a pilot - and describes the search for her missing plane.






The Doomsday Box
By Herbie Brennan

Working on a highly-classified espionage project, four English teenagers go back in time to the Cold War in 1962 to prevent a global outbreak of the bubonic plague in the twenty-first century.






Wishful Thinking
By Alexandra Bullen

Adopted as a baby, lonely eighteen-year-old Hazel Snow always yearned to know her origins, and with the help of a magical seamstress, Hazel wishes her way into an alternate life on Martha's Vineyard with the mother she never knew.





Mad Love
By Suzanne Selfors

When her famous romance-novelist mother is secretly hospitalized in an expensive mental facility, sixteen-year-old Alice tries to fulfill her mother's contract with her publisher by writing a love story--with the help of Cupid.






The Boy From Ilysies
By Pearl North

Cast out of the Libyrinth after being tricked into committing a crime, young Po may return only if he completes a dangerous mission to retrieve a legendary artifact that could either be the answer to all of the Libyrinth's problems, or could destroy the world.





See What I See
By Gloria Whelan

When eighteen-year-old Kate arrives on the Detroit doorstep of her long-estranged father, a famous painter, she is shocked to learn that he is dying and does not want to support her efforts to attend the local art school.






Camo Girl
By Kekla Magoon

A poignant novel about a biracial girl living in the suburbs of Las Vegas examines the friendships that grow out of, and despite, her race.







Rip the Page!
By Karen Benke

This guide to creative writing includes experiments, word lists, and letters from popular authors to inspire teen authors.







TimeRiders
By Alex Scarrow

Rescued from imminent death, teens Maddy, Liam, and Sal join forces in 2001 Manhattan to correct changes in history made by other time travelers, using a "time bubble" surrounding the attack on the Twin Towers to hide their journeys.





Jenna and Jonah's Fauxmance
By Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin

Two popular television stars who dislike each other intensely must pretend to be a couple for publicity purposes, and when the truth is discovered their relationship goes through many changes.






Justin Bieber: The Fever
By Marc Shapiro

Presents
the life and accomplishments of the young popular music singer, from his childhood as the son of a single mother to his music career, superstar life, and the details of his next album.