New in April

Don't Expect Magic
By Kathy McCullough
Upon her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Delaney Collins must move to California to live with a father she barely knows, and discovers not only that he is a fairy "godmother", but she may be one, as well.

Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
By Jordan Sonnenblick
After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who, when he realizes he is becoming senile, gives Pete all of his professional camera gear.

Falling Under
By Gwen Hayes
When sheltered teenager Theia Alderson meets Haden, the strikingly handsome new boy at her school who is the same compelling figure that has visited her in her dreams, she has no way of knowing the extent to which her life will ultimately be changed.

Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different
By Karen Blumenthal
This biography of Steve Jobs takes readers through his adoption at birth, his creation of Apple, and his struggle with cancer.

Gathering Storm
By Robin Bridges
In St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1888, royal debutante Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, tries to hide a dark secret--that she has the ability to raise the dead--but when she uses her special skill to protect a member of the Imperial Family, she finds herself caught in a web of intrigue.

The Way We Fall
By Megan Crewe
Sixteen-year-old old Kaelyn challenges her fears, finds a second chance at love, and fights to keep her family and friends safe as a deadly new virus devastates her island community.

47 Things You Can Do for the Environment
By Lexi Petronis
Provides teens with simple things they can do to protect the environment.

Never Eighteen
By Megan Bostic
Seventeen-year-old Austin, aware that life is short, asks his best friend and secret love, Kaylee, to take him to visit people and places in and around Tacoma, Washington, so that he can try to make a difference in the time he has left.

Born Wicked
By Jessica Spotwood
In an alternate New England of 1900, where the Brotherhood dominates and controls society, sixteen-year-old Cate Cahill has struggled since her mother's death to keep secret that she and her younger sisters are witches, but when a governess arrives from the Sisterhood, everything changes.

Croak
By Gina Damico
A delinquent sixteen-year-old girl is sent to live with her uncle for the summer, only to learn that he is a Grim Reaper who wants to teach her the family business.

Black Boy, White School
By Brian F. Walker
When fourteen-year-old Anthony "Ant" Jones from the ghetto of East Cleveland, Ohio, gets a scholarship to a prep school in Maine, he finds that he must change his image and adapt to a world that never fully accepts him, but when he goes home he discoversthat he no longer truly belongs there either.

Soul Searching: A Girl's Guide to Finding Herself
By Sarah Stillman
Helps empower teen girls in various aspects of life, including self-esteem, health, and self-discovery.

Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am
By Harry Mazer and Peter Lerangis
Wounded in Iraq while his Army unit is on convoy and treated for many months for traumatic brain injury, the first person Ben remembers from his earlier life is his autistic brother.

Havoc
By Jeff Sampson
After genetic engineering endows sixteen-year-old Emily and her friends with super powers and changes them into werewolves, the teenagers set off on a dangerous mission to find the people who made them what they are, and to discover why.