Friday, February 01, 2013

New in February

Three Little Words
By Sarah N. Harvey
When Sid decide to leave his foster family in search for his mother and brother that he doesn't remember. He isn't ready for the surprises he finds.
The Fire Horse Girl
By Kay Honeyman
When Jade Moon, born in the unlucky year of the Fire Horse, and her father immigrate to America in 1923 and are detained at Angel Island Immigration Station, Jade Moon is determined to find a way through and prove that she is not cursed.
Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things
By Kathryn Burak
A new girl in Amherst, Massachusetts, comes to terms with her mother's suicide and her best friend's disappearance with the help of Emily Dickinson's poetry--and her dress.
Perry's Killer Playlist 
By Joe Schreiber
As his rock band tours Italy, eighteen-year-old Perry says a reluctant "bonjour" to Gobi, his former exchange student/Lithuanian assassin, who enlists his help on a justice-dispensing rampage all over Europe.
Lincoln's Last Days 
By Bill O'Reilly and Dwight Jon Zimmerman
Describes the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the hunt to track down John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices.
Flutter
By G. J. Linko
"Although doctors want to treat 17-year-old Emery Land for the seizures that define her life, she runs away from the hospital in the hopes of uncovering the secret behind her "loops"--the moments during her seizures when she travels to different places and moments in time" --.
Meant to Be
By Lauren Morrill
During an educational trip to London, away from her friends and the boy she thinks she is fated to love, Massachusetts high school junior Julia Lichtenstein is paired with her nemesis, Jason, and begins seeing many things differently.
Midnight City
By Mitchell J. Barton
When the world's adults succumb to an alien signal designed to reduce populations to subservience, teen bounty hunter Holt and treasure seeker Mira rescue a young girl and journey through North America to free their world.
Rescuing the Children: The Story of the Kindertransport 
By Deborah Hodge
Learn why children were in danger in Nazi Europe and about the brave people who helped them escape to England.
My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century
By Rachel Harris
While on a trip to Florence, Italy, Cat Crawford travels back in time to the sixteenth century where she meets her ancestors, falls for an aspiring artist, and becomes the target of an unwanted suitor.
Nobody
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Fifteen-year-old Claire Ryan has always felt invisible, always lived beyond people's notice, which causes trouble when she instantly connects with seventeen-year-old Nix, who really can become invisible and has been sent to assassinate her.
Passion Blue
By Victoria Strauss
In fifteenth-century Italy, seventeen-year-old Giulia, a Count's illegitimate daughter, buys a talisman hoping it will bring her true love to save her from life in a convent, but once there she begins to learn the painter's craft, including how to make the coveted paint, Passion blue, and to question her true heart's desire.
Vicious: True Stories by Teens About Bullying 
Edited by Hope Vanderberg
Teens share personal stories about physical, verbal, and cyber bullying.
Level 2
By Lenore Appelhans
Seventeen-year-old Felicia Ward is dead and spending her time in the hive reliving her happy memories--but when Julian, a dark memory from her past, breaks into the hive and demands that she come with him, she discovers that even the afterlife is more complicated and dangerous then she dreamed.
All the Broken Pieces
By Cindi Madsen
After waking from a coma with no memory of her past, Liv returns to her normal life with two distinct, warring voices in her head, and it takes an investigation into her car accident and her new relationship with Spencer to rebuild her broken past.
The Future We Left Behind
By Mike A. Lancaster
A thousand years after the release of the Straker Tapes, when Peter and Alpha discover that stories of human upgrades are true, they strive to stop a group of scientists from making a decision that could destroy humanity.