New in September

Gated
By Amy Christine Parker
Seventeen-year-old Lyla feels ambivalent when the charismatic leader of her isolated suburban community is told that the end of the world is near and when it arrives they must all be ready to defend themselves against the unchosen.

Spies and Prejudice
By Talia Vance

"Berry Fields's life working for her dad's investigation firm and searching for clues to her mother's death unravels when gorgeous Tanner arrives in town and changes everything"-- Provided by publisher.

Love Disguised
Lisa Klein
After a mixed-up courtship with the Hathaway sisters ends badly, eighteen-year-old Will Shakespeare jumps at the chance to go to London, where he can pursue his dream of becoming an actor and where he is about to meet the girl who will change his life forever.

In the After
By Demitria Lunetta
In a post-apocalyptic world where nothing is as it seems, seventeen-year-old Amy and Baby, a child she found while scavenging, struggle to survive while vicious, predatory creatures from another planet roam the Earth.

Boy on the Bridge
By Natalie Standiford
It is 1982 and nineteen-year-old Laura Reid is spending a semester in Leningrad studying Russian, but when she meets Alyosha she discovers the dissident Russia--a world of wild parties, underground books and music, love, and constant danger.

Rush
By Eve Silver
Rochester, New York, high schooler Miki Jones is pulled into a sort of a game in which she and other teens battle real-life aliens and the consequences of each battle could be deadly.

Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War
By Helen Frost
Twelve-year-olds Anikwa, of the Miami village of Kekionga, and James, of the trading post outside Fort Wayne, find their friendship threatened by the rising fear and tension brought by the War of 1812.

Ink
By Amanda Sun
After a family tragedy in Deep River, Canada Katie Greene is sent to live with her aunt in Shizuoka, Japan. There she feels lost and alone until she meets the mysterious Tomohiro and strange things begin to happen whenever they are together : ink drips from nowhere, drawings come to life, etc. As their relationship deepens Katie becomes drawn into Tomo's world, that is somehow connected to the kami - powerful ancient Japanese beings.

Second Impact
By David Klass
When Jerry Downing, star quarterback in a small football town, gets a second chance after his drunk driving had serious consequences, Carla Jensen, ace reporter for the school newspaper, invites him to join her in writing a blog, mainly about sports.

Identity Theft
By Anna Davies
Someone claiming to be Hayley posts incriminating photographs of her online, jeopardizing her chance at a college scholarship, but when the photographs reveal dark secrets in her family's past, Hayley learns her very life is at stake.

Lauren Yanofsky Hates the Holocaust
By Leanne Lieberman
Lauren, a Jewish teenager, is tired of hearing about the Holocaust but must make a tough choice when some friends play Nazi war games.

Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked-Tailed Elephant
By Michael Daly
Describes how P.T. Barnum's Topsy the elephant was electrocuted in Coney Island with 6600 volts of alternating current as proof that it was much more dangerous than direct current in an ongoing dispute between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse.

Gettysburg: The True Account of Two Young Heroes in the Greatest Battle of the Civil War
By Iain C. Martin
An account of the historic Civil War battle from the perspectives of two teenage soldiers draws on first-hand accounts to cover key events while providing complementary maps, related trivia, and original photographs.

New in August

Towering
By Alex Flinn
"A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told from the alternating perspectives of three teens whose fates unknowingly bind them together to destroy a greater evil"--.

Confederates Don't Wear Couture
By Stephanie Kate Strohm
While touring with group of Confederate Civil War re-enactors for a summer internship, Libby and Dev attempt to design and sell Southern Confederate costumes for a ball, investigate haunted battle grounds, and seek handsome Southern soldier boys.

Altered
By Jennifer Rush
Seventeen-year-old Anna finds herself on the run from her father's enigmatic Agency, along with the four teen boys the Agency had been experimenting on, as they try to make sense of erased memories, secret identities, and genetic alteration.

Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America
By David H. T. Wong
This is a vivid graphic history of the Chinese experience in North America over the last 150 years, beginning with the immigration of Chinese to "Gold Mountain" (the Chinese colloquialism for North America) in the 1800s that resulted in decades of discrimination, subjugation, and separation from loved ones. Based on historical documents and interviews with elders, the book is also the epic story of the Wong family as they traverse these challenges with hope and determination, creating an immigrant's legacy in their new home of North America.

The Tragedy Paper
By Elizabeth Laban
While preparing for the most dreaded assignment at the prestigious Irving School, the Tragedy Paper, Duncan gets wrapped up in the tragic tale of Tim Macbeth, a former student who had a clandestine relationship with the wrong girl, and his own ill-fated romance with Daisy.

Rules of Summer
By Joanna Philbin
Spending the summer working as an errand girl for the Rule family in the Hamptons, seventeen-year-old Rory befriends the family's teenaged daughter and develops feelings for their older son, but she finds that societal rules can be hard to break.

A Simple Song 
By Melody Carlson
Katrina Yoder has the voice of an angel, but her Amish parents believe singing is prideful vanity, and when she wins a ticket to sing in Hollywood, her life is turned upside down.

Holy Spokes!: A Biking Bible for Everyone 
By Rob Copollilo
Biking is cheap, it’s healthy, and it can provide easy access into an incredible array of life experiences. In this wide-ranging and quick-hitting guide, author Rob Coppolillo explains how bikes work, why bikes matter (especially today, when gas is expensive and interest in green living is high), and how readers – whatever their level of experience – can indulge their tastes for mountain trails, competitive racing, city exploration, and just basic transportation from point A to point B. Profiles from a raucous cast of health, racing, and travel experts shed a light on common pitfalls, and offer great ideas about how to pursue your passions while on two wheels. So take the quiz, pick your bike, and let’s get rolling!

Beautiful Decay
By Sylvia Lewis
Possessing the ability to cause everything she touches to rot away, Ellie avoids others until a newcomer reveals himself to be a death-controlling necromancer with whom Ellie battles a zombie and a group of supernatural evildoers.

Catch Rider 
By Jennifer H. Lyne
Despite her poor background and ferocious competition from more privileged girls, fourteen-year-old Sid pursues her dream of becoming a catch rider--a show rider who can ride anything--with help from her Uncle Wayne.

The Corner of Bitter and Sweet
By Robin Palmer
Growing up as the daughter of a popular television star, Annabelle struggles to maintain a healthy mother-daughter relationship when her mother's antics include a DUI charge and a relationship with a much younger man.

A Dog is a Dog and that is Why He is So Special
By Clarice Rutherford
Clarice Rutherford brings her many years of experience with dogs into this book, and explains dogs, why they are the way they are and how to understand and train them. The book is written for the middle grade school level. The reader will learn the basic history of dogs and their relationship to the wolf. How the dog's brain develops and the importance of early socialization and basic training is explained, as well as how the genetics and instincts of the wolf play an important role in the behavior of the dog to some extent. 

Greta and the Goblin King'
By Chloe Jacobs
While trying to save her brother from the witch three years ago, Greta was thrown into the fire herself, falling through a portal to a dangerous world where humans are the enemy, and every ogre, goblin, and ghoul has a dark side that comes out with the full moon.

The Counterfeit Family Tree of Vee Crawford-Wong
By L. Tam Holland
Vee's history assignment is to create a family tree, but he doesn't know anything about his family beyond his parents' generation.

Replica 
By Jenna Black
Sixteen-year-old Nadia lives a privileged life in the Corporate States, formerly the United States of America, but when her betrothed is killed and then wakes up in the replication tanks, the pair sets out to find a killer while keeping the secrets of human replication technology from the dangerous people who run their world.

New in July

Beach Lane
By Melissa De La Cruz
Au pairs Mara Walters, Eliza Thompson, and Jacqui Velasco meet during a summer in New York's exclusive Hamptons. The three are hired by the Perrys and wade through problematic relationships, power struggles, and the ever-important social scene.

Reboot 
By Amy Tintera
"Seventeen-year-old Wren rises from the dead as a Reboot and is trained as an elite crime-fighting soldier until she is given an order she refuses to follow".

Belle Epoque
By Elizabeth Ross
Sixteen-year-old Maude Pichon, a plain, impoverished girl in Belle Epoque Paris, is hired by Countess Dubern to make her headstrong daughter, Isabelle, look more beautiful by comparison but soon Maude is enmeshed in a tangle of love, friendship, and deception.

Unbored (Nonfiction)
By Joshua Glenn and Elizabeth Foy Larsen
Unbored is the most original, entertaining, and instructive all-in-one book for kids ever published -jam-packed with information, ideas, and activities for children and their parents to share together. Vibrantly designed and illustrated, it's crammed with activities that are not only fun and doable, but get kids engaged in the wider world--and provides information to expand their worldviews, too, inspiring them to learn more. 

Chantress 
By Amy Butler Greenfield
"Fifteen-year-old Lucy discovers that she is a chantress who can perform magic by singing, and the only one who can save England from the control of the dangerous Lord Protector"--Provided by publisher.

The Language Inside 
By Holly Thompson
Raised in Japan, American-born tenth-grader Emma is disconcerted by a move to Massachusetts for her mother's breast cancer treatment, because half of Emma's heart remains with her friends recovering from the tsunami.

Coda 
By Emma Trevayne
Anthem, playing with an illegal underground rock band, is sought after by the Corporation, who plan to turn his songs into addictive, mind-altering music tracks, and soon Anthem learns defying them comes at a deadly price.

Beautiful Creatures: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion (Nonfiction)
By Mark Cotta Vaz
Explores the making of the film "Beautiful Creatures," with behind-the-scenes photographs, interviews, and personal stories.

Maid of Secrets
By Jennifer McGowans
In 1559 England, Meg, an orphaned thief, is pressed into service and trained as a member of the Maids of Honor, Queen Elizabeth I's secret all-female guard, but her loyalty is tested when she falls in love with a Spanish courtier who may be a threat.

The Originals
By Cat Patrick
Seventeen-year-olds Lizzie, Ella, and Betsy Best are clones, raised as identical triplets by their surrogate mother but living as her one daughter, Elizabeth, until their separate abilities and a romantic relationship force a change.

Riptide
By Lindsey Scheibe
While training for a surfing competition to earn a college scholarship, Grace Parker struggles with her feelings toward her best friend Ford Watson and tries to conceal her family's toxic dynamics.

Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty (Nonfiction)
By Russell Freedman
Tracing Franklin's life chronologically, the author chose episodes that reflect how the young man, disgruntled with being his brother's apprentice, made a life for himself, and how he became the figure who is revered today. By describing the obstacles Franklin overcame in establishing his print shop in Philadelphia, Freedman delineates a clear path between his subject's early ambition and his ease with people to his success in business and then to his later roles as a diplomat, revolutionary, and public servant.

The Rose Thorn
By Mett Ivie Harrison

An ancient prophecy hints that the kingdoms of two princesses from rival lands, one with magic and one without, will be united under one rule--and one rule only.

The Rules for Disappearing 
By Ashley Elston
High school student "Meg" has changed identities so often that she hardly knows who she is anymore, and her family is falling apart, but she knows that two of the rules of witness protection are be forgettable and do not make friends--but in her new home in Louisiana a boy named Ethan is making that difficult.

The Testing
By Joelle Charbonneau
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.

Do You Wonder Why?: How to Answer Life’s Tough Questions (Nonfiction)
By David Pouilloux
This book aims to answer the sorts of questions that readers might be reluctant to ask their friends or family, such as “Why am I afraid of not being like everyone else?” or “Why doesn’t my crush want to go out with me?” Much of the advice boils down to variations on “it’s normal to feel that way,” and “just be yourself,” and the overall tone is unfailingly supportive.

New in June

The Rules
By Stacey Kade
At sixteen, Ariane Tucker has been careful to elude those seeking her since her escape from a genetics lab ten years earlier, but the attention of classmate Zane, both frightening and intoxicating, tempts her to risk violating at least one of her adoptive father's five simple rules.

The Ruining
By Anna Collomore
Still feeling guilty over the death of her little sister leaves eighteen-year-old Annie vulnerable when she takes a nanny job in beautiful Marin County, California, and meets her very controlling employer.

Gorgeous
By Paul Rudnick
When eighteen-year-old Becky Randle's mother dies, she is whisked away from a trailer park to New York City, where fashion designer Tom Kelly offers to transform her into a glamorous Rebecca, a girl fit for a prince--but soon she begins to fear that she will lose touch with her real self.

The 5th Wave
By Richard Yancey
Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.

My Adventures as a Young Filmmaker
By Andrew Jenks
The award-winning creator of the World of Jenks documentary series describes how a resolve to share the stories of his generation inspired his career, in a personal portrait that imparts his values about flexibility, creativity and never saying no.

The Lucy Variations
By Sara Zarr
Sixteen-year-old San Franciscan Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. Her chance at a career has passed, and she decides to help her ten-year-old piano prodigy brother, Gus, map out his own future, even as she explores why she enjoyed piano in the first place.

The Summer I Became a Nerd 
By Leah Rea Miller
Madelyne Summers looks and acts like a typical blonde cheerleader but on the inside she agonizes over what will happen in the next issue of her favorite comic book. She has kept the fact that she is a nerd hiding in a popular girls body a secret until she slips up in front of the guy behind the local comic store counter. She is soon whisked into a world of comic conventions and live-action role play and she loves it but she must decide if she is willing to let her real self be known.

The Caged Graves 
By Dianne Salemi
Returning to her hometown of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1867 to marry a man she has never met, seventeen-year-old Verity Boone gets caught up in the mystery surrounding the graves of her mother and aunt and a dangerous hunt for Revolutionary-era gold.

Women of the Frontier 
By Brandon Marie Miller
Drawing on journal entries, letters, and song lyrics to evoke the courage and spirit of female pioneers, a collection of portraits traces the lives of such individuals as Amelia Stewart Knight, Miriam Colt, and Clara Brown.

Erasing Time 
By C.J. Hill
Eighteen-year-old twins Taylor and Sheridan are pulled into the future and must find a way to stop the evil government from using the time machine again.

Prisoner B-3087
By Alan Gratz
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.

Starstruck 
By Rachel Shukert
"Set in Old Hollywood, follows the lives of three teen girls as they live, love, and claw their way to the top in a world where being a star is all that matters"--Provided by publisher.

Little Boy Blue
By Kim Kavin
After adopting a rescue dog named Blue, the author traces the canine's origins and in the process exposes the brutalities of the U.S. shelter system.

This Girl is Different
By J.J. Johnson
Having always been home schooled by her counter-culture mother, Evie has decided to spend her senior year at the local public high school, an experience that challenges her preconceptions about friendship, boundaries, and power.

The Book of Broken Hearts 
By Sarah Ockler
"Jude has learned a lot from her older sisters, but the most important thing is this: The Vargas brothers are notorious heartbreakers. But as Jude begins to fall for Emilio Vargas, she begins to wonder if her sisters were wrong"--.

The Cadet of Tildor
By Alex Lidell
At the Academy of Tildor, the training ground for elite soldiers, Cadet Renee de Winter struggles to keep up with her male peers, but when her mentor is kidnapped to fight in illegal gladiator games, Renee and best friend Alec struggle to do what is right in a world of crime and political intrigue.