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.

New in January 2013

Poison Tree
By Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Alysia has quickly moved to a position of responsibility in SingleEarth, working among shapeshifters and witches who fight against vampires, but she is hiding secret alliances that could put her fellow mediators at risk.

Alice in Zombieland
By Gena Showalter
To avenge the death of her parents and sister Ali must learn to fight the undead, and to survive she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has his own secrets, which might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies.

The Revolution of Evalyn Serrano
By Sonia Manzano
It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous.

Panem Companion: An Unofficial Guide to Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games, from Mellark Bakery to Mockingjays
By V. Arrow
Uses textual clues to explore the world of the Hunger Games and examine issues of class, culture, and more. 

Touched
By Corrine Jackson
Possessing powers that enable her to heal others while taking their injuries into herself, Remy O'Malley is sent to live with her estranged father and pursues a forbidden relationship with Asher Blackwell, who sacrificed his senses to become immortal.

Time Between Us
By Tamara Ireland Stone
In 1995 Evanston, Illinois, sixteen-year-old Anna's perfectly normal life is turned upside-down when she meets Bennett, whose ability to travel through space and time creates complications for them both.

The Forsaken 
By Lisa M. Stasse
After the formation of the United Northern Alliance--a merger of Canada, the United States, and Mexico into one nation--sixteen-year-old Alenna is sent to an desolate prison island for teenagers believed to be predisposed to violence.

Home Front Girl
By Joan Morrison
The diary of a young teenager, Joan Wehlen, that describes what it was like to grow up in Chicago during the Depression and the lead-up to World War II.

Have a Nice Day
By Julie Halpern
When Anna returns from a three-week stay in a mental hospital she struggles to resume a normal life in the face of her parents' arguments and peers who are afraid to ask her what happened.

Beyond: A Ghost Story
By Graham McNamee
Everyone thinks seventeen-year-old Jane has attempted suicide more than once, but Jane knows the truth: her shadow is trying to kill her.

Mountain of Bones
By Christopher Krovatin
During a class trip to the Montana woods, three sixth-graders, athletic Ian, sensitive PJ, and brainy Kendra, are separated from their group and must rely on each other to survive as they encounter zombies and more.

Dear Teen Me 
A collection of advice and reflections by young adult authors who reveal personal experiences from their teen years shares recommendations on topics ranging from abuse and relationships to bullying and body issues.

Fourmile
By Watt Key
"A mysterious stranger arrives at a boy's rundown Alabama farm home, just as a dangerous situation is unfolding for the twelve-year-old and his widowed mother"--.

Shadow on the Mountain
By Margi Preus
In Nazi-occupied Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen joins the resistance movement, graduating from deliverer of illegal newspapers to courier and spy.

New in December

Jepp, Who Defied the Stars
By Katherine Marsh
"Jepp, a teenage dwarf living in 16th century Europe, leaves home to seek his destiny"-- Provided by publisher.

The Shadow Society
By Marie Rutkoski
Sixteen-year-old Darcy Jones knows little about her past except that she was abandoned outside a Chicago firehouse at age five, but when the mysterious Conn arrives at her high school she begins to discover things about her past that she is not sure she likes.

Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
By Steve Sheinkin
Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.

Be My Enemy
By Ian McDonald
14-year-old science whiz Everett Singh continues to outthink his enemies while navigating the multiverse searching for his dad, lost in a parallel universe.

If We Survive
By Andrew Klavan
When revolutionaries seize control of a country in Central America where sixteen-year-old Will is serving at a mission, he and the other volunteers find themselves in a desperate race to escape the violence and return home.

What Came from the Stars 
By Gary D. Schmidt
In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Bronte Sisters : The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne
By Catherine Reef
Explores the turbulent lives of the three literary siblings and the oppressive times in which they lived, and offers insight into their classic nineteenth-century novels.

Pirate Cinema
By Cory Doctorow
In a dystopian, near-future Britain, sixteen-year-old Trent, obsessed with making movies on his computer, joins a group of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity.

Endangered
By Eliot Schrefer
Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.

Witch World 
By Christopher Pike
On a high school graduation road trip to Las Vegas, Jessie, still in love with ex-boyfriend Jimmy, discovers that she possesses extraordinary powers and the ability to exist in both the real world and an alternate one.

Break My Heart 1,000 Times 
By Daniel Waters
In the aftermath of the Event, which made seeing the dead a part of life, Veronica and her friend Kirk investigate why the ghosts seem to be gaining power and stumble upon the sinister plot of a teacher who is seeking a replacement for his dead daughter.

The Hunger Games A - Z 
By Martin Howden
A book of trivia for the "Hunger Games" fans.

All You Never Wanted
By Adele Griffin
Wealthy teen Thea Parott's jealousy of her older, prettier, more popular sister Alex prompts a series of self-destructive acts that threaten their seemingly-idyllic lives.

Elemental
By Antony John
In a dystopian colony of the United States where everyone is born with powers of the elements, water, wind, earth, and fire, sixteen-year-old Thomas, the first and only child born without an element seems powerless, but is he?

The Paladin Prophecy
By Mark Frost
A fifteen-year-old boy who has spent his entire life trying to avoid attention finds himself in the middle of a millenia-old struggle between titanic forces when he is simultaneously recruited by an exclusive prep school and followed by sinister agents.

New in November

Encyclopedia of Me
By Karen Rivers
As Tink Aaron-Martin writes an encyclopedia of her life, she also tells the story of the summer leading into her eighth-grade year.

Don't Turn Around
By Michelle Gagnon
After waking up on an operating table with no memory of how she got there, Noa must team up with computer hacker Peter to stop a corrupt corporation with a deadly secret.

Starling 
By Lesley Livingston
When Mason Starling rescues an unconscious young man from the ravages of a terrible storm, little does she know her whole life is about to spiral dramatically, mystically out of control.

I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior: Memoirs of an American Soldier
By Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin
Recounts the story of how the author overcame a tough and abusive childhood to fulfill his dream of joining the exciting and dangerous world of the Navy SEALs by becoming a Special Forces sniper. 

What's Left of Me 
By Kat Zhang
Addie and Eva are two sisters born into the same body, and although Eva's soul was supposed to fade away, she still lingers beside Addie's dominant soul, until they meet someone who can change everything for the pair.

The Amber House 
By Kelly Moore
After her grandmother's death Sarah Parsons, nearly sixteen, delights in exploring her family's centuries-old Maryland estate with new friend Jackson, but soon she is having vivid visions of her ancestors, one of whom may be a threat to Sarah's autistic brother, Sam.

If I Lie
By Corrine Jackson
Seventeen-year-old Sophie Quinn becomes an outcast in her small military town when she chooses to keep a secret for her Marine boyfriend who is missing in action in Afghanistan.

The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure 
By Martin W. Sandler
In 1897, whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska's coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative. And in that particular year, winter blasted early, bringing storms and ice packs that caught eight American Whale ships and three hundred sailors off guard. Their ships locked in ice, with no means of escape, the whalers had limited provisions on board, and little hope of surviving until warmer temperatures arrived many months later. Here is the incredible story of three men sent by President McKinley to rescue them. 

Kill Switch 
By Chris Lynch
Daniel simply wants to spend one last summer with his grandfather, Da, before his move to college and Da's dementia pull them apart, but when Da starts to let things slip about a secret life, Daniel must protect him from old "friends" who intend to make sure Da stays quiet.

The Edge of Nowhere
By Elizabeth George
When her mother abandons her on Whidbey Island, Washington, a fourteen-year-old girl with psychic abilities meets a Ugandan orphan with a secret.

The Invisible World: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
By Suzanne Weyn
Knowing more about the scientific world than most seventeenth-century girls, Sarah Owen winds up in Salem, Massachusetts, after a shipwreck and finds that her psychic abilities cause her to be accused of witchcraft.

Dead Strange: The Bizarre Truths Behind 50 World-Famous Mysteries
By Matt Lamy
From the Loch Ness monster to Bigfoot, spontaneous combustion to Roswell, this book looks at the bizarre, spooky, or confounding real-life mysteries and baffling phenomena.

The Good Braider
By Terry Farish
Follows Viola as she survives brutality in war-torn Sudan, makes a perilous journey, lives as a refugee in Egypt, and finally reaches Portland, Maine, where her quest for freedom and security is hampered by memories of past horrors and the traditions her mother and other Sudanese adults hold dear. Includes historical facts and a map of Sudan.

Venom 
By Fiona Paul
In Renaissance Venice, orphaned Cassandra Caravello is one of the elite but feels trapped in the city of water until she stumbles upon a murdered woman and is drawn into a dangerous world of courtesans, grave robbers, and secret societies, guided by Falco, a mysterious and alluring artist.