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.

New in May

Ashes of Twilight
By Kassy Tayler
Sixteen-year-old Wren MacAvoy works as a coal miner for a domed city where, after 200 years, society is complacent and coal is diminishing until she unwittingly becomes a catalyst for a revolution that destroys the dome, which could mean the end of everything.

Furious
By Jill Wolfson
After becoming the Furies of Greek mythology, three angry high school girls take revenge on everyone who deserves it.

Hooked 
By Liz Fichera
Invited to become her varsity golf team's only female member, Fredericka Oday pursues a dream of earning a scholarship only to be challenged by golden boy Ryan Berenger, who resents Fred for replacing his best friend on the team.

My Brother's Book
By Maurice Sendak
Presents a poem Sendak wrote to pay homage to his late brother, Jack, whom he credited for his passion for writing and drawing.

Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood
By Abby McDonald
Sisters Hallie and Grace relocate to Beverly Hills after the death of their father and struggle with respective challenges, from Grace's memories of a crush to Hallie's tempestuous love triangle.

Money Run 
By Jack Heath
Fifteen-year-olds Ashley and Benjamin are planning the heist of a lifetime, but they are not counting on a hit man who has plans of his own.

Moonset
By Scott Tracey
Five orphaned teenagers, the offspring of a terrorist witch coven known as Moonset, struggle against the destructive legacy left by their parents.

Three Little Words: A Memoir
By Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Ashley spent nine years in foster care after being taken away from her mother. She endured many caseworkers, moving from school to school and manipulative, humiliating and abusive treatment from one foster family. See how she survives and eventually thrives against the odds.

 

Out of Nowhere
By Maria Padian
Performing community service for pulling a stupid prank against a rival high school, soccer star Tom tutors a Somali refugee with soccer dreams of his own.

The Program
By Suzanne Young
When suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to seventeen-year-old Sloane who knows that The Program will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend.

Sacred
By Elana K. Arnold
Since her older brother died Scarlett has felt emotionally cut off from everyone on Catalina Island except for her horse, and she has become anorexic--but when she meets a strange boy named Will Cohen she begins to rediscover herself.

It's Raining Fish and Spiders
By Bill Evans
Provides information on tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, and other types of extreme weather, with personal anecdotes from the meteorologist author and examples from some of the well-known storms of the past.

Spellbinding 
By Maya Gold
When sixteen-year-old Abby traces her deceased mother's family to the Salem Witch Trials, the nightmares she has been having begin to make sense, but soon she is caught up in a love triangle and an age-old quest for revenge.

Touch of Death
By Kelly Hashway

Jodi Marshall discovers she's part of a branch of necromancers born under the 13th sign of the zodiac, Ophiuchus. As if that isn't difficult enough, Jodi discovers she's the chosen one who has to save the rest of her kind from perishing at the hands of Hades. If she can't figure out how to control her power, history will repeat itself, and her race will become extinct.

Renegade
By Amy Carol Reeves
"After vanquishing the Conclave, Arabella Sharp tries to focus on her medical studies but soon discovers that she and those she loves have not escaped the manipulations of the Ripper"-- Provided by the publisher.

New in April

17 & Gone
By Nova Ren Suma
Seventeen-year-old Lauren has visions of girls her own age who are gone without a trace, but while she tries to understand why they are speaking to her and whether she is next, Lauren has a brush with death and a shocking truth emerges, changing everything.

Odette's Secrets
By Maryann MacDonald
When Odette Meyer's father is sent to a Nazi work camp, her mother sends Odette from Paris to the French countryside where she must pretend to be a Catholic peasant to remain safe, while secrets burn within her.

Salvation 
By Anne Osterlund
High school seniors Salvador Resendez, the son of Mexican immigrants, and Beth Courant, a bookish student, seem an unlikely couple as they face his family's opposition, until a tragedy forces them to create a better future for themselves.

Tales of Famous Animals 
By Peter and Connie Roop
All throughout history, there have been remarkable stories of bravery and heroics -- and some of those tales aren't just about humans. Come meet the animals who made their mark on the past.

When We Wake
By Karen Healey
In 2027, sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl--playing the guitar, falling in love, and protesting the wrongs of the world with her friends. But then Tegan dies, waking up 100 years in the future as the unknowing first government guinea pig to be cryogenically frozen and successfully revived. Appalling secrets about her new world come to light, and Tegan must choose to either keep her head down or fight for a better future.

Alone Yet Not Alone
By Tracy Craven
In 1755, in the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania, sisters Barbara and Regina Leininger are carried away from their family by Allegheny warriors, but hold onto their faith in God and belief that they will one day be reunited.

A Corner of White
By Jaclyn Moriarty
Fourteen-year-old Madeleine of Cambridge, England, struggling to cope with poverty and her mother's illness, and fifteen-year-old Elliot of the Kingdom of Cello in a parallel world where colors are villainous and his father is missing, begin exchanging notes through a crack between their worlds and find they can be of great help to each other.

Courage Has No Color
By Tanya Lee Stone
Examines the role of African-Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought against attacks perpetrated on the American West by the Japanese during World War II.

The Farm 
By Emily McKay
In a vampire-infested world where teenagers have been imprisoned to provide food for the undead, Lily and her autistic twin, Mel, team up with a former schoolmate to make a desperate escape.

Orleans
By Sherri L. Smith
After a string of devastating hurricanes and a severe outbreak of Delta Fever, the Gulf Coast has been quarantined. Now, years later, a new primitive society has been born over the wall.

Alien Hunter's Handbook 
By Mark Brake
A guide to the science behind the search for extraterrestrials, including the conditions necessary for life, where such conditions could exist, how aliens might look, and how we might be able to communicate with them.

Paradise 
By Joanna Nadin
When sixteen-year-old Billie Paradise unexpectedly inherits her grandmother's seaside house she gains not only the opportunity to move with her mother and half brother from their cramped London apartment but, perhaps, also to uncover family secrets, including the identity of her father.

Slated
By Teri Terry
In a future England, sixteen-year-old Kyla is one of the "slated," those whose memories have been erased usually because they have committed serious crimes, but as she observes more and more strange events, she also gains more memories which put her and her boyfriend, Ben, in danger.

When We Wuz Famous
By Greg Takoudes
Francisco Ortiz, a handsome straight-A student and gifted basketball player from the barrio, wins a full scholarship to an elite boarding school. His future seems promising. But soon after Francisco moves into the dorm, his new classmates assume the worst of him: they pepper him with questions about drugs and gangs. It's all so confusing, made even more complicated when Francisco realizes that back home in the hood, he no longer fits in, though his friends still rely on him to solve their problems. In a desperate attempt to help one of his homies, Francisco makes a terrible decision and becomes everything he fought so hard to rise against.