Zimmerman Library Jan-June 2017
New Fiction Books (arranged by genre, and then alphabetically by author’s last name)
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Smith, Dan, 1970-. Boy X. 1st ed., March 2017. Key, Watt. Hideout. 1st ed., 2017. New York: New York: Chicken House/Scholastic Inc., Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017. "The son of a 2017.When twelve-year-old Ash McCarthy wakes Mississippi policeman finds a boy living in up after his father's funeral, he finds that he has hiding in the wilderness and tries to help him been kidnapped to an island off the coast of without giving away his secret"--Provided by Costa Rica, caught in the middle of a secret and publisher. ACTION KEY deadly project named Kronos in which his
mother is somehow involved, and he must find a Matson, Lynne. Nil. 1st Square Fish ed.: 2015. way to save them both--and the only person he is New York: Square Fish, Henry Holt and Co., sure he can trust is a Spanish girl his own age 2015.Transported through a "gate" to the named Isabel. ACTION SMI mysterious island of Nil, seventeen-year-old Charley has 365 days to escape--or she will die. ACTION MAT CLASSIC Reichs, Brendan. Nemesis. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2017].As the Anvil, an enormous asteroid, threatens to end all life on Ellison, Ralph. Flying home and other Earth, sixteen-year-old Min begins to uncover a stories. 1st Vintage International ed. New York: lifetime of lies, a sinister conspiracy involving all Vintage, 1998.A party down at the square -- Boy students in her sophomore class in Fire Lake, on a train -- Mister Toussan -- Afternoon -- That Idaho. ACTION REI I had the wings -- A coupla scalped indians -- Hymie's bull -- I did not learn their names -- A Ryan, Carrie. Daughter of deep silence. New hard time keeping up -- The black ball -- King of York, N.Y.: Speak, 2016.At fourteen, Frances the bingo game -- In a strange country -- Flying survived a slaughter that claimed the lives of her home. Includes thirteen short fiction stories parents and best friend, Libby, but she took on written by Ellison between 1937 and 1954. Libby's identity and wealth while plotting CLASSIC ELL 1 Lively, Penelope, 1933-. The purple swamp hen Blackwood, Sage. Miss Ellicott's school for the and other stories. New York: Viking, 2017. "A magically minded. 1st ed. New York, NY: glimmering collection of new short fiction from Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]. "Repeatedly author of How It All Began In such acclaimed landing in trouble at her finishing school novels as The Photograph, Family Album, and because of her preference for practicing magic How It All Began, Penelope Lively has captivated instead of manners, Chantel enlists her friends readers with her singular blend of wisdom, to protect the kingdom when her teacher goes elegance, and humor. Now, in her first story missing along with the city's protective magic. "- collection in decades, Lively takes up themes of -OCLC. FANTASY BLA history, family, and relationships across varied and vividly rendered settings. In the title story, a Blake, Elly. Frostblood. 1st ed.: January 2017. Mediterranean purple swamp hen chronicles the New York: Little, Brown and Co. , 2017. secrets and scandals of Quintus Pompeius's villa, "Seventeen-year-old Ruby is a Fireblood who culminating with his narrow escape from the must use her powers of heat and flame to help lava and ash of Vesuvius. "Abroad" captures the two Frostblood rebels overthrow a maniacal low point of an artist couple's tumultuous Frostblood king"--. FANTASY BLA European road trip, trapped in a remote Spanish farmhouse and forced to paint a family mural Bobet, Leah. An inheritance of ashes. Boston: and pitch in with chores to pay for repairs to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. Now that the their broken-down car. Other stories reveal strange war is over, sixteen-year-old Hallie and friends and lovers in fateful moments of her sister struggle to maintain their family farm, indiscretion, discovery, and even retribution--as waiting to see who will return from the distant in "The Third Wife," when a woman learns her battlefield, soon hiring a veteran to help them husband to be a serial con artist and turns a but, as ugly truths about their family emerge, house hunting trip into an elaborately staged Hallie is taking dangerous risks and keeping revenge trap"--. CLASSIC LIV desperate secrets while monsters and armies converge on the small farm. FANTASY BOB McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. The heart is a lonely hunter. 1st Mariner Bks. ed. Boston: Bouwman, H. M. A crack in the sea. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 2000.A deaf mute who has NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2017]. "Pip, a young lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane boy who can speak to fish, and his sister Kinchen becomes the recipient of the confidences of set off on a great adventure, joined by twins with several other town residents. CLASSIC MCC magical powers, refugees fleeing post-war Vietnam, and some helpful sea monsters"-- Orwell, George, 1903-1950. 1984: a novel. New Provided by publisher. FANTASY BOU York: Signet Classic, 1977.Depicts life in a totalitarian regime of the future. CLASSIC ORW Carroll, Emma, 1970-. In darkling wood. 1st American ed. New York: Delacorte Press, [2017]. When Alice goes to stay with her grandmother she discovers the magical Darkling Wood, where FANTASY she meets a strange friend and discovers letters written between a brother and sister during WWI. FANTASY CAR Appelt, Kathi, 1954-. Maybe a fox. 1st Ed. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Cast, P. C. Redeemed. 1st St. Martin's Griffin [2016]. An otherworldly fox is born to help trade pbk. ed.: September 2015. New York: St. eleven-year-old Jules, who is grieving over the Martin's Griffin, 2015. "Zoey and her friends face death of her sister. FANTASY APP the ultimate battle with evil, which will determine the fate of the world, both human and Baldacci, David. The finisher. 1st ed. New York: 1ampyre"--Provided by publisher. FANTASY Scholastic Press, 2014. Vega investigates why CAS Quentin Herms was chased into the dangerous Quag and discovers dangerous secrets about her home village of Wormwood. FANTASY BAL
2 Chokshi, Roshani. A crown of wishes. 1st U. S. Fine, Sarah. The cursed queen. 1st ed. New York: ed.: March 2017. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2017]. "Ansa has 2017. "Gauri, princess of Bharata, has been always been a fighter. As a child, she fought the captured by her kingdom's enemies and faces a invaders who murdered her parents and future of exile and scorn, she has nothing left to snatched her as a raid prize. She fought for her lose. But Vikram, the notoriously cunning prince status as a warrior in her tribe, but the day the of a neighboring land, promises her freedom in Krigere cross the great lake and threaten the exhange for her partnership on his team to win witch queen of the Kupari, everything changes"-- the Tournament of Wishes. It seems like a fool- Provided by publisher. FANTASY FIN proof plan until Gauri and Vikram arrive at the trounament and find that danger takes on new Gaiman, Neil. American gods: a novel. 1st shapes, and new trials test their devotion, Perennial ed. New York: Perennial, 2003. . It is strength, and wits at every turn. And they soon the story of Shadow—released from prison just discover that there is nothing more dangerous days after his wife and best friend are killed in than what they most desire. "--Adapted from an accident—who gets recruited to be dust jacket. FANTASY CHO bodyguard, driver, and errand boy for the enigmatic trickster, Mr. Wednesday. So begins Chokshi, Roshani. The star-touched queen. 1st Shadow’s dark and strange road trip, one that ed. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2016. introduces him to a host of eccentric characters Sixteen-year-old Maya's arranged marriage whose fates are mysteriously intertwined with turns out much better than she expected, but her his own. For, beneath the placid surface of husband's magic--and her curiosity--may everyday life, a storm is brewing—an epic war threaten more than her life. FANTASY CHO for the very soul of America—and Shadow is standing squarely in its path. FANTASY GAI Cluess, Jessica. A shadow bright and burning. 1st ed. New York: Random House, [2016]. Garber, Stephanie. Caraval. 1st U. S. ed.: "When her unusual powers mark her as the one January 2017. New York: Flatiron Books, 2017. destined to lead the war against the seven Two sisters, Scarlett and Tella, leave their cruel Ancients, Henrietta trains to become the first father to attend Caraval--a faraway once-a-year female sorcerer in centuries--though the true performance where the audience participates in nature of her ability threatens to be revealed"-- the show--and, along the way, Tella is kidnapped Provided by publisher. FANTASY CLU and Scarlett is aided by a mysterious sailor and finds herself enmeshed in a game of love, Egan, Catherine, 1976-. Julia vanishes. 1st ed. heartbreak, and magic. FANTASY GAR New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [2016]. "Possessing an ability to hide on the edge of perception, Julia Heilig, Heidi. The girl from everywhere. 1st ed. conceals her talents in a city where magic is New York, NY: Greenwillow Books, an imprint banned and poses as a grand lady's housemaid of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]. "Sixteen- alongside an eccentric band of fellow year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and housemates who have ties to a powerful killer"-- through centuries aboard her time-traveling OCLC. FANTASY EGA father's ship. But when he gambles with her very existence, it all may [come to an end]"--OCLC. Elliott, Kate, 1958-. Poisoned blade. 1st ed.: FANTASY HEI August 2016. New York: Little, Brown and Co. , 2016. "Now a Fives Challenger, Jes travels the Heilig, Heidi. The ship beyond time. New York, countryside to compete against adversaries of NY: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of similar skill levels, using the opportunity to HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]. "Unable to face search for her missing twin sister, Bettany, only losing Kashmir--best friend, thief, charmer to be thrown into the center of the war that Lord extraordinaire--Nix sails her crew to a mythical Kalliarkos--the boy she still loves--is fighting utopia to meet a man who promises he can teach against their country's enemies"--Provided by her how to manipulate time, to change history. publisher. FANTASY ELL But no place is perfect, not even paradise. And everything is constantly changing on this utopian island, including reality itself"--Dust jacket. FANTASY HEI
3 Howard, A. G. (Anita G. ). Roseblood. New York: Messner, Kate. The seventh wish. New York: Abrams Amulet, 2017. Rune Germain has a Bloomsbury, [2016]. "Unsure of how to get her mysterious affliction linked to her singing talent family's attention, Charlie comes across the that leaves her sick and drained at the end of surprise of her life one day while ice-fishing. . . each performance, so her mother sends her to a in the form of a floppy, scaly fish offering to French boarding school conviced that creative grant her a wish in exchange for its freedom"-- direction will cure her. Rune recognizes Provided by publisher. FANTASY MES something otherworldly when she sees a masked boy in the graveyard. She also befriends Thorn, Mull, Brandon, 1974-. Dragonwatch. Salt Lake who dresses in nineteenth century clothing. City, Utah: Shadow Mountain, [2017]. Because Thorn can cure Rune, but at what expense?. Dragonwatch, an ancient group of wizards, FANTASY HOW enchantresses, and dragon slayers, is crumbling, an uprising of dragons threatens to destroy the Lauren, Ruth. Prisoner of ice and snow. New magical preserves as well as overrun the York: Bloomsbury, 2017. "When thirteen-year- nonmagical world. FANTASY MUL old Valor is arrested, she could not be happier. Demidova's prison for criminal children is Nix, Garth. Frogkisser! 1st ed. , March 2017. exactly where she wants to be. Valor's sister New York: Scholastic Press, 2017. "Princess Sasha is already serving a life sentence for Anya has a big problem: Duke Rikard, her step- stealing from the royal family, and Valor is going stepfather is an evil wizard who wants to rule the to help her escape . . . from the inside"--. kingdom and has a habit of changing people into FANTASY LAU frogs, and her older sister Morven, the heir, is a wimp--so with the help of the librarian Gotfried Legrand, Claire, 1986-. Some kind of happiness. (who turns into an owl when he is upset), and 1st Ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for the Royal Dogs, she must find a way to defeat Young Readers, [2016]. Finley Hart is sent to her Rikard, save her sister, and maybe even turn grandparents' house for the summer, but her Prince Denholm back into a human being"-- anxiety and overwhelmingly sad days continue Provided by publisher. FANTASY NIX until she escapes into her writings which soon turn mysteriously real and she realizes she must Paige, Danielle. Dorothy must die. 1st pbk. ed. , save this magical world in order to save herself. 2015. New York, NY: Harper, an imprint of FANTASY LEG HarperCollins Publishers, 2015. "Amy Gumm, the other girl from Kansas, has been recruited by Marr, Melissa. Seven black diamonds. 1st ed. New the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked to stop York, NY: Harper, an imprint of Dorothy who has found a way to come back to HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]. "Lilywhite Oz, seizing a power that has gone to her head -- Abernathy is a criminal--she's half human, half so now no one is safe!"-OCLC. FANTASY PAI fae, and since the time before she was born her very blood has been illegal. A war has been raging Park, Linda Sue. Cavern of secrets. 1st ed. New between humans and faeries, and the Queen of York, NY: Harper, an imprint of Blood and Rage, ruler of the fae courts, wants to HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]. "Hoping to avenge the tragic death of her heir due to the return home after a winter in the Sudden actions of reckless humans. Lily's father has Mountains so he can join his parents in the fight always shielded her from the truth, but when against the evil Chancellor, Raffa must use his she's sent to the prestigious St. Columba's school, apothecary skills while enlisting the help of she's delivered straight into the arms of a fae human and animal friends to survive the Sleeper cell--the Black Diamonds. The Diamonds journey. "--OCLC. FANTASY PAR are planted in the human world as the sons and daughters of the most influential families, and Raughley, Sarah. Fate of flames. 1st Simon Pulse tasked with destroying it from within. Against her hardcover ed. November 2016. New York: Simon will, Lilywhite's been chosen to join them, and Pulse, 2016. Before they can save the world from even the romantic attention of the fae rock singer the monstrous phantoms, four girls who have the Creed Morrison isn't enough to keep Lily from power to control the classical elements: earth, air, wanting to run back to the familiar world she fire, and water must first try to figure out how to knows"--OCLC. FANTASY MAR work together. FANTASY RAU
4 Ribar, Lindsay. Rocks fall, everyone dies. New Cloonan, Becky. Gotham Academy. Burbank, York, NY: Kathy Dawson Books, [2016]. Tells the CA: DC Comics, [2015]. "Gotham City's most story of "a seventeen-year-old boy who can reach prestigious prep school is a very weird place. It's inside people and steal their innermost things-- got a spooky campus, oddball teachers, and rich fears, memories, scars, even love--and his benefactors always dropping by. . . like that family's secret ritual that for centuries has kept weirdo Bruce Wayne. But nothing is as strange the cliff above their small town from collapsing"-- as the students! Like, what's up with Olive Provided by publisher. FANTASY RIB Silverlock? Is she crazy or what? Where did she go last summer? And what's the deal with her Sanderson, Brandon. Shadows of self. 1st ed.: creepy mom? And how come that freshman October 2015. New York: Tor, A Tom Doherty Maps is always following her around? And is she Associates Book, 2015. Wax, his ecentric still going out with Kyle? P. S. Did you hear the sidekick, Wayne, and the young constable rumor about the ghost in the North Hall?!"-- Marasi must unravel a conspiracy in Misborn Provided by publisher. GRA FIC CLO before civil discord can stop Scadrial's progress in it's tracks. FANTASY SAN Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Black Panther: a nation under our feet. New York, NY: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. Schwab, Victoria. This savage song: a monsters , a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC, of verity novel. 1st Ed. New York, NY: [2016]. "T'Challa confronts a dramatic upheaval Greenwillow Books, an imprint of in Wakanda that will make leading the African HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]. "As the heirs to nation tougher than ever before! When a opposing sides in a warring city, Kate Harker superhuman terrorist group calling itself The and Augustus Flynn should never have met. A People sparks a violent uprising, the land famed Romeo and Juliet-esque fantasy about the for its incredible technology and proud warrior difference between good and evil and the blurry traditions will be thrown into turmoil. As suicide gray area in between"--. FANTASY SCH bombers terrorize the population, T'Challa struggles to reunite his citizens, and a familiar Taylor, Laini. Strange the dreamer. 1st ed.: March villain steps out of the shadows. If Wakanda is to 2017. New York: Little, Brown and Co. , 2017. "In survive, it must adapt--but can its monarch, one the aftermath of a war between gods and men, a in a long line of Black Panthers, survive the hero, a librarian, and a girl must battle the necessary change? Heavy hangs the head that fantastical elements of a mysterious city stripped wears the cowl!"--Back cover. GRA FIC COA of its name. "--OCLC. FANTASY TAY Duffy, Damian. Octavia E. Butler's Kindred. New York: Abrams Comicarts, 2017. A graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's "Kindred" in GRAPHIC NOVELS which a young African-American woman is mysteriously transferred back in time leading to an irresistible curiosity about her family's past. Bechdel, Alison, 1960-. Fun home: a family GRA FIC DUF tragicomic. 1st Mariner Books ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. A graphic memoir Hale, Nathan, 1976-. One trick pony. New York: about growing up with a remote dad who Amulet Books, 2017. In a future where alien managed a funeral home while hiding his beings consume technology as a few humans try homosexuality. Includes adult content. GRA FIC to preserve it, Strata, her brother, and a friend BEC are separated from their caravan and, with a wonderful robotic horse, must fight their way Bosma, Sam. Fantasy sports. 1st ed. London: back. GRA FIC HAL Nobrow, 2015. In Sam Bosma's debut graphic novel, a young explorer and her musclebound Hatke, Ben. Mighty Jack. 1st ed. 2016. New friend go treasure hunting in a mummy's tomb - York: First Second, [2016]. "Jack might be the but if they want to get rich, they're going to have only kid in the world who is dreading the to best the mummy in a game of hoops! Can they summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is trust their bandaged adversary to play by the when his single mom takes a second job and rules? Or will they be stuck in the tomb forever?. leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid GRA FIC BOS 5 sister, Maddy. It's a lot of responsibility, and it's she'll face death head on in the hopes of claiming boring, too, because Maddy doesn't talk. Ever. her prize and, if all goes according to plan, But then, one day at the flea market, Maddy does finally returning home"-Back cover. GRA FIC talk--and tells Jack to trade their mom's car for a MAC box of mysterious seeds. It's the best mistake Jack has ever made. What starts as a normal Meyer, Marissa. Wires and nerve. 1st ed. -- garden behind the house quickly grows up into a January 2017. New York: Feiwel and Friends, wild, magical jungle with tiny onion babies 2017. "When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers running amok, huge, pink pumpkins that bite, threaten the tenuous peace alliance between and, on one moonlit night that changes Earth and Luna, Iko takes it upon herself to hunt everything. . . a dragon. "--Back cover. GRA FIC down the soldiers' leader. She is soon working HAT with a handsome royal guard who forces her to question everything she knows about love, Larson, Hope. Goldie Vance. Los Angeles, CA: loyalty, and her own humanity. With Boom!Box, a division of Boom Entertainment, appearances by Cinder, Cress, Scarlet, Winter, Inc. , [2016]. "Sixteen-year-old Marigold and the rest of the Rampion crew"--Dust jacket. "Goldie" Vance has an insatiable curiosity. She GRA FIC MEY lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place, and it's her dream to one day Moore, Alan, 1953-. V for vendetta. New York: become the hotel's in-house detective. When Vertigo/DC Comics, c2005. A collection of Walter, the current detective encounters a case comics from the "V for Vendetta" series, which he can't crack, together they utilize her smarts, recounts one man's attempts to rise up against skills, and connections to solve the mystery. . . the oppressive government. GRA FIC MOO even if means getting into a drag race, solving puzzles, or chasing a helicopter to do it!"--Back North, Ryan, 1980-. The unbeatable Squirrel cover. GRA FIC LAR Girl. New York, NY: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. , a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC, Loux, Matthew. The Time Museum. 1st ed. 2017. [2015]. Follows the adventures of mutant New York: First Second, 2017. "It looks like science- Doreen Green, aka the superhero Squirrel Girl, loving Delia Bean's summer is going to be pretty as she, her squirrel sidekick Tippy-Toe, and a boring. Her friends are hanging out without her and squirrel army, with a little help from new allies taking her little brother to the pool might be all the Chipmunk Hunk, Koi Boi, and Girl Squirrel, take excitement she's going to get. But a trip to visit her on Ratatoskr, the Norse god of squirrels. GRA Uncle Lyndon is about to change all that. Uncle FIC NOR Lyndon is the curator of the Earth Time Museum--a place outside normal time where Earth's greatest Smith, Greg (Gregory K. ). Junior Braves of the wonders are displayed--and he's offered Delia a apocalypse. 1st ed.: July 2015. Portland, OR: Oni coveted internship at the museum. But to get the Press, Inc. , [2015]. "The Junior Braves of Tribe coolest job ever, she'll have to travel back and forth 65 return from a camping trip to find swarms of in time--and compete against five other candidates bloodthirsty mutants have overrun their town, from all over time. It's going to take all their bringing death and destruction everywhere they combined skills and knowledge to survive go! With their families missing and their homes dinosaurs, tears in time, and a renegade time destroyed, these plucky kids must use all their traveler whose schemes might just destroy the scouting talents, combined smarts, and whole Museum"--Flap of front cover. GRA FIC LOU teamwork to survive the end of the world!"-- Amazon. com. GRA FIC SMI MacLean, Andrew. ApocalyptiGirl: an Aria for the end times. 1st ed.: May 2015. Milwaukie, OR: Tan, Shaun. The singing bones: inspired by Dark Horse Books, 2015. "Alone at the end of the Grimms' fairy tales. 1st American ed. , October world, Aria is a woman with a mission! Trekking 2016. New York, NY: Arthur A. Levine Books, an through an overgrown city with a cat named imprint of Scholastic Inc. , 2016. Selection and Jelly Beans, Aria must find an ancient relic with adaptation of seventy-five Grimm's fairy tales, as immeasurable power if she ever hopes to translated by Jack Zipes, and newly illustrated complete her quest. When a run-in with a creepy by Shaun Tan. GRA FIC TAN savage sets her on a path to fulfill her quest,
6 Engle, Margarita. Lion Island: Cuba's warrior of HISTORICAL FICTION words. 1st ed. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2016]. A biographical novel Arato, Rona. The ship to nowhere: on board the about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban Exodus. Toronto, ON: Second Story Press, messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a [2016]. "Second World War is over, and eleven- translator and documented the freedom struggle year-old Rachel and her family are determined of indentured Chinese laborers in his country. to find a country where they can build a new life. HISTFIC ENG They have decided to leave Europe on board the Exodus, a ship smuggling 4,500 Jewish refugees Frank, Steven, 1963-. Armstrong & Charlie. to their biblical homeland, know as Palestine"-- Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]. Back cover. HISTFIC ARA "During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade Brown, Skila. To stay alive: Mary Ann Graves boys, one black, one white, become best friends and the tragic journey of the Donner party. 1st as they learn to cope with everything from first ed. 2016. Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press, crushes and playground politics to the loss of 2016. "The journey west by wagon train loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s"-- promises to be long and arduous for nineteen- Provided by publisher. HISTFIC FRA year-old Mary Ann Graves and her parents and eight siblings. Yet she is hopeful about their new Gattis, Ryan. All involved. 1st Ecco pbk. ed. life in California: freedom from the demands of published 2016. New York, NY: Ecco, an imprint family, maybe some romance, better of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. "At 3:15 p. m. opportunities for all. But when winter comes on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted two Los early to the Sierra Nevada and their group gets a Angeles Police Department officers charged with late start, the Graves family, traveling alongside using excessive force to subdue civilian Rodney the Donner and Reed parties, must endure one King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same of the most harrowing and storied journeys in charges involving a third officer. Less than two American history. Amid the pain of loss and the hours later, the city of LA, a powderkeg of racial constant threat of death from starvation or cold, tension, exploded in violence as people took to Mary Ann's is a narrative, told beautifully in the streets in a terrifying orgy of rioting that verse, of a girl learning what it means to be part lasted six days. In 144 hours, sixty lives were of a family, to make sacrifices for those we love, lost. And then there were the murders outside of and above all to persevere. "--Amazon. HISTFIC active rioting sites, committed by gangbangers BRO who used the lawlessness of a city on fire to viciously settle scores. A gritty and cinematic Burnet, Graeme Macrae, 1967-. His bloody work of sourced fiction, 'All Involved' vividly project: documents relating to the case of recreates this turbulent and terrifying time Roderick Macrae: a historical thriller. 1st through the stories of six interconnected lives Skyhorse Publishing ed. 2016. New York, NY: caught up in extraordinary circumstances"-- Skyhorse Pub. , 2016. "A brutal triple murder in Provided by publisher. HISTFIC GAT a remote northwestern crofting community in 1869 leads to the arrest of a young man by the Hughes, Dean, 1943-. Four-Four-Two. New name of Roderick Macrae. There's no question York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, that Macrae is guilty, but the police and courts [2016]. Forced into an internment camp at the must uncover what drove him to murder the start of World War II, eighteen-year-old Yuki local village constable. And who were the other enlists in the Army to fight for the Allies as a two victims? Ultimately, Macrae's fate hinges on member of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated one key question: is he insane?"--Provided by Japanese American regiment. HISTFIC HUG publisher. HISTFIC BUR Dublin, Anne. 44 hours or strike! Toronto, ON: Jackson, Linda Williams. Midnight without a Second Story Press, [2015]. "In 1931 during the moon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Great Depression, sisters Sophie and Rose join [2017]. Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old the Toronto Dressmakers' Strike and the fight of African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the their lives"--Back cover. HISTFIC DUB Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his 7 killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn Nović, Sara, 1987-. Girl at war: a novel. Random between seeking her destiny outside of House trade pbk. ed. New York: Random House, Mississippi or staying and being a part of an 2016. Moving back and forth through time, Girl important movement. HISTFIC JAC at War is an honest, generous, brilliantly written novel that illuminates how history shapes the James, Marlon, 1970-. A brief history of seven individual. Sara Nović fearlessly shows the killings. New York: Riverhead Books, 2015. "A impact of war on one young girl—and its legacy novel framed as a fictional oral history that on all of us. It’s a debut by a writer who has explores the events and characters surrounding stared into recent history to find a story that the attempted assassination of Bob Marley continues to resonate today. HISTFIC NOV during the political turmoil in Jamaica in the late 1970s"--Provided by publisher. HISTFIC Richmond, Caroline Tung. The darkest hour. 1st JAM ed., August 2016. New York: Scholastic Press, 2016. In 1943 sixteen-year-old Lucie Blaise is the Qashu, Sayed, 1975-. Dancing Arabs. 1st ed. New newest recruit of Covert Ops, a secret espionage York: Grove Press, [2004]. A teenage boy from a and sabotage organization of girls, and her militant Arab family in Israel wins a scholarship mission in German occupied France is to track to an elite Jewish boarding school and, already down information about a weapon that could looking more Jewish than Arab, tries to reject wipe out all of Western Europe--and then his Arab identity, assimilating into Jewish dismantle it before it can be used. HISTFIC RIC culture as much as possible, and finds himself in limbo as he grows to manhood, torn between Roy, Arundhati. The god of small things. two worlds. HISTFIC KAS Random House trade pbk. ed. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008, c1997. Lee, Stacey. Outrun the moon. New York, NY: G. On a December day in 1969 twins Rahel and P. Putnam's Sons, [2016]. "On the eve of the San Estha, born to a wealthy family living in the Francisco Earthquake of 1906, Mercy Wong-- province of Kerala, India, find their lives daughter of Chinese immigrants--is struggling to changed after the death of their English cousin hold her own among the spoiled heiresses at who was visiting for the holidays. HISTFIC ROY prestigious St. Clare's School. When tragedy strikes, everyone must band together to Thien, Madeleine, 1974-. Do not say we have survive"--Provided by publisher. HISTFIC LEE nothing: a novel. 1st American ed. 2016. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2016. A family of two McGuire, Ian. The North water: a novel. 1st U. S. generations in China who lived through Mao's ed. 2016. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2016. cultural revolution piece together their fractured "A nineteenth-century whaling ship sets sail for family in present-day Vancouver. HISTFIC THI the Arctic with a killer aboard. Behold the man: stinking, drunk, and brutal. Henry Drax is a Towles, Amor. A gentleman in Moscow. New harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaler York, N. Y.: Viking, [2016]. "'A Gentleman in bound for the rich hunting waters of the arctic Moscow' immerses us in . . . the story of Count circle. Also aboard for the first time is Patrick Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik reputation, no money, and no better option than tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest to sail as the ship's medic on this violent, filthy, in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street and ill-fated voyage. "--Provided by publisher. from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man HISTFIC MCG of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-. American ace. New some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian York, N. Y.: Dial Books, [2016]. Sixteen-year-old history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Connor tries to help his severely depressed Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances father, who learned upon his mother's death that provide him a doorway into a much larger world Nonno was not his biological father, by doing of emotional discovery"--Provided by publisher. research that reveals Dad's father was probably a HISTFIC TOW Tuskegee Airman. HISTFIC NEL
8 A tyranny of petticoats: 15 stories of belles, bank diagnosable psychopath, from the world with the robbers & other badass girls. 1st ed. 2016. desperate need to protect the world from her. Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2016. An HORROR LAR anthology of historical fiction and fantasy by young adult writers featuring a diverse array of daring heroines. HISTFIC TYR HUMOR Whitehead, Colson, 1969-. The underground railroad: a novel. 1st ed. New York: Doubleday, [2016]. "Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Beatty, Paul. The sellout. 1st Picador ed.: March Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from 2016. New York: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Virginia, tells her about the Underground Giroux, 2016. "A biting satire about a young Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that escape. Though they manage to find a station sends him to the Supreme Court"--Provided by and head north, they are being hunted. Their publisher. HUMOR BEA first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface Collins, Tim, 1975-. The adventures of a wimpy masks an insidious scheme designed for its black superhero. London: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd., denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the 2015. "After years of watching superhero movies, relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. "- reading comics, and fantasizing about being a -Provided by publisher. HISTFIC WHI crime-fighter, Josh decides to become one. First he needs a superhero name, a superhero Zeiss, Joyce Burns, 1942-. Out of the dragon's costume, and some superpowers. Then he needs mouth. 1st ed. Woodbury, Minn.: Flux, [2015]. to find some crime to fight"--Goodreads. After the fall of South Vietnam, fourteen-year-old HUMOR COL Mai is forced to flee to a refugee camp on an island off the coast of Malaysia, where she must Kinney, Jeff. Diary of a wimpy kid: double down. navigate numerous hardships while waiting to be New York: Amulet Books, 2016. "The pressure's sponsored for entry into America. HISTFIC ZEI really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that's not scary HORROR enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew. The rains. 1st ed.: sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back October 2016. New York: Tor Teen, a Tom by making a movie. . . and will he become rich Doherty Associates book, 2016. "In one terrifying and famous in the process? Or will doubling night, the peaceful community of Creek's Cause down on this plan just double Greg's troubles?"-- turns into a war zone. No one under the age of Back cover. HUMOR KIN eighteen is safe. Chance Rain and his older brother, Patrick, have already fended off multiple Nielsen-Fernlund, Susin, 1964-. Optimists die attacks from infected adults by the time they first. 1st ed. New York: Wendy Lamb Books, arrive at the school where other young survivors [2017]. "When Petula de Wilde, who is anything are hiding. Most of the kids they know have been but wild, meets Jacob in their school's dorky art dragged away by once-trusted adults who are now therapy program, his friendship (and something ferocious, inhuman beings. The parasite that more) helps her overcome intense fears since her transformed them takes hold after people turn sister died. And he has a secret of his own"-- eighteen--and Patrick's birthday is only a few Provided by publisher. HUMOR NIE days away"--Amazon.com. HORROR HUR Rubin, Lance, 1981-. Denton Little's deathdate. Larbalestier, Justine. My sister Rosa. New York, 1st Ember ed. 2017. New York: Ember, 2017. "In NY: Soho Teen, [2016]. When his father's a world where everyone knows the day they will business takes the family to New York City, a die, a teenage boy is determined to outlive his seventeen-year-old Australian boy must balance upcoming expiration date"--Provided by his desire to protect his ten-year-old sister, a publisher. HUMOR RUB 9 Strohm, Stephanie Kate. It's not me, it's you! 1st family's property, investigating the brutal, ed., November 2016. New York, NY: Point, 2016. century-old murder leads to painful discoveries Friends, foes, and family reflect on Avery about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story Dennis' dating history. HUMOR STR of William, another teen grappling with the racial firestorm leading up to the 1921 Tulsa race riot, providing some clues to the mystery"-- Provided by publisher. MYSTERY LAT MYSTERY Mackintosh, Clare. I let you go. 1st Berkley hardcover ed. / May 2016. New York: Berkley Anastasiu, Heather. Girl last seen. Chicago, Ill.: Books, 2016. "On a rainy afternoon, a mother's Albert Whitman & Co., 2016. "The songs life is shattered as her son slips from her grip Kadence wrote and sang with her best friend, and runs into the street . . . Follows Jenna Gray Lauren DeSanto, made them both online as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the sensations. But when Lauren lost her voice, remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the Kady couldn't wait to go solo. It's no secret the memory of the car accident that plays again and two had a major falling-out and were barely again in her mind and desperate to heal from the speaking to each other. Lauren kept to herself, loss of her child and the rest of her painful past. scribbling song lyrics, while Kady's stardom was At the same time, the novel tracks the pair of rising steadily. . . until she went missing. Yet Bristol police investigators trying to get to the Lauren was one of the last people to see Kady bottom of this hit-and-run. As they chase down the night she disappeared. The only person who one hopeless lead after another, they find seems to believe that Lauren is innocent is Jude themselves as drawn to each other as they are to Williams, former outcast turned gorgeous bad the frustrating, twist-filled case before them. "-- boy, but he has reasons of his own for wanting to Provided by publisher. MYSTERY MAC get back at Kady. Still, he's Lauren's only ally, and together they look back on their complicated Stratton, Allan. The dogs. Naperville, Ill.: friendship with Kady as they search for Sourcebooks Fire, [2015]. Cameron is used to answers"--OCLC. MYSTERY ANA moving at a moment's notice because he and his mother are always running away from his Anderson, Natalie C. City of saints & thieves. supposedly violent father, but he is disturbed by New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2017]. their latest refuge, a creepy, deserted farmhouse, Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave haunted by bloodthirsty dogs--and when he sees Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she a boy hiding in the barn, and finds an old picture and her mother fled years before, seeking of the same boy, he starts wondering about the revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering possibility of human ghosts. MYSTERY STR startling secrets. MYSTERY AND Tarpley, Natasha. The Harlem charade. 1st ed., Elston, Ashley. This is our story. 1st ed., February 2017. New York: Scholastic Press, November 2016. Los Angeles: Hyperion, 2016. 2017. Seventh-graders Jin, Alexandra, and Elvin "When a hunting accident claims a boy's life, his come from very different backgrounds and best friends all come under suspicion"--. circumstances, but they all live in Harlem, and MYSTERY ELS when Elvin's grandfather is attacked they band together to find out who is responsible--and the Jackson, Tiffany D. Allegedly: a novel. 1st ed. search leads them to an enigmatic artist whose New York, NY: Katherine Tegen Book, an missing masterpieces are worth a fortune, and imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]. A into conflict with an ambitious politician who young girl, convicted of murder as a child, serves wants to turn Harlem into an historic her sentence only to be placed in a group home, amusement park. MYSTERY TAR where, upon her release, she must grapple with starting over and an unplanned pregnancy. MYSTERY JAC
Latham, Jennifer. Dreamland burning. 1st ed.: January 2017. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2017. "When Rowan finds a skeleton on her 10 become very complicated for seventeen-year-old REALISTIC FICTION Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the Armentrout, Jennifer L. The problem with maternal grandmother she has never met, who is forever. Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Teen, suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a [2016]. "Growing up, Mallory "Mouse" Dodge secret of her own that she cannot reveal. learned that the best way to survive was to say REALFIC DOW nothing. After she escaped her terrifying childhood and spent years being homeschooled Eagar, Lindsay. Hour of the bees. 1st ed. 2016. by loving adoptive parents, she is starting her Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2016. "At senior year at a public high school. The first day, first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be she runs into Rider Stark, the friend and spending the summer helping her parents move protector from her childhood, and Mallory her grandfather to an assisted living home, but realizes that their bond never really faded. But as as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn Rider's life spirals out of control, Mallory faces a to him, fascinated by his amazing stories. "-- choice between staying silent and speaking out-- Provided by OCLC. REALFIC EAG for the people she loves, the life she wants and the truths that need to be heard. "--Adapted Flying lessons & other stories. 1st ed. New York: from book jacket. REALFIC ARM Crown, [2017]. From basketball dreams and family fiascos to first crushes and new Asher, Jay. Thirteen reasons why: a novel. New neighborhoods, this anthology, written by York: Razorbill, c2007. High school student Clay award-winning children's authors, celebrates the Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing uniqueness and universality in all of us. seven cassette tapes recorded by his crush, REALFIC FLY Hannah Baker, who committed suicide, and spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night Goodison, Lorna. By love possessed: stories. 1st crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's U. S. ed. New York, NY: Amistad, an imprint of voice recounting the events leading up to her HarperCollins Publishers, 2011. A collection of death. REALFIC ASH short stories intersecting the lives of men and women, and the renewed affections that ensue. Conklin, Melanie. Counting thyme. New York, REALFIC GOO NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2016]. "Thyme Owens moves across the country with her family so her Kelly, Erin Entrada. Hello universe. 1st ed. New younger brother can take part in a promising York, NY: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of cancer drug trial, and though all she wants is for HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]. The lives of him to get better, adjusting to life in Manhattan four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank is anything but easy"--Provided by publisher. lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and REALFIC CON Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him. REALFIC KEL Daoud, Kamel. The Meursault investigation. New York: Other Press, [2015]. "He was the Korelitz, Jean Hanff, 1961-. The devil and brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous webster. 1st ed. New York: Grand Central Pub., Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. 2017. Touching on some of the most topical and Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has controversial concerns at the heart of our lived since childhood in the shadow of his society, this riveting novel examines the fragility sibling's memory, refuses to let him remain that lies behind who we think we are-and what anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a we think we believe. REALFIC KOR name--Musa--and describes the events that led Levy, Deborah. Hot milk. 1st U. S. ed. 2016. New to Musa's casual murder on a dazzlingly sunny York: Bloomsbury, 2016. "Sofia, a young beach. "--Provided by publisher. REALFIC DAO anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother's Downham, Jenny. Unbecoming. 1st ed., March unexplainable illness. She is frustrated with 2016. New York: David Fickling Rose and her constant complaints, but utterly Books/Scholastic Inc., 2016. Life has just relieved to be called to abandon her own 11 disappointing fledgling adult life. She and her But when the city's big food-truck festival is mother travel to the searing, arid coast of canceled, the future of the truck is suddenly at stake. southern Spain to see a famous consultant--their Can Tessa and Asher set aside their differences and very last chance--in the hope that he might cure work together to save the truck? And will Tessa her unpredictable limb paralysis"--Jacket flap. finally admit to herself how she really feels. . . about REALFIC LEV Asher?"--Back cover. REALFIC NEL
Lewis, Gill. Gorilla dawn. 1st ed. New York: Obioma, Chigozie, 1986-. The fishermen: a Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2017]. novel. 1st Back Bay trade pbk. ed., July 2016. Two children captured by a band of rebel New York: Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and soldiers in the Congo vow to protect an Co., 2016. "Told from the point of view of nine- orphaned baby gorilla. REALFIC LEW year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, . . . [presents] the Cain and Abel-esque Lynch, Jim, 1961-. Truth like the sun. 1st Vintage story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990s Contemporaries ed. New York: Vintage Nigeria"--Provided by publisher. REALFIC OBI Contemporaries, 2013, c2012. At age seventy, Roger Morgan, the mastermind behind the 1962 Padian, Maria. Wrecked: a novel. 1st ed. Chapel fair that made Seattle, Washington, famous, Hill, N. C.: Algonquin Young Readers, an decides to run for mayor, and he is investigated by imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Helen Gulanos, an eager reporter. REALFIC LYN [2016]. "Offers a kaleidoscopic view of a sexual assault on a college campus that will leave Mahajan, Karan. The association of small readers thinking about how memory and bombs. New York, N. Y.: Viking, [2016]. After identity, what's at stake, and who sits in witnessing his two friends killed by a "small" judgment shape what we all decide to believe bomb that detonated in a Delhi marketplace, about the truth"--Provided by publisher. Mansoor Ahmed becomes involved with a REALFIC PAD charismatic young activist, whose allegiances and beliefs are more changeable than he could Pennypacker, Sara, 1951-. Pax. 1st ed. New York: have imagined. REALFIC MAH Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]. "After being forced to give up Marquardt, Marie F., 1972-. The radius of us. 1st his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides ed.: January 2017. New York: St. Martin's to leave home and get his best friend back"-- Griffin, 2017. A boy running away from his home Provided by publisher. REALFIC PEN life in El Salvador looks for a safe place to call home, only to cross paths with an American girl Pla, Sally J. The someday birds. 1st ed. New also seeking salvation. REALFIC MAR York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]. Charlie, twelve, who has autism and obsessive Mass, Wendy, 1967-. 11 birthdays. New York: compulsive disorder, must endure a cross- Scholastic, [2010], c2009. After celebrating their country trip with his siblings and a strange first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda babysitter to visit their father, who will undergo and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not brain surgery. REALFIC PLA speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately Preller, James. The courage test. 1st ed. --2016. but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of New York: Feiwel and Friends, 2016. "Will has their birthday begins to repeat itself over and no choice. His father drags him along on a over again. REALFIC MAS wilderness adventure in the footsteps of legendary explorers Lewis and Clark--whether Nelson, Suzanne, 1976-. You're bacon me crazy. he likes it or not. All the while, Will senses that "Tessa loves working at the trendy food truck her something about this trip isn't quite right. Along aunt runs in their native San Francisco. Serving the journey, Will meets fascinating strangers yummy BLTs to her classmates after school, Tessa and experiences new thrills, including mountain feels like she's living the dream. Then the dream cliffs, white-water rapids, and a heart-pounding turns into a nightmare. Popular, arrogant Asher encounter with a bear. It is a journey into the starts working at the truck! He can't make a soul of America's past and the meaning of family sandwich to save his life, and he's frustratingly cute. in the future"--Dust jacket. REALFIC PRE
12 Roe, Robin. A list of cages. 1st ed., January 2017. Vail, Rachel. Well, that was awkward. New York, Los Angeles: Hyperion, 2017. "Adam, a high N. Y.: Viking, 2017. There are unexpected school senior, rescues Julian, a freshman, from consequences when thirteen-year-old Gracie an abusive situation"--. REALFIC ROE sends texts pretending to be her bashful best friend, Sienna, and their friend Emmett starts Sáenz, Benjamin Alire. The inexplicable logic of texting back pretending to be shy A. J. REALFIC my life. Boston: Clarion Books, [2017]. "A story VAI set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one Valentine, Jenny. Fire color one. 1st American teen struggling to understand what his adoption ed. New York, NY: Philomel Books, 2017. does and doesn't mean about who he is"-- Following her fortune-hunting mother's plan, a Provided by publisher. REALFIC SAE teenaged arsonist meets her wealthy, dying father, the owner of a priceless art collection, Scelsa, Kate. Fans of the impossible life. 1st ed. only to discover that the stories she has been New York, NY: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of told about him all her life might not have been HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]. At Saint true. REALFIC VAL Francis Prep school in Mountain View, New Jersey, Mira, Jeremy, and Sebby come together Watson, Renée. Piecing me together. New York: as they struggle with romance, bullying, foster Bloomsbury, 2017. Tired of being singled out at home and family problems, and mental health her mostly-white private school as someone who issues. REALFIC SCE needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Silvera, Adam, 1990-. History is all you left me. Abroad program than join Women to Women, a New York, NY: Soho Teen, [2017]. Secrets are mentorship program for at-risk girls. REALFIC revealed as OCD-afflicted Griffin grieves for his WAT first love, Theo, who died in a drowning accident. REALFIC SIL
Sloan, Holly Goldberg, 1958-. Short. New York, ROMANCE NY: Dial Books for Young Readers, [2017]. "Very short for her age, Julia grows into her sense of self while playing a munchkin in a summer Alexander, Kwame. He said, she said. 1st pbk. regional theater production of The Wizard of Oz"- ed., 2014. New York, NY: Amistad, an imprint of -Provided by publisher. REALFIC SLO HarperCollins Publishers, 2014. "When a popular football 'playa' and ladies’ man and the Thomas, Angie. The hate u give. 1st ed. New York, smartest girl in school lead a school protest, NY: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of sparks fly as their social media-aided revolution HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]. Sixteen-year- grows"--Provided by publisher. ROMANCE ALE old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy Anderson, Lily, 1988-. The only thing worse than suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy me is you. 1st ed.: May 2016. New York: St. balance between these worlds is shattered when Martin's Griffin, 2016. After years of competing Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her against each other, Trixie and Ben form a childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a fandom-based tentative friendship when their police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon best friends start dating each other, but after afterward, his death is a national headline. Some Trixie's friend gets expelled for cheating they are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer have to choose which side they are on. and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the ROMANCE AND streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. Gornall, Louise. Under rose-tainted skies. 1st U. What everyone wants to know is: what really went S. ed., 2017. Boston: Clarion Books/Houghton down that night? And the only person alive who Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. Will teenaged Norah, can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does-or who is struggling with agoraphobia and OCD, does not-say could upend her community. It accept that she could be the right one for sweet, could also endanger her life. REALFIC THO funny Luke? ROMANCE GOR
13 Laskin, Pamela L. Ronit & Jamil. 1st ed. New Sundquist, Josh. Love and first sight. 1st ed.: York, NY: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of January 2017. New York: Little, Brown and Co., HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]. "A retelling of 2017. "Sixteen-year-old blind teen Will Porter Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" that undergoes an experimental surgery that enables transports the star-crossed lovers to the him to see for the first time, all while navigating modern-day Israel-Palestine conflict"--Amazon. a new school, new friends, and a crush"--. com. ROMANCE LAS ROMANCE SUN
Lee, Stacey. The secret of a heart note. 1st ed. New Talley, Robin. Our own private universe. Don York, NY: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Teen, [2017]. "Fifteen- HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]. Mimosa, a teen year-old Aki Simon has a theory. And it's mostly aroma-expert, uses her special sense of smell to about sex. . . Aki already knows she's bisexual, help others fall in love--while protecting her own even if, until now, it's mostly been in the heart at all costs. ROMANCE LEE hypothetical sense. . . Actually, Aki's theory is that she's got only one shot at living an Leech, Caroline. Wait for me. 1st ed. New York, interesting life--and that means she's got to stop NY: HarperTeen, an imprint of sitting around and thinking so much. It's time HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]. "It's 1945, and for her to actually do something. . . So when Aki Lorna Anderson's life on her father's farm in and Lori set off on a church youth-group trip to a Scotland consists of endless chores and small Mexican town for the summer and Aki rationing, knitting Red Cross scarves, and meets Christa--slightly older, far more praying for an Allied victory. So when Paul experienced--it seems her theory is prime for the Vogel, a German prisoner of war, is assigned as testing"--Dust jacket. ROMANCE TAL the new farmhand, Lorna is appalled. How can she possibly work alongside the enemy when her own brothers are risking their lives for their country? But as Lorna reluctantly spends time SCIENCE FICTION with Paul, she feels herself changing. The more she learns about him-from his time in the war to his life back home in Germany-the more she sees Bardsley, Jennifer. Genesis girl. Raleigh, NC: the boy behind the soldier. Soon Lorna is Month9Books, [2016]. "Eighteen-year-old battling her own warring heart. Loving Paul Blanca has lived a sheltered life. Her entire could mean losing her family and the life she's childhood has been spent at Tabula Rasa School always known. With tensions rising all around where she's been protected from the Internet. them, Lorna must decide how much she's willing Blanca has never been online and doesn't even to sacrifice before the end of the war determines know how to text. Her lack of a virtual footprint their fate"--Amazon. ROMANCE LEE has made her extremely valuable and upon graduation Blanca, and those like her, are sold to Meyerhoff, Jenny. Playing cupid. New York, NY: the highest bidders. Blanca is purchased by Cal Scholastic Inc., [2017]. "Clara Martinez knows McNeal, who uses her to achieve personal gain. what it takes to make a good match. So when her But the McNeals are soon horrified by just how school assigns a project to create a business, Clara obedient and non-defiant Blanca is. All those decides to start a matchmaking service for her mind-numbing years locked away from society fellow classmates. But things get complicated have made her mind almost impenetrable. By when Clara starts receiving mysterious notes and the time Blanca is ready to think for herself, she sweet gifts in her locker. Clara has a secret is trapped. Her only chance of escape is to go admirer! But she has no clue who it could be . . . online"--Back cover. SCIFI BAR "--Back cover. ROMANCE MEY Belleza, Rhoda. Empress of a thousand skies. Summer days and summer nights: twelve love [New York, N. Y.]: Razorbill, an imprint of stories. 1st ed.: May 2016. New York: St. Penguin Random House, [2017]. "When their Martin's Griffin, 2016. Contains twelve short paths cross after a brutal attack Aly is falsely stories about summer love, including stories by accused of making on Rhee, they are forced to Libba Bray, Veronica Roth, and Cassandra Clare. work together to save their own lives and the ROMANCE SUM universe"--OCLC. SCIFI BEL
14 The big book of science fiction: the ultimate DeLano, L. E. Traveler. 1st ed. --2017. New York: collection. New York: Vintage Crime/Black Swoon Reads, 2017. Teen author Jessa learns Lizard, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin that she and one of her characters, Finn, are Random House LLC, 2016. A collection of Travelers with the ability to slide between science fiction stories. SCIFI BIG realities, and that Finn is determined to prevent her dying in yet another realm. SCIFI DEL Brallier, Max. The last kids on Earth and the zombie parade! New York, N. Y.: Viking, [2016]. Duyvis, Corinne. On the edge of gone. New York: "The zombies are disappearing. This might seem Amulet Books, [2016]. "In Amsterdam, the like a good thing, since zombies eat your brains, Netherlands, in 2034, a comet is due to hit the but normal human kid Jack Sullivan is Earth within the hour. Denise, who's sixteen suspicious. He keeps hearing an eerie shrieking years old and autistic, must try to find her noise that seems to be almost summoning the missing sister and also help her neglectful, zombies-but to where, and for what (probably) undependable mother safely aboard a foul purpose? Jack, his three best friends (maybe spaceship"--Provided by publisher. SCIFI DUY the only people left on Earth), and their pet monster Rover need to get to the bottom of this. Emerson, Kevin. Last day on Mars. 1st ed. New Along the way they encounter a lot more than York, NY: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of they bargained for, including a giant HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]. "While waiting Wormungulous, a pizza parlor monster hangout, to leave Mars before it burns up just like the an ancient evil who destroys worlds, and a stereo Earth before it, Liam and his friend Phoebe system that is totally the bomb. Can Jack figure discover some facts about time and space and out why the zombies are vanishing. . . before he realize that the human race is just one of the and his friends are next?"--Amazon. com. SCIFI races trying to survive in space. "--Provided by BRA publisher. SCIFI EME
Carriger, Gail. Manners & mutiny. 1st ed.: Evans, Richard Paul. Michael Vey.: book four of November 2015. New York: Little, Brown and seven. 1st Simon Pulse/Mercury Ink pbk. ed. Co., 2015. In an alternate England of 1851, May 2015. New York: Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse, Sophronia Temminnick is the only hope for her 2015. Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the friends, her school, and all of London when she Electroclan head to Taiwan in search of nine- must put her espionage training to the test to year-old child prodigy Lin Julung, or Jade thwart an evil Picklemen plot. SCIFI CAR Dragon, who the Elgen kidnapped for Hatch's army of electric children. SCIFI EVA Daniels, April. Dreadnought. 1st Diversion Bks. ed. January 2017. New York, N. Y.: Diversion Evans, Richard Paul. Michael Vey. 1st Simon Books, 2017. When Danny Tozer witnesses the Pulse/Mercury Ink pbk. ed. May 2016. New death of Dreadnought, the world's greatest York: Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse, 2016. "Michael superhero, she inherits his powers. Suddenly the and the rest of the Electroclan are facing their transgender youth finds herself in the body she greatest crisis yet. The resistance movement has always thought she should have--that of a girl. It been compromised, and they have no idea if should be the happiest time of her life, but the their families are alive. . . or dead. What they do first week in her new body is complicated: her know is that the Elgen wont's stop until they've father is obsessed with "curing" her girlhood, her destroyed the Electroclan. "--Back cover. SCIFI best friend suddenly wants to date her, and her EVA fellow superheroes are arguing over her place in their ranks. She's in over her head, but she Floreen, Tim. Willful machines. 1st Simon Pulse doesn't have time to adjust. Dreadnought's hardcover ed. October 2015. New York: Simon murderer, a cyborg named Utopia, is threatening Pulse, 2015. In a near-future America, a sentient the destruction of humanity. Danny must find a computer program named Charlotte has turned way to sort through the confusion of coming out, terrorist, but Lee Fisher, the closeted son of an master her powers, and stop Utopia in time. ultraconservative President, is more concerned SCIFI DAN with keeping his Secret Service detail from finding out about his developing romance with Nico, the new guy at school, but when the
15 spider-like robots that roam the school halls human revolutionary group, Sapience, terrorists begin acting even stranger than usual, Lee who seem to prefer war to alien rule, and killing realizes he is Charlotte's next target. SCIFI FLO Donovan just might be the incident they are looking for. SCIFI LEE Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-. Never let me go. 1st Vintage International ed. New York: Vintage McKinlay, Megan. A single stone. 1st U. S. ed. International, 2006. Thirty-one-year-old Kathy, 2017. Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2017. along with old friends from Hailsham, a private "Every girl dreams of being part of the line, the school in England, are forced to face the truth chosen seven who tunnel deep into the mountain about their childhood when they all come to find the harvest. No work is more important. together again. SCIFI ISH Jena is the leader of the line, strong, respected, reliable. And, as all girls must be, she is small; Kaufman, Amie. Gemina. 1st ed. New York: her years of training have seen to that. It is not Alfred A. Knopf, [2016]. "When the space station always easy but it is the way of things. And so a Heimdall is invaded, Hannah and Nik must girl must wrap her limbs, lie still, deny herself a work together to defeat the enemy"--Provided by second bowl of stew. Or a first. But what publisher. SCIFI KAU happens when one tiny discovery makes Jena question everything she has ever known? What Khorana, Aditi. Mirror in the sky. [New York, N. happens when moving a single stone changes Y.]: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random everything? SCIFI MCK House, [2016]. Tara, an Indian-American junior at Brierly prep school, feels her world Sedgwick, Marcus. The ghosts of heaven. 1st dramatically change when a mirror planet to American ed. 2015. New York: Roaring Brook Earth is discovered and she, in this new era of Press, 2015. Four linked stories of discovery and scientific history, reconsiders herself and survival begin with a Paleolithic-era girl who possible selves. SCIFI KHO makes the first written signs, continue with Anna, who people call a witch, then a mad Lee, C. B. Not your sidekick. New York: twentieth-century poet who watches the ocean Interlude Press, [2016]. "Welcome to Andover. . knowing the horrors it hides, and concluding . where superpowers are common, but with an astronaut on the first spaceship from internships are complicated. Just ask high Earth sent to colonize another world. SCIFI SED school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without Sim, Tara. TimeKeeper. 1st ed. New York: Sky superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up Pony Press, [2016]. "An alternate Victorian her college applications when she stumbles upon world controlled by clock towers, where a the perfect (paid!) internship--only it turns out damaged clock can fracture time--and a to be for the town's most heinous supervillain. destroyed one can stop it completely. A prodigy On the upside, she gets to work with her mechanic who can repair not only clockwork but longtime secret crush, Abby, who Jess thinks time itself, determined to rescue his father from may have a secret of her own. Then there's the a Stopped town. A series of mysterious budding attraction to her fellow intern, the bombings that could jeopardize all of England. A mysterious 'M,' who never seems to be in the boy who would give anything to relive his past, same place as Abby. But what starts as a fun way and one who would give anything to live at all. A to spite her superhero parents takes a sudden romance that will shake the very foundations of and dangerous turn when she uncovers a plot time. "--Dust jacket. SCIFI SIM larger than heroes and villains altogether"--Back cover. SCIFI LEE Thompson, Mary G., 1978-. Flicker and mist. Boston: Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Lee, Fonda. Exo. 1st ed., February 2017. New Harcourt, [2017]. "In a story rich in intrigue, York: Scholastic Press, 2017. For a century now, adventure, danger, and romance, a mixed-race Earth has been a peaceful colony of an alien teen heroine must decide which part of her race, and Donovan Reyes is a loyal member of heritage to claim: her privileged status, or her the security forces, while his father is the Prime ability to become invisible for which her kin are Liaison--but when a routine search and seizure being persecuted"--Provided by publisher. SCIFI goes bad Donovan finds himself a captive of the THO
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Green, Tim, 1963-. Baseball genius. 1st Aladdin hardcover ed. March 2017. New York: Jeter Children's/Aladdin, 2017. "An average kid with an above average talent for predicting baseball pitches tries to help his favorite player out of a slump"--Amazon. com. SPORTS GRE
Klass, David. Losers take all: a novel. 1st Square Fish ed.: 2016. New York: Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016. "At a sports-crazy NJ high school where all kids must play on a team, a group of rebels start a soccer team designed to undermine the jock-culture of the school"-- Provided by publisher. SPORTS KLA
Spagna, Ana Maria. The luckiest scar on Earth. 1st Torrey House Press ed., February 2017. Salt Lake City: Torrey House Press, 2017. "Fourteen- year-old Charlotte moves from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to Washington's Cascade Mountains, where she hopes to continue training for the national snowboarding championships. After her father signs an anti- development petition, she loses access to the local resort and takes to the backcountry, where she meets nature on its own terms. When adventure turns to tragedy, Charlotte learns that even our deepest scars can be lucky ones"-- Provided by publisher. SPORTS SPA
Webber, Katherine, 1987-. The heartbeats of Wing Jones. 1st ed. New York: Delacorte Press, [2017]. Half-Chinese, half-black Wing Jones has always worshiped her older brother, but when he kills two people in a car accident and barely survives himself, Wing's only solace is running. SPORTS WEB
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