New Books October 2019
Profiles twenty-five monsters from Collects the stories on a number of mythology, folklore, and literature, teenagers who want to move from Central from Medusa the gorgon and America to the United States. Polyphemus the cyclops to Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow
chronicles . . . the rollbacks to African A humorous look at how famous American participation in the vote people got caught, including Joan of since the 2013 Supreme Court decision Arc, Blackbeard, Al Capone, and that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act more! . . . Outlaw, assassin, art thief, of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, and spy, these fourteen this decision effectively allowed troublemakers and crooks--including districts with a demonstrated history Blackbeard the pirate, Typhoid Mary, of racial discrimination to change and gangster Al Capone--have given voting requirements without approval the good guys a run for their money throughout the ages. from the Department of Justice. Some were crooked, some were deadly, and some were merely out of line--but they all got Caught! as detailed in this . . . study of crime, culture, and forensic science. Profiles nine individuals who came to Over 100 sweet and savory recipes America as undocumented children that introduces children to baking. and now as young adults, reflect on what being an America means, and the struggles they've endured to survive a harsh environment that is significantly better than the one they left. Tells the story of the 1929 Women's A true account of the attack and Air Derby, the first official all-female sinking of the passenger ship SS 'City air race in the U.S. of Benares,' which was evacuating children from England during WWII.
Simone takes you through the events, Author and poet Nikki Grimes explores challenges, and trials that carried her the truth of a harrowing childhood in a from an early childhood in foster care compelling and moving memoir in verse to a coveted spot on the 2016 Olympic team.
During the Chinese-Malay conflict in Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old girl, desperately trying to understand Melati must overcome violence, her the changes that are going on in her life; own OCD, and prejudices in order to her mother rarely gets home before find her way home to her mom. bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in-- and Quijana suspects that her parents are keeping secrets, because she is sure there is something wrong with her little brother, Memito, who is becoming increasingly hard to reach. While working off his mother's debt at Zenobia July, an excellent coder and Bettina Diaz's father's ranch, Beau hacker, investigates a mystery while LeFrancois is continually surprised and wrestling with the challenges of a new charmed by Bett's frankness, despite school, a new family, and presenting her being warned that she's a 'beast. true gender for the first time.
Seventeen-year-old Ali is Sixteen-year-old Dove "Birdie" simultaneously swept up in a whirlwind Randolph's close bond with her parents is romance and down a rabbit hole of threatened by a family secret, and by family secrets when another Taiwanese hiding her relationship with Booker, who family moves into tiny, predominantly- has been in juvenile detention. white, Plainhart, Indiana.
Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Alejandro risks everything by opposing her worries about his great-uncle while kingdom's repression of women, but helping guests at a resort, and in New Madame Weatherberry, seeing her Orleans, Emily worries about her sick potential, invites her to a school where brother, as a major hurricane rages, she hopes to change the world's changing both their lives forever. perception of magic.
When twelve-year-old Edie finds When boys in her class start touching letters and photographs in her attic seventh-grader Mila and making her that change everything she thought feel uncomfortable, she does not want she knew about her Native American to tell her friends or mother until she mother's adoption, she realizes she has reaches her breaking point. a lot to learn about her family's history and her own identity.
Fifteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz is Beverly Tapinski has run away torn between two worlds, passing from home plenty of times, but for white while living in Harlem, that was when she was just a kid. being called Jewish while attending Now that she's fourteen years old, her mother's Baptist church, and she figures, it's not running away. experiencing first love while It's leaving. Determined to make it watching her parents' marriage on her own, Beverly finds a job and crumble. a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't want to depend on anyone, and she definitely doesn't want anyone to depend on her. Brothers Teodoro and Manny Avila It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee take a road trip to address Manny's Carpenter (true name Dietrich PTSD following his tour in Iraq, and to Zimmermann), an underage private in help T. change his life and win the the United States Army, is headed for heart of Wendy Martinez. Includes Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his information and resources about uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when PTSD. Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this is the most important day of the twentieth century, and both children want to fight, and survive. Told in verse in two voices, with a To be reunited with his brother, chorus of fellow students, this is a twelve-year-old Manuel will have to story of two girls, opposites in many cross the border and survive the ways, who are drawn to each other; perilous journey from Mexico to Los Kate appears to be a stereotypical Angeles. cheerleader with a sleek ponytail and a perfectly polished persona, Tam is tall, athletic and frequently mistaken for a boy, but their deepening friendship inevitably changes and reveals them in ways they did not anticipate. Twelve-year-old Hanako and her Ghosts are everywhere in Shelly's family, reeling from their confinement life. Recently passed people, pets, in an internment camp, renounce their and a boy who lives in the local American citizenship to move to graveyard and lends her Smiths Hiroshima, a city devastated by the tapes are all part of spirit world she atomic bomb dropped by Americans. and her grandmother are privy to. In the tradition of their Cree ancestors, Shelly and her grandmother help these lost souls transition to the next world by catching them in their hair. But when Shelly's mom dies, her relationship to ghosts--and death—changes.
An honors student at Jefferson Academy, As the evil Celebrant conquers more seventeen-year-old Keira enjoys and more dragon sanctuaries, Kendra developing and playing Slay, a secret, must raise an army of friends and allies multiplayer online role-playing game on her own to fight him because her celebrating black culture, until the two brother Seth and Bracken are missing. worlds collide.
Closed off and grieving her best friend, A collection of ten short stories that fifteen-year-old overachiever Verdad all take place in the same day about faces prejudices at school and from her kids walking home from school. traditional mother, her father's distance since his remarriage, and her attraction to a transgender classmate.
In his penultimate adventure, a Nikki and her bandmates are looking devastated but determined Apollo forward to an awesome summer on travels to Camp Jupiter, where he tour as the opening act for the world must learn what it is to be a hero, or famous Bad Boyz! Nikki is a little die trying. worried when her frenemy, MacKenzie Hollister, weasels her way into a social media intern position with the tour. But she has a total meltdown when she learns that MacKenzie is her new roommate! Will Nikki survive her dream tour as it quickly goes from awesome to awful?! Genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Chilworth has to adjust quickly to Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel their new status as a zombie after Matheson connects with Ana waking from death from a car crash Moreno through photography and that killed their parents and sisters. fate as Daniel discovers the Always a talented witch, Z now can incredibly dark side of the city barely perform magic and is rapidly under Generalissimo Franco's rule. decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with Mrs. Dunnigan, an elderly witch and befriends Aysel, a loud would-be-goth classmate who is, like Z, a loner. As Z struggles to find a way to repair the broken magical seal holding their body together, Aysel fears that her classmateswill discover her status as an unregistered werewolf. Fourteen-year-old twin basketball Almost everything is going great for stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with Dany. She and Madison are still best highs and lows on and off the court as friends, she still has her magic their father ignores his declining sketchbook, and the new school year is health. actually looking up. But after Dany creates a duplicate of herself to help with homework and raise her social status, they accidentally unleash supernatural havoc around town. Sunny's just made it to middle "Faith, an introverted fifth grader school . . . and it's making her life with a vivid imagination, starts very confusing. All her best friend middle school worrying about Deb wants to talk about is fashion, how she will fit in. To her surprise, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Amanda, a popular eighth grader, Sunny's not against any of these convinces her to join the school things, but she also doesn't soccer team, the Bloodhounds. understand why suddenly everything Having never played soccer in her revolves around them. She's much life, Faith ends up on the C team, more comfortable when she's in her basement, playing a ragtag group with a tendency Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of new friends. for drama over teamwork. Despite their losing streak, Faith and her fellow teammates form strong bonds both on and off the soccer field, which challenge their notions of loyalty, identity, friendship, and unity Mysteriously zapped thousands of Despite Cleo's teachers at Yasiro years into the future, a teenaged Academy telling her not to risk her Cleopatra discovers that she is life, Cleo searches for the time destined to save the galaxy, a tablets. prophecy that compels her to enroll in a high-tech school where she can learn modern subjects, alien languages, and combat fighting.
Despite Cleo's teachers at Yasiro Sheltered, homeschooled Beck Beveroth Academy telling her not to risk her is on her way to college, and thrilled to life, Cleo searches for the time start this new chapter in her life. She's tablets. road-tripping to campus with her overprotective dad, Gil, but it all goes off the rails with a shooting at a remote gas station. When Beck finally emerges from hiding, her dad and the car are gone, and she's the only person left alive. Beck is in the world now, and she's beyond not ready for it. After discovering a lost Tea Dragon Tells the story of Julian's Grandma's in the marketplace, Greta learns childhood as she, a Jewish girl, was about the dying art form of Tea hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied Dragon caretaking from the kind tea French village during World War II and shop owners, Hesekiel and Erik. how the boy she once shunned became her savior and best friend.
Deja and Josiah are seasonal best As the magic spells Marigold casts to friends. Every autumn, all through help Phoebe navigate the challenges high school, they've worked at the of school life mount up, both Phoebe best pumpkin patch in the whole and Marigold begin to wonder if wide world. They say good-bye sometimes they might be taking things every Halloween, and they're just a little to reunited ever September 1. But this Halloween is different?