New Books

How to Ruin a Summer Vacation - By Simone Elkeles - YA FIC Elk
Amy Nelson is a stereotypical spoiled teen who has stereotypical plans for her summer vacation: shopping, friends, boyfriend. Then, out of nowhere, her long-absent father calls to inform her that the grandmother whom she has never met is ill and that Amy needs to go to Israel to meet her. Before the teen can say, But I'm not even Jewish! she is on an Israeli moshav sharing a room with a cousin who hates her for being a spoiled American, lusting after a brooding older boy on the verge of his mandatory military service, and learning more than she ever thought possible about her faith, her family, their history, and their present.

A little Piece of Ground - By Elizabeth Laird - YA FIC Lai
a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, works with two friends to transform an abandoned lot in Ramallah–the little piece of ground–into a soccer field and a getaway from the trials of both family and life under occupation. Hopper, a new friend who had until recently lived in a refugee camp and whose older brother is in the custody of the Israelis, and Joni, a Christian boy whose family has always been close to Karim's, represent in some ways the opposite poles that Karim yo-yos between.

Almost Eden - By Anita Horrocks - YA FIC Hor
Growing up in a close-knit Mennonite community on the Canadian prairie in the late 1960s, Elsie, 12, blames herself when Mom is once again hospitalized for depression. Elsie talks to God about her guilt, about her scraps with Dad and her sisters, and about her spiteful behavior toward her two best friends.

New Graphic Novels- Peach Girl and Missouri Boy

new books

We now have more Eliot Rosewater Nominee books:
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon
Birdwing by Rafe Martin
Fade to Black by Alex Flinn
True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet by Lola Douglas
Runner by Carl Deuker
The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey
Restless by Rich Wallace
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta
Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
Daniel Half Human by David Chotjewitz
Dark Angel by David Klass
Fall of a Kingdom by Hilari Bell