Saturday, October 13, 2007

New young adult books ready to be checked out:

Dream Factory by Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler
The character actors at Disney World have gone on strike. Teenagers have been hired to take their place. See how they react to being characters.

Manstealing For Fat Girls by Michelle Embree
How will Angie survive the next two months at school with all the teasing?

1,000 Reasons Never to Kiss a Boy by Martha Freeman
After her first boyfried cheats on her, Jane vows to never kiss another boy.

Spring Fire by Terie Garrison
This is the 3rd book in the series "Dragonspawn Cycle".

Austenland by Shannon Hale
Jane is from New York and goes to England. Will her dreams of escaping to Austenland come true or is it just a game?

Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Dashti, the maid, is imprisoned in a tower with her mistress, Lady Saren. What will finally bring them hope and maybe even danger?

Sealed With a Diss (yes, diss, not kiss) by Lisi Harrison
This is another "Clique" novel.

The Thief Queen's Daughter by Elizabeth Haydon
Read about The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme who traveled to known and unknown lands.

What Happened by Peter Johnson
See why a snowy winter night turns into a nightmare for a sixteen-year-old and his brother, Kyle.

The Life of Pope John Paul II in comics.

What They Found by Walter Dean Myers
Fifteen different stories explore different aspects of love.

Love is a Many Trousered Thing
This is another "Confessions of Georgia Nicolson" book.

The Rules for Hearts by Sara Ryan
This is a story about secrets, revealed truths, and the ins and outs of all kinds of love.

The Innocent's Story by Nicky Singer
Cassie and her younger sister are in a train station when an explosion occurs. They are both killed. But. . .Cassie realizes that she is still there, only she is no longer in her body. She is in a world of para-spirits.

The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag
The life of a young shepherd boy shows us how the nomadic traditions confront the modernization of the Tuvan people.

What Happened This Summer by Paul Yee
This book takes us into the turbulent lives of Chinese-Canadian teenagers. We see their struggle to balance their parents' traditional expectations against the pull of today's urban youth culture.

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

We have some new YA books:

Rebel Angels by Libbab Bray
Gemma and her friends return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe.

The third book of the series Pellinor:
The Crow by Alison Croggon

Book 6 and Book 8 of the series Pendragon
The Rivers of Zadaa by D. J. MacHale
The Pilgrims of Rayne by D. J. MacHale

Mis Match by Lensey Namioka
Sue moved from a racially diverse town to a suburban white-bread town. She has to learn to deal with being an Asian American in her new surroundings.

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Which is more important. . . personal relationships or the well-being of a city?

Book 3 of the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians:
The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan