2 New Books for you to see!!

A Wrinkle in Time- A graphic novel adaptation of the classic tale in which Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.

The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories- An anthology of darkly paranormal stories, with comments by the authors on their writing process.

Spooky and Supernatural Fiction

Searching for some spooky or supernatural 

fiction to read this month?

Check out all of CDPL's Young Adult titles on zombies, vampires, and ghosts!

Some of the supernatural selections from our online catalog are featured below:

Haunted: A Tale of the Mediator
Meg Cabot

Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator, one who communicates with the dead, and she also happens to be in love with Jesse, a nineteenth-century ghost. 

The Dead Boys
Royce Buckingham

Timid twelve-year-old Teddy Mathews and his mother move to a small, remote desert town in eastern Washington, where the tree next door, mutated by nuclear waste, eats children and the friends Teddy makes turn out to be dead.      

Rot & Ruin
Jonathan Maberry

In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.

Vampire Knight
Matsuri Hino

Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the day class and the night class. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the guardians of the school, protecting the day class from the Academy's dark secret: the night class is full of vampires!

The Vampire Diaries: The Return, Midnight
L.J. Smith

Eighteen-year-old Elena Gilbert's latest battle against the demons that have taken over her hometown of Fell's Church is complicated by the fact that Damon is a mortal since he, his brother Stefan, and Elena returned from the Dark Dimension.     

Top 100 Best-Ever Teen Fiction

Over 75,000 readers voted for their favorite teen fiction of all time in NPR's Best-Ever Teen Fiction poll this summer. Not surprisingly, the Harry Potter series and The Hunger Games series series topped the list with the classic To Kill A Mockingbird taking third place.

Did your favorite book make the cut? Check out the Top 100 Best-Ever Teen Fiction and see if you agree with the list!

New Books!!!

Take Me There- Three New York high school students try to sort out their emotions as they deal with relationships, crushes, their families, and planning for the future.

So Much Closer- When Brooke discovers that the love of her life, Scott Abrams, is moving from their New Jersey suburb to New York City for senior year, she decides to follow him there. Living with her estranged father and adjusting to a whole new school are challenging--and things get even worse when she finds out that Scott already has a girlfriend. But as she learns to navigate the big city, she starts to discover a whole new side of herself, and realizes that sometimes love can find you even when you're not looking for it.

Waiting For You- Fifteen-year-old high school sophomore Marisa, who has an anxiety disorder, decides that this is the year she will get what she wants--a boyfriend and a social life--but things do not turn out exactly the way she expects them to.  

The Kill Order- Mark struggles to make sense of his new, post-disaster world in this prequel to The Maze Runner.

Flesh & Blood- Benny, Nix, Lou, and Lilah journey through a fierce wilderness that was once America searching for the jet they saw months ago, while evading fierce animals and a new kind of zombie.

Blink Once- West, a high school junior with everything going for him until an accident leaves him paralyzed, connects with Olivia, a patient in the hospital room next to his, who seems to understand his dreams and nightmares but who has a secret. 

Princess Academy: Palace of Stone- Miri returns to Asland and calls upon all of her knowledge of rhetoric and other useful lessons learned at the Princess Academy when she and the other girls face strong opposition while working for a new, fair charter.

What Came From the Stars- In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

The Daring Book For Girls- Celebrating the idea that anything boys can do, girls can do better, a guide to adventure for girls of all ages includes such chapters as "Fourteen games of tag," "How to negotiate a salary," "Math tricks," and "Daisy chains and ivy crowns." 

Blue Plate Special- In alternating chapters, the lives of three teenage girls from three different generations are woven together as each girl learns about forgiveness, empathy, and self-respect. Also an Eliot Rosewater Nominee.