New Books to Read!!

Diabolical- Stuck in a mysterious New England boarding school with an assortment of secretive students, disgraced angel Zachary and his werewolf friend, Kieren, face demon dogs, a sadistic instructor, and a legendary fire-breathing monster.

Dream Girl- When fifteen-year-old Claire Voyante's grandmother gives her a cameo for her birthday, she starts having dreams that seem to be telling her something that has to do with her new, wealthy friend being in danger.

 



Fitz- Fifteen-year-old Fitz kidnaps the father he has never known, taking him from his St. Paul apartment building at gunpoint, in an attempt to address his bewildering mix of resentment and yearning.

Taken By Storm- Alpha Bryn's humanity becomes a bigger problem as she takes her place in the werewolf Senate and tries to address a new threat to the pack.

More New Books!

Torment- It took Luce and her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts, immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students: Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans.

Passion- Desperate to unlock the curse that condemns her love for Daniel, Luce revisits her past incarnations trying to understand her fate, but Daniel is chasing her throughout the centuries in order to keep her from rewriting their history. 

Rapture- While searching for the place where the angels fell to earth to stop Lucifer from erasing the past, Luce and Daniel make a startling discovery about their love.

Endangered- Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.

Low Red Moon- Seventeen-year-old Avery can remember nothing to explain her parents' violent death in the woods where they live, but after meeting Ben, a mysterious new neighbor, she begins to believe some of the stories she has heard about creatures of the forest.

Reached- In search of a better life, Cassia joins a widespread rebellion against Society, where she is tasked with finding a cure to the threat of survival and must choose between Xander and Ky.

Kiss the Morning Star- The summer after high school graduation and one year after her mother's tragic death, Anna and her long-time best friend Kat set out on a road trip across the country, armed with camping supplies and a copy of Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums, determined to be open to anything that comes their way.

Safekeeping- When Radley returns to the United States after volunteering abroad, she comes back to a country under military rule with strict travel restrictions, and she must find her way back to her Vermont home through the New England woods.

Son- Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.

New Fiction and Graphic Novels!!

Where the Broken Heart Still Beats- Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.

The Savage Fortress- When British schoolboy Ash Mistry goes to India for a vacation, he quickly falls into a world of rakshasas, or demons, overseen by the evil Lord Alexander Savage.

Don't Expect Magic- Upon her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Delaney Collins must move to California to live with a father she barely knows, and discovers not only that he is a fairy "godmother," but that she may be one, as well.






Graphic Novels

Robin: The Teen Wonder- Robin, Batman's partner in crimefighting, takes center stage in this new collection that echoes events in the recent "Batman: R.I.P." storyline.

Batman Kightfall Part Two: Who Rules the Night- Bane has won. The Batman is broken. But the forces of justice will not go quietly into the night. Instead, a successor to the mantle of the Bat must be chosen to carry on Bruce Wayne's war against crime.

Batman Year One- The story of how Batman's career started, told in graphic novel form.

Teen Titans: Titans Around the World- A year after the events of Infinite Crisis, the core members of the Teen Titans return to heal old wounds and reform the team. As Robin, Wonder Girl, and Cyborg, with new Titans Kid Devil and Ravager, journey to find their former colleagues, they discover that there had been a traitor in their ranks.

Teen Titans On the Clock- The Teen Titans face off against the Clock King and his Terror Titans.


  

New Books!!

Mystic City- In a Manhattan where the streets are under water and outcasts called mystics have paranormal powers, Aria Rose is engaged to Thomas Foster and the powerful Rose and Foster families--long time enemies--are uniting politically; the only trouble is that Aria can not remember ever meeting Thomas, much less falling in love with him. Also a sound recording. 

Poison Princess- In the aftermath of a cataclysmic event, sixteen-year-old Evie, from a well-to-do Louisiana family, learns that her terrible visions are actually prophecies and that there are others like herself--embodiments of Tarot cards destined to engage in an epic battle. Also a sound recording. 

Burn For Burn- Three teenaged girls living on Jar Island band together to enact revenge on the people that have hurt them. Also a sound recording. 

New Books!

The FitzOsbornes At War- In this third installment to the Montmaray Journals, Sophie and her family come together to support the war effort during World War I, meanwhile fighting to protect their beloved Montmaray.

The Last Dragonslayer- Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away, but when visions of the death of the world's last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer--and Big Magic.

3 New Books For Young Adults!!

Confessions Of A Murder Suspect- Tandy Angel is, along with her brothers, a suspect in their parents' murder but having grown up under Malcolm and Maud Angel's perfectionist demands, Tandy decides she must clear the family name no matter what.

The Crimson Crown- Young queen Raisa works to unite her people against a possible lover who threatens the Fells, while former streetlord and Wizard Council member Han Alister navigates a world of cutthroat politics only to discover a powerful secret.

Princess Mia- While Mia tries to get over breaking up with her boyfriend, she discovers a diary kept by a former princess of Genovia from the 1600s, the contents of which could change the fate of her country forever.

Texting Competition

CDPL held its first Teen and Adult Texting Competition on Tuesday, October 30th. The contestants battled to out-text one another in  two sections of the contest. At first, contestants were graded on how quickly they could type a full sentence without any mistakes. In the second part of the contest, contestants were encouraged to text naturally and were allowed to shorten phrases by abbreviation and drop punctuation marks. The three fastest texters in each age group won gift cards and then tested their skills against each other in the final round.

Start practicing your texting now so that you're prepared to be the ultimate winner at CDPL's next texting competition!

Jamie, Emma, and Halley text full sentences.

Aiden and Brody wait for their scores while Maryah finishes up her final text.

CDPL judges Emily, Janella, and Katy tally up the contestants' times.

Emma, Kara, and Halley compete in the final round.

Emma won the ultimate prize, a gift basket of cell phone accessories!

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.