New Fiction

Alexander, Jill S. The Sweetheart of Prosper County. YA/ ALE
In a small East Texas town largely ruled by prejudices and bullies, fourteen-year-old Austin sets out to win a ride in the next parade and, in the process, grows in her understanding of friendship and helps her widowed mother through her mourning.

Smith, Alexander Gordon. Lockdown: Escape from Furnace. YA/ SMI
When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.

Sturtevant, Katherine. The Brothers Story. YA/ STU
In the late seventeenth century, fifteen-year-old Kit, driven to desperation by the starvation of one brother and mistreatment of his own simple-minded twin, realizes his dream of becoming an apprentice in London but feels drawn by duty to return home to Essex


Hooper, Mary. Newes from the Dead. YA/ HOO
Anne can't move a muscle, can't open her eyes, can't scream. She lies immobile in the darkness, unsure if she'd dead, terrified she's buried alive, haunted by her final memory—of being hanged. A maidservant falsely accused of infanticide in 1650 England and sent to the scaffold, Anne Green is trapped with her racing thoughts, her burning need to revisit the events—and the man—that led her to the gallows. Meanwhile, a shy 18-year-old medical student attends his first dissection and notices something strange as the doctors prepare their tools . . . Did her eyelids just flutter? Could this corpse be alive?

Karim, Sheba. Skunk girl. YA/ KAR
Nina Khan is not just the only Asian or Muslim student in her small-town high school in upstate New York, she is also faces the legacy of her "Supernerd" older sister, body hair, and the pain of having a crush when her parents forbid her to date.


Ehrenberg, Pamela. Tillmon County Fire. YA/ HER
An act of arson commited as an anti-gay hate crime affects the lives of several teenagers from a small town.

Godbersen, Anna. Splendor: A Luxe Novel. YA/ GOD
n 1900 New York City, fashionable debutante Diana Holland and married soldier Henry Schoonmaker flaunt the rules of society to be with one another.

Going, K.L. King of the Screwups: A Novel. YA/ GOI
After getting in trouble yet again, popular high school senior Liam, who never seems to live up to his wealthy father's expectations, is sent to live in a trailer park with his gay "glam-rocker" uncle.

Halpern, Julie. Into the Wild Nerd Yonder: My life on the dork side. YA/ HAL
When high school sophomore Jessie's long-term best friend transforms herself into a punk and goes after Jessie's would-be boyfriend, Jessie decides to visit "the wild nerd yonder" and seek true friends among classmates who play Dungeons and Dragons.

Kuehnert, Stephanie. Ballads of Suburbia. YA/ KUE
An aspiring film writer tells about her troubled teen years in the Chicago suburbs when she and her friends tried to escape the pain of their lives through rock music and drugs.

Libby, Alisa. The King’s Rose. YA/ LIB
Catharine Howard recounts the events in her life that led to her being groomed for marriage at the age of fifteen to King Henry VIII, her failure to produce an heir to the throne, and her quick execution.

McKinley, Robin & Peter Dickinson. Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits. YA/ McK
Five tales of creatures who live and die by fire from both the present day and the prehistoric past. Contents: Phoenix / Peter Dickinson -- Hellhound / Robin McKinley -- Fireworm / Peter Dickinson -- Salamander man / Peter Dickinson -- First flight / Robin McKinley.

Mead, R. Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel. YA/ MEA
Just days before graduating from St. Vladimir's Academy, guardian-in-training Rose travels to Siberia to drive a stake into the heart of the boy she loves, the monstrous vampire Dimitri.

McLaughlin, Emma & Nicola Kraus. The Real Real. YA/ McL
When Hampton High senior Jesse is cast in a reality television show along with five other, more popular students, drama on and off screen reveals that what the audience and producers want is not the same as what Jesse wants.

Prose, Francine. Touch. YA/ PRO
Ninth-grader Maisie's concepts of friendship, loyalty, self-acceptance, and truth are tested to their limit after a schoolbus incident with the three boys who have been her best friends since early childhood.

Salinger, J.D. Nine Stories. YA/ SAL
Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme -- With Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, and Teddy.

Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow Boys. YA/ SAN
Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.

St. Crow, Lili. Betrayals: A Strange Angels Novel. YA/ STC
For her own protection, sixteen-year-old Dru is taken to a secret training facility that feels more like a prison, but she faces great danger there and learns that a traitor who was involved in her mother's death now wants Dru dead.

Stewart, Sean & Jordan Weisman. Cathy’s Book. If found call (650) 266-8233. YA/ STE
Cathy, an aspiring artist who is still getting over her father's death, becomes embroiled in a mystery after discovering that her ex-boyfriend--who appears only a few years older than herself--is actually more than two hundred years old.

Stewart, Sean & Jordan Weisman. Cathy’s Key. If found call (650) 266-8202. YA/ STE
"Cathy was your average high school student-doodling in the margins of her journal, crushing on a cute boy, and hanging out with her best friend Emma. As this story begins, she's trying to keep a job, her journal is stolen, the cute boy is not who he seems to be, and even Emma's side project/start-up company, Doubletalk Wireless, is about to get caught up in the mystery surrounding Cathy and her search for the truth about her father. Her presumed-dead father. It's just a simple story really: Girl loves Boy, Boy disappears, Girl discovers secret that will alter the course of humanity.

Stewart, Sean & Jordan Weisman. Cathy’s Ring. If found call (650) 266-8263. YA/ STE
Cathy is in St. Louis, Missouri. It's been six months since she'd discovered her boyfriend was immortal. She searches for answers to her father's death and finds a website on the internet. This an immortal fortune teller whom claims she can help Cathy find out if her father really died of heart attacked. The fortune teller's name is Auntie Joe. When Cathy met her Auntie Joe said that her father did not die of a heart attack. He was murdered. Then Auntie Joe said that if Tsao (her boyfriend, Victor's father and an immortal) could not marry her, he will kill her. After Auntie Joe told her about some things Cathy wanted to know, Cathy took a Greyhound Bus to San Francisco, her home. But, little did she know that it was the beginning of another crazy adventure through the immortal world.

Flanagan, John. Ranger’s Apprentice: Halt’s Peril. YA/ FLA
Halt, Horace and Will are on the trail of Tennyson and his followers. The false prophet of the Outsider cult escaped justice for his crimes in Clonmel, and Halt is determined to stop him before he crosses the border into Araluen. Will has defeated one of Tennyson's Genovesan assassins in Clonmel but there are two left alive. Are the extraordinary archery skill of Will and Halt enough to save them during a duel with the Genovesans ... or is Will's mentor facing his last battle?

Flanagan, John. Ranger’s Apprentice: The Kings of Clonmel. YA/ FLA
Book 8.

Gaiman, Neil. The Graveyard Book. YA/ GAI
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.