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New Nonfiction

2010-12-16T17:27:00.000-08:00

Lukash, F. The Safe and Sane Guide to Teenage Plastic Surgery. YA 617.95 LUK
Contents Body image -- Considering plastic surgery -- When no is the answer -- Moving forward with surgery -- Weighing the cost -- Introduction to procedures -- The ears : the frame of the face -- The face : finding the balance -- Breasts and chests : a delicate balance -- Body contouring -- Skin -- Ethnic surgery : from cultural assimilation to a culture of beauty -- Cutting edge or on thin ice : innovations in teen plastic surgery -- Happy endings and beautiful beginnings.

Stone, T. The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie. A Doll’s History and Her Impact on Us. YA 688.7 STO
"Readers learn about Mattel Toys and the background behind Barbie's concept and development, how it was a solution for girls who wanted to imagine adult roles rather than just play mother, and details about inventor Ruth Handler.

Beever, J. Pavement Chalk Artist. The three-dimensional drawings of Julian Beever. YA 709.73 BEE
More than just traditional flat drawings, the works Beever creates are uniquely three-dimensional anamorphic drawings. They are drawn in perspective and distorted so the subject can be viewed properly only from one particular viewpoint. For those who are standing in the right place, his chalk drawings invite them to step right into the scene or, in the case of the artist's well-known Swimming Pool in the High Street, dive right into the water.

I Can’t Keep My Own Secrets. Six-word memoirs by teens famous and obscure. YA 808.066 I
Everyone has a story to tell about themselves, but few can tell their story in six short words. Six hundred authors between the ages of thirteen and nineteen have done just that. They talk about their sorrows, their fears and their hopes. Some want to talk about their gaming, food, friends and family. From best friends to love, lies and war, it's all in this book. Every life is special and unique and you're going to hear a slice of life from young people in six words, no more no less!

New Fiction

2010-12-16T17:16:00.000-08:00

Anderson, L. Forge. YA ANDERSON
Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.

Blume, J. Tiger Eyes. YA BLUME
Grief and fear strike Davey Wexler, her mother, and her young brother when Davey's father is killed during a holdup of his 7-Eleven store in Los Alamos

Card, O. Pathfinder. YA CARD
Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him.

Clare, C. Clockwork Angel. Book One: The Infernal Devices. YA CLARE
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.

John, A. Five Flavors of Dumb. YA JOHN
Eighteen-year-old Piper becomes the manager for her classmates' popular rock band, called Dumb, giving her the chance to prove her capabilities to her parents and others, if only she can get the band members to get along.

Lynch, C. Hothouse. YA LYNCH
Teens D.J. and Russell, life-long friends and neighbors, had drifted apart but when their firefighter fathers are both killed, they try to help one another come to terms with the tragedy and its aftermath.

Smith, A. The Marbury Lens. YA SMITH
Sixteen-year-old Jack gets drunk and is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is kidnapped. He escapes, narrowly. The only person he tells is his best friend, Conner. When they arrive in London as planned for summer break, a stranger hands Jack a pair of glasses. Through the lenses, he sees another world called Marbury.
There is war in Marbury. It is a desolate and murderous place where Jack is responsible for the survival of two younger boys. Conner is there, too. But he’s trying to kill them. Meanwhile, Jack is falling in love with an English girl, and afraid he’s losing his mind. Conner tells Jack it’s going to be okay. But it’s not.

Von Ziegesar, C. I will always love you. A gossip girl novel. YA VON
After graduating and moving on to college, Blair, Serena, Nate, Dan, and Vanessa are forced to come to terms with past events when they are reunited in the city during the holidays in this coming-of-age story.

Yancey, R. The Curse of the Wendigo. YA YANCEY
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New England scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy the Wendigo, a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh.

New Movies on DVD

2010-12-09T16:20:00.000-08:00

I know what you did last summer. YA DVD I
Summary: After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. But exactly one year later, the dead man returns from his watery grave, and he's looking for more than an apology.

Flipped. YA DVD FLIPPED
Summary: When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it's love. Bryce isn't so sure. Beginning that day, and for the next six years, young Bryce does everything he can to keep his outspoken wannabe girlfriend at arm's length, which isn't easy since they go to the same school and live across the street from each other. Extras included.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. YA DVD SCOTT
Summary: Meet charming and jobless Scott Pilgrim. A bass guitarist for garage band Sex Bob-omb, the 22-year-old has just met the girl of his dreams, literally. The only catch to winning Ramona Flowers? Her seven evil exes are coming to kill him. As Scott gets closer to Ramona, he must face an increasingly vicious rogues' gallery from her past, from infamous skateboarders to vegan rock stars and fearsome identical twins. If he hopes to win his true love, he must vanquish them all.

Style Wars. YA DVD STYLE
Summary: A documentary exploration of the subculture of New York's young graffiti writers and breakdancers, showing their activities and aspirations and the social and aesthetic controversies surrounding New York graffiti. Dramatizes conflicts between graffitists and the city, as well as among the graffitists themselves.

X-Men. YA DVD X-MEN

New TV on DVD

2010-12-09T15:26:00.000-08:00

Avatar: The Last Airbender. The Complete Book 1 collection. YA DVD TV AVATAR
Summary: After a lapse of 100 years, the Avatar-spiritual master of the elements -has returned. And just in the nick of time. The FOur nations (Water, Earth, Fire and Air) have become unbalanced. The Fire Nation wants to rule the world, and its first conquest will be the Northern Water Tribe. It's up to a 12-year-old Airbender named Aang to find a way to stop it. Join Aang, Katara, Sokka, Momo, and Appa as they head north on the adventure of a lifetime.the Chosen One who can restore the world order. This adventure, set in a fantastical Asian-influenced world, follows the story of Aang, the Chosen One, who must forgo his selfish wandering to learn to master his latent powers over the four elements.

Avatar: The Last Airbender. The complete Book 2 collection. YA DVD TV AVATAR
Summary: Avatar Aang continues his quest to master the four elements. He journeys across the Earth Kingdom in search of an Earthbending mentor; he confronts Princess Azula, daughter of firelord Ozai and sister of Prince Zuko. She will stop at nothing to defeat the Avatar. But Aang finds allies along the way, from the swamps of the South to the Earth King's palace.
Bonus features: interview with the creators and M. Night Shyamalan; "The essence of bending" with Bryan Konietzko and Sifu Kisu; Avatar super deformed shorts; "Escape from the spirit world" animated graphic novel.

Avatar: The Last Airbender. The complete book 3 collection. YA DVD TV AVATAR
Summary: Avatar Aang has survivied the terrible battle with Azula and now faces new challenges as he and his friends enter the Fire Nation. They must find and defeat Firelord Ozai, who seeks to spread his dominion across the four nations. Without a master to help, Aang must learn a lot of bending. Special features: discs 1-4: audio commentary by creators and crew; disc 5: The women of Avatar: the last airbender ; Book 3 finale pencil test animation ; Into the Fire Nation at San Diego Comic-Con.

The Venture Bros. Season 4, Volume 1. YA DVD TV VENTURE
8 episodes plus special features, creators commentaries, deleted scenes, comic-con promo and “Lost” open!

New Music

2010-12-01T18:25:00.000-08:00

Now that's what I call music! 36. YA CD MUSIC NOW 36
Contents: Teenage dream / Katy Perry -- DJ got us fallin' in love / Usher (feat. Pitbull) -- Take it off Ke$ha -- If I had you / Adam Lambert -- Dynamite / Taio Cruz -- Just a dream / Nelly -- Deuces / Chris Brown (feat. Tyga & Kevin McCall) -- Magic / B.o.B. (feat. Rivers Cuomo) -- Memories / David Guetta (feat. Kid Cudi) -- Misery / Maroon 5 -- Animal / Neon Trees -- Secrets / OneRepublic -- King of anything / Sara Bareilles -- The only exception / Paramore -- September / Daughtry -- Stuck like glue / Sugarland. -- What's next bonus tracks: Maybe / Sick Puppies -- Stuck on nothing / Free Energy -- Tennessee me / Secret Sisters. -- Now flashback bonus track: Suspicious minds / Elvis Presley.

Glee: the music; the Christmas album. YA CD MUSIC GLEE
Contents: We need a little Christmas (2:44) -- Deck the rooftop (2:29) -- Merry Christmas darling (3:02) -- Baby, it's cold outside (2:46) -- The most wonderful day of the year (2:00) -- Last Christmas (3:38) -- God rest ye merry gentlemen (3:09) -- O Christmas tree (2:59) -- Jingle bells (2:55) -- You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch (3:18) -- Angels we have heard on high (4:23) -- O holy night (5:01).

Rihanna. Loud. YA CD MUSIC RIHANNA
Contents: S & M -- What's my name (feat. Drake) -- Cheers (Drink to that) -- Fading -- Only girl (in the world) -- California king bed -- Man down -- Raining men (feat. Nicki Mina) -- Complicated -- Skin -- Love the way you lie (part II) (feat. Eminem).

New Music

2010-11-27T08:42:00.000-08:00

Hollywood Undead. Swan Songs. YA CD MUSIC HOLLYWOO
Contents:Undead -- Sell your soul -- Everywhere I go -- No other place -- No. 5 -- Young -- Black dahlia -- This love, this hate -- Bottle and a gun -- California -- City -- The diary -- Pimpin' -- Paradise lost.

Sufjan Stevens. The Age of Adz. YA CD MUSIC STEVENS
Contents:Futile devices (2:11) -- Too much (6:44) -- Age of Adz (8:00) -- I walked (5:01) -- Now that I'm older (4:56) -- Get real get right (5:10) -- Bad communication (2:24) -- Vesuvius (5:26) -- All for myself (2:55) -- I want to be well (6:27) -- Impossible soul (25:35).

Taylor Swift. Speak Now. YA CD MUSIC SWIFT
Contents:Mine -- Sparks fly -- Back to December -- Speak now -- Dear John -- Mean -- Story of us -- Never grow up -- Enchanted -- Better than revenge -- Innocent -- Haunted -- Last kiss -- Long live.

New Fiction

2010-11-27T08:17:00.000-08:00

Cremer, Andrea. Nightshade. YA CREMER
Calla and Ren have been raised knowing it is their destiny to mate with one another and rule over their shape-shifting wolf pack, but when a human boy arrives and vies for Calla's heart, she is faced with a decision that could change her whole world.

Divine, L. Drama High: The Fight. YA DIVINE

Divine, L. Drama High: Cold As Ice. YA DIVINE

Divine, L. Drama High: Hustlin’. YA DIVINE

Divine, L. Drama High: Frenemies. YA DIVINE

Divine, L. Drama High: Jayd’s legacy. YA DIVINE
Jayd Jackson, happily in a relationship with the coolest white boy ever, deals with her ex-boyfriend, who is trying to break them up, and her best friend Nellie who is causing all sorts of drama as she runs for junior class homecoming Princess against the Athletes and Cheerleaders.

Divine, L. Drama High: Second Chance. YA DIVINE

Divine, L. Drama High: Pushin’ YA DIVINE
In the midst of chaos in practically every area of her life, Jayd tries to concentrate on the things that are important to her and that could hold the key to bringing the chaos under control for good.

Gleitzman, Morris. Once. YA GLEITZMA
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.

Grimes, Nikki. Dark Sons. YA GRIMES
Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.

Grimes, Nikki. A Girl Named Mister. YA GRIMES
A pregnant teenager finds support and forgiveness from God through a book of poetry presented from the Virgin Mary's perspective.

Harrison, Lisi. Alphas. YA HARRISON
Select teenaged girls are invited to join the exclusive and futuristic Alpha Academy, where they must compete feverishly to establish and maintain their status among their extremely competitive peers.

Harrison, Lisi. Belle of the Brawl: an Alphas novel. YA HARRISON
After a week of drama-filled days at the exclusive, fiercely-competitive Alpha Academy, Skye, Allie, and Charlie learn that someone has been keeping a huge secret from them.

Harvey, Alyxandra. Blood Feud. YA HARVEY
As the clans gather for the coronation of the next vampire queen, new alliances are beginning to form and the power of the clan leaders is threatened by a would-be usurper.

Hautman, Pete. Blank Confession. YA HAUTMAN
A new and enigmatic student named Shayne appears at high school one day, befriends the smallest boy in the school, and takes on a notorious drug dealer before turning himself in to the police for killing someone.

Higgins, Jack. Sharp Shot. YA HIGGINS
British twins Rich and Jade Chance are back for a third adventure with their spy father as they try to save the Middle East and the President of the United States from a terrorist government coup.

Higgins, Jack. First Strike. YA HIGGINS
British twins Rich and Jade are once again thrown into danger as they try to help their spy father, John Chance, save the President of the United States from a radical group holding the White House hostage and attempting to steal the nation's nuclear launch codes.

Hubbard, Mandy. You Wish. YA HUBBARD
Kayla McHenry's life is transformed when a wish on her sixteenth birthday comes true--along with all of her previous birthday wishes, beginning with the appearance of a pink pony.

Hurley, Tonya. Ghostgirl: Lovesick. YA HURLEY
Charlotte has been given her first assignment after graduating from Dead Ed- the alternative high school for dead teens- she is to go back and help out a student from her previous life and her first love, Damen.

King, A.S. Please Ignore Vera Dietz. YA KING
When her best friend, whom she secretly loves, betrays her and then dies under mysterious circumstances, high school senior Vera Dietz struggles with secrets that could help clear his name.

Kramer, Stacy. Karma Bites. YA KRAMER
Using the power of a magic recipe box belonging to her hippie grandmother straightens out some of the problems in twelve-year-old Franny Flanders' life, but she learns that when you tamper with karma, it can strike back in unexpected ways.

Lipsyte, Robert. Center Field. YA LIPSYTE
Mike lives for baseball and hopes to follow his idol into the major leagues one day, but he is distracted by a new player who might take his place in center field, an ankle injury, problems at home, and a growing awareness that something sinister is happening at school.

Lore, Pittacus. I am number four. YA LORE
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Princess Ben. YA MURDOCK
A girl is transformed, through instruction in life at court, determination, and magic, from sullen, pudgy, graceless Ben into Crown Princess Benevolence, a fit ruler of the kindgom of Montagne as it faces war with neighboring Drachensbett.

Noel, Alyson. Night Star. YA NOEL
Psychic teenagers Ever and Damen face down bitter rivals, jealous friends and their own worst fears--all in the hope of being together forever.

Patterson, James. Daniel X: Demons and Druids. YA PATTERSO
As Daniel X continues to hunt for intergalactic aliens, he and his friends go to England searching for Beta, an outlaw who takes the form of fire and who killed Daniel's parents when he was two years old.

Rex, Adam. Fat Vampire. A never coming of age story. YA REX
After being bitten by a vampire, not only is fifteen-year-old Doug doomed eternally to be fat, but now he must also save himself from the desperate host of a public-access-cable vampire-hunting television show that is on the verge of cancellation.

Ruby, Laura. Good Girls. YA RUBY
Sixteen-year-old high school senior Audrey is humiliated when a compromising photograph of her is sent around her school, but she discovers a toughness within her that she never knew she had.

Scott, Elizabeth. Something, Maybe. YA SCOTT
Seventeen-year-old high school student Hannah is trying to lead a normal life, despite the fact that both her parents are famous for their wild lifestyles, which means getting her secret crush to notice her.

Stroud, Jonathan. Bartimaeus: The ring of Solomon. YA STROUD
Wise-cracking djinni Bartimaeus finds himself at the court of King Solomon with an unpleasant master, a sinister servant, and King Solomon's magic ring.

Von Ziegesar, Cecily. Because I’m worth it. A gossip girl novel. YA VON
The gossip continues in this latest fast paced novel.

Zusak, Markus. I am the messenger. YA ZUSAK
Ed Kennedy is a nineteen-year-old cab driver who doesn't think much of his life. He inadvertently helps stop a bank robbery, and that is when his life starts to change. He begins to receive mysterious messages that instruct him to go to addresses where people need help. Ed becomes the messenger, but who is behind the messages?

New Music

2010-11-17T17:56:00.000-08:00

Belle and Sebastian. Belle and Sebastian write about love. YA CD MUSIC BELLE
I didn't see it coming -- Come on sister -- Calculating bimbo -- I want the world to stop -- Little Lou, ugly Jack, prophet John -- Write about love -- I'm not living in the real world -- The ghost of rockschool -- Read the blessed pages -- I can see your future -- Sunday's pretty icons.

Alice in Chains. Jar of Flies YA CD MUSIC ALICE
Rotten apple (6:56) -- Nutshell (4:16) -- Stay away (4:13) -- No excuses (4:15) -- Whale & wasp (2:35) -- Don't follow (4:21) -- Swing on this (4:01).

New Fiction

2010-11-17T17:54:00.000-08:00

Roy, Jennifer. Mindblind. YA ROY
Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel Clark, who has Asperger's Syndrome, tries to prove that he is a genius by writing songs for his rock band, so that he can become a member of the prestigious Aldus Institute, the premier organization for the profoundly gifted.

De la Cruz, Melissa. Misguided Angel: a Blue Bloods novel. YA DELACRUZ
While fleeing to Florence to find and protect the seven gates that guard earth from Lucifer, lord of the Silverbloods, Schuyler approaches a terrifying crossroads--and a choice that will determine the destiny of all vampires.

New TV Series on DVD

2010-11-03T15:18:00.000-07:00

Gossip Girl. The complete third series. YA DVD-TV GOSSIP
5 videodiscs (930 min.)

New Book on CD

2010-11-03T15:16:00.000-07:00

Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird. YA F LEE CD BOOK
Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him. 11 sound discs (12 hr.) Performed by Sissy Spacek.

New Movies on DVD

2010-10-27T16:28:00.000-07:00

Evil. YA DVD EVIL
Erik's life is full of violence and conflict. When he is expelled from school, he is sent to a boarding school as a last chance and is tormented by his classmates. Can he revolt against the harassment without breaking the rules? Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. MPAA rating: R. Swedish dialogue, English subtitles; closed-captioned. (ca. 113 min.)

The Last Song. YA DVD LAST
Summary:Seventeen, angry, and alienated from her estranged father, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life gets turned inside out when her mother forces her to spend the summer with him in the small Georgia beach town where he lives. Here, Ronnie finds salvation, friendship, second chances, and first love. Rating: PG;(ca. 107 min.)

Mean Girls. YA DVD MEAN
Summary When a young girl who has lived in Africa and been homeschooled moves to New York, she must enter a public high school. Survival of the fittest takes on a whole new meaning when she falls for the ex-boyfriend of the most popular girl in school. Note Based on the book Queen bees and wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman. MPAA rating: PG13; coarse language, sexual content.(ca. 96 min.)

New Non Fiction

2010-10-27T16:15:00.000-07:00

Graczyk, Jim. Field Guide to Mysterious Waters. YA 133.1 GRA
From the moonlit beaches to the foggy seas, there is no coastal water as haunted as the United States! From the lonely lighthouse battered along the shore, there are ghostly sightings of keepers and spooky lights that refuse to stay extinguished. For this reason, no person with an interest in lighthouses or old ships should be without the new book in the field guide series! Join real-life ghost researcher Jim Graczyk as he presents to you a new guide to mysterious water. This is the new research guide for investigating haunted lighthouses, ghostly shores and phantom ships. Filled with history, pictures, and directions to the locations, this is the book for those who desire to look into the darkness of the night!

Graczyk, Jim. Field Guide to the Land of Lincoln. YA 133.1 GRA
From its haunted houses to its abandoned graveyards, there is no state in the Midwest as spirit-infested as Illinois! From the back roads to the big cities, there are more ghosts, haunted places and downright weird spots in Illinois than most have ever considered. For this reason, no ghost hunter who plans to track down the supernatural in the state should be without this new field guide! Join real-life ghost researchers Jim Gracyzk and Donna Boonstra as they present an essential guide to the ghosts of Illinois. Filed with the history of the sites, directions to the location and resources for finding great information, the book is a must have for those looking for the darker side of the region!

Graczyk, Jim. Chicago Hauntings for Teens. YA 133.1 GRA
The new series of books, Hauntings For Teens Series, has its first edition which tells many of the famous Chicago ghost stories and helps the reader truly understand the paranormal activity. The book is written for the "tween age and up" group so this gives them a chance to understand and learn history while giving them a taste of the known paranormal activity.

Graczyk, Jim. Field Guide to Chicago Hauntings. YA 133.1 GRA
Author Jim Graczyk takes the reader on a tour of the haunted Windy City, Chicago in this condensed book on ghost stories. The book is the first in the Field Guide series and is meant to be taken into the field and used as reference to find the locations, hear the stories surrounding them and be directed right to the spot with concise directions.

Graczyk, Jim. Field Guide to America’s Most Haunted. YA 133.1 GRA
This book is a compilation of numerous locations throughout the United States that we as researchers, consider the most haunted. The locations are listed in alphabetical order by location name to make it easier for the reader to find a particular area. The locations in this book have been selected as America's Most Haunted because of the paranormal activity that has been encountered in those areas

New Fiction

2010-10-27T14:00:00.000-07:00

Barrett, Tracy. King of Ithaka. YA BARRETT
When sixteen-year-old Telemachos and his two best friends, one a centaur, leave their life of privilege to undertake a quest to find Telemachos's father Odysseus, they learn much along the way about what it means to be a man and a king.

Cast, P.C. The Fledgling Handbook 101. YA CAST
Every vampyre fledgling who arrives at the House of Night receives a copy of The Fledgling Handbook 101, and now, fans can have one, too, with this gorgeous must-have edition. Inside you’ll find original stories, the complete vampyre history, inside info into rituals, vamp biology, and the Change, and much more.

Chayil, Eishes. Hush. YA CHAYIL
After remembering the cause of her best friend Devory's suicide at age nine, Gittel is determined to raise awareness of sexual abuse in her Borough Park, New York, community, despite the rules of Chassidim that require her to be silent.

Corrigan, Eireann. Accomplice. YA CORRIGAN
High school juniors and best friends Finn and Chloe hatch a daring plot to fake Chloe's disappearance from their rural New Jersey town in order to have something compelling to put on their college applications, but unforeseen events complicate matters.

Dogar, Sharon. Annexed. YA DOGAR
Everyone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex – but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her? In this powerful and gripping novel, Sharon Dogar explores what this might have been like from Peter’s point of view. What was it like to be forced into hiding with Anne Frank, first to hate her and then to find yourself falling in love with her? Especially with your parents and her parents all watching almost everything you do together. To know you’re being written about in Anne’s diary, day after day? What’s it like to start questioning your religion, wondering why simply being Jewish inspires such hatred and persecution? Or to just sit and wait and watch while others die, and wish you were fighting. As Peter and Anne become closer and closer in their confined quarters, how can they make sense of what they see happening around them? Anne’s diary ends on August 4, 1944, but Peter’s story takes us on, beyond their betrayal and into the Nazi death camps. He details with accuracy, clarity and compassion the reality of day to day survival in Auschwitz – and ultimately the horrific fates of the Annex’s occupants.

McBride, Hold Me Closer, Necromancer. YA McBRIDE
Sam leads a pretty normal life. He may not have the most exciting job in the world, but he’s doing all right—until a fast food prank brings him to the attention of Douglas, a creepy guy with an intense violent streak. Turns out Douglas is a necromancer who raises the dead for cash and sees potential in Sam. Then Sam discovers he’s a necromancer too, but with strangely latent powers. And his worst nightmare wants to join forces . . . or else. With only a week to figure things out, Sam needs all the help he can get. Luckily he lives in Seattle, which has nearly as many paranormal types as it does coffee places. But even with newfound friends, will Sam be able to save his skin?
Muchamore, Robert. Shadow Wave. YA MUCHAMOR
After a tsunami causes massive devastation to a tropical island, its governor sends in the bulldozers to knock down villages, replacing them with luxury hotels. Guarding the corrupt governor's family isn't James Adams' idea of the perfect mission, especially as it's going to be his last as a CHERUB agent. And then retired colleague Kyle Blueman comes up with an unofficial and highly dangerous plan of his own. James must choose between loyalty to CHERUB, and loyalty to his oldest friend.

Werlin, Nancy. Extraordinary. YA WERLIN
Phoebe, a member of the wealthy Rothschilds family, befriends Mallory, an awkward new girl in school, and the two become as close as sisters, but Phoebe does not know that Mallory is a faerie, sent to the human world to trap the ordinary human girl into fulfilling a promise made by her ancestor Mayer to the queen of the faeries.

Westerfeld, Scott. Behemoth. YA WESTERFE
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically engineered warships.

Bell, Hilari. The Goblin Gate. YA BELL
Jeriah uncovers a web of political intrigue while trying to obtain a spell from Master Lazure that might allow him to rescue his brother Tobin from the Otherworld, where he was taken by the beguiling hedgewitch Makenna and her legion of goblins.

Black, Holly. White Cat. YA BLACK
When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.

Brewer, Heather. Twelfth Grade Kills. YA BREWER
The Council of Elders, having been informed that Tomas still lives, puts off Vlad's execution, providing Vlad the opportunity to try to set some things right.

Dasher, James. The Scorch Trials. YA DASHER
After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race.

Dunkle, Clare. The House of Dead Maids. YA DUNKLE
Eleven-year-old Tabby Aykroyd, who would later serve as housekeeper for thirty years to the Brönte sisters, is taken from an orphanage to a ghost-filled house, where she and a wild young boy are needed for a pagan ritual.

Ephron, Delia. The Girl With the Mermaid Hair. YA EPHRON
A vain teenaged girl is obsessed with beauty and perfection until she uncovers a devastating family secret.

Flake, Sharon . You Don’t Even Know Me: Stories and Poems about Boys. YA FLAKE
Tow-Kaye just learned that the love of his life is pregnant--and though he knows what the right thing to do is, he's scared to death to do it. Jeffrey hates having a mom who dresses like a teenager, but when another sexy mom moves in next door--well, that's a different kind of problem. In these and twenty-two other short stories and poems, readers plumb the inner lives of African American teenage boys.

Gill, David Macinni. Black Hole Sun. YA GILL
On the planet Mars, sixteen-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders.

Gilman, David. Ice Claw. YA GILMAN
High in the French Pyrenees, fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's race to win an extreme sports challenge becomes a race to survive when he is accused of causing the death of a mysterious Basque monk who has predicted a cataclysmic ecological disaster.

Goto, Hiromi. Half World. YA GOTO
Melanie Tamaki is an outsider. She is unpopular at school. At home, where she and her loving but neglectful mother live in poverty, she has had to learn to take care of herself. Melanie is just barely coping. Everything changes on the day she returns home to find her mother is missing, lured back to Half World by a nightmare creature calling himself Mr. Glueskin. Soon Melanie has embarked on an epic and darkly fantastical journey to Half World to save her mother. What she does not yet realize is that the state of the universe is at stake.

Harvey, Alyxandra. Hearts at Stake. YA HARVEY
As her momentous sixteenth birthday approaches, Solange Drake, the only born female vampire in 900 years, is protected by her large family of brothers and her human best friend Lucy from increasingly persistent attempts on her life by the powerful vampire queen and her followers.

Kessler, Jackie Morse. Hunger. YA KESSLER
Seventeen-year-old Lisabeth has anorexia, and even turning into Famine--one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--cannot keep her from feeling fat and worthless.

Koss, Amy Goldman. The not-so-great Depression : in which the economy crashes, my sister's plans are ruined, my mom goes broke my dad grows vegetables, and I do not get a hamster. YA KOSS
Jackie, a ninth-grader, does not understand when her teacher talks about unemployment and recession, until her mother loses her job and Jackie cannot buy the things she wants.

Pearce, Jackson. Sisters Red. YA PEARCE
After a Fenris, or werewolf, killed their grandmother and almost killed them, sisters Scarlett and Rosie March devote themselves to hunting and killing the beasts that prey on teenaged girls, learning how to lure them with red cloaks and occasionally using the help of their old friend, Silas, the woodsman's son.

Pena, Matt de le. I Will Save You. YA PENA
Seventeen-year-old Kidd Ellison runs away to work for the summer at a beach campsite in California where his hard work and good looks lead to friendship and love but painful past memories surface in menacing ways.

Stiefvater, Maggie. Linger. YA STIEFVAT
As Grace hides the vast depth of her love for Sam from her parents and Sam struggles to release his werewolf past and claim a human future, a new wolf named Cole wins Isabel's heart but his own past threatens to destroy the whole pack.

Wells, Dan. Mr. Monster. YA WELLS
In I Am Not a Serial Killer, John Wayne Cleaver saved his town from a murderer even more appalling than the serial killers he obsessively studies. But it turns out even demons have friends, and the disappearance of one has brought another to Clayton County. Soon there are new victims for John to work on at the mortuary and a new mystery to solve. But John has tasted death, and the dark nature he used as a weapon---the terrifying persona he calls “Mr. Monster”---might now be using him. No one in Clayton is safe unless John can vanquish two nightmarish adversaries: the unknown demon he must hunt and the inner demon he can never escape. In this sequel to his brilliant debut, Dan Wells ups the ante with a thriller that is just as gripping and even more intense. He apologizes in advance for the nightmares.

Wooding, Chris. Havoc. YA WOODING
A follow-up to Malice intersperses suspenseful text with comic-strip panels in a fast-paced tale in which three kids trapped inside the world of a deadly comic book continue their efforts to escape while outmaneuvering dangerous adversaries.

Bloor, Edward. Taken. YA BLOOR
In 2036 kidnapping rich children has become an industry, but when thirteen-year-old Charity Meyers is taken and held for ransom, she soon discovers that this particular kidnapping is not what it seems.

Draper, Sharon. Tears of a Tiger. YA DRAPER
Hazelwood High Trilogy. The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.

Draper, Sharon. Forged by Fire. YA DRAPER
Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved. Gerald Nickelby, a minor character in 'Tears of a Tiger' (1994), emerges full-fledged and courageous in this companion story. His stable life with a firm but loving aunt (who is caring for him while his mother serves a prison sentence for child neglect) is shattered when his mother returns to claim him on his ninth birthday. With her is a young daughter, Angel, to whom Gerald is drawn, and her husband, Jordan, whom Gerald instinctively dislikes. When Gerald learns that Jordan is sexually abusing Angel, he risks physical assault and public embarrassment to rescue her.

Draper, Sharon. Darkness Before Dawn. YA DRAPER
Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous, older man.

Flake, Sharon. The Skin I’m In. YA FLAKE
Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.

Philbrick, Rodman. Freak the Mighty. YA PHILBRIC
At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team. An established writer of adult suspense makes a stunning entry into children's literature with this extraordinary novel about two boys--a slow learner too large for his age, and a tiny, crippled genius--who pair up to create on formidable human force.

Smith, L.J. The Secret Circle. The Captive Part 2 and the Power. YA SMITH
Cassie is drawn into the Secret Circle, a coven of young witches whose power has controlled New Salem for three hundred years, and when she falls hopelessly in love with the leader's boyfriend, she is tempted to use dark powers.

Smith, Roland. Elephant Run. YA SMITH
Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.

Smith, Roland. I.Q. Book One: Independence Hall. YA SMITH
Thirteen-year-old Q and fifteen-year-old Angela expect their lives to become complicated when his mother and her father, wildly popular musicians, marry, but not that they will face spies and terrorists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Smith, Roland. I.Q. Book Two: The White House. YA SMITH
Q (Quest) and Angela make it to the White House in Washington, D.C. to find that it is even harder to determine who is "good" and "bad" guys than ever before.

Mazer, Norma Fox. When She Was Good. YA MAZER
The death of her abusive, manipulative older sister prompts seventeen-year-old Em to remember their unpleasant life together, with their parents and then later on their own.

Friesner, Esther. Sphinx’s Queen. YA FRIESNER
Chased after by the prince and his soldiers for a crime she did not commit, Nefertiti finds temporary refuge in the wild hills along the Nile's west bank before returning to the royal court to plead her case to the Pharaoh.

Reinhard, Dana. The Things a Brother Knows. YA REINHARD
Although they have never gotten along well, seventeen-year-old Levi follows his older brother Boaz, an ex-Marine, on a walking trip from Boston to Washington, D.C. in hopes of learning why Boaz is completely withdrawn.

Ness, Patrick. Monsters of Men. YA NESS
s a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.

Rech, Lindsay. It started with a dare. YA RECH
When fifteen-year-old honors student Cynthia Gene Silverman moves to a new school, she decides to reinvent herself as a reckless daredevil in order to be accepted by the popular clique.

Abbott, Hailey. Boy Crazy. YA ABBOTT
Cassie and her two best friends make a pact to enjoy their summer by kissing ten different guys before school starts and avoiding any commitment to any one guy.

Block, Francesca Lia. Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books. YA BLOCK
In five luminous novels, these postmodern fairy tales take us to a magical Los Angeles, a place where life is a mystery, pain can lead to poetry, strangers become intertwined souls, and everyone is searching for the most beautiful and dangerous angel of all: love.

Block, Francesca Lia. The Frenzy. YA BLOCK
When she was thirteen, something terrifying and mysterious happened to Liv that she still does not understand, and now, four years later, her dark secret threatens to tear her apart from her family and her true love.

Carter, Ally. Heist Society. YA CARTER
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.

Cooney, Caroline. The face on the milk carton. YA COONEY
No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar--a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey--she felt overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl--it was she. How could it possibly be true? Janie can't believe that her loving parents kidnapped her, but as she begins to piece things together, nothing makes sense. Something is terribly wrong. Are Mr. and Mrs. Johnson really Janie's parents? And if not, who is Janie Johnson, and what really happened?

Stine, R.L. (ed.) Fear. 13 stories of suspense and horror. YA FEAR
A collection of original horror stories from authors including R.L. Stine, Meg Cabot, and Jennifer Allison.

Giles, Gail. Dark Song. YA GILES
After her father loses his job and she finds out that her parents have lied to her, fifteen-year-old Ames feels betrayed enough to become involved with a criminal who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Claim to Fame. YA HADDIX
Sixteen-year-old Lindsay, a former child star whose career ended when she developed the ability to hear what anyone, anywhere says about her and apparently suffered a nervous breakdown, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone.

Hawkins, Rachel. Hex Hall. YA HAWKINS
When Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, she is exiled to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.

Hayes, Rosemary. Mixing It. YA HAYES
Fatimah is a devout Muslim. Steve has never given much thought to matters of faith. The two of them happen to be walking down the same street when a terrorist bomb explodes. Steve is badly injured, and when the emergency services arrive they find Fatimah cradling his head in her lap, talking to him, willing him to stay alive. But the media is there too, and the next day their picture appears in every newspaper. “Romeo and Juliet!” and “Love Across the Divide!” scream the headlines. Then the threats and anonymous phone calls start. Can the two young people rise above the hatred and learn to understand one another? And what about the terrorists, who surely aren't doing nothing as Steve and Fatimah try to break down barriers? Author Rosemary Hayes researched Islam's background and Muslim attitudes with a group of devout Muslim teenage girls in Cambridge, England, to give this story a sense of authenticity and reality missing from so much of the discourse on this heated topic.

Hopkins, Fallout. YA HOPKINS
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.

Kephart, Beth. Dangerous Neighbors. YA KEPHART
Set against the backdrop of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Katherine cannot forgive herself when her beloved twin sister dies, and she feels that her only course of action is to follow suit.

Keplinger, Kody. The Duff. YA KEPLINGE
Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, and to her surprise, the two of them find they have a lot in common and are able to help each other find more productive ways to deal with their difficulties.

Lord, Gabrielle. Conspiracy 365: June. YA LORD

Myers, Walter Dean. Lockdown. YA MYERS
Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.

Noel, Alyson. Shadowland. YA NOEL
Ever and Damen have gone through countless lives and fought off the world’s darkest enemies so they could be together. But just when an everlasting future is finally within their reach, Damen is struck down by a curse—a dark spell separating him and Ever for eternity. Now sharing so much as a single touch could bring about Damen’s death…and send him plummeting into the Shadowland, an eternal abyss for lost souls. Desperate to break the curse and save Damen, Ever immerses her herself in magick. And in her quest, she gets help from an unexpected source...a surfer named Jude.

Pratchet, T. I shall wear midnight. YA PRATCHET
Fifteen-year-old Tiffany Aching, the witch of the Chalk, seeks her place amid a troublesome populace and tries to control the ill-behaved, six-inch-high Wee Free Men who follow her as she faces an ancient evil that agitates against witches.

Selzer, Adam. I Kissed a Zombie and I liked It. YA SELZER
Living in the post-human era when the undead are part of everyday life, high schooler Alley breaks her no-dating rule when Doug catches her eye, but classmate Will demands to turn her into a vampire and her zombie boyfriend may be unable to stop him.

New Biographies

2010-10-20T16:50:00.000-07:00

King, David C. Charles Darwin. YA B DARWIN
Describes the life and scientific career of Charles Darwin, especially his theory of evolution which was published in his famous book in 1859: The origin of species by means of natural selection, or, the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

Cobb, Vicki. Harry Houdini. YA B HOUDINI
A photographic story of a life; a collection of photographs with captions and an illustrated biography that is comparable to other volumes put out by this company. That means you will find over 100 photographs, artwork and artifacts, including photographs of his famous escapes, posters from throughout his career, and a look at things like his collection of handcuffs. Vicki Cobb tells about the life of Harry Houdini so it reads like an American success story. Born Ehrich Weiss, the kid who will become Harry Houdini leaves home at the age of 12, gets bored working in a factory, and starts practicing coin trips in his spare time. Eventually the son of poor immigrants would be selling out the theaters of Europe as the greatest magician and escape artist in the world.

Garrett, Leslie. Helen Keller. YA B KELLER
Gives a detailed story of Helen Keller’s life through many pictures.

Pastan, Amy. Martin Luther King, Jr. YA B KING
Documents the life of Martin Luther King Jr.

Brown, Laaren & Lennie Hort. Nelson Mandela. YA B MANDELA
Contents: A troublemaker is born -- Growing up -- Joining the fight -- Working for unity -- Acts of defiance -- The revolutionary and the lawyer -- Treason? -- The Black Pimpernel -- Life on the island -- The university -- Free Mandela! -- Retreat through a silver bridge -- Free at last -- President Mandela.

Sawyer, Kem Knapp. Harriet Tubman. YA B TUBMAN
An illustrated exploration of the life of Harriet Tubman that covers her childhood, experiences as a slave, escape to freedom, work on the Underground Railroad, antislavery activism, and other topics.

New TV on DVD

2010-10-20T15:15:00.000-07:00

Max Headroom. YA DVD-TV MAX
Television networks battle one another in an unrelenting ratings war. Whoever controls the airwaves controls the dystopic world in which they broadcast. So when Network 23s star reporter, Edison Carter, uncovers a deadly secret that could shake up the dominion the station has over its viewers, the only option is to eliminate Carter before he can make his story public. After his “accident,” his mind is uploaded to create the world’s first self-aware, computer-generated TV host: Max Headroom! But will Max bow to his creators? Or will he be the key to his human alter ago bringing down a network superpower?

Able to boast his own international talk show, music videos, countless endorsements and merchandising, the puckish Max Headroom became more than just a character on television. He was a decade-defining icon, never better represented than in this sardonically witty, adventurous look at society and the place of media within it. Now all 14 uncut episodes — starring Matt Frewer (Watchmen), Amanda Pays (The Flash), Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development) and Morgan Sheppard (Star Trek) — are finally available together in one long-awaited DVD collection!

New Music on CD

2010-10-18T12:19:00.000-07:00

Of Montreal. False Priest. YA CD MUSIC OF
Contents: I feel ya' strutter -- Our riotous defects -- Coquet coquette -- Godly intersex -- Enemy gene -- Hydra fancies -- Like a tourist -- Sex karma -- Girl named hello -- Famine affair -- Casualty of you -- Around the way -- You do mutilate?

Soundgarden. Telephantasm. YA CD MUSIC SOUNDGAR
Contents: Hunted down -- Hands all over -- Outshined -- Rusty cage -- Birth ritual -- Black hole sun -- Spoonman -- My wave -- Fell on black days -- Burden in my hand -- Blow up the outside world -- Black rain (previously unreleased).

Jars of Clay. Shelter. YA CD MUSIC JARS

Static-X. Cult of Static. YA CD MUSIC STATIC-X
Contents: Lunatic -- Z28 -- Terminal -- Hypure -- Tera-fied -- Stingwray -- You am I -- Isolaytore -- Nocturnally -- Skinned -- Grind 2 halt.

Emily Osment. Fight of Flight. YA CD MUSIC OSMENT

Pete Yorn. Pete Yorn. YA CD MUSIC YORN

Linkin Park. A Thousand Suns. YA CD MUSIC LINKIN
Contents CD. The requiem ; The radiance ; Burning in the skies ; Empty spaces ; When they come for me ; Robot boy ; Jornada del muerto ; Waiting for the end ; Blackout ; Wretches and kings ; Wisdom, justice, and love ; Iridescent ; Fallout ; The catalyst ; The messenger -- DVD. Meeting of a thousand suns.
"Parental advisory: Explicit content"--Container.

Katy Perry. Teenage Dream. YA CD MUSIC PERRY
Contents Teenage dream -- Last Friday night (T.G.I.F) -- California gurls (feat. Snoop Dogg) -- Firework -- Peacock -- Circle the drain -- The one that got away -- E.T. -- Who am I living for -- Pearl -- Hummingbird heartbeat -- Not like the movies. "Parental advisory: Explicit content"--Container.

Belle & Sebastian. Dear Catastrophe Waitress. YA CD MUSIC BELLE
Contents Step into my office, baby -- Dear catastrophe waitress -- If she wants me -- Piazza, New York catcher -- Asleep on a sunbeam -- I'm a cuckoo -- You don't send me -- Wrapped up in books -- Lord Anthony -- If you find yourself caught in love -- Roy Walker -- Stay loose.

And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. YA CD MUSIC AND
Contents Richter scale madness -- Novena without faith -- Fake fake eyes -- Half of what -- Gargoyle waiting -- Prince with a thousand enemies -- Ounce of prevention -- When we begin to steal--.

New Non-fiction

2010-10-10T14:11:00.000-07:00

Hafiz,Dilara, Yasmine Hafiz and Imran Hafiz. The American Muslim teenager's handbook. YA 297.5 HAF
Written by teens for teens, The American Muslim Teenager's Handbook covers everything from basic Islamic history and reading the Quran to addressing the issues of drinking and dating, and also includes thoughts and opinions from Muslim teenagers across the country. Positive, informative, and honest, here is the indispensable primer -- for Muslims and non-Muslims alike -- for learning about and finding a place in Islamic American culture today.

Sivertsen, Linda and Tosh Sivertsen. Generation Green. YA 333.72 SIV
You are generation green! -- Green machine -- Eating green -- Green begins at home -- Guilt-free shopping -- Hanging out green -- Green wheels -- Greener schools and careers -- Step up and speak out -- A day in a green life.

Werker, Kim. Get hooked again. Simple steps to crochet more cool stuff. YA 746.434 WER
Provides step-by-step instructions for creating various crochet projects, including pillows, scarves, slippers, and hats. Explains all the symbols to help you understand everything there is to know so you can get started right away.

Cano-Murillo, Kathy. Crafty Chica's guide to artful sewing : fabu-low-sew projects for the everyday crafter YA 646.4 CAN
Kathy Cano-Murillo, the Crafty Chica, is not a seamstress. She is a thread artist. And in Crafty Chica's Guide to Artful Sewing, she'll show how to harness the power of her fearless kamikaze sewing style–just dive in and give it 100 percent. Here you'll not only find out the nuts and bolts of sewing, but learn to have confidence to blaze your own sewing trail with confidence and flair. (And sprinkle of glitter!) The Crafty Chica is here to bring out the thread artist in you. Whether you can hardly sew on a button or are already threading bobbins like a champ, Kathy's got a project just for you. From place mat totes to embellished skirts, Crafty Chica's Guide to Artful Sewing proves that you're in charge of your sewing machine, not the other way around. With these 30 fun fabu-low-sew projects to carry, wear, and use around the home, you can leave the ordinary behind and channel your own Crafty Chica within.

New Music on CD

2010-09-26T15:34:00.000-07:00

Now that’s what I call music. 35. YA CD MUSIC NOW 35
California gurls (Katy Perry, featuring Snoop Dogg) -- Somebody to love remix (Justin Bieber, featuring Usher) -- Gettin' over you (David Guetta & Chris Willis, featuring Fergie & LMFAO) -- Rock that body (Black-Eyed Peas) -- Bulletproof (La Roux) -- Alejandro (Lady Gaga) -- Cooler than me (Mike Posner) -- Billionaire (Travie McCoy, featuring Bruno Mars) -- Ridin' solo (Jason Derulo) -- Impossible (Shontelle) -- Pray for you (Jaron and the Long Road to Love) -- This afternoon (Nickelback) -- Kissin U (Miranda Cosgrove) -- My first kiss (3OH!3, featuring Ke$ha) -- Undo it (Carrie Underwood) -- Lover, lover (Jerrod Niemann) -- Stronger (Jennette McCurdy) -- Speakers (Days Difference) -- Obsession (Sky Ferreira) -- Shut the front door (Got my girls) (Tiffany Dunn).

Belle and Sebastian. Tigermilk. YA CD MUSIC BELLE
The state I am in -- Expectations -- She's losing it -- You're just a baby -- Electronic renaissance -- I could be dreaming -- We rules the school -- My wandering days are over -- I don't love anyone -- Mary Jo.

M.I.A. Kala. YA CD MUSIC MIA
Bamboo banga -- Bird flu -- Boyz -- Jimmy -- Hussel (ft. Afrikan Boy) -- Mango pickle down river (ft. Wil C Annia Mob) -- 20 dollar -- World town -- The turn -- XR2 -- Paper planes -- Come around (ft. Timbaland).

They Might Be Giants. Flood. YA CD MUSIC THEY
Contents: Theme from Flood -- Birdhouse in your soul -- Lucky ball & chain - - Istanbul (not Constantinople) -- Dead -- Your racist friend -- Particle man - - Twisting -- We want a rock -- Someone keeps moving my chair -- Hearing aid -- Minimum wage -- Letterbox -- Whistling in the dark -- Hot cha -- Women & men -- Sapphire bullets of pure love -- They might be giants -- Road movie to Berlin.

Best Coast. Crazy For You. YA CD MUSIC BEST
Contents: Boyfriend -- Crazy for you -- The end -- Goodbye -- Summer mood -- Our deal -- I want to -- When the sun don't shine -- Bratty B -- Honey -- Happy -- Each and everyday -- When I'm with you.

Get Him to the Greek. Original Soundtrack. YA CD MUSIC GET
Contents: Just say yes -- Gang of lust -- Furry wallls -- Going up -- Bangers beans & mash -- The clap -- I am Jesus -- Riding Daphne -- F.O.H. -- Yeah yeah oi oi -- African child (trapped in me) -- Little bird -- Searching for a father -- Supertight (Jackie Q featuring Aldous Snow) -- Ring 'round (Jackie Q).

Arcade Fire. The Suburbs. YA CD MUSIC ARCADE
Contents: The suburbs -- Ready to start -- Modern man -- Rococo -- Empty room -- City with no children -- Half light I -- Half light II (No celebration) -- Suburban war -- Month of May -- Wasted hours -- Deep blue -- We used to wait -- Sprawl I (Flatland) -- Sprawl II (Mountains beyond mountains) -- The suburbs (continued).

New Books on CD

2010-09-23T16:10:00.000-07:00

Noel, Alyson. Blue Moon. YA F NOEL CD BOOK
Eager to learn everything she can about her new abilities as an Immortal, Ever turns to her beloved Damen to show her the way. But just as her powers are increasing, his are in decline, and as she searches for a way to save him, she finds herself with a wrenching choice to make. 7 sound discs (8 hr.) Read by Katie Schorr.

Bushnell, Candace. The Carrie Diaries. YA F BUSHNELL CD BOOK
Meet Carrie before Sex and the City. Tells the story of Manhattan columnist Carrie Bradshaw's high school years, her relationships with her peers, and how she became a writer. 8 sound discs (9.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Performed by Sarah Drew.

New Fiction

2010-09-23T16:06:00.000-07:00

Carter, Ally. Don’t judge a girl by her cover. YA/ CARTER
When Cammie Morgan visits her Gallagher Academy roommate Macey in Boston during summer break, the two girls soon find themselves trapped in a kidnapper's dangerous plot, with only their espionage skills to save them.

Carter, Ally. Only the good spy young. YA/CARTER
When a terrifying encounter in London reveals that one of her most-trusted allies is actually a rogue double-agent, Cammie Morgan no longer knows if she can trust her classmates, her teachers--or even her own heart.

Enthoven, Sam. Tim: Defender of the Earth. YA/ ENTHOVEN
When two gargantuan, human-made monsters clash over the future of the human race and the planet, fourteen-year-old Anna Mallahide has a hard time convincing her classmate, Chris Pitman, that he must play any role in the outcome of their epic battle.

Lord, Gabrielle. Conspiracy 365: May. YA/ LORD
How can Cal find out more about Piers Ormond's will if he is stuck on a fishing boat after becoming indebted to the captain. If he can find his great-aunt Millicent he may have a better chance of finding the will. But should he expose another relative to danger?

Schindler, Holly. A Blue So Dark. YA/ SCHINDLER
Fifteen-year-old Aura Ambrose has been hiding a secret. Her mother, Grace, a talented artist and art teacher, is slowly being consumed by schizophrenia, and Aura has been her sole caretaker ever since Aura's dad left them. Convinced that creative equals crazy, Aura shuns her own artistic talent. But as her mother sinks deeper into the darkness of mental illness, the hunger for a creative outlet draws Aura toward the depths of her imagination. Just as desperation threatens to swallow her whole, Aura discovers that art, love, and family are profoundly linked- and together offer an escape from her fears.

New Fiction

2010-09-01T16:14:00.001-07:00

Wenger-Landis, Miriam. Girl in Motion: A Novel YA/WENGER
At the School of Ballet New York, the most prestigious ballet school in the country, aspiring ballerina Anna becomes friends with her talented roommate, Hilary, a French exchange student, Marie, a down-to-earth mid-westerner, Jen, and one of the cutest guys in school, Tyler. The competition is intense and Anna works hard to understand her famous teachers and navigate her ups and downs with her friends. Some of the dancers struggle with eating disorders, injuries, and depression. Everyone's goal is a contract with a professional ballet company, and as graduation nears, the pressure intensifies. Although Anna goes to all the ballet companies' annual auditions, she receives not a single offer. Falling for Tyler complicates things, but with the lead in the annual workshop performance, Anna gets one last chance to make her dreams come true.

Cast, Kristin. Kisses from Hell YA/KISSES
Five stories of teen vampire romance. Contents Sunshine / Richelle Mead -- Bring me to life / Alyson Noel -- Alone / Kristin Cast -- Hunting Kat / Kelley Armstrong -- Lilith / Francesca Lia Block.

Benoit, Charles. You. YA/BENOIT
Fifteen-year-old Kyle discovers the shattering ramifications of the decisions he makes, and does not make, about school, the girl he likes, and his future.

Harrison, Lisi. My Little Phony: A Clique Novel YA/HARRISON
As the holidays approach, Massie, Alicia, Dylan, Kristen, and Claire deal with budget woes, boyfriends and each other in the continuing adventures of the Clique. Includes preview of the author's: Belle of the brawl, the newest novel in the Alphas series

New Non-fiction

2010-08-23T20:38:00.000-07:00

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. They called themselves the K.K.K. The birth of an American terrorist group. YA/ 322.42/ BAR
Using personal accounts unearthed from oral histories, congressional documents and diaries, the author of the Newbery Honor book, Hitler Youth, unveils the creation of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee, and its spread across the American South.

Wiesel, Elie. Night. YA 940.5318/ WIE
A candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author’s original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man’s capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.

New Fiction

2010-08-23T19:38:00.000-07:00

Christopher, Lucy. Stolen. YA/ CHRISTOP
Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.

Berk, Josh. The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin. YA/ BERK
When Will Halpin transfers from his all-deaf school into a mainstream Pennsylvania high school, he faces discrimination and bullying, but still manages to solve a mystery surrounding the death of a popular football player in his class.

Deniro, Alan. Total Oblivion, More or Less. YA/ DENIRO
Publisher Summary 1 The award-nominated author of Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead presents the story of 16-year-old Macy, whose quiet life in Minnesota is turned upside-down by a series of seemingly impossible phenomena, from wasp-borne plagues to talking dogs.

Dunlap, Susanne. Anastasia’s Secret. YA/ DUNLAP
As world war and the looming Russian Revolution threaten all they hold dear, Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II, and her family are being held in captivity, where she falls in love with one of their captors, a young man who has espoused the ideals of Lenin.

Edmond, Stephen. Happyface. YA/ EDMOND
Reinventing himself as a happy-go-lucky kid when he moves to a new town, a self-deprecating teen records his haphazard experiences of trying to make friends while shedding his comic-book-loving, computer-game-playing ways. By the creator of the Emo Boy comic book series.

Healey, Karen. Guardian of the Dead. YA/ HEALEY
Eighteen-year-old New Zealand boarding school student Ellie Spencer must use her rusty tae kwon do skills and new-found magic to try to stop a fairy-like race of creatures from Maori myth and legend that is plotting to kill millions of humans in order to regain their lost immortality.

Hoffman, Alice. Green Witch. YA/ HOFFMAN
A year after her world was nearly destroyed, sixteen-year-old Green has become the one villagers turn to for aid, especially to record their stories, but Green will need the help of other women who, like herself, are believed to be witches if she is to find her best friend and her one true love.

McBride, Regina. The Fire Opal. YA/ McBRIDE
While invading English soldiers do battle in sixteenth-century Ireland, Maeve grows up with a mystical connection to a queen who, centuries before, faced enemies of her own.

Nadol, Jen. The Mark. YA/ NADOL
While in Kansas living with an aunt she never knew existed and taking a course in philosophy, sixteen-year-old Cass struggles to learn what, if anything, she should do with her ability to see people marked to die within a day's time.

Noel, Alyson. Evermore. The Immortals. YA/ NOEL
Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.

Noel, Alyson. Blue Moon. The Immortals. YA/ NOEL
Eager to learn everything she can about her new abilities as an Immortal, Ever turns to her beloved Damen to show her the way, but just as her powers are increasing, his are in decline, and as she searches for a way to save him, she finds herself with a wrenching choice to make.

Nomura, Mizuki. Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime. YA/ NOMURA
While attending their book club meetings, Japanese high schoolers, Konoha and Tohko, who is actually a literature-eating goblin in disguise, uncover a mystery surrounding the death of a former student.

Potter, Ryan. Exit Strategy. YA/ POTTER
Seventeen-year-old Zach, his best friend (and state wrestling champion) Tank, and Tank's twin sister Sarah, an Ivy League-bound scholar, are desperate to leave their depressing hometown of Blaine, Michigan, after next year's graduation, but plans go awry when Zach uncovers a steroid scandal and falls in love with Sarah.

Schraff, Anne. A Boy Called Twister. YA/ SCHRAFF
After his beloved mother dies, Kevin, 16, moves from Texas to his grandparents' home in California. He quickly settles in and makes new friends, begins a romance, stars on the track team, and confronts the school bully, Marco. Throughout it all, though, he keeps the secret that his dad was sent to prison for second-degree murder and died in a prison riot when Kevin was 6. And he is haunted by his memory of a fight in Texas, during which he became so enraged that he almost choked a bully to death. Is he like his dad?

Teller, Janne. Nothing. A Novel. YA/ TELLER
In a translation of an award-winning Danish novel, despairing seventh grader Pierre-Anthon situates himself in a tree after concluding that life is meaningless, a situation that compels his classmates to prove life's worth by sacrificing increasingly personal objects at the base of the tree.

Verday, Jessica. The Hollow. YA/ VERDAY
High-school junior Abbey struggles with the loss of her best friend Kristen, who vanished on a legendary bridge, but her grief is eased by Caspian, an attractive and mysterious stranger she meets in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery.

Muchamore, Robert. Brigands M.C. YA/ MUCHAMOR
In the eleventh title in the CHERUB series, James discovers a love for high-speed motorcycle riding .

New Biography

2010-08-23T18:21:00.000-07:00

Glenn, Wendy. Laurie Halse Anderson. Speaking in Tongues. YA/ B/ ANDERSON
Highlights the life and literary accomplishments of the author of such young adult works as "Speak," "Catalyst," and "Chains," examining her works and discussing why she writes and her writing process.

New Music

2010-08-21T13:28:00.000-07:00

Court Yard Hounds. Court Yard Hounds. YA CD MUSIC COURT
Contents: Skyline (4:20) -- The coast (3:05) -- Delight (something new under the sun) (4:35) -- See you in the spring (feat. Jacob Dylan) (4:51) -- Ain't no son (4:40) -- Fairytale (4:06) -- I miss you (3:49) -- Gracefully (4:28) -- April's love (3:24) -- Then again (3:20) -- It didn't make a sound (3:49) -- Fear of waste time (4:10).

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. YA CD MUSIC ECLIPSE
Contents: Eclipse / Metric -- Neutron star collision / Muse -- Ours / The Bravery -- Heavy in your arms / Florence + the Machine -- My love / Sia -- Atlas / Fanfarlo -- Chop and change / The Black Keys -- Rolling in on a burning tire / The Dead Weather -- Let's get lost / Beck and Bat for Lashes -- Jonathan Low / Vampire Weekend -- With you in my head / Unkle -- A million miles an hour / Eastern Conference Champions -- Life on Earth / Band of Horses -- What part of forever / Cee Lo Green -- Jacob's theme / Howard Shore.

New Movies on DVD

2010-08-04T13:17:00.000-07:00

Vampire’s Assistant. YA DVD VAMPIRES
Darren is a regular teenage kid. He and his friend Steve find out about a Freak Show coming to town and get tickets. Steve and Darren think that it is all a joke until a vampire named Larten Crepsley comes on stage with a very poisonous spider that he makes do tricks. Steve tells Larten he would like to join him and become an apprentice. John C. Reilly, Josh Hutcherson, Chris Massoglia, Jessica Carlson, Michael Cerveris, Ray Stevenson, Patrick Fugit, Ken Watanabe, Salma Hayek, Orlando Jones, Frankie Faison, Willem Dafoe, Jane Krakowski. (109 mins).

The Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection. Volume 1. YA DVD SCI-FI
Vol. 1 [Disc one] [1] Tarantula (1955; 81 min.) -- [2] The Mole people (1956; 78 min.) -- [Disc two] [1] The incredible shrinking man (1957; 81 min.) -- [2] The Monolith monsters (1957; 78 min.) -- [Disc three] [1] Monster on the campus (1958; 77 min.)

The Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection. Volume 2 YA DVD SCI-FI
Vol. 2 [Disc one] [1] Dr. Cyclops (1940; 78 min.) -- [2] Cult of the cobra (1955; 80 min.) -- [Disc two] [1] The land unknown (1957; 79 min.) -- [2] The deadly mantis (1957; 79 min.) -- [Disc three] [1] The leech woman (1959; 78 min.).

New Non-fiction

2010-07-21T13:11:00.000-07:00

Ash, Russell. Top 10 of Everything 2010. YA/ 031.02/ ASH
With annual sales of 200,000 copies, Top 10 of Everything is clearly the place people go to get the lowdown on what or who was the best, worst, richest, fiercest, deadliest, or simply biggest of practically anything. It features over 7,000 intriguing facts and stats on history, science, sports, music, movies, nature, people, and places—from the stars of stage and screen who shone the brightest to the terrestrial animals that weigh the most. Some of the lists are entirely new, some are updated with the latest news, and all appear on attractively illustrated spreads. “First” and “Fast” fact boxes pinpoint the pioneers and the most recent achievers in various endeavors. It’s entertaining and educational!

Burningham, Sarah O’Leary. Boyology: a teen girl’s crash course in all things boy. YA/305.235/ BUR

Freedman, Jerri. First Bank Account and First Investments Smarts. YA/ 332.024/ PRE

Peterson, Judy Monroe. First Budget Smarts. YA/ 332.024/ PET

Porterfield, Jason. How a Depression Works. YA/ 338.542/ POR

Fox, Annie. What’s Up with My Family? YA/ 646.78/ FOX

Blackshaw, Rick and Liz Farrelly. The Street Art Book. YA/ 751.73/ BLA

Rich, Jaime. Off the Bus and on the Record. 22 candid interviews by the Teen Journalists of the Rock Star Stories. YA/ 781.66/ RIC

Pate, Alexs. In the Heart of the Beat. The Poetry of Rap. YA/ 782.421649/ PAT

Gray, Amy Tipton. How To Be A Vampire: a fangs-on guide for the newly undead. YA/ 818/ GRA

Sherman, Michelle and DeAnne Sherman. My Story: Blogs by four military teens. YA 355.1/ SHE

Freedman, Russell. The War to end all Wars: World War I. YA 940.3/ FRE

Woodward, John. How to be a Genius. YA/152.82/WOO
Explores the working of the brain, the potential of the mind and how the brain makes a person unique. Includes puzzles, games, and optical illusions to sharpen the wit.

Watson, Bruce. Freedom Summer. YA/323.1196/WAT
In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers' shacks. But by the time their first night in the state had ended, three volunteers were dead, black churches had burned, and America had a new definition of freedom. This remarkable chapter in American history, the basis for the controversial film Mississippi Burning, is now the subject of Bruce Watson's thoughtful and riveting historical narrative. Using in- depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi and the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state. Freedom Summer presents finely rendered portraits of the courageous black citizens-and Northern volunteers-who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life. Few books have provided such an intimate look at race relations during the deadliest days of the Civil Rights movement, and Freedom Summer will appeal to readers of Taylor Branch and Doug Blackmon.

Gore, Al. Our Choice. How we can solve the climate crisis. YA/363.7387/GOR
Explores the extent of the impending environmental crisis and outlines the Nobel Peace Prize-winning former vice president's comprehensive and urgent global strategy for implementing solutions to it.

Walsh, Peter. It’s all too much, so get it together. YA/640/WAL
Organizational expert Peter Walsh presents steps on decluttering one's personal space, covering: how to identify clutter; four steps for decluttering; applying decluttering principals to other areas, such as goals, schoolwork, after-school activities, and relationships with family and friends.

Gold, Rozanne. Eat Fresh Food. YA/641.5/GOL
Awesome recipes for teen chefs.

Howard, Michael. Alternative Resumes. YA/650.142/HOW
Alternative Resumes is definitely NOT your parents' resume book. These creative, eye-catching resumes are especially designed for young job seekers and the sectors where they work. Don't think you've got enough experience to put on a resume? Think again - you'll find hundreds of ideas on how to represent your interests, activities & experience as valuable assets to employers. Includes 140 targeted resumes for jobs in Retail, Hospitality, Labour & Trades, Office & Technical, Community Service & more. Alternative Resumes answers to the top 18 resume questions, and provides a comprehensive worksheet so you can transform your talent and experience into your own Alternative Resume.

New Fiction

2010-07-21T13:00:00.000-07:00

Chandler, Kristen. Wolves, Boys, and Other Things that might Kill Me. YA/ CHANDLER
Two teenagers become close as the citizens of their town fight over the packs of wolves that have been reintroduced into the nearby Yellowstone National Park.

Muchamore, Robert. The Escape. YA/ MUCHAMOR
Summer, 1940. Hitler's army is advancing towards Paris, and millions of French civilians are on the run. Amidst the chaos, two British children are being hunted by German agents. British spy Charles Henderson tries to reach them first, but he can only do it with the help of a twelve-year-old French orphan. The British secret service is about to discover that kids working undercover will help to win the war. For official purposes, these children do not exist. The very first CHERUB adventure is about to begin ...

Muchamore, Robert. Eagle Day. YA/ MUCHAMOR
Charles Henderson is the last British spy left in occupied France in 1940, living on a farm near Calais with four runaway kids cut adrift by the war. He and his young agents are playing a dangerous game: translating for the German high command and sending information back to Britain about the Nazi plans to invade England in September, on Eagle Day. The RAF must destroy the Nazi invasion fleet, but Northern France is heavily defended and the camouflaged barges are impossible to target at night. Together, Henderson and his team hatch a daring plan to guide the British bombers to their target. Their lives are on the line, but the stakes couldn't possibly be higher.

Muchamore, Robert. Secret Army. YA/ MUCHAMOR
Britain, 1941. The government is building a secret army of intelligence agents to work undercover, gathering information and planning sabotage operations. Henderson's boys are part of that network: kids cut adrift by the war, training for the fight of their lives. They'll have to parachute into unknown territory, travel cross-country and outsmart a bunch of adults in a daredevil exercise. In wartime Britain, anything goes.
Adam, Paul. Max Cassidy. Escape from Shadow Island. YA/ ADAM
British fourteen-year-old Max Cassidy calls on his skills and training as a professional escape artist when he attempts to clear his mother of murdering his father, who disappeared two years earlier in the Central American country of Santo Domingo.

Black, Holly. The Poison Eaters and Other Stories. YA/ BLACK
The coldest girl in Coldtown -- A reversal of fortune -- The boy who cried wolf -- The night market -- The dog king -- Virgin -- In vodka veritas -- The coat of stars -- Paper cuts scissors -- Going Ironside -- The land of heart's desire -- The poison eaters.

Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s: a short novel and three stories. YA/ CAPOTE
Breakfast at Tiffany's -- House of flowers -- A diamond guitar -- A Christmas memory.

Carter, Ally. I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You. YA/ CARTER
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.

Edwardson, Debby Dahl. Blessing’s Bead. YA/ EDWARDSO
In 1917, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of an influenza epidemic, then in 1986, Nunaaq's great-granddaughter leaves her mother due to a different kind of sickness and returns to the village where they were born.

Harrison, Lisi. Charmed and Dangerous. The Rise of the Pretty Committee. YA/ HARRISON
Taking a look back to one particular New Year's Eve party, the origin of the relationship between best friends Massie, Alicia, Dylan, Kristen, and Claire and the formation of the Pretty Committee are revealed.

Harrison, Lisi. Dylan: The Clique Summer Collection. YA/ HARRISON
Joining her mother on a business trip to Hawaii, Dylan plans to work on her self-esteem and getting her mother's attention, but instead finds herself pursuing a rich, attractive boy who only has eyes for a bad-girl tennis star.

Jocelyn, Marthe. Would You. YA/ JOCELYN
When her beloved sister, Claire, steps in front of a car and winds up in a coma, Nat's anticipated summer of working, hanging around with friends, and seeing Claire off to college is transformed into a nightmare of doctors, hospitals, and well-meaning neighbors.

Lyga, Barry. Goth Girl Rising. YA/ LYGA
After spending six months in the Maryland Mental Health Unit, Kyra Sellars, a.k.a. Goth Girl, returns home to try and resume her life, but she finds that everything has changed, including the one person who really appreciated her for who she is, Fanboy.

McDaniel, Lurlene. Heart to Heart. YA/ McDANIEL
Relates the complicated friendship of a teenaged girl, her best friend, her best friend's boyfriend, and a young heart transplant recipient.

Orwell, George. 1984. YA/ ORWELL
Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the power of this novel, its hold on the imaginations of multiple generations of readers, or the resiliency of its admonitions—a legacy that seems only to grow with the passage of time.

Perkins, Mitali. Secret Keeper. YA/ PERKINS
In 1974 when her father leaves New Delhi, India, to seek a job in New York, Ashi, a tomboy at the advanced age of sixteen, feels thwarted in the home of her extended family in Calcutta where she, her mother, and sister must stay, and when her father dies before he can send for them, they must remain with their relatives and observe the old-fashioned traditions that Ashi hates.

Ruiz Zafron, Carlos. The Prince of Mist. YA/ RUIZ
In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a bargain made before he died.

Sones, Sonya. One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies. YA/ SONES
Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.

Springer, Nancy. Possessing Jessie. YA/ SPRINGER
High school senior Jessie, blaming herself for her selfish, manipulative brother Jason's death, tries to comfort her bereft mother by dressing and talking like her brother, but soon his spirit is taking over her life, while Jessie's best friend Alisha desperately tries to save her.

Tahmaseb, Charity and Darcy Vance. The Geek Girl’s Guide to Cheerleading. YA/ TAHMASEB
When self-proclaimed geek girl Bethany Reynolds becomes the newest member of the varsity cheerleading squad.. Who knew cheerleading was so hard? Well, at least there's a manual, The Prairie Stone High Varsity Cheerleading Guide. Too bad it doesn't cover any of the really tough questions. Like, how do you maintain some semblance of dignity while wearing an insanely short skirt? What do you do when the head cheerleader spills her beer on you at your first in-crowd party? And how do you protect your best friend from the biggest player in the senior class? Bethany is going to need all her geek brainpower just to survive the season! A cool clashing of two worlds.

Ward, Rachel. Num8ers. YA/ WARD
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.

Wells, Dan. I Am Not A Serial Killer. YA/ Wells
John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he’s written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation. Dead bodies are normal to John. He likes them, actually. They don’t demand or expect the empathy he’s unable to offer. Perhaps that’s what gives him the objectivity to recognize that there’s something different about the body the police have just found behind the Wash-n-Dry Laundromat---and to appreciate what that difference means. Now, for the first time, John has to confront a danger outside himself, a threat he can’t control, a menace to everything and everyone he would love, if only he could. Dan Wells’s debut novel is the first volume of a trilogy that will keep you awake and then haunt your dreams.

De La Cruz, Melissa. Blue Bloods: Keys to the Repository. YA/ DELACRUZ
Short stories, journal entries, family records, and letters maintained by the Repository of History, the center of the Blue Blood's power, reveal secrets of Manhattan's vampire elite dating to the dawn of history.

Hemphill, Stephanie. Wicked Girls. A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials. YA/ HEMPHILL
A fictionalized account, told in verse, of the Salem witch trials, told from the perspective of three young women living in Salem in 1692--Mercy Lewis, Margaret Walcott, and Ann Putnam, Jr.

Lord, Gabrielle. Conspiracy 365. April. YA/ LORD
On New Year's Eve, Cal is chased down the street by a staggering, sick man with a deadly warning, "They killed your father, they'll kill you--you must survive the next 365 days"; hurled into a life on the run, the 15-year-old fugitive must somehow uncover the truth about his father's mysterious death and a history-changing secret. A new series of 12 books, one publishing each month for 12 months.

Patneaude, David. Epitaph Road. YA/ PATNEAUD
In 2097, men are a small and controlled minority in a utopian world ruled by women, and fourteen-year-old Kellen must fight to save his father from an outbreak of the virus that killed ninety-seven percent of the male population thirty years earlier.

Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. YA/ SALINGER
The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.

Hall, Teri. The Line. YA/ HALL
Rachel thinks that she and her mother are safe working for Ms. Moore at her estate close to The Line, an invisible border of the Unified States, but when Rachel has an opportunity to Cross into the forbidden zone, she is both frightened and intrigued.

Hardy, Janice. The Shifter. YA/ HARDY
Nya, a fifteen-year-old war orphan, becomes a pawn in a bigger political game when her uncanny--and dangerous--ability to draw out people's pain and then give it to someone else turns out to be the only weapon she has to save her sister.

Harrison, Lisi. The Clique Summer Collection: Claire. YA/ HARRISON
Will Claire's Florida BFFs become former BFFs? Back in Orlando for the summer, Claire is reunited with her Florida best friends, Sarah, Sari, and Mandy, after a long year apart. Her FBFs haven't changed at all. Too bad they think Claire has . . . and not for the better. Claire sets out to prove her loyalty by entering Kissimmee's Miss Kiss pageant. But when a very special visitor shows up and vows to win the crown, Claire finds herself torn between Keds and couture. Will Claire finally kiss-immee her past goodbye-once and for all?

Harrison, Lisi. The Clique Summer Collection: Kristen. YA/ HARRISON
Kristen sets sail on the Love Boat... With the rest of the Pretty Committee scattered across the globe, Kristen is stuck in summer school at OCD, making good on her scholarship commitments. No sleepover horse camp, no Hawaiian spa, no Spanish vacation, not even a trip to Orlando. But when Kristen scores a job looking after hang-ten hottie Dune Baxter's eight-year-old sister, Ripple, Westchester suddenly doesn't seem so bad. It looks like Kristin is about to ride the wave of first love. . . .

New Music

2010-07-15T17:55:00.000-07:00

Twista Kamikaze YA CD MUSIC TWISTA

New Book on CD

2010-07-12T17:33:00.000-07:00

Scott, Michael. The Sorceress. The secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel. YA F SCOTT CD BOOK
While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to seek Gilgamesh. Read by: Paul Boehmer.11 compact discs (ca. 14 hrs. 4 min.)

Pfeffer, Susan Beth. This World We Live In. YA F PFEFFER CD BOOK
A year after a catastrophic meteor strike on the moon has changed Earth's climate, Miranda struggles to survive in a frozen world where supplies are scarce and nearly everyone she knows has died, a circumstance that is further complicated by her feelings for a young man. The heart-wrenching companion to the bestselling novels Life As We Knew It and The Dead & The Gone. Read by Emily Bauer. 6 sound discs (6 hr., 53 min.)

New Movies on DVD

2010-07-12T17:30:00.000-07:00

It Came From Outer Space. YA DVD IT
After discovering that a meteor-like object buried under a landslide is an inhabited space ship from another planet, a young scientist delays an attack by panic-stricken townspeople so that the ship can leave the earth. Based on the story The meteor by Ray Bradbury. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1953.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Season 7. YA DVD-TV AQUA

Home Movies. Season One. YA DVD-TV HOME

Home Movies. Season Two. YA DVD-TV HOME

Home Movies. Season Three. YA DVD-TV HOME

Home Movies. Season Four. YA DVD-TV HOME

New Fiction

2010-06-17T14:44:00.000-07:00

Lord, Gabrielle. Conspiracy 365. January. YA LORD
On New Year's Eve Cal is chased down the street by a staggering, sick man with a deadly warning: They killed your father, they'll kill you--you must survive the next 365 days; hurled into a life on the run, the 15-year-old fugitive must somehow uncover the truth about his father's mysterious death and a history changing secret. A new series of 12 books, one publishing each month for 12 months. Suspense.

Lord, Gabrielle. Conspiracy 365. February. YA/ LORD
Cal's old life ended as soon as the deadly 365-day countdown began. He's a hunted fugitive who'll do anything to survive. But is Cal desperate enough to befriend a traitor with killer connections? Or risk returning to the scene of his attempted murder? Should he meet with a mysterious informant, when it could be a setup? The clock is ticking. Any second could be his last. Suspense.

Lord, Gabrielle. Conspiracy 365. March. YA/ LORD
Trapped with a train bearing down on him, Cal's chances of survival look grim. The stakes are getting higher, but all the clues to the Ormond Singularity just lead to more puzzles and more danger. Suspense.

Richards, Justin. The Chaos Code. YA/ RICHARDS
Matt Stribling is stuck spending another vacation with his brilliant, yet scatterbrained archaeologist father. His dad’s house is often a mess, so when Matt arrives to find the place turned upside down and his father missing, he’s not immediately worried. But a cryptic message and some strange sandy footprints quickly persuade Matt that all is not right. With the help of some unusual family friends, Matt discovers that his father had been searching for an ancient code, one rumored to have brought down the Mayans, and maybe even the fabled civilization of Atlantis. Now in the hands of a madman using high tech computers to decipher it, the code is being readied for new and sinister uses. Matt and his friend, Robin, will traverse the globe, battling terrifying sand creatures and mercenaries alike in their efforts to stop the chaos code from being fully reactivated—and dooming the modern world to a catastrophe not seen since the days of Atlantis.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other stories. YA/ STEVENSO
A single person—but with two personalities: one that’s noble and kind and another that’s pure, repulsive evil. Robert Louis Stevenson’s engrossing masterpiece about the dual nature of man—and a good doctor whose thirst for knowledge has tragic consequences—serves up all the suspense and satisfying chills one expects from the best horror and science fiction. Plus The Body Snatcher, Markheim, and the Bottle Imp.

Sniegoski, Tom. Sleeper Code. Part I in the Sleeper Conspiracy. YA/ SNIEGOSK
Sleep has always been Tom Lovett’s worst enemy. Overcome by narcoleptic attacks, he can drop off at any moment- his disease stealing days, even weeks of his life. Tom is sick of feeling fragile, sick of taking pills, sick of his small, boring existence. Until one day, the life he’s always known vanishes. Now Tom has far darker reasons to fear sleep… Psychological conspiracy.

Sniegoski, Tom. Sleeper Agenda. Part II in the Sleeper Conspiracy. YA/ SNIEGOSK
The story continues with seventeen-year-old narcoleptic Tom Lovett struggling against Tyler, his evil alter ego, meanwhile working with Pandora, a secret government agency, to destroy the mastermind that created him. Psychological conspiracy.

Meyer, Stephanie. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. YA/ MEYER
Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by this riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character first introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits. In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery, and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of Bree and the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion.

Cast, P.C. Burned. YA/ CAST
As Zoey's fate hangs in the balance, her friends must figure out how to bring her back from the Otherworld while coping with serious problems of their own.

Vail, Rachel. Brilliant. YA/ VAIL
Sixteen-year-old Quinn struggles to maintain her image as a brilliant, good girl when her mother's major error at work leads to financial and legal troubles that turn Quinn's and her younger sisters' world upside-down.

Mead, Richelle. Spirit Bound. YA/ MEAD
Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir's and to her best friend, Lissa. But Rose's heart still aches for Dimitri, and she knows he's out there, somewhere. He has tasted her blood, and now he is hunting her. Only this time, he won't rest until Rose joins him--forever.

Scott, Michael. The Necromancer. YA/ SCOTT
Back in London, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman must determine whom they can and cannot trust as they search for both Scatty and an immortal who can teach Josh the magic of fire, while Doctor Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power.

New Books on CD

2010-06-10T14:44:00.001-07:00

Meyer, Stephanie. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. YA FIC MEYER CD BOOK
Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by this riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character first introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits. In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery, and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of Bree and the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion. Read by Emma Galvin. 4 sound discs (4 hr., 10 min.)

New Non-fiction

2010-05-20T18:37:00.000-07:00

Shults, Sylvia. Ghosts of the Illinois River. YA/ 133.1/ SHU
There are all kinds of bumps in the night to be found along the Illinois River. The river has seen centuries of history come and go, and has witnessed its share of mystery and dark deeds. Come and meet the GHOSTS OF THE ILLINOIS RIVER.

Zakarin, Debra Mostow. The Ultimate Baby-sitter's Handbook. So you wanna make tons of money? YA/ 649.1/ ZAK
A guide to baby-sitting, providing tips on how to get started and how to deal with challenging situations.

New Fiction

2010-05-20T16:33:00.000-07:00

Cabot, Meg. Runaway. YA/ CABOT
When sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts learns the truth about Nikki, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted, she finds that there is only one person to turn to for help--especially since her loved ones seem to be furious with her.

Colasanti, Susane. Something Like Fate. YA/ COLASANT
Lani and Jason, who is her best friend's boyfriend, fall in love, causing Lani tremendous anguish and guilt.

Doctorow, Cory. For the Win. YA/ DOCTOROW
A group of young people, caught up in the world of multiplayer online gaming, become entangled with the mysterious woman called Big Sister Nor, who builds them into a movement to challenge the status quo. They devise a plan to crash the economy of every virtual world at once - a Ponzi scheme combined with a brilliant hack that ends up being the biggest, funnest game of all.

Ehrenhaft, Daniel. Friend is not a Verb. YA/ EHRENHAF
While sixteen-year-old Hen's family and friends try to make his supposed dreams of becoming a rock star come true, he deals with the reality of being in a band with an ex-girlfriend, a friendship that may become love, and his older sister's mysterious disappearance and reappearance.

Grant, Michael. Lies: A Gone Novel. YA/ GRANT
As conditions worsen in the FAYZ, where supernatural forces have trapped children under the age of fifteen and resources are running out, it becomes tempting to heed the words of a prophet who says that only death will set them free.

McGowan, Anthony. The Knife That Killed Me. YA/ McGOWAN
Paul Varderman, a secondary student in an English Catholic School, is a loner until, just as he is becoming friends with "the freaks," the school bully encourages Paul to join his gang and gives him a knife to carry as an incentive.

Pike, Aprilynne. Spells. YA/ PIKE
Summoned to study at The Academy of Avalon, sixteen-year-old Laurel learns about the town with friend Tamani, while honing her long-forgotten skills as a Fall faerie in order to protect her human family and Avalon from trolls.

Reeve, Philip. Fever Crumb. YA/ REEVE
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.

Schreiber, Ellen. Vampire Kisses 7: Love Bites. YA/ SCHREIBE
Goth teen Raven and her vampire boyfriend, Alexander, face new challenges when Alexander's sexy and charismatic best friend, Sebastian, arrives in Dullsville.

New Fiction

2010-05-16T14:11:00.000-07:00

Brian, Kate. Lucky T. YA/ BRIAN
Carrie gets upset when her mother gives her lucky T-shirt to Help India, now she's only having bad luck, so she decides to travel halfway around the world to get her lucky shirt back.

Brian, Kate. The Princess & the Pauper. YA/ BRIAN
When sixteen-year-old Julia, of Los Angeles, and sixteen-year-old Princess Carina, of Vineland, switch places, Julia dances at the ball with the incredible Markus and Carina escapes rigid protocol to spend time with a rock star.

Carriger, Gail. Soulless. An Alexia Tarabotti Novel. YA/ CARRIGER
A novel of vampires, werewolves, and parasols.

Dunlap, Susanne. The Musician's Daughter. YA/ DUNLAP In eighteenth-century Vienna, Austria, fifteen-year-old Theresa seeks a way to help her mother and brother financially while investigating the murder of her father, a renowned violinist in Haydn's orchestra at the court of Prince Esterhazy, after his body is found near a gypsy camp.

Ibbotson, Eva. The Reluctant Heiress. YA/ IBBOTSON
A tale of a music-loving, early twentieth-century princess who renounces her title to become an unpaid dresser with a Viennese opera company.

Abrahams, Peter. Bullet Point. YA/ ABRAHAMS
The only thing seventeen-year-old Wyatt knew about his biological father was that he was serving a life sentence, but circumstances and a new girlfriend bring them together and soon Wyatt is working to prove his father's innocence.

Brody, Jessica. The Karma Club. YA/ BRODY
When high school senior Maddy catches her boyfriend cheating on her, she devises a complicated plan to get revenge.

Ibbotson, Eva. A Countess Below Stairs. YA/ IBBOTSON
When the Russian Revolution erupts, young countess Anna feels her world turn inside-out. Without any money, she flees to England out of sheer desperation, hides her identity, and becomes a servant for an important family. But Anna knows nothing about housekeeping other than what she reads in an outdated handbook. Worse still, she is immediately attracted to Rupert, the dashing Earl of Westerholme. Although Anna can sense that Rupert also has feelings for her, she must remain anonymous. And then there's Rupert's beautiful and nasty fiancee to worry about.

Lake, Nick. Blood Ninja. YA/ LAKE
After his father is murdered and a ninja saves his life, Taro discovers the connection between ninjas and vampires and finds himself being dragged into a bitter conflict between the rival lords ruling Japan.

Marr, Melissa. Radiant Shadows. A Wicked Lovely Book. YA/ MARR
Ani, a half-mortal driven by her hungers, and Devlin, faery assassin and brother to the High Queen, have reason to fear one another even as they are drawn together to save all of Faerie.

Napoli, Donna Jo. The Wager. YA/ NAPOLI
Having lost everything in a tidal wave in 1169 Sicily, nineteen-year-old Don Giovanni makes a simple-sounding wager with a stranger he recognizes as the devil but, while desperate enough to surrender his pride and good looks for three years, he is not willing to give up his soul.

Nelson, Jandy. The Sky is Everywhere. YA/ NELSON
In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.

Richards, Jame. Three Rivers Rising. A Novel of the Jamestown Flood. YA/ RICHARDS
Sixteen-year-old Celestia is a wealthy member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, where she meets and falls in love with Peter, a hired hand who lives in the valley below, and by the time of the torrential rains that lead to the disastrous Johnstown flood of 1889, she has been disowned by her family and is staying with him in Johnstown. Includes an author's note and historical timeline.

Sachar, Louis. The Cardturner. A novel about a king a queen and a joker. YA/ SACHAR
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.

Shan, Darren. Hell’s Heroes. The Demonata Series. YA/ SHAN
Bec, Kernel, and Grubbs gear up for the fight of their lives as the final battle between Earth and the hoardes of the Demonata draws near.

Smith, Jennifer E. You Are Here. YA/ SMITH
Sixteen-year-old Emma Healy has never felt that she fit in with the rest of her family, so when she discovers that she had a twin brother who died shortly after they were born, she takes off on an impulsive road trip to try to discover who she really is.

Weaver, Will. Checkered Flag Cheater. YA/ WEAVER
Trace Bonham, a teenaged professional stock car racer, blows away the competition wherever he races, but with every victory Trace is increasingly aware that his winning is due to more than just his driving skills.

Wilson, Jacqueline. Kiss. YA/ WILSON
Sylvie and Carl have been friends since they were tiny children. They've always played together, eaten meals with each other's families, called each other boyfriend and girlfriend ... and deep down, Sylvie has always believed that they'll end up married to each other. They even have a magical fantasy world that belongs to them alone. But as they become teenagers, things begin to change. They go to different schools and Carl has a new friend, Paul, who is taking all his attention. Carl seems much less happy to be called Sylvie's boyfriend and in a game of spin the bottle, he avoids kissing her. Sylvie can tell his feelings have changed and that her plans for the future may be affected. But can she guess at the true reasons behind it all.

New Fiction

2010-04-28T16:20:00.000-07:00

Vandermeer, Ann and Jeff. (ed) Steampunk. YA/ STEAMPUNK
Replete with whimsical mechanical wonders and charmingly anachronistic settings, this pioneering anthology gathers a brilliant blend of fantastical stories. Steampunk originates in the romantic elegance of the Victorian era and blends in modern scientific advances—synthesizing imaginative technologies such as steam-driven robots, analog supercomputers, and ultramodern dirigibles. The elegant allure of this popular new genre is represented in this rich collection by distinctively talented authors, including Neal Stephenson, Michael Chabon, James Blaylock, Michael Moorcock, and Joe R. Lansdale.

Kennedy, James. The Order of Odd-Fish. YA/ KENNEDY
Thirteen-year-old Jo suddenly finds her humdrum life turned upside down when Colonel Anatoly Kordakov shows up at her aunt's party and announces he has come to protect her.

Caletti, Deb. The Six Rules of Maybe. YA/ CALETTI
Scarlet, an introverted high school junior surrounded by outcasts who find her a good listener, learns to break old patterns and reach for hope when her pregnant sister moves home with her new husband, with whom Scarlet feels an instant connection.

Scalora, Suza. Evidence of Angels. YA/ SCALORA
After the death of her beloved, a woman is plagued by questions, but as she opens her eyes to the beauty of the world around her, she begins to see that angels are everywhere.

Scott, Elizabeth. The Unwritten Rule. YA/ SCOTT
Petite and young-looking, seventeen-year-old Sarah has been best friends with the glamorous and seductive Brianna forever, but when she starts liking Brianna's boyfriend, their friendship becomes precarious.

Barron, T.A. Merlin’s Dragon. YA/ BARRON
Basil, a small, flying lizard who is searching for others like himself, discovers that there is more to him than he knows, as he becomes engaged in Avalon's great war between the evil Rhita Gawr and the forces of good.

Barron, T.A. Doomraga’s Revenge. YA/ BARRON
The dragon Basil, now grown mighty in strength, size, and courage, addresses and seeks the cause of a new series of crises that threaten the stability of Avalon, while his friend Merlin is distracted by problems with his son, Krystallus.

Bradley, Alex. 24 Girls in 7 Days. YA/ BRADLEY
Jack Grammar, average American senior, has no date to the prom. Or so he thinks. Percy and Natalie, Jack's so-called best friends, post an ad in the classified section of the online version of the school newspaper. They figure it couldn't hurt. After all, there's not much in this world sadder than Jack's love life. Soon Percy and Natalie have assembled a list of girls eager to go to the prom with Jack, including one mysterious girl known only as FancyPants. He has just seven days to meet and date them before he will ask one special girl to the prom.

Friesen, Jonathan. Jerk, California. YA/ FRIESEN
Plagued by Tourette's syndrome and a stepfather who despises him, Sam meets an old man in his small Minnesota town who sends him on a road trip designed to help him discover the truth about his life.

Gray, Claudia. Hourglass. YA/ GRAY
Star-crossed lovers Lucas and Bianca are on the run, pursued not only by Black Cross vampire hunters but also by the powerful vampires of Evernight, when Bianca learns that her destiny is tied to that of the wraiths.

Gray, Keith. Ostrich Boys. YA/ GRAY
After their best friend Ross dies, English teenagers Blake, Kenny, and Sim plan a proper memorial by taking his ashes to Ross, Scotland, an adventure-filled journey that tests their loyalty to each other and forces them to question what friendship means.

Haines, Lise. Girl in the Arena. YA/ HAINES
In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.

Lynch, Janet Nichols. Messed Up. YA/ LYNCH
Fifteen-year-old RD is repeating the eighth grade, planning to have an easy year, but after his grandmother walks out her boyfriend is no longer able to care for him, which leaves RD to fend for himself while avoiding being caught.

MacCullough, Carolyn. Once a Witch. YA/ MacCULLO
Born into a family of witches, seventeen-year-old Tamsin is raised believing that she alone lacks a magical "Talent," but when her beautiful and powerful sister is taken by an age-old rival of the family in an attempt to change the balance of power, Tamsin discovers her true destiny.

Nix, Garth. Lord Sunday. The Keys to the Kingdom. YA/ NIX
As Arthur Penhaligon seeks to find the seventh key, complete his quest to save the Kingdom to which he is heir, and learn his true identity, he discovers that he has a greater purpose than he could have imagined.

Oliver, Lauren. Before I Fall. YA/ OLIVER
After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.

Pignat, Caroline. Greener Grass. YA/ PIGNAT
Finding their life becoming more difficult everyday, the Byrne family is forced to leave their homeland to escape the Great Famine.

Rock, Peter. My Abandonment. YA/ ROCK
Living with her father in an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon, thirteen-year-old Caroline only merges with the civilized world once a week, when they venture into the city to buy groceries and attend church, but an encounter with a backcountry jogger derails their entire existence.

Shusterman, Neal. Downsiders. YA/ SHUSTERM
When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the Downsiders world which had evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach, she and her new friend experience the clash of their two cultures.

Skovron, Jon. Struts and Frets. YA/ SKOVRON
Sammy wants to be a musician, as was his grandfather, but while the band he is in is self-destructing, Sammy is too distracted by his grandfather's decline and confused feelings about his best friend to fix it--and his mother stays too busy to help.

Strasser, Todd. Wish You Were Dead. YA/ STRASSER
Madison, a senior at a suburban New York high school, tries to uncover who is responsible for the disappearance of her friends, popular students mentioned in the posts of an anonymous blogger, while she, herself, is being stalked online and in-person.

New Non-Fiction

2010-04-14T18:09:00.000-07:00

Bodart, Joni Richards. The World’s Best Thin Books. What to read when your book report is due tomorrow. YA/ 028.1/ BOD
Lists books less than two hundred pages in length, including information on main characters and plot, and recommends book talk and book review themes for each.

Ehrlich, Carl S. Judaism. YA/ 296/ HER
Discusses the beliefs and practices of Judaism, which has 14 million followers worldwide.

Gordon, Matthew S. Islam. YA/ 297/ GOR
An overview of the beliefs and customs of Islam, including an introduction to sacred texts, a history of the religion, important holidays, and worship practices around the world.

Stalder, Erika. In the driver’s seat: A girl’s guide to her first car. YA/ 629.283/ STA
Provides useful information for driving and owning an automobile, including how to buy and insure a car, solutions to minor problems, learning what's under the hood, how to choose a mechanic, and surviving emergency situations.

Flynn, Nancy. Jeaneology. Crafty ways to reinvent your old blues. YA/ 646.11/ FLY
Presents step-by-step instructions and patterns ranging in difficulty for turning old blue jeans into new items, from adding color and fabric and making new jeans to creating skirts, ties, and accessories out of the old fabric.

Bergamotto, Lori. Skin: the Bare Facts. YA/ 646.72/ BER
Presents an overview on skin types, methods for treating common problems, and tips for skin care and makeup application.

Jaynes, Ela and Darren Greenblatt. Planet Yumthing Do it Yourself. YA/ 7450.5/ JAY
These cool, easy, and hip fashion accessory and home decor projects give readers the chance to show off their individuality, and no sewing machine is necessary! Easy-to-follow steps guide readers through each project, and sweet and sassy illustrations make the process extra fun. Whether it's fashion, beauty, decor, or food and friends, this book will give you tons of original projects that are not only easy (really!) to do, but well within your budget.

New Books on CD

2010-04-07T15:54:00.000-07:00

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Wintergirls. YA F ANDERSON CD BOOK
Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest. But what comes after size zero and size double-zero? When Cassie succumbs to the demons within, Lia feels she is being haunted by her friend's restless spirit. Read by Jeannie Stith.

Cabot, Meg. The Princess Diaries. YA F CABOT CD BOOK
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne. Read by Anne Hathaway.

Cabot, Meg. Princess in Pink. YA F CABOT CD BOOK
In a series of humorous diary entries, high school freshman (and Genovian Princess) Mia tries to get her reluctant boyfriend to take her to the prom. Read by Clea Lewis.

Stroud, Jonathan. The Amulet of Samarkand. The Bartimaeus Trilogy Book One. YA F STROUD CD BOOK
Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace. Read by Simon Jones.

Stroud, Jonathan. The Golem’s Eye. The Bartimaeus Trilogy Book Two. YA F STROUD CD BOOK
In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London. Read by Simon Jones.

Movies on DVD

2010-04-03T11:37:00.001-07:00

American Pie YA DVD AMERICAN

Batman: the Animated Series: Volumes 1,2,3,and 4YA DVD TV BATMAN

Fullmetal Alchemist: Complete First Season 01-25YA TV DVD FULLMETAL

Fullmetal Alchemist: Complete Second Season 26-51YA DVD TV FULLMETAL

Gossip Girl: The Complete First and Second SeasonsYA DVD TV GOSSIP

JunoYA DVD JUNO

Linda Linda LindaYA DVD LINDA

Love*comYA DVD LOVE*COM

Superbad YA DVD SUPERBAD

New Biographies

2010-03-20T22:40:00.000-07:00

Anne Frank in the World. YA/ B/ FRA
Explores the issues of discrimination and tolerance through the poignant story of Anne and her tragic death at the hands of Nazis.

Dash, Joan. The World at her Fingertips. YA/ B/ KEL
A lively biography goes beyond Helen Keller's youth and learning process and includes many fascinating details of her later life, including her college years at Radcliffe and her involvement with politics.

Dropping in with Andy Mac. The life of a pro skateboarder. YA/ B/ MAC
Details the life of pro-skateboarder Andy Mac.

New Fiction

2010-03-20T14:24:00.000-07:00

Grove, G.R. Flight of the Hawk. YA/ GROVE
The Second book in the Storyteller Series.Once again Gwernin, the intrepid Welsh bard, ventures forth into adventure, learning, and some danger. This is a delightful read for those who love historical fiction and good storytelling. The stories within the stories are one of my favorite things about this book, as Gwernin travels throughout medieval Wales plying his bardcraft and learning from semi-mythic figures like Taliesin. The history feels absolutely solid, this is a medieval world view one can totally believe in. And since we work from Gwernin's point of view, the magic and the mundane are inextricably mixed, as they would have been for someone who lived in this period. We feel the cold, we warm at the fire, and we do believe in the world unseen.

Grove, G.R. The Ash Spear. YA/ GROVE
The third book in the Storyteller Series. Once again we follow Gwernin Storyteller on his quest to learn the trade and lore of the bard, and once again Grove crafts a rich portrayal of the lands, people, and culture of 6th century Britain. As she did in adding a bit more action in Flight of the Hawk, Grove adds another element to the story, balancing the inclusion of a larger sense of the more spiritual or supernatural elements of British lore with the flow of characters, culture, and action already attained in the series. Also, to this reader at least, the wonderful flashes of humor used throughout the series really hit at the right moments in this book, both cutting and creating tension in the tale even more so than in the previous volumes.

Calonita, Jen. Broadway Lights. Secrets of My Hollywood Life. YA/ CALONITA
Hollywood teen starlet Katilin Burke moves to New York for the summer to appear in a Broadway show, all the while worrying about her boyfriend back in Los Angeles, her handsome new co-star, and the offstage drama going on around her.

Gee, Maurice. Salt. Volume 1 The Salt Trilogy. YA/ GEE
Hari, one of the enslaved people from Blood Burrow, and Pearl, a member of the ruling families known as Company, forge an unusual alliance and become reluctant traveling companions, as they undertake a desperate pilgrimage to save the world from a terror beyond their greatest imaginings.

Gormley, Beatrice. Poisoned Honey. YA/ GORMLEY
Relates events from the life of a girl who would grow up to be a close follower of Jesus Christ, interspersed with stories of the Apostle Matthew. Includes author's note distinguishing what Scripture says of Mary Magdalene from later traditions.

Kidd, Ronald. On Beale Street. YA/ KIDD
In Memphis, in the 1950's, when fifteen-year-old Johnny is introduced to the blues, he ventures to the infamous Beale Street and finds the friendship with an up-and-coming young musician Elvis Presley.

Langan, Paul. The Bully. YA/ LANGAN
Darrell Mercer, a 9th grader at Bluford, is at the center of this story. Darrell and his mother move to the Bluford area in the middle of the school year. Physically smaller than his peers, Darrell quickly becomes a target for Tyray Hobbs, the freshman class bully.

Lee, L.S. The Agency. A Spy in the House. YA/ LEE
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, 17-year-old orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called the Agency in order to infiltrate a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.

Madigan, L.K. Flash Burnout. YA/ MADIGAN
"Telephoto lens. Zoom. In a shutter release millisecond, Blake's world turns upside down. The nameless woman with the snake tattoo is not just another assignment. 'That's my mom!' gasps Marissa. Saturated self-portrait: Blake, nice guy, class clown, always trying to gget a laugh, not sure where to focus. Contrast. Shannon, Blake's GF. Total. Babe. Marissa, just a friend and fellow photographer. Shannon loves him; Marissa needs him. How is he supposed to frame them both in one shot?"--dust cover flap.

Logsted, Greg. Alibi Junior High. YA/ LOGSTED
After thirteen-year-old Cody and his father, an undercover agent, are nearly killed, Cody moves in with his aunt in Connecticut, where he is helped with his adjustment to the trials of attending public school for the first time and investigating a threat in nearby woods by a wounded Iraq War veteran.
Rapp, Adam. Punkzilla. YA/ RAPP

Ryan, Carrie. The Dead-Tossed Waves. YA/ RYAN
Gabry lives a quiet life in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, hemmed in by the dead who hunger for the living, but her mother Mary's secrets, a cult of religious zealots who worship the dead, and a stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry threaten to destroy her world.

Smith, L.J. The Return: Shadow Souls. The Vampire Diaries. YA/ SMITH
Eighteen-year-old Elena Gilbert journeys to the Dark Dimension with Damon and Matt in hopes of rescuing her vampire boyfriend, Stefan Salvatore, from imprisonment, and once again they face the sinister Shinichis.

Sonnenblick, Jordan. After Ever After. YA/ SONNENBL
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.

Three Dog Tales. YA/ THREE
Old Yeller / Fred Gipson -- Sounder / William H. Armstrong -- Savage Sam / Fred Gipson. Summary Three novels explore the relationship between boys and their dogs.

Uehashi, Nahoko. Moribito II: Guardian of Darkness. YA/ UEHASHI
The wandering female bodyguard Balsa returns to her native country of Kanbal, where she uncovers a conspiracy to frame her mentor and herself.

Atwater- Rhodes, Amelia. Token of Darkness. YA/ ATWATER
After Cooper Blake wakes from a serious car accident to find himself in the company of an attractive, tormented ghost, he keeps his visions to himself until he discovers that two of his peers also hide supernatural abilities.

Fisher, Catherine. Incarceron. YA/ FISHER
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

Harrison, Lisi. Boys R Us. YA/ HARRISON
Massie, hurt that friends have caught the eyes of boys she was interested in, hires actresses to pretend to be her new friends while Claire, who feels somehow responsible, makes a dramatic move to set things right.

Peters, Julie Anne. By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead. YA/ PETERS
High school student Daelyn Rice, who has been bullied throughout her school career and has more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out.

Volponi, Paul. Rikers High. YA/ VOLPONI
Arrested on a minor offense, a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail facility on Rikers Island, as he waits for his case to go to court.

Werlin, Nancy. The Killer’s Cousin. YA/ WERLIN
After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.

Woodson, Jacqueline. The House You Pass on the Way. YA/ WOODSON
When fourteen-year-old Staggerlee, the daughter of a racially mixed marriage, spends a summer with her cousin Trout, she begins to question her sexuality to Trout and catches a glimpse of her possible future self.

New Non-fiction

2010-03-20T12:10:00.000-07:00

Crimmins, Cathy. The Jewish Book of Questions. YA/ 305.892/ CRI

Jukes, Mavis and Lilian Cheung. Be Healthy! It’s a girl thing: food fitness, and feeling great. YA/ 613/ JUK

Jeffire, Sally. The Girls’ Book of Glamour. A guide to being a goddess. YA/ 646.7/ JEF
Transform yourself from drab to fab with this nifty guide to all things glamorous! Whether you want to have the shiniest hair or convince people you're a celebrity, this book will show you how! Being a glamour goddess has never been so easy. Inside this handy guide you'll find instructions on how to host a spa party, create your own style, exit a limo gracefully, make your own body glitter, persuade your best friend to lend you her clothes, put on a fashion show, make your own jewelry box, and much, much more!

Lamovsky, Jesse, Matthew Rosetti and Charlie DeMarco. The worst of sports : chumps, cheats, and chokers from the games we love. YA/ 796/ LAM
Don't believe the hype -- Bad management -- Chokery -- Team issues -- Look away -- Fan foibles -- What were they thinking? -- By any means necessary -- Wrong numbers.

Mesmer, Edric. (ed) The Best Poems Ever. YA/ 811/ BES
Includes poems by Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Lucille Clifton, Elizabeth Barret Browning and more.

Poe, Edgar Allan. The Raven and other poems. YA/ 811.3/ POE
Some of the author's spookiest and most macabre poems are collected in one volume and include "Annabel Lee," "Ulalume," and the title poem.

Allen, Thomas. George Washington. Spymaster. YA/ 973.3/ ALL
How the Americans outspied the British and won the Revolutionary War.
A biography of Revolutionary War general and first President of the United States, George Washington, focusing on his use of spies to gather intelligence that helped the colonies win the war.

Cliffs Notes as of March 2010

2010-03-19T11:25:00.000-07:00

1984

The Aeneid
All the King’s Men
Anna Karenina
As I Lay Dying

Beloved
Beowulf
Billy Budd & Typee
Bleak House
Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited

The Catcher in the Rye
Crime and Punishment
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cyrano de Bergerac

Divine Comedy & Inferno
A Doll’s House & Hedda Gabler
Doctor Faustus
Don Quixote

Fahrenheit 451
A Farewell to Arms

Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, & The Wild Duck
Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby

Hamlet
Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer
Huckleberry Finn

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Iliad
Invisible Man

Julius Caesar

King Henry IV Part 1
King Lear

Lord of the Flies

MacBeth
Merchant of Venice
Moby-Dick
Much Ado About Nothing

The Odyssey
Of Human Bondage
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Othello

Paradise Lost
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince

The Red Badge of Courage
Return of the Native
Romeo and Juliet

A Separate Peace
Sister Carrie

A Tale of Two Cities
The Taming of the Shrew
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockingbird

Wuthering Heights

New Books on CD

2010-03-17T18:47:00.000-07:00

Patterson, James and Gabrielle Charbonnet. Witch & Wizard. YA F PATTERSO CD BOOK
Without explanation, kids around the country begin to disappear, coinciding with the government's recent clampdown on civil freedoms. Fifteen-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit are no exception. Kidnapped in the middle of the night, the teens are taken to a secret facility and locked in a cell. Plotting their escape, Wisty and Whit start exhibiting special powers, which may be the reason for the recent capture. Read by Spencer Locke and Elijah Wood.

Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. YA F CHBOSKY CD BOOK
Most people think 15-year-old Charlie is a freak. The only friend he had killed himself, forcing him to face high school alone. But then seniors Patrick and his beautiful stepsister Sam take Charlie under their wings and introduce him to their eclectic, open-minded, hard-partying friends. It is from these older kids that Charlie learns to live and love, until a repressed secret from his past threatens to destroy his newfound happiness. Read by Johnny Heller.

Myracle, Lauren. Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks. YA F MYRACLE CD BOOK
Fifteen-year-old Carly's summer volunteer experience makes her feel more real than her life of privilege in Atlanta ever did, but her younger sister starts high school pretending to be what she is not, and both find their relationships suffering. Read by Julia Whelan.

Pfeffer, Susan Beth. The Dead and the Gone. YA F PFEFFER CD BOOK
After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City. Read by Robertson Dean.

New Movies on DVD

2010-03-10T17:58:00.000-08:00

Dead Poet’s Society. YA DVD DEAD

Freedom Writers. YA DVD FREEDOM

Girl, Interrupted. YA DVD GIRL

Good Will Hunting. YA DVD GOOD

Gridiron Gang. YA DVD GRIDIRON

Heathers. YA DVD HEATHERS

Mean Girls. YA DVD MEAN

Pleasantville. YA DVD PLEASANT

Some Kind of Wonderful. YA DVD SOME

Step Up 2 the Streets. YA DVD STEP

The Venture Bros. 3rd Season. YA DVD-TV VENTURE

New Non-Fiction

2010-02-24T17:19:00.000-08:00

Winfield, Cynthia. Gender Identity. The Ultimate Teen Guide. YA/ 616.6/ WIN
The book examines what is meant by sex and gender from typical gender roles and stereotypes, through those who transcend the usual categories of male and female. In addition to historical and factual information, teen voices and popular media's depictions of gender issues are included. Gender Identity: The Ultimate Teen Guide is written for all teens with an interest in gender-what it is, how it is expressed-especially those teens questioning their own (or a friend or family member's) gender identity. Straight (heterosexual) and LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) youth, and the adults who live and work with them will want to read it, as well as educators, counselors, school board members, and parents.

Withers, Jennie. Hey, Get a Job! A teen guide for getting and keeping a job. YA/ 650.14/WIT
A book that tells it like it is. Gives a lot of advice and answers all the most commonly asked questions.

New Books on CD

2010-02-22T17:53:00.001-08:00

Fisher, Catherine. Incarceron. YA F FISHER CD BOOK
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

Green, John. Paper Towns. YA F GREEN CD BOOK
When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night, dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows her. Margo's always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she's always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q; until day breaks and she vanishes.

New Fiction

2010-02-18T17:15:00.000-08:00

Davis, Tanita. Mare’s War. YA/ DAVIS
Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up Black in 1940s Alabama and serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the Women's Army Corps.

Flanagan, John. Erak’s Ransom. Ranger’s Apprentice: Book 7. YA/ FLANAGAN
On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and his friends find themselves in a desert wasteland awash with enemies.

Heath, Jack. Remote Control. YA/ HEATH
Teenage agent Six of Hearts is suspected of being a double agent, which has him on the run from his fellow agents at the Deck while also trying to track down his brother's kidnappers.

Huntley, Amy. The Everafter. YA/ HUNTLEY
After her death, seventeen-year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using objects that she lost while she was alive, and by so doing she tries to figure out the complicated emotions, events, and meaning of her existence.

Jones, Carrie. Captivate. YA/ JONES
High school junior Zara and her friends continue to try to contain the pixies that threaten their small Maine town, but when a Valkyrie takes Zara's boyfriend, Nick, to Valhalla, the only way to save him is to trust a pixie king, Astley.

Shapard, Sara. Heartless. A Pretty Little Liars Novel. YA/ SHEPARD
After high school juniors Spencer, Emily, Hanna, and Aria think they have seen Ali, their missing and presumed dead friend, they pursue clues from a mysterious stalker, trying to find out if she is still alive.

Anhalt, Ariela. Freefall. YA/ ANHALT
Briar Academy senior Luke prefers avoiding conflict and letting others make his decisions, but he is compelled to choose whether or not to stand by the best friend whose reckless behavior has endangered Luke and may have caused another student's death.

LaCour, Nina. Hold Still. YA/ LaCOUR
Ingrid didn't leave a note. Three months after her best friend's suicide, Caitlin finds what she left instead: a journal, hidden under Caitlin's bed.

Lloyd, Saci. The Carbon Diaries 2017. YA/ LLOYD
In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.

Johnson, Angela. Sweet, Hereafter. YA/ JOHNSON
Final book in the Heaven trilogy. Sweet leaves her family and goes to live in a cabin in the woods with the quiet but understanding Curtis, to whom she feels intensely connected, just as he is called back to serve again in Iraq.

Payne, C. D. Youth in Revolt. YA/ PAYNE
Cynical and sex-obsessed teen Nick Twisp documents in his journal his ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, his divorced parents, and an enduring love for an intelligent girl before his frustrations escalate to an open revolt.

Rees, Celia. Sovay. YA/ REES
In 1794 England, the rich and beautiful Sovay, disguised as a highwayman, acquires papers that could lead to her father's arrest for treason, and soon her newly-awakened political consciousness leads her and a compatriot to France during the Revolution.

Roby, Kimberla Lawson. A Deep Dark Secret. YA/ ROBY
In the outside, twelve-year-old Jillian Maxwell is the perfect child. She's helpful with chores around the house, gets straight As in school, has plans for college, and stays out of trouble. She seems to have everything a girl could want: a big, beautiful new home, an adoring little sister, a mother who cares about her, and an attentive stepfather. But inside, Jillian harbors a terrible secret.

Cole, Stephen. Thieves Like Us. YA/ COLE
A mysterious benefactor hand-picks a group of teen geniuses to follow a set of clues leading to the secrets of everlasting life, secrets which they must steal and for which they risk being killed.

Jones, Diana Wynne Jones. Unexpected Magic. Collected Stories. YA/ JONES
A collection of sixteen stories including "The Plague of Peacocks," "Aunt Bea's Day Out," "The Fat Wizard," "No One," and "Everard's Ride."

Reiss, Kathryn. Pale Phoenix. YA/ REISS
When her parents take in a strange orphan girl with a mysterious past, fifteen-year-old Miranda decides to find out why she seems to have come from nowhere and how she seems to be able to disappear at will.

Shetterly, Will. Elsewhere. YA/ SHERRTEL
Ron, a teenage runaway, comes of age among the punk elves and humans of Bordertown, a run-down city on the border between the real world and the magic world of Faerie.

Thompson, Julian. The Grounding of Group 6. YA/ THOMPSON
Arriving at what they believe is an exclusive school, five sixteen-year olds are unaware that they have been sent there to be exterminated and that their teacher is a murderer for hire.

Tolan, Stephanie. Welcome to the Ark. YA/ TOLAN
When four child prodigies transfer from a center for research and rehabilitation to an experimental group home, they face another way of connecting with their world.

Young, Karen Romano. Cobwebs. YA/ YOUNG
ixteen-year-old Nancy enjoys the colorful ethnic mix of her heritage in several different Brooklyn households, not suspecting how very strange that heritage is. A girl walks across the Brooklyn Bridge, a backpack full of knitting slung over her shoulder, a green fish kite in her hand. A boy balances on the bridge's crisscross webbing, waiting for the girl to pass. Are they angels? Spiders? In love? Or in danger? Once they connect, they'll start a chain of events that could stretch out smoothly like the river below them -- or become knotted like a tangled web of spider silk.

Complete Cliffs Notes as of February 2010

2010-02-18T09:00:00.000-08:00

We just added more Cliffs Notes titles...

1984

The Aeneid
All the King’s Men
Anna Karenina
As I Lay Dying

Beloved
Beowulf
Billy Budd & Typee
Bleak House
Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited

The Catcher in the Rye
Crime and Punishment
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cyrano de Bergerac

Divine Comedy & Inferno
A Doll’s House & Hedda Gabler
Doctor Faustus
Don Quixote

Fahrenheit 451
A Farewell to Arms

Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, & The Wild Duck
Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby

Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer
Huckleberry Finn

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Iliad
Invisible Man

Julius Caesar

King Henry IV Part 1
King Lear

Lord of the Flies

MacBeth
Merchant of Venice
Moby-Dick
Much Ado About Nothing

The Odyssey
Of Human Bondage
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Paradise Lost
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice
The Prince

The Red Badge of Courage
Return of the Native
Romeo and Juliet

A Separate Peace
Sister Carrie

A Tale of Two Cities
The Taming of the Shrew
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockingbird

Wuthering Heights

New Music

2010-02-01T18:47:00.000-08:00

Foo Fighters. Greatest Hits. YA CD MUSIC FOO

Them Crooked Vultures. YA CD MUSIC THEM

The Bravery. Stir the Blood. YA CD MUSIC BRAVERY

Cascada. Evacuate the Dance Floor. YA CD MUSIC CASCADA

Cobra Starship. Hot Mess. YA CD MUSIC COBRA

Glee: the Music. Season 1, Vol 2. YA CD MUSIC GLEE

Now that's what I call music! 32. YA CD MUSIC NOW

Shakira. She Wolf. YA CD MUSIC SHAKIRA

Slayer. World Painted Blood. YA CD MUSIC SLAYER

Now that's what I call club hits. YA CD MUSIC NOW

Mika. The boy who knew too much. YA CD MUSIC MIKA

Glee. Season 1, Vol 1 YA CD MUSIC GLEE

Camera. My maudlin career. YA CD MUSIC CAMERA

Animal. Merriweather post pavilion. YA CD MUSIC ANIMAL

Swell. Strict joy YA CD MUSIC SWELL

I love you, man YA CD MUSIC I

Death. The open door EP. YA CD MUSIC DEATH

Pitbull. Rebelution. YA CD MUSIC PITBULL

All-American Rejects. When the world comes down. YA CD MUSIC ALL

New Fiction

2010-01-27T15:41:00.000-08:00

Denman, K.L. Me, Myself and Ike. YA/ DENMAN
Seventeen-year-old Kit is paranoid, confused and alone, but neither he nor his family and friends understand what is happening to him.

Garcia, Kami. Beautiful Creatures. YA/ GARCIA
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

Griffin, Paul. The Orange Houses. YA/ GRIFFIN
Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.

Keller, Julia. Back Home. YA/ KELLER
Thirteen-year-old Rachel Browning understands that her father will be different after being injured in the Iraq War, but no one is prepared for the impact that his traumatic brain injury and other wounds have on the entire family.

Koss, Amy Goldman. Poison Ivy. YA/ KOSS
In a government class three popular girls undergo a mock trial for their ruthless bullying of a classmate.

Patterson, James. Witch and Wizard. YA/ PATTERSO
The world is changing: the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now, kids are disappearing. For 15-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside down when they are torn from their parents one night and slammed into a secret prison for no reason they can comprehend. The New Order, as it is known, is clearly trying to suppress Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Being a Normal Teenager. But while trapped in this totalitarian nightmare, Wisty and Whit discover they have incredible powers they'd never dreamed of. Can this newly minted witch and wizard master their skills in time to save themselves, their parents--and maybe the world?

Wells, H.G. The War of the Worlds. YA/ WELLS
As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.

Burd, Nick. The Vast Fields of Ordinary. YA/ BURD
The summer after graduating from an Iowa high school, eighteen-year-old Dade Hamilton watches his parents' marriage disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship, comes out of the closet, and savors first love.

Caletti, Deb. The Secret Life of Prince Charming. YA/ CALETTI
Seventeen-year-old Quinn has heard all her life about how untrustworthy men are, so when she discovers that her charismatic but selfish father, with whom she has recently begun to have a tentative relationship, has stolen from the many women in his life, she decides she must avenge this wrong.

Dolamore, Jaclyn. Magic Under Glass. YA/ DOLAMORE
A wealthy sorcerer's invitation to sing with his automaton leads seventeen-year-old Nimira, whose family's disgrace brought her from a palace to poverty, into political intrigue, enchantments, and a friendship with a fairy prince who needs her help.

Duey, Kathleen. Skin Hunger. Book One of A Resurrection of Magic. YA/ DUEY
In alternate chapters, Sadima travels from her farm home to the city and becomes assistant to a heartless man who is trying to restore knowledge of magic to the world, and a group of boys fights to survive in the academy that has resulted from his efforts.

Duey, Kathleen. Sacred Scars. Book Two of A Resurrection of Magic. YA/ DUEY
In alternate chapters, Sadima works to free captive boys forced to copy documents in the caverns of Limori, and Hahp makes a pact with the remaining students of a wizards' academy in hopes that all will survive their training, as both learn valuable lessons about loyalty.

Freymann-Weyr, Garret. After the Moment. YA/ FREYMAN
When seventeen-year-old Leigh changes high schools his senior year to help his stepsister, he finds himself falling in love with her emotional disturbed friend, although he is still attached to a girl back home.

Goobie, Beth. The Dream Where the Losers Go. YA/ GOOBIE
After treatment for self-destructive behavior, Skey Mitchell returns to high school where she encounters a boy her own age, with dreams - and secrets - much like her own.

Herbsman, Cheryl Renee. Breathing. YA/ HERBSMAN
With a new boyfriend, asthma attacks that come when least expected, and a pesky younger brother, fifteen-year-old Savannah's summer vacation takes many unexpected twists and turns.

Ingold, Jeanette. Hitch. YA/ INGOLD
To help his family during the Depression and avoid becoming a drunk like his father, Moss Trawnley joins the Civilian Conservation Corps, helps build a new camp near Monroe, Montana, and leads the other men in making the camp a success.

Levithan, David. Love is the Higher Law. YA/ LEVITHAN
Three New York City teens express their reactions to the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and its impact on their lives and the world.

Lo, Malinda. Ash. YA/ LO
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.

Mackler, Carolyn. Tangled. YA/ MACKLER
The lives of four very different teenagers become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined after a short stay at a Caribbean resort.

Ness, Patrick. The Ask and the Answer. Chaos Walking Book Two. YA/ NESS
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.

Tullson, Diane. Lockdown. YA/ TULLSON
When a gunman is seen at the school, two students try to make it out alive.

Yancey, Rick. The Monstrumologist. YA/ YANCEY
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
Zadoff, Allen. Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can’t Have. YA/ ZADOFF

Brom. The Child Thief. YA/ BROM
With this haunting, provocative, relentlessly thrilling reconsideration of a timeless children's classic, the acclaimed artist Brom dramatically displays another side of his extraordinary talent. Exploring the stygian blackness that gathers at the root of the beloved Peter Pan legend, he carries readers into a faerieland at once magically wondrous and deeply disturbing.

Efaw, Amy. After. YA/ EFAW
In complete denial that she is pregnant, straight-A student and star athlete Devon Davenport leaves her baby in the trash to die, and after the baby is discovered, Devon is accused of attempted murder.

Korman, Gordon. Pop. YA/ KORMAN
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.

Myers, Walter Dean. Riot. YA/ MYERS
In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.

O’Hearn. Kate. Shadow of the Dragon Series. Book One: Kira. YA/ OHEARN
When war comes to the kingdom, Lord Dorcon and his knights take Kira's father, mother and brother, Dane, to the palace to serve the king. 12 year old Kira and her sisters go the Lasser Commons, the most notrious prison in the land. The crime of Kira and her sisters is that they aren't married. Kira and her younger sister, Elspeth escape. Kira will need every bit of her will power and the help of a baby dragon to protect the life of her sister.

McKinley, Robin and Peter Dickinson. Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits. YA/ McK

New Biographies

2010-01-27T13:28:00.000-08:00

Rusher, Josie. Robert Pattinson. True Love Never Dies. YA B PATTINSO
He’s talented, sexy, and here to stay! Twilight star Robert Pattinson is officially the world’s hottest young actor, and this book takes fans closer to him than ever before.

Mitchell, Molly. David Tennant. YA B TENNANT
At last, the book David Tennant fans have been waiting for! Tennant, star of the cult TV hit Doctor Who, has become a hero to girls and boys alike as the 903-year-old Time Lord in the classic series. Learn more about this fine actor, who can do everything from sci-fi to Shakespeare. Find out about David’s excellent sense of humor, his friendships on and off the set, and how he won the role that made him a household name. With more than 120 pages of facts, photos, quotes, and interviews.

Adkins, Jan. Up Close: Frank Lloyd Wright. YA/ B/ WRI
The story of the man who changed architecture from "dark, Victorian clutter" to space open to air and movement.

Aronson, Marc. Up Close: Bill Gates. YA/ B/ GAT
Learn about Bill Gates’s vision and how it all happened.

Aronson, Marc. Up Close: Robert F. Kennedy. YA/ B/ KEN
Learn about Robert F. Kennedy's childhood and beyond.

Bolden, Tonya. Up Close: W.E.B. Du Bois. YA/ B/ DuB
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, perhaps best known for his seminal work The Souls of Black Folk and as the founding editor of the NAACP's groundbreaking magazine The Crisis, was ever a soul in motion for justice. Whether he was protesting Jim Crow laws and lynch mobs in the Deep South, advocating for the end of European Colonialism, or campaigning for world peace, Du Bois was always speaking out for others. This fascinating Up Close biography by award-winning author Tonya Bolden tells the story of how one man, tirelessly and never quietly, fought for equality until his death at age ninety-five.

Cooper, Ilene. Up Close: Oprah Winfrey. YA/ B/ WIN
The life of media mogul and humanitarian Oprah Winfrey is discussed with information about her thirty-year career that has influenced radio, television, film, theater, magazines, and books.

Cooper, Michael L. Up Close: Theodore Roosevelt. YA/ B/ ROO
A biography of the president includes his interest in conservation, his presidency, his winning of the Nobel Prize, his career as a solider and author and his role as a devoted family man.

Levine, Ellen. Up Close: Rachel Carson. YA/ B/ CAR
Discusses author and marine biologist Rachel Carson's efforts to protect the environment, from her childhood nature outings through the impact of her 1962 book, "Silent Spring."

Neimark, Anne. Up Close: Johnny Cash. YA/ B/ CAS
Traces the life and career of country music singer Johnny Cash.

Sutherland, James. Up Close: Ronald Reagan. YA/ B/ REA
Learn all about the life of President Ronald Reagan.

New Non-fiction

2010-01-21T18:47:00.000-08:00

Zinn, Howard. A Young People’s History of the United States. YA/ ZINN
Part 1. Columbus and the Indians ; Black and white ; Who were the colonists? ; Tyranny is tyranny ; Revolutions ; The women of early America ; As long as the grass grows or water runs ; War with Mexico ; Slavery and emancipation ; The other Civil War ; Robber barons and rebels ; The American empire -- Part 2. Class struggle ; World War I ; Hard times ; World War II and the cold war ; Black revolt and civil rights ; Vietnam ; Surprises ; Under control? ; Politics as usual ; Resistance ; The end of the twentieth century ; The "war on terrorism" ; War in Iraq, conflict at home ; "Rise like lions."

Keat, Nawuth with Martha E Kendall. Alive in the Killing Fields: Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide. YA/ 959.604/ KEA
A survivor of the horrors of war-torn Cambodia breaks his longtime silence to share his family's story of death, enslavement, and torture at the hands of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge fighters, providing an inspirational story of hope to children whose worlds have been devastated by catastrophe.

Anonymous. Quicksand: HIV/AIDS in our world. YA/ 616.979/ QUI
A first-person narrative discusses how the author's brother-in-law was diagnosed with AIDS and his battle with the disease, explaining how HIV is transmitted and describing the emotions people feel when a loved one has the virus.

Kaufman, Michael T. 1968. YA/ 909.82/ KAU

Sandler, Martin W. The Dust Bowl: Through the Lens. YA/ 973.917/ SAN
Photographs capture the horrific conditions of this national disaster, the struggles of the people who stayed to save their land, and the sorrows of those who were forced to move as a result of this catastrophe.

New Music

2009-12-16T18:33:00.000-08:00

The Cranberries: Stars the best of 1992-2002. YA MUSIC CRA
Dreams -- Linger -- Zombie -- Ode to my family -- I can't be with you -- Ridiculous thoughts -- Salvation -- Free to decide -- When you're gone -- Hollywood -- Promises -- Animal instinct -- Just my imangination -- You & me -- Analyse -- Time is ticking out -- This is the day -- Daffodil lament -- New New York -- Stars.

Ultra Dance ’09. YA MUSIC DAN
Underground dance music.

The Decemberists: The Crane Wife. YA MUSIC DEC
Crane wife 3 -- Island: Come and see ; Landlord's daughter ; You'll not feel the drowning -- Yankee bayonet (I will be home then) -- O Valencia! -- Perfect crime #2 -- When the war came -- Shankill butchers -- Summersong -- Crane wife 1 & 2 -- Sons & daughters.

Fleet Foxes. YA MUSIC FLE
Sun it rises -- White winter hymnal -- Ragged wood -- Tiger Mountain pheasant song -- Quiet houses -- He doesn't know why -- Heard them stirring -- Your protector -- Meadowlarks -- Blue Ridge Mountains -- Oliver James.

New Biography

2009-12-16T18:32:00.000-08:00

Giblin, James Cross. The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy. YA/ B/ McC
When Cold War tension was at its height, Joseph ("call me Joe") McCarthy conducted an anti-Communist crusade endorsed by millions of Americans, despite his unfair and unconstitutional methods. Award-winning writer James Cross Giblin tells the story of a man whose priorities centered on power and media attention and who stopped at nothing to obtain both. The strengths and weaknesses of the man and the system that permitted his rise are explored in this authoritative, lucid biography, which sets McCarthy's life against a teeming backdrop of world affairs and struggles between military and political rivals at home.

New Non-fiction

2009-12-14T18:36:00.000-08:00

Ginsberg, Blaze. Episodes: My life as I see it. YA/ 616.85882/ GIN
EPISODES is a memoir like no other. Debut writer, Blaze Ginsberg, offers a unique perspective on his life as a highly-functioning autistic 21 year old. Inspired by the format of the Internet Movie Database, Blaze organizes his life events as a collection of episodes. Some episodes are still running, some are in syndication, and some have sadly come to an end. With an innovative style and approach that is all its own, EPISODES reinvents the traditional memoir; and it will inspire young readers to see the world as they've never seen it before.

Bausum, Ann. Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the dark side of American immigration. YA/ 325.73/ BAU
A revealing series of snapshots from the dark side of immigration history including: Immigrants Denied: The St. Louis, a ship filled with Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany sought refuge in American ports and was turned away, condemning many of its passengers to ultimately perish in the Holocaust. Immigrants Detained: Japanese-Americans were rounded up during World War II and placed in detention centers—regardless of their patriotism—for security reasons. Immigrants Deported: Emma Goldman was branded a dangerous extremist and sent back to Russia in 1919, after living 30 years in the United States.

McNeely, Scott. The Ultimate Book of Card Games. The comprehensive guide to more than 350 games. YA/ 795.4/ McN
From Bridge to Poker and Solitaire to Hearts, card games are a beloved source of entertainment and competition (and they are recession proof!). This authoritative book is ideal for every household, college dorm, family cabin, or neighborhood bar that has a pack of cards. Designed in the style of the popular Ultimate Bar Book, this essential resource provides the rules to dozens of variations of your favorite games, and a few you've probably never heard of (Bezique, anyone?). With simple instructions and clear illustrations to guide the way, this volume will be a welcome addition to any gamer's library.

New Fiction

2009-12-13T14:38:00.000-08:00

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.

New Fiction

2009-11-22T17:04:00.000-08:00

Hobbs, Will. Crossing the Wire. YA/ HOB
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.

Taylor, Laini. Lips Touch: Three Times. YA/ TAY
Three short stories about kissing, featuring elements of the supernatural.

Wooding, Chris. Malice. YA/ WOO
Everyone's heard the rumors. Call on Tall Jake and he'll take you to Malice, a world that exists inside a horrifying comic book. A place most kids never leave. Seth and Kady think it's all a silly myth. But then their friend disappears.

Colfer, Eoin. And Another Thing. Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Part Six of Three. YA/ COL
In this sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Arthur Dent has finally made it home to Earth, only to discover that it is about to be blown up ... again. What could a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone's favorite renegade Galactic President, a lovestruck green alien, an irritating computer, and at least one very large slab of cheese have to do with all of this?

Cooper, Michelle. A Brief History of Montmaray. YA/ COO
On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the second World War.

De La Pena, Matt. We Were Here. YA/ DEL
Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.

Kidd, Ronald. The Year of the Bomb. YA/ KID
In 1955 California, as "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is filmed in their hometown, thirteen-year-old Arnie discovers a real enemy when he and three friends go against a young government agent determined to find communists at a neaby university or on the movie set.

Antieau, Kim. Ruby’s Imagine. YA/ ANT
Tells the story of Hurricane Katrina from the point of view of Ruby, an unusually intuitive girl who lives with her grandmother in New Orleans but has powerful memories of an earlier life in the swamps.

Block, Francesca Lia. Pretty Dead. YA/ BLO
Beautiful vampire Charlotte finds herself slowly changing back into a human after the mysterious death of her best friend.

Cashore, Kristin. Fire. A Companion to Graceling. YA/ CAS
In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.

Cast, P.C. & Kristin Cast. Tempted. A House of Night Novel. YA/ CAS
With ancient evil loose in the world, Zoey's very existence is on shaky ground, so when a seductive force is revealed to her, she must find the strength to reveal the truth or lose everything that matters, including her soul.

Dasher, James. The Maze Runner. YA/ DAS
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

Dowd, Siobhan. Solace of the Road. YA/ DOW
While running away from a London foster home just before her fifteenth birthday, Holly has ample time to consider her years of residential care and her early life with her Irish mother, whom she is now trying to reach.

Ferguson, Alane. The Dying Breath. A Forensic Mystery. YA/ FER
When her ex-boyfriend starts stalking her, seventeen-year-old Cameryn must use her knowledge of forensic sciences to protect herself.

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Front and Center. YA/ MUR
After five months of sheer absolute craziness I was going back to being plain old background D.J. In photographs of course I'm always in the background . . . But it turns out other folks have big plans for D.J. Like her coach. College scouts. All the town hoops fans. A certain Red Bend High School junior who's keen for romance and karaoke. Not to mention Brian Nelson, who she should not be thinking about! Who she is done with, thank you very much. But who keeps showing up anyway . . .

Shepard, Sara. Killer. A pretty little liars novel. YA/ SHE
Former best friends Emily, Aria, Hanna, and Spencer continue to live in fear as they struggle to keep hidden even more secrets and someone new begins stalking them via their cell phones.

Sorrells, Walter. Whiteout: A Mystery. Hunted book 3. YA/ SOR
Whiteout continues the story of Chastity, who has been on the run with her mother for as long as she can remember. Stumbling through a whiteout blizzard in Greenville, Minnesota, Chass trips over a dead body, and then sees a mysterious man disappear into the storm. With her haunted past, Chass knows all about running from killers, and she is sure that Kyle Van Epps is back. But Chass is sick of running, and if she hopes to ever have a normal life again, she has only one choice: find the killer before the killer finds her.

Standiford, Natalie. How to Say Goodbye in Robot. YA/ STA
After moving to Baltimore and enrolling in a private school, high school senior Beatrice befriends a quiet loner with a troubled family history.

Westerfield, Scott. Leviathan. YA/ WES
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.

New Music CDs

2009-11-22T11:49:00.000-08:00

Paramore: Brand New Eyes. YA CD MUSIC PAR
Careful -- Ignorance -- Playing God -- Brick by boring brick -- Turn it off -- The only exception -- Feeling sorry -- Looking up -- Where the lines overlap -- Misguided ghosts -- All I wanted.

Spoon: Gimme Fiction. YA CD MUSIC SPO
CD1: The beast and dragon, adored -- Two sides/ Monsieur Valentine -- I turn my camera on -- My mathematical mind -- The delicate place -- Sister Jack -- I summon you -- The infinite pet -- Was it you? -- They never got you -- Merchants of soul. Bonus tracks CD: Carryout kids -- You was it -- I summon you (demo) -- Sister Jack (piano demo).

Arcade Fire: Arcade Fire. YA CD MUSIC ARC
Old flame -- I'm sleeping in a submarine -- No cars go -- The woodland national anthem -- My heart is an apple -- Headlights look like diamonds -- Vampire / forest fire.

Sally Shapiro: My Guilty Pleasure. YA CD MUSIC SHA

Spoon: ga ga ga ga ga. YA CD MUSIC SPO
Don't make me a target -- The ghost of you lingers -- You got yr. cherry bomb -- Don't you evah -- Rhythm and soul -- Eddie's ragga -- The underdog -- My little Japanese cigarette case -- Finer feelings -- Black like me -- bonus disc : get nice!

New Movies on DVD

2009-11-18T18:45:00.000-08:00

Beavis and Butt-head Do America YA/ DVD/ BEAVIS
Our intrepid heroes wake up to find their beloved TV set stolen and embark on an epic journey across America to recover it and who knows, maybe even score.

The Best of Beavis and Butt-head. Butt-o-ween and Do Christmas. YA/ DVD/ BEAVIS
Tis the season for terrorizing your neighbors while making you sream with laughter. And Tis the season to be cool starring in their own twisted versions of two holiday classics.

New Biography

2009-11-05T16:34:00.000-08:00

Sanchez, Reymundo. My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King. YA/ B/ SAN
Excellent description of gang life, and how young men are sucked into that life. Witten by a former Latin King who joined at a very young age, and quickly rose through the ranks to become a street level leader. During this period, he became addicted to drugs, and his life spiraled out of control. The only reason he is alive to write this book is that he got out before he hit his late teens. The book lays out in great and convincing detail what it means to be a member of a street gang. One forgets that the author did everything that he describes in about three years (the time line is apparently intentionally fudged), and all before he reached adulthood. This book will move you.

New Non-Fiction

2009-11-05T16:11:00.000-08:00

Krygier, Leora. Juvenile Court: A judge’s guide for young adults and their parents. YA/ 345.7308/ KRY
The juvenile court system -- I received a citation to court : what do I do? -- Preparing for court -- Coming to court for my hearing -- Driving, pedestrian, bicycle, and related violations -- Other offenses -- What can I expect at court? -- Returning to court, the DMV, and will I have a record? -- How to avoid getting another citation.

Brunvand, Jan Harold. Encyclopedia of Urban Legends. YA/ 398.2/ BRU
If you're interested in urban legends from a folklore standpoint, a research standpoint, or just a fan then you will appreciate this book. It is the most complete reference I have seen. Details of stories, their comparison with other stories, common stories from other parts of the world, and clear explanations. Brunvand has a knack for making it all understandable and avoids being dry and lecturing. For the stories themselves you would want to see his many other collections; for research and reference you can not do without this book.

New Books on CD

2009-11-02T18:52:00.000-08:00

Cashore, Kristin. Graceling. YA F CAS CD BOOK

Dessen, Sarah. Dreamland. YA F DES CD BOOK

Dessen, Sarah. Lullaby. YA F DES CD BOOK

Mikaelsen, Ben. Touching Spirit Bear. YA F MIK CD BOOK

Patterson, James. Max. YA F PAT CD BOOK

Picolt, Jodi. My Sister’s Keeper. YA F PIC CD BOOK

Sonnenblick, Jordan. Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie. YA F SON CD BOOK

Swanson, James L. Chasing Lincoln’s Killer. YA 973.7 SWA CD BOOK

Non-Fiction

2009-10-28T18:29:00.000-07:00

Flaim, Denise. Rescue Ink. how ten guys saved countless dogs and cats, twelve horses, five pigs, one duck, and a few turtles YA/ 179.3/ FLA

Bonnet, Bob and Dan Keen. 46 Science Fair Projects for the Evil Genius. YA/ 507.8/ BON
Provides instructions and plans for science projects across various disciplines, including physics, astronomy, energy, environmental science and economics.

Vecchione, Glen. 100 Amazing First Prize Science Fair Projects. YA/ 507.8/ VEC
Up, down, all around -- Bird feathers & bug boxes -- Creative concoctions -- Find out about food -- Excellent electrics -- Natural laws -- Puzzling plant projects -- Fly, float & sink -- Metric equivalents. Summary Includes projects for students that not only help them learn more about science by demonstrating how it is a part of everyday life but also serve as models for competitive entries in science fairs.

Vecchione, Glen. 100 Amazing Make- It-Yourself Science Fair Projects. YA/ 507.8/
VEC
Imaginiative science projects using readily available materials and accompanied by detailed instructions and diagrams.

Levine, Fayth and Cortney Heimerl. The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design. YA/ 745.5/ LEV

Eminem. The Way I Am. YA/ 781.64/ EMI
For the first time, one of music's most popular—and headline-making—rap artists shares his private reflections, drawings, handwritten lyrics, and never-before-seen photographs. Fiercely intelligent, relentlessly provocative, and prodigiously gifted, Eminem is known as much for his enigmatic persona as for being the fastest-selling rap artist and the first rapper to ever win an Oscar. Now, in The Way I Am, he shares his private thoughts on everything from his inner struggles, to the trials of being famous, to his love for his daughter, Hailie, creating a book that is every bit as raw and uncensored as the man himself. Illustrated with never-before-seen photographs of Eminem's home and life along with original drawings, The Way I Am is filled with reflections on his greatest hits, previously unpublished lyric sheets, and other rare memorabilia.

Kor, Eva Mozes and Lisa Rojany Buccieri. Surviving the Angel of Death. The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz. YA/ 940.53/ KOR

Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta. Last-minute Science Fair Projects. YA/ 507.8/ BAR
Examines ways to complete your science project in a very short time with supplies you can find around the house. Remember: Science fair projects are due...NOW! It's no secret that kids sometimes put off doing their assignments, especially if they get busy or don't know where to begin. But with this compilation at hand, their science fair problems are over, because it's full of super-quick ideas sure to wow the crowd and the judges. All the experiments use common, easy to find materials, and there's valuable advice on creating an appealing presentation and writing an accompanying report. Every project is smart and fun!

Bochinski, Julianne Blair. More Award-winning Science Fair Projects. YA/ 507.8/ BOC
Presents 35 award-winning science fair projects, a section on how to do a science fair project, updates to science fair rules and science supply resources, as well as new material on useful web sites.

Haduch, Bill. Science Fair Success Secrets. YA/ 507.8/ HAD
Explains the scientific method and describes a variety of actual science fair projects in such fields as engineering, botany, behavioral science, and chemistry.

Rhatigan, Joe and Rain Newcomb. Prize-winning Science Fair Projects for Curious Kids. YA/ 507.8 RHA
Contains ideas for cool science projects using items found around the house or at a nearby store.

VanCleave, Janice. A+ Science Fair Projects. YA/ 507.8/ VAN
A collection of thirty-five science fair projects in astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics, plus suggestions for designing original projects.

Harris, Elizabeth Snoke. Save the Earth Science Experiments. YA/ 507.8/ HAR
Save the Earth with your science fair project! -- How to make a great science fair project -- Rethinking energy. Alternative oils -- Power plants -- A bright idea -- Running on air -- The sun solution -- Methane madness -- Blowing in the wind -- Putting the sun to work -- Out the window -- Rethinking garbage. Garbage diet -- Recycled paper -- Is bulk better? -- Disappearing waste -- Rethinking pollution. Heating up -- No-zone -- Lights out! -- Clean up your act -- Rethinking water. Down the drain -- Water power -- Not so fast grass -- Solar still -- Deadly fertilizers -- More interesting stuff. Charts, graphs & tables -- Sources -- Greenwashing -- Your ecological footprint.

Mann, Charles C. Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491. YA/ 970.01/ MAN
This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling 1491. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.

Fiction

2009-10-28T12:05:00.000-07:00

Anonymous. Go Ask Alice. YA/ ANO
A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.

Cabot, Meg. Princess in Pink. YA/ CAB
In a series of humorous entries, high school freshman (and Genovian Princess) Mia tries to get her reluctant boyfriend to take her to the prom.
Hale, Marian. The Goodbye Season. YA/ HAL

Millward, Carol Larese. Star in the Middle. YA/ MIL
At age sixteen, Star's life has changed now that she's the mother of a baby boy. She finds it's tough to be a parent and tries to do her best. Wilson, the birthfather, is in denial. Then something happens that brings them together. One is a dark secret that will change both of them. This is a story of teen pregnancy told through both teen parent’s point of view.

Rennison, Louise. Are these my basoomas I see before me? Final Confessions of Georgia Nicolson. YA/ REN
British teenager Georgia Nicolson's humorous diary entries reveal the results as she finally chooses between potential boyfriends, but then becomes involved in a play with the one not chosen, further complicating her love life.

Staub, Wendy Corsi. Lily Dale: Discovering. YA/ STA
After almost being killed while trying to discover how her mother died, Calla tries desperately to use both her psychic powers and investigative skills to learn the truth about her mother's life, and to find out what these secrets may mean for her.

Zafon, Carlos Ruiz. The Shadow of the Wind: A Novel. YA/ ZAF
Originally written in Spanish, the story begins when young Daniel no longer remembers his mother's face, and his father takes him to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. There he finds THE SHADOW OF THE WIND, a novel by Julian Carax. Enchanted by the book, Daniel embarks on a search for other works by Carax, and eventually for Carax himself. During his quest, Daniel becomes enveloped in murder, intrigue, and love.

Leroe, Ellen. Dear Big V. YA/ LER
Courtney Condon, a funny, off-beat junior, is caught smack in the middle of the war between the Lewds and the Prudes at Delaware-Valley High School. Court's the founder of an abstinence club at Dull-Val. But when she's assigned an Op Ed piece for the school paper that forces her to work with Lance, the major player and hottest guy at school, this up-close and personal contact with Lance throws her into a Whirlwind of Confusion over her chaste ideals. Meanwhile, Courtney's staunchly devout, strict-Catholic mom is pushing her own form of prudishness to the point of alienating the entire family, especially when Mom catches Court in a lip-lock with Lance in his car, right in her very own driveway! Laugh-out-loud funny, Dear Big V illuminates the conflict between hormones and values that teens face every day.

Doyle, Marissa. Betraying Season. YA/ DOY
In 1838, Penelope Leland goes to Ireland to study magic and prove to herself that she is as good a witch as her twin sister Persy, but when Niall Keating begins to pay her court, she cannot help being distracted. Publisher Summary 2 In this intriguing companion to Bewitching Season, Penelope Leland is put in a difficult position when her efforts to be as talented a witch as her twin sister begin to suffer as a result of an unexpected romance with a handsome young man with questionable intentions.

Larbalestier, Justine. Liar. YA/ LAR
Having lied to so many throughout the years, Micah is justifiably known by all as a compulsive liar, but when her boyfriend suddenly dies, truth and fiction are blurred in entirely new ways and Micah must come to terms with the damage she has done through the complex web of deceit she has woven.

Bray, Libba. Going Bovine. YA/ BRA
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.

Brewer, Heather. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Ninth Grade Slays. YA/ BRE
While half-vampire Vlad, his best friend Henry, and Henry's cousin Joss make their way through their freshman year at Bathory High, a hired vampire slayer seeks to destroy Vlad.

McCormick, Patricia. Purple Heart. YA/ McC
While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.

Books on CD

2009-10-07T16:31:00.000-07:00

Sheff, Nic. Tweak: Growing up on methamphetamines. YA/ 362.299/SHE /CD BOOK
The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery. Read by Paul Michael Garcia.

Zindel, Paul. The Pigman. YA/ F/ ZIN/ CD BOOK
Zindel's groundbreaking, bestselling tour de force is the unforgettable tale of two disillusioned high school students who have their faith in humanity restored by lonely, eccentric Mr. Pignati, whom they dub the Pigman. Includes a fascinating interview with Paul Zindel. Read by Eden Riegel and Charlie McWade.

Bray, Libba. Going Bovine. YA/ F/ BRA/ CD BOOK
Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure. Read by Erik Davies.

Downham, Jenny. Before I Die. YA/ F/ DOW/ CD BOOK
A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies. Read by Charlotte Parry.

Non-Fiction

2009-09-26T11:32:00.000-07:00

Buscemi, Karen. Split in Two: Keeping it together when your parents live apart.
YA/ 306.89/ BUS
A nuts-and-bolts survival guide for teens living in a dual custody arrangement, this practical yet humorous self-help book is packed with tips and strategies to help teens deal with the frustrations of life in two households. Providing teens who shuffle between two residences on a regular basis with constructive information, this resource helps increase self-reliance, build self-confidence, and improve organizational and communication skills. Including advice on how to better organize scattered school work, make two bedrooms livable, negotiate curfews with different parents, and manage money for greater financial independence, this useful guide will help teens living in two homes feel like one person again.

Hornbacher, Marya. Wasted: A memoir of anorexia and bulimia. YA/ 616.8526/ HOR
Wasted is the story of one woman's travels to the darker side of reality, and her decision to find her way back--on her own terms. In this vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir, she re-created the experience and illuminated that tangle of personal, family, and cultural causes underlying eating disorders.

Gorey, Edward. Amphigorey: Fifteen Books. YA/ 741.9/ GOR
Fifteen works by the American artist and author provide a journey into a macabre world

Gorey, Edward. Amphigorey Too. YA/ 741.9/ GOR
Somber drawings illustrate short, enigmatic, and macabre tales and rhymes about murders, unusual animals, and mysterious events.

Macklin, Karen. Been There Survived That: Getting through freshman year of high school. YA/ 373.238/ BEE
This book can help with that first year of high school. Four real teens fill you in on the stuff they wish they’d known. Also includes humorous tips on what NOT to do and funny freshman horror stories.

Conley, Erin Elizabeth. Crap. How to deal with annoying teachers, bosses, backstabbers, and other stuff that stinks. YA/ 152.4/ CON
This clever self-help book takes a humorous approach in advising teens on how to learn to take it all in stride and deal with many of the challenges of adolescence. Filled with many examples of the common frustrations of teen life—including difficult teachers, forgetful parents, and shallow friends—this book offers advice that helps teens ignore the losers and learn from the lunatics, while helpful and entertaining quotes from Machiavelli to Homer Simpson offer a different perspective on dealing with life's dirt.

Johnson, Arne and Karen Macklin. Indie Girl. YA/700/ JOH
Fun and inspirational, this do-it-yourself guide for artsy young women enables them to unleash their creative talents through independent and imaginative ventures, including designing clothing, organizing a poetry slam, starting a band, and publishing a 'zine. Start-to-finish explanations on how to organize, implement, and complete each activity are accompanied by creative and technical advice to ensure success. Filled with inspirational quotes by artists from a variety of backgrounds and professions, this book helps teen girls develop organizational and leadership skills and build self confidence while challenging them to do something interesting and original.

Moore, Mandy and Leanne Prain. Yarn Bombing. The art of crochet and knit graffiti. YA/ 746.43/ MOO
Yarn graffiti is humorous, unexpected and resonates with almost everyone who encounters it, crafters and non-crafters alike. This book shows how the global revolution began. Very inspiring.

Fiction

2009-09-24T18:16:00.000-07:00

Cadnum, Michael. The King’s Arrow. YA/ CAD
In England's New Forest on the second day of August, 1100, eighteen-year-old Simon Foldre, delighted to be allowed to participate in a royal hunt as squire to the Anglo-Norman nobleman Walter Tirel, finds his future irrevocably altered when, during the hunt, he witnesses the possible murder of King William II.

Coffelt, Nancy. Listen. YA/ COF
The lives of three loners, eighteen-year-old Will, fourteen-year-old Kurt, and Carrie--a middle-aged schizophrenic--intersect when Carrie, who hears the thoughts of neglected animals, offers to pay Kurt to bring her "strays," but her rescuing brings about a dangerous situation.

Hiatt, Shelby. Panama: A Novel. YA/ HIA
A fifteen-year-old Ohio girl, longing for adventure, gets her wish when she moves to Panama with her father who has been hired to work on the Panama Canal, and meets Federico, an older aristocrat toiling as a digger.

Lasky, Kathryn. Daughters of the Sea: Hannah. YA/ LAS
In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant in the home of one of Boston's wealthiest families, where she meets a noted portrait painter who seems to know things about her that even she is not aware of, and when she accompanies the family to their summer home in Maine, she feels an undeniable pull to the sea.

Portman, Frank. Andromeda Klein. YA/ POR
High school sophomore Andromeda, an outcast because she studies the occult and has a hearing impairment and other disabilities, overcomes grief over terrible losses by enlisting others' help in her plan to save library books--and finds a kindred spirit along the way.

Baskin, Nora Raleigh. All We Know of Love. YA/ BAS
Natalie, almost sixteen, sneaks away from her Connecticut home and takes the bus to Florida, looking for the mother who abandoned her father and her when she was ten years old.

Bertagna, Julie. Zenith. YA/ BER
After finding that New Mungo is not the refuge they sought, Mara, leaving Fox behind, again sets out to sea with a ship full of refugees and, with the help of the "Gipsea" boy Tuck, tries to find land at the top of the world that will be safe from storms and rising water.

Brewer, Heather. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod. Eighth Grade Bites. YA/ BRE
For thirteen years, Vlad, aided by his aunt and best friend, has kept secret that he is half-vampire, but when his missing teacher is replaced by a sinister substitute, he learns that there is more to being a vampire, and to his parents' deaths, than he could have guessed.

Brewer, Heather. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod. Tenth Grade Bleeds. YA/ BRE
As the evil vampire D'Ablo seeks the ritual that would steal half-vampire Vlad's powers, Vlad struggles to resist feeding on the people around him, has a conflict with his best friend Henry, and gives up all hope of a normal year at Bathory High.

Hopkins, Ellen. Tricks. YA/ HOP
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.

Hopkins, Ellen. Impulse. YA/ HOP
Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.

Kraus, Daniel. The Monster Variations. YA/ KRA
On his way to State University, nineteen-year-old James runs into a former friend and is immersed in memories from the year they were twelve and learned that monsters exist in the world--and within themselves.

Miller-Lachman, Lyn. Gringolandia. YA/ MIL
In 1986, when seventeen-year-old Daniel's father arrives in Madison, Wisconsin, after five years of torture as a political prisoner in Chile, Daniel and his eighteen-year-old "gringa" girlfriend, Courtney, use different methods to help this bitter, self-destructive stranger who yearns to return home and continue his work.

Morris, Paula. Ruined: A Novel. YA/ MOR
Rebecca goes to creepy New Orleans to spend the year with her Aunt while her dad is traveling. The filthy-rich girls at school treat Rebecca like she's invisible. Then one night, in Lafayette Cemetery, Rebecca makes a friend. Sweet, mysterious Lisette is eager to talk to Rebecca, and to show her the nooks and crannies of the city while having a serious score to settle. As Rebecca learns more from her friend she slowly uncovers startling truths about her own history. Will Rebecca be able to right the wrongs of the past, or has everything been ruined beyond repair?

Patterson, James and Ned Rust. Daniel X Watch the Skies. YA/ PAT
When the small community of Holliswood is thrown into chaos by the arrival of a terrifying outlaw who deliberately instigates problems for the purpose of filming his crimes for television, modern superhero Daniel X assembles an all-star team of his own creation in the hopes of protecting fellow citizens.

Sewell, Earl. Keysha’s Drama. YA/ SEW
Sent to live the wealthy father she has never known, street-smart sixteen-year-old Keysha Kendall, bitter about her troubled childhood, refuses to forget--or let anyone else forget--where she came from as she struggles to belong.

Woodson, Jacqueline. Miracle’s Boys. YA/ WOO
Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother.

Books on CD

2009-08-10T17:59:00.002-07:00

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Chains. YA F AND CD BOOK
The story of a 13-year-old African-American girl who is sold to a cruel, loyalist family living in New York City at the start of the Revolutionary War. Asked to spy on her owners for the Patriot cause, she is reluctant, until she realizes her loyalty lies with the side that can provide her with freedom. Read by Madisun Leigh

Dessen, Sarah. Along for the Ride. YA F DES CD BOOK
When Auden goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having fun new experiences. Read by Rachel Botchan

Mortenson, Greg & David Oliver Relin. Three Cups of Tea. YA 371.422 MOR CD BOOK
Traces how Mortenson, having been rescued and resuscitated by Himalayan villagers after a failed attempt to climb K2, worked to build schools that would benefit the young girls who were forbidden an education by Taliban restrictions.

Non-Fiction

2009-08-10T17:59:00.001-07:00

Taylor, Troy. Haunted Illinois: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Prairie State. YA/ 133.1/ TAY
The mysterious and often violent history of Illinois has made the state a haven for restless spirits. This volume explores the supernatural side of the Prairie State, with stories on the horrors of an old slave house, the numerous spirits of Alton's McPike Mansion, the cemetery where the dead walk, the Spring Valley Vampire, the ghosts of the Bartonville Asylum, Chicago's famous Resurrection Mary, and the spirit world of Abraham Lincoln.

Spilsbury, Louise. Be Smart, Stay Safe! YA/ 155.5/ SPI
How safety-savvy are you? Do you know how to balance risks? Learning how to look out for yourself is an important part of growing up, but it’s often hard to tell the difference between real risks and a bit of fun. This will show you how.

Grant, R.G. Slavery. YA/ 305.896
Featuring breathtaking photographs, illustrations, letters, and personal histories, a comprehensive discussion of slavery throughout history examines its lasting impact on societies and people around the world. Presents a comprehensive history of slavery, discussing its origins in ancient civilizations, introduction into the United States, elimination following the Civil War, and continuing impact on modern society.

Shapiro, Bill. Other People’s Love Letters: 150 letters you were never meant to see. YA/ 392.6/ OTH
A voyeuristic look at the ins and outs of modern romance brings together an assortment of actual love letters, written by a diverse cross section of people, that appear exactly as they were originally written, offering candid insights into how people think about love.

Spilsbury, Louise. Dig, Plant and Grow. YA/635/ SPI
Just imagine being able to pick and eat your own, home-grown fruit – or giving someone a bouquet of flowers that you’ve raised yourself! Dig, Plant, and Grow! offers step-by-step guidelines for the novice gardener to help you achieve a successful crop.

Vickers, Rebecca. Confident Cooking. YA/ 641.5/ VIC
Want to be a great cook, but don’t know the difference between a spoon and a ladle? Or perhaps you just want to know how to bake a cake without catastrophe? Confident Cooking takes you back to basics and unscrambles the mysteries of the kitchen. With A–Z instuctions.

Ask Cosmo girl! About beauty. YA/ 646.72/ ASK
Skin basics -- Hair removal -- Acne treatment -- Cover-up how-tos -- Healthy mouth -- Eye makeup how-tos -- Hair help -- Nail know-how.

Scalin, Noah. Skulls. YA/745.5/SCA
On June 4th, 2007, artist Noah Scalin came up with an ingenious idea: he cut a skull out of orange paper and posted it online with the note, “I’m making a skull image every day for a year.” His uniquely witty works became a wild success: five months later, nearly 250,000 people have visited the site, many sending in skull photos of their own and turning Scalin’s blog into one of the world’s top sites. Each of the 150 skulls shown is accompanied by a brief description and fun anecdotal stories. As a bonus, there are four skull projects to make. Irresistibly merging pop, Internet, and craft culture, this fantastic collection provides an inspiring example of how to find creative potential in every aspect of daily life.

Badillo, Steve. Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks. YA/ 796.22/ BAD
The great tricks of today are built upon the pioneering feats of skateboarding's legendary riders. Tony Alva, Lance Mountain, Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk, Jason Lee and so many others paved the way for the worldwide skateboarding movement and lifestyle. Discover the stories behind their Legendary Tricks and learn how to do the tricks yourself.

D’Arcy, Sean. Freestyle Soccer Tricks. YA/ 796.334/ DAR
The professional soccer freestyler offers tips, exercises, and drills designed to improve coordination and ball control and provides instructions for performing various types of juggling tricks.

Willin, Dr. Melvyn. Ghosts Caught on Film. YA/ 133.1/ WIL
This book offers the exciting possibility of there being actual photograph evidence to prove the existence of ghosts and paranormal activity- you can’t help but be drawn into the mystery.

Bielagus, Peter G. Quick Cash for Teens. YA/ 658.11/ BIE
Provides smart strategies for earning big bucks, with step-by-step instructing for identifying opportunities, creating a business plan, and implementing it successfully.

Music

2009-08-10T17:58:00.001-07:00

Black Eyed Peas. The E.N.D.. YA CD MUSIC BLA
Boom boom pow -- Rock that body -- Meet me halfway -- Imma be -- I gotta feeling -- Alive -- Missing you -- Ring-a-ling -- Party all the time -- Out of my head -- Electric city -- Showdown -- Now generation -- One tribe -- Rockin to the beat.

Biography

2009-08-05T16:54:00.000-07:00

Reef, Catherine. Ernest Hemingway. A Writer’s Life. YA/ B/ HEM
His life reads like a suspense story—it's full of action, romance, heartbreak, machismo, mishaps, celebrity, and tragedy. He had first-hand experience of several historic events of the last century, and he rubbed elbows with many other notable writers and intellectual greats of our time. Though his reputation has weathered ups and downs, his status as an American icon remains untouchable. Here, in the only biography available to young people, Catherine Reef introduces readers to Hemingway's work, with a focus on his themes and writing styles and his place in the history of American fiction, and examines writers who influenced him and those he later influenced

Corrigan, Jim. Alan Turing. Profiles in Mathematics Series YA/ B/ TUR
Profiles the life and accomplishments of the British mathematician who played a major role in unraveling German codes during World War II and helped to establish the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence. He was also a philosopher and biologist.

Fiction for August

2009-08-05T16:46:00.000-07:00

Hubbard, Mandy. Prada & Prejudice. YA/ HUB
During a school trip to England, fifteen-year-old Callie buys a pair of Prada shoes in an effort to impress the popular girls, a scheme that backfires and sends Callie back to 1815.

Peterson, Will. Triskellion. YA/ PET
Following their parents' bitter divorce, Rachel and Adam are sent from their New York home to stay with their grandmother. But the quiet English village where their mother was born is a sinister and unsettling place. Against a brooding background of very real danger, the two young outsides follow an incredible trail on an archaeological adventure with a startling paranormal twist. In a community where many terrible secrets lie hidden, the villagers of Triskellion have a great deal to protect. First in planned trilogy.

Cooney, Caroline B. If the Witness Lied. YA/ COO
Torn apart by tragedies and the publicity they brought, siblings Smithy, Jack, and Madison, aged fourteen to sixteen, tap into their parent's courage to pull together and protect their brother Tris, nearly three, from further media exploitation and a much more sinister threat.

Cross, Sarah. Dull Boy. YA/ CRO
Avery, a teenaged boy with frightening super powers that he is trying to hide, discovers other teenagers who also have strange powers and who are being sought by the icy and seductive Cherchette, but they do not know what she wants with them.

Draper, Sharon M. Just Another Hero. YA/ DRA
As Kofi, Arielle, Dana, November, and Jericho face personal challenges during their last year of high school, a misunderstood student brings a gun to class and demands to be taken seriously. Sequel to November Blues.

Gonzalez, Ann. Running For My Life. YA/ GON
RUNNING FOR MY LIFE is the powerful story of Andrea McKane, a fourteen-year-old who struggles to cope with her mother's schizophrenia. She must face the heartbreaking fact that her mother, with whom she once laughed and played, has vanished into her disease, possibly forever. The book accurately portrays the difficulties a teen faces when dealing with the illness, the abuse and absence of a parent with mental illness. RUNNING FOR MY LIFE shows the effects of mental illness on a family, and a teenager's attempts to manage the changes that have shaken her life. With courage, strength, and the loving support of her friends, her father, and her therapist, Andrea finds salvation through running. RUNNING FOR MY LIFE represents a heartwarming, encouraging breakthrough effort in portraying the challenges teens confront when they have to protect themselves from a guardian.

Hurley, Tonya. Ghostgirl: Homecoming. YA/HUR
When Petula becomes deathly ill, her sister Scarlet seeks help from former classmate Charlotte, for whom the afterlife has become burdensome, leaving her just as insecure and isolated as she was while she was alive.

Lockhart, E. The Treasure Map of Boys. YA/LOC
A Seattle sixteen-year-old juggles therapy, running a school bake sale, coping with her performance artist mother, growing distant from an old friend, and conflicting feelings about her ex-boyfriend and potential new boyfriends.

Pierce, Tamora. Bloodhound. Beka Cooper Book Two. A Tortall Legend. YA/ PIE
Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog," Beka, now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, and her former partner head to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.

Scott, Elizabeth. Love You Hate You Miss You. YA/ SCO
After coming out of alcohol rehabilitation, sixteen-year-old Amy sorts out conflicting emotions about her best friend Julia's death in a car accident for which she feels responsible.

Weaver, Will. Saturday Night Dirt. YA/ WEA
In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated Saturday night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable, Headwaters Speedway becomes, in many ways, an important life-changing event for all the participants on and off the track.

Wizner, Jake. Castration Celebration. YA/ WIZ
Three high school students in a summer arts program at Yale University collaborate on an "anti-guy musical" with the working title, Castration Celebration.

Wynne-Jones, Tim. The Uninvited. YA/ WYN
After a disturbing freshman year at New York University, Mimi is happy to get away to her father's remote Canadian cottage only to discover a stranger living there who has never heard of her or her father and who is convinced that Mimi is responsible for leaving sinister tokens around the property.

Zink, Michelle. Prophecy of the Sisters. YA/ ZIN
In late nineteenth-century New York state, wealthy sixteen-year-old twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe find that they are on opposite sides of an ancient prophecy that has destroyed their parents and seeks to do even more harm.

New Fiction for July

2009-07-15T17:00:00.000-07:00

Austen, Jane. Emma. YA/ AUS
The most perfect of Jane Austen’s perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding and the right to manage other people’s lives—for their own good, of course. Her well-meant interfering centers on the aloof Jane Fairfax, the dangerously attractive Frank Churchill, the foolish if appealing Harriet Smith, and the ambitious young vicar Mr. Elton—and ends with her complacency shattered, her mind awakened to some of life’s more intractable dilemmas, and her happiness assured.

Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth. YA/ BUC
Set in China, this is a drama about a simple peasant farmer who grows rich with the help of his faithful wife. Tragedy follows as he betrays his family and neglects the earth he had worshipped.

Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. YA/ CRA
In the spring of 1863, while engaged in the fierce battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. YA/ TWA
This is Mark Twain's first novel about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred," he tells us. This is a book one never forgets: Tom whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence, Tom and Huck's dreadful oath, their cure for warts ("spunk water" and dead cats), Tom's puppy love for Becky Thatcher, the boys playing "pirate" on Jackson's Island. This Mark Twain Library text is the only edition since the first (1876) to be based directly on the author's manuscript.

Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. YA/ TWA
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. A good portion of the work also deals with his post-war visit to the old haunts. Contains the complete text of the first edition published in 1883 with illustrations.

Barnes, John. Tales of the Madman Underground. YA/ BAR
In September 1973, as the school year begins in his depressed Ohio town, high-school senior Kurt Shoemaker determines to be "normal," despite his chaotic home life with his volatile, alcoholic mother and the deep loyalty and affection he has for his friends in the therapy group dubbed the Madman Underground.

Friedman, Aimee. Sea Change. YA/ FRI
When her estranged grandmother dies and leaves her mother the family home on Selkie Island, seventeen-year-old Miranda meets her mother on the Georgia island, where she discovers mysterious family secrets and another side to her logical, science-loving self.

Pike, Aprilynne. Wings. YA/ PIK
When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a faerie and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls.

Pon, Cindy. Silver Phoenix. YA/ PON
With her father long overdue from his journey and a lecherous merchant blackmailing her into marriage, seventeen-year-old Ai Ling becomes aware of a strange power within her as she goes in search of her parent.

Smiley, Jane. Ordinary Love and Good Will. Two Novellas. YA/ SMI
ORDINARY LOVE: At a reunion with her grown children, a woman recalls the long-ago affair that ended her relationship with their father--and changed all their lives irrevocably.
GOOD WILL: Despite the carefully self-sufficient life he has designed for his small family, a man discovers that even the right choices have unexpected consequences--sometimes heart-breaking ones.

Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony. YA/STE
Traces a boy's journey into manhood after his father gives him a pony to train and care for.

Strasser, Todd. Boot Camp. YA/ STR
After ignoring several warnings to stop dating his teacher, Garrett is sent to Lake Harmony, a boot camp that uses unorthodox and brutal methods to train students to obey their parents.

Garsee, Jeannine. Say the Word. YA/ GAR
After the death of her estranged mother, who left Ohio years ago to live with her lesbian partner in New York City, seventeen-year-old Shawna Gallagher's life is transformed by revelations about her family, her best friend, and herself.

Henry, April. Torched. YA/HEN
In order to save her parents from going to jail for possession of marijuana, sixteen-year-old Ellie must help the FBI uncover the intentions of a radical environmental group by going undercover.

Mitchell, Saundra. Shadowed Summer. YA/MIT
In the small town of Ondine, Louisiana, fourteen-year-old Iris uncovers family secrets when she conjures up the ghost of a boy missing for decades and decides to solve the mystery of his disappearance.

Ryan, Carrie. The Forest of Hands and Teeth. YA/RYA
Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.

Valentine, Jenny. Broken Soup. YA/VAL
A photographic negative and two surprising new friends become the catalyst for healing as fifteen-year-old Rowan struggles to keep her family and her life together after her brother's death.

Abrahams, Peter. Reality Check. YA/ ABR
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town, but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.

Herrick, Steven. Cold Skin. YA/HER
In a rural Australian coal mining town shortly after World War II, teenaged Eddie makes a startling discovery when he investigates the murder of a local high school girl.

Hoban, Julia. Willow. YA/ HOB
Sixteen-year-old Willow, who was driving the car that killed both of her parents, copes with the pain and guilt by cutting herself, until she meets a smart and sensitive boy who is determined to help her stop.

Peck, Dale. Sprout. YA/ PEC
Moving from Long Island to Kansas after his mother dies, a teenaged boy nicknamed Sprout is surprised to find new friends, a fascinating landscape, and romantic love.

Testa, Dom. The Comet’s Curse. YA/ TES
Desperate to save the human race after a comet's deadly particles devastate the adult population, scientists create a ship that will carry a crew of 251 teenagers to a home in a distant solar system.

Whitman. Radiant Darkness. YA/ WHI
Persephone runs off to the Underworld with Hades, with whom she has fallen in love, but when her mother Demeter threatens to destroy the earth to save her, Persephone finds a way to come back once a year, bringing spring.

New Music for July

2009-07-01T17:13:00.000-07:00

Eminem. Relapse. YA CD MUSIC EMI

Moby. Wait for Me. YA CD MUSIC MOB

Eels. Electro- shock blues. YA CD MUSIC EEL

Foo Fighters. The colour and the shape. YA CD MUSIC FOO

PJ Harvey. Rid of Me. YA CD MUSIC HAR

Rage Against the Machine. YA CD MUSIC RAG

R.E.M. Green. YA CD MUSIC REM

Sonic Youth. Daydream Nation. YA CD MUSIC SON

New Non-Fiction for July

2009-07-01T17:07:00.000-07:00

Weinstein, Ph.D, Bruce. Is It Still Cheating If I Don’t Get Caught? YA/ 170/ WEI
Advice for teens based on five simple principles: do no harm, make things better, respect others, be fair, and be loving. Drawing examples from teen life, the nationally syndicated columnist offers specific questions, sample responses, and explanations of the ethical responses using his principles. His wide-ranging topics range from everyday matters of friendship, bullying, athletics, drugs, dating, social networking, and downloading intellectual property to larger issues such as dealing with grief. The text is direct and accessible, frequently broken up by black-and-white cartoons and changes in typography. He makes the important point that ethics require paying special heed to both oneself as well as others; it’s a matter of balance.

Hafiz, Dilara, Yasmine Hafiz and Imran Hafiz. The American Muslim teenager’s handbook. YA/ 297.5/ HAF
Everything you ever wanted to know, but were too afraid to ask.

Burton, Bonnie. Girls Against Girls. YA/ 305.2352/ BUR
This guide for teenage girls explains why girls can sometimes be mean to each other, what to do if you are a victim of bullying, and the importance of treating other girls with respect.

Benson, Michael. Beyond. A solar system voyage. YA/ 523.2/ BEN
Presents the solar system from the perspective of the space probes sent to explore the heavens.

Horne, Richard and Tracey Turner. 101 Things You Wish You’d Invented- and some you wish no one had. YA/ 609/ HOR

Monaque, Mathilde. Trouble in My Head. A young girl’s fight with depression. YA/ 616.8527/ MON
Mathilde Monaque developed severe depression when she was just 14. The eldest in a family of six and an exceptionally bright and gifted little girl, the discovery shook her family to the core. "Trouble in My Head" is Mathilde's tender and illuminating account of her struggle to surface from a disease that could have taken her life. With remarkable sensitivity and lucidity she describes her experience of depression, her days in the teenage hospital and her battle to conquer the disease. Mathilde's perspective as a sufferer of teenage depression is unique. Unlike adult depression which involves feelings of guilt, Mathilde describes teenage depression as a breaking down of certainties, the fear of being oneself, the fear of not loving and of not being loved. Adults and teenagers alike will find inspiration and insight in her touching and remarkable account.

Fiction

2009-06-29T15:18:00.000-07:00

Ashby, Amanda. Zombie Queen of Newbury High. YA/ ASH
While trying to cast a love spell on her date on the eve of the senior prom, Mia inadvertently infects her entire high school class with a virus that will turn them all into zombies.

Burgess, Melvin. Bloodtide. Part I. YA/ BUR
In a far future, two warring gangs, the Conors and the Volsons, rule the ruins of London. When the leader of the Volsons gives his daughter Signy in marriage to the leader of the Conor family, the stage is set for a tale of vengeance and tragedy. This postmodern retelling of the saga of the Volsungs from Iceland by the author of Smack does not stint on graphic portrayals of violence. Twin themes of love and death provide an inexorable tension in this dark dystopian fable.

Burgess, Melvin. Bloodsong. Part II. YA/ BUR
Fifteen-year-old Sigurd, son of King Sigmund, is the last surviving member of the Volson clan. His father's kingdom -- the former city of London -- is gone. And his father's knife, a gift from Odin himself, has been shattered to dust.
Now, Odin's eye is upon him. Armed with a powerful sword forged from the remnants of his father's knife, Sigurd will face death, fire, and torment. He must travel through Hel and back...to unite his country once again.

Chandler, Ann. Sienna Summer. YA/ CHA
Angela's summer holiday in Siena changes her life forever. First she manages to save the life of the jittery horse Tempesta. Then she falls head over heals for Tony, a jockey in the upcoming Palio.

Klass, Sheila Solomon. Soldier’s Secret. YA/ KLA
During the Revolutionary War, a young woman named Deborah Sampson disguises herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army.

Napoli, Donna Jo. Alligator Bayou. YA/ NAP

Neri, G. Surf Mules. YA/ NER
When a tragic accident and sudden financial woes cause recent high school graduate Logan to question plans for his future, he agrees to make a road trip with his best friend and surfing buddy, Z-boy, transporting marijuana from southern California to Orlando, Florida.

Polak, Monique. What World is Left. YA/ POL
A pampered child used to having her own way, Anneke Van Raalte lives outside Amsterdam, where her father is a cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper. Though Anneke's family is Jewish, her religion means little to her. Anneke's life changes in 1942 when the Nazis invade Holland, and she and her family are deported to Theresienstadt, a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.

Sanchez, Alex. Bait. Some secrets never let go. YA/ SAN
Diego keeps getting into trouble because of his explosive temper until he finally finds a probation officer who helps him get to the root of his anger so that he can stop running from his past.

Thompson, Kate. Creature of the Night. YA/ THO
Bobby lives a reckless life smoking, drinking, and stealing cars in Dublin. So his mother moves the family to the country. But Bobby suspects their cottage might not be as quaint as it seems. And spooky details of the history of their little cottage gradually turn Bobby into a detective of night creatures real and imagined.

Tullson, Diane. Riley Park. YA/ TUL
The victim of a vicious assault, seventeen-year-old Corbin struggles to get his life back and deal with the loss of his best friend.

Wiseman, Eva. Puppet. YA/ WIS
A powerful fictionalized account of the last blood libel trial in Hungary in 1882 is told through the eyes of Julie, a friend of the murdered servant girl Esther, and a servant at the jail where fourteen-year-old Morris Scharf is imprisoned.

Armstrong, Kelley. The Summoning. YA/ ARM
After fifteen-year-old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger.

Gingras, Charlotte. Pieces of Me. YA/GIN
Mirabelle's art teacher tells her she has talent, but what good is it doing her? Almost fifteen and friendless, Mira is plagued by dark thoughts. Her body seems to be changing daily. Her mother is domineering and half-crazy and her father -- well, he's her ex-father, mostly out of Mira's life and awkward when he's around. Then she meets free-spirited, confident Catherine, a knockout who makes the boys' jaws drop. Not only is Catherine good at art like Mira, she also knows about kissing boys. Mira has never kissed anyone and doesn't understand the hungry way boys are beginning to look at her. Now that Mira's finally found someone she can talk to, her dark thoughts are vanishing. But as her friend encourages her to come out of her shell, Mira finds that her new-found confidence can still be shattered in an instant. Only after Mira faces a betrayal and a tragedy can she begin to put the fragmented pieces of herself together.

Lester, Julius. Guardian. YA/LES
In a rural southern town in 1946, a white man and his son witness the lynching of an innocent black man. Includes historical note on lynching.

McKayhan, Monica. Indigo Summer. YA/McK
When fifteen-year-old Indigo's perfect world falls apart she turns to her neighbor, sixteen-year-old Marcus Carter, for help but now that she has realized what a great guy he is, so does someone else.

Monninger, Joseph. Baby. YA/MON
Fifteen-year-old Baby's last chance at foster care is with the Potters, and while she likes them and enjoys learning to race their sled dogs, she feels she should go back on the streets with her boyfriend if she cannot find the mother who has deserted her again.

Sewell, Earl. If I Were Your Boyfriend. YA/SEW
How had Keysha gone from popular to social outcast? One word: frenemy. A girl Keysha thought was her friend planted drugs on her—and Keysha got caught. The media blitz on their wealthy suburb turned everyone against her. So when a guy with his own bad rep offers to help, Keysha's first reaction is yeah, right. Book 2 in a series.

Deuker, Carl. Night Hoops. YA/ DEU
While trying to prove that he is good enough to be on his high school's varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents' divorce and the erratic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street.

Myracle, Lauren. Peace, Love and Baby Ducks. YA/ MYR
Fifteen-year-old Carly's summer volunteer experience makes her feel more real than her life of privilege in Atlanta ever did, but her younger sister starts high school pretending to be what she is not, and both find their relationships suffering.

Vail, Rachel. Gorgeous. YA/ VAI
Ninth-grader Allison Avery has always been the least attractive among her sisters, but when she allows the devil to possess her cell phone in exchange for appearing to be gorgeous, she must confront the power and deceptiveness of appearances.

Non-Fiction

2009-06-17T15:24:00.000-07:00

George, Mary W. The Elements of Library Research. What Every Student Needs to Know. YA/ 025.24/ GEO
This book provides a foundation for success in any research assignment, from a freshmen paper to a senior thesis. The concepts, tools, and tactics you need to approach academic projects with confidence.

Kuklin, Susan. No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row. YA/ 364.66/ KUK
In their own voices--raw and uncensored--inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. Susan Kuklin also gets inside the system, exploring capital punishment itself and the intricacies and inequities of criminal justice in the United States.

Kelly, Evelyn B, Ph.D. Alzheimer’s Disease. YA/616.831/KEL
Presents a history of the disease and of the development of our current knowledge about it. The Genes & Disease Series.

Goldstein, Natalie. Parkinson’s Disease. YA/616.833/GOL
Discusses research into the possible genetic cause of Parkinson’s and also covers the exciting new treatments and possible cures that scientists currently are developing and testing. The Genes & Disease Series.

Maddocks. Cartooning For Beginners: A step by step guide to drawing cartoons. YA/741.5/MAD
How to draw like a cartoonist in no time.

Diamond, Cheryl. Model. A memoir. YA/746.92/DIA
Living on her own in a run down apartment, Cheryl spent her days on runways and photo shoots watching other girls make mistakes and swore she wouldn’t be a victim… until a career-altering event changed her life and nearly ruined her shot at her dream. This is her true account.

Wendel, Tim and Jose Luis Villegas. Far From Home: Latino Baseball Players in America. YA/796.357/WEN
A look at the integral relationship between baseball and the Latin American world describes how thousands of Latinos have attempted to make their childhood dreams of success as big-league baseball players into reality.

Weatherford, Carole Boston. Becoming Billie Holiday. YA/811.54/WEA
Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday looks back on her early years in this fictional memoir written in verse.

The Middle East. Opposing Viewpoints. YA/956.04/MID

New DVDs

2009-06-04T15:36:00.000-07:00

All Quiet on the Western Front . YA DVD FEA ALL

Bring it on. YA DVD FEA BRI

For Love of the game. YA DVD FEA FOR

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. YA DVD FEA GHO

Happy Gilmore. YA DVD FEA HAP

The Jerk. YA DVD FEA JER

John Candy Comedy Favorites Collection. YA DVD FEA JOH

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. YA DVD FEA JOS

Mystery Science Theater 3000. YA DVD FEA MYS

Reality Bites. YA DVD FEA REA

Books on CD

2009-06-04T15:25:00.000-07:00

Colfer, Eoin. Benny and Omar. YA F COL CD BOOK
Two very different cultures collide in this hilarious book about a young sports fanatic named Benny who is forced to leave his home in Ireland and move with his family to Tunisia. He wonders how he will survive in such an unfamiliar place. Then he teams up with wild and resourceful Omar, and a madcap friendship between the two boys leads to trouble, escapades, a unique way of communicating, and ultimately, a heartbreaking challenge.

Colfer, Eoin. Benny and Babe. YA F COL CD BOOK
Benny may be a wise guy, but Babe is at least three steps ahead of him, especially on her territory. When a money-making business venture arises, however, Babe just might consider Benny as her partner, and possibly a friend. But things become complicated, and dangerous, when the troublesome Furty Howlin starts clamoring for a slice of the action.

Forman, Gayle. If I Stay. YA F FOR CD BOOK
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

Hill, Stuart. The Cry of the Icemark. YA F HIL CD BOOK
Thirrin Freer Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield, a thirteen-year-old princess and warrior, while forging alliances and creating battle plans, must defend her kingdom--in the name of her father--no matter what the cost. Read by Erik Steele.

Prevost, Guillaume. The Book of Time. YA F PRE CD BOOK
A statue; a coin; an old book. They look as dusty as everything else in the Faulkner Antiquarian Bookstore, where 14-year-old Sam Faulkner seeks his father, who's been missing for days. But when Sam slips the coin into the statue, he's swept back in time -- to Scotland in 800 A.D. -- where he must find both the statue and another coin in order to return to the present. It's the first step in an adventure that will take him to ancient Egypt, World War I, even Dracula's castle -- and a mystery that will end only when Sam saves his father, or loses him in time . . .

New Non-Fiction

2009-05-27T18:12:00.000-07:00

Ritchie, Judy, Kate Schmidt, and Jamie Kilmartin. Creative Rubber Stamping. YA/761/ RIT

Hopper, Jessica. The Girls’ Guide to Rocking. YA/782.42166/ HOP
How to Start a Band, Book Gigs, and Get Rolling to Rock Stardom

Wachtel, Alan. September 11: A Primary Source History. YA/ 973.931/ WAC
On the planes : four hijackings, four deadly crashes -- In the towers : chaos and collapse -- Homeland response : the aftermath of the attacks -- Fighting Al-Qaeda : a deadly enemy emerges -- Popular culture : September 11 in the media -- Looking back : memorials and remembrance -- Major figures : the people of September 11, 2001.

Ford, Amanda. Be True to Yourself. A daily guide for teenage girls. YA/ 158.1/ FOR
Offers girls daily advice to get through the toughest time of their lives.

Lindsay, Jeanne Warren. Teen Dads: Rights, responsibilities, and Joys. YA/ 306.874/ LIN
A guide for teenage fathers who want to develop their parenting skills, with an emphasis on dealing with children from birth to the age of three.

Smithson, Ryan. Ghosts of War. The true story of a 19-year-old GI. YA/ 956.70443/ SMI
Instead of opting for the college life, Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was 17. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. His story and the thousands of other soldiers- is nothing like what you see on CNN or read about in the paper. In this harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI’s tour of duty. It will change the way you feel about what it means to be an American.

Gorman, Jacqueline Laks. Pearl Harbor: A Primary Source History. YA/ 940.5426/ GOR
Early history : opening and expanding Japan -- Buildup : early days of World War II -- The crisis deepens : drawn into conflict -- Climax & aftermath : a day of infamy -- Popular culture : Pearl Harbor in the media -- Looking back : Pearl Harbor in context -- Major figures : the people of Pearl Harbor.

Eamer, Claire. Traitor's Gate and other doorways to the past. YA/ 909/ EAM
Describes the histories of famous doorways throughout the world, and features information on Traitors' Gate, the most famous doorway in London which has--over its thousand-year history--been a gateway to a royal residence, a fortress, an armory, and a prison.

New Fiction

2009-05-27T18:08:00.000-07:00

Scott, Michael. The Sorceress . Book 3 in the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. YA/ SCO
While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to seek Gilgamesh.

Jones, Frewin. The Immortal Realm. YA/ JON
Princess Tania thinks she has finally found a way to unite the world of Faerie with the modern world, but her beloved Immortal Realm is threatened when a grave illness takes hold of the kingdom and she must find a way to save it.

Oaks, J. Adams. Why I Fight. YA/ OAK
After his house burns down, twelve-year-old Wyatt Reaves takes off with his uncle, and the two of them drive from town to town for six years, earning money mostly by fighting, until Wyatt finally confronts his parents one last time.

Sandell, Lisa Ann. A Map of the Known World. YA/ SAN
Keeping herself isolated from everyone as a way to cope with the loss of her brother, Cora finds solace in drawing detailed maps of exotic places far away, but when she falls for her brother's friend Nate, she discovers a secret about her brother that finally allows her heart to begin to heal

Abbott, Hailey. Summer Girls. YA/ ABB
No longer the young one who gets left behind, 16-year-old Jessica Tuttle looks forward to this summer as one of the pack who rules the beach, but good times filled with bonfires, dancing, and romance soon turn ugly as vicious secrets spread, hearts get broken, and jealousies are revealed.

Boyne, John. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. YA/ BOY
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

Bruchac, Joseph. Code Talker. YA/ BRU
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become code talkers, sending messages in their native tongue during World War II.

Shusterman, Neal. The Schwa was Here. YA/ SHU
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.

Cabot, Meg. Being Nikki. YA/ CAB
After a horrific accident that resulted in her brain being transplanted into the body of a teen supermodel, everything in the world changes for Emerson Watts as she struggles to come to terms with living a celebrity lifestyle, managing a crazy modeling schedule, and dealing with an entirely new clique of egocentric friends.

Forman, Gayle. If I Stay. YA/ FOR
In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen year- old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck...

McDaniel, Lurlene. Breathless. YA/ MCD
At boarding school, Katie tries to focus on swimming and becoming popular instead of the painful memories of her institutionalized schizophrenic older brother.

Nelson, Blake. Destroy All Cars. YA/ NEL
Through assignments for English class, seventeen-year-old James Hoff rants against consumerism and his classmates' apathy, puzzles over his feelings for his ex-girlfriend, and expresses disdain for his emotionally-distant parents.

Picoult, Jodi. The Pact. YA/ PIC
A teenage suicide pact between a pregnant girl and her boyfriend, both children of wealthy New England families. He shoots her, but fails to shoot himself and is charged with murder. At the trial he explains what made them do it.

Schreiber, Ellen. Vampire Kisses. YA/ SCH
Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true.

Spencer, Katherine. More Than Friends. YA/ SPE
When the mysterious Philomena suggests that Grace Stanley get a job where her deceased brother's best friend, Jackson, works, the romance that quickly develops becomes complicated when Grace realizes that Jackson is stealing from the store.

Uehashi, Nahoko. Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness. YA/ UEH
The wandering female bodyguard Balsa returns to her native country of Kanbal, where she uncovers a conspiracy to frame her mentor and herself.

Weaver, Will. Super Stock Rookie. YA/ WEA
Trace Bonham knows he is fortunate to be offered a chance at being a paid super stock driver while he is still in high school, but regrets that he must leave his friends, including the girl he likes, and hometown speedway