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Check out or reserve books from this sampling of what we have recently added to our catalog. Updated every two months. Last updated June, 2013.
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  Cover Art: Unnatural Creatures Unnatural Creatures
Dark fantasy stories collected by Neil Gaiman from authors such as Saki, E. Nesbit, Anthony Boucher, Larry Niven, Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor and more.
462 p. 2013
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Bad Machinery Allison, John
Bad Machinery
Tackleford, England, is a town full of mysteries. Shauna, Charlotte and Mildred just want to help the mysterious old immigrant woman keep her home. Jack, Linton, and Sonny just want to find out why the owner of a local football stadium has been plagued by a curse. If only the two groups could stop fighting with each other, they might realize that there's a shared solution...
132 p. 2013
Teen Nonfiction Book
  Cover Art: Apollyon Armentrout, Jennifer L.
Apollyon
Alex has always feared two things: losing herself in the Awakening, and being placed on the Elixir. But love has always been stronger than fate, and Aiden St. Delphi is willing to make war on the gods--and Alex herself--to bring her back.
343 p. 2013
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Rising Armstrong, Kelley
The Rising
The race for survival comes to a thrilling conclusion when Maya and her friends--who all have supernatural powers--find help against the Cabals from unexpected places.
407 p. 2013
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: All-new X-Men. Yesterday's X-Men Bendis, Brian Michael
All-new X-Men. Yesterday's X-Men
Blast from the past! Professor X's original five students - Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, Angel, and Beast - are plucked from the past and brought to the present. But what they find - the state of their future selves, and the state of Xavier's dream - is far from the future they dreamed of.
1 v. 2013
Teen Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Superstars : How They Got Famous Blue, Sunny
Superstars : How They Got Famous
Even the biggest supernovae of the celebrity universe -- stars like Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Justin Bieber, Zac Efron and the boys in One Direction -- all began small, dreaming big. Their stories will be the riveting subject of Superstars : how they got famous.
128 pages 2013
Teen Nonfiction Book
  Cover Art: Taken Bowman, Erin
Taken
There are no men in Claysoot. There are boys--but every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding light descends...and he's gone. They call it the Heist. Gray Weathersby's eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he's prepared to meet his fate--until he finds a strange note from his mother and starts to question everything he's been raised to accept: the Council leaders and their obvious secrets, the Heist itself, and what lies beyond the Wall that surrounds Claysoot--a structure that no one can cross and survive.
360 p. 2013
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: A Simple Song Carlson, Melody
A Simple Song
Katrina Yoder has the voice of an angel, but her Amish parents believe singing is prideful vanity, and when she wins a ticket to sing in Hollywood, her life is turned upside down.
280 pages 2013
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Get Over it Carter, Nikki
Get Over it
Hoping to take her career to the next level after a year of college, hip-hop performer Sunday Tolliver is tested by a campus hazing scandal that pits her friends against a powerful sorority while she is also dealing with her jealous cousin's drama and her own torn feelings for fellow star DeShawn and ex-boyfriend Sam.
248 pages 2013
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: All I Need Colasanti, Susane
All I Need
When Skye, a hopeless romantic, meets Seth, hurt by a recent break-up, at an end-of-summer party they connect instantly, but their love is tested when she returns to high school and he begins to work his way through an Ivy-League college.
214 p. 2013
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Reluctant Assassin Colfer, Eoin
The Reluctant Assassin
In Victorian London, Albert Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and his reluctant young apprentice, Riley, are transported via wormhole to modern London, where Riley teams up with a young FBI agent to stop Garrick from returning to his own time and using his newly acquired scientific knowledge and power to change the world forever.
341 p. 2013
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Girl with the Iron Touch Cross, Kady
The Girl with the Iron Touch
London, 1897. When mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, Finley Jayne and her fellow misfits fear the worst. To save those she cares about, Emily must confront The Machinist's ultimate creation -- an automaton more human than machine.
377 pages 2013
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Rules for Disappearing Elston, Ashley
The Rules for Disappearing
High school student "Meg" has changed identities so often that she hardly knows who she is anymore, and her family is falling apart, but she knows that two of the rules of witness protection are be forgettable and do not make friends--but in her new home in Louisiana a boy named Ethan is making that difficult.
312 p. 2013
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Towering Flinn, Alex
Towering
A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told from the alternating perspectives of three teens whose fates unknowingly bind them together to destroy a greater evil.
296 pages 2013
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: I See the Promised Land : a Life of Martin Luther King Jr. Flowers, A. R.
I See the Promised Land : a Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Presents in graphic novel format the life of the Baptist minister and Noble Peace Prize winner who became the leader and orator of the African American civil rights movement before his assassination in 1968.
154 p. 2013
Teen Graphic Novel
  Cover Art: Light Grant, Michael
Light
Answers to every mystery of the FAYZ are revealed, unexpected heroes emerge as sacrifices are made, and the Darkness is finally conquered by a force even more powerful than itself in this conclusion to the Gone series.
413 p. 2013
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Lost Sun : Book 1 of United States of Asgard Gratton, Tessa
The Lost Sun : Book 1 of United States of Asgard
Seventeen-year-old Soren Bearskin is trying to escape the past. His father, a famed warrior, lost himself to the battle-frenzy and killed thirteen innocent people. Soren cannot deny that berserking is in his blood--the fevers, insomnia, and occasional feelings of uncontrollable rage haunt him. So he tries to remain calm and detached from everyone at Sanctus Sigurd's Academy. But that's hard to do when a popular, beautiful girl like Astrid Glyn tells Soren she dreams of him. That's not all Astrid dreams of--the daughter of a renowned prophetess, Astrid is coming into her own inherited abilities.
2013
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Cydonian Pyramid Hautman, Pete
The Cydonian Pyramid
Tucker Feye and Lah Lia each hurtle through time, relating their stories in alternating viewpoints that converge at crucial moments.
361 pages 2013
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: School Spirits Hawkins, Rachel
School Spirits
Fifteen-year-old Izzy, who comes from a long line of monster hunters, investigates a series of hauntings at her new high school.
297 p. 2013
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Nine Days Hiatt, Fred
Nine Days
Tenth-graders Ethan and Ti-Anna go to Hong Kong seeking her father, an exiled Chinese democracy activist who has disappeared, and follow his trail to Vietnam and back, also uncovering illegal activity along the way. Includes author's note and the history behind the novel written by the girl who inspired it.
241 p. 2013
Teen Fiction Book
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