Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Voting for 2016 Garden State Teen Book Awards now open!


Vote for your favorites!

Teens all across NJ are invited to vote for their favorite book title in any one or all three voting categories.

Deadline for voting is December 31, 2015 and winners will be announced in January 2016!

Visit http://njla.org/2016gstba or click here to vote for the best fiction and nonfiction books.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

New YA Books - April 2015



We've just added some hot titles to our YA collection for April. No foolin'! (Hyuck, hyuck, hyuck....)

YA FIC AGUIRRE
Sage has learned to substitute causes for relationships, and it's working just fine…until Shane Cavendish strolls into her math class. He's a little antisocial, a lot beautiful, and everything she never knew she always wanted.

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda
YA FIC ALBERTALLI
Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed.

Eden West by Pete Hautman
Eden WestYA FIC HAUTMAN
This story explores a boy's unraveling allegiance to an insular cult. Twelve square miles of paradise, surrounded by an eight-foot-high chain-link fence: this is Nodd, the land of the Grace. It is all seventeen-year-old Jacob knows. But when new people come into contact with Nodd, he begins to question everything he’s ever known.

The Truth Commission
The Truth Commission by Susan Juby
YA FIC JUBY
As a project for her "creative non-fiction module" class, Normandy Pale chronicles the work of the Truth Commission, through which she and her two best friends ask classmates and faculty about various open secrets.

The prom goer's interstellar excursionYA FIC MCCOY
Minutes after Bennett Bardo of Gordo, New Mexico, asks Sophie Gilkey, his dream girl, to prom and she says yes, she is abducted by aliens and Bennett catches a ride across the galaxy with a band of misfit musicians to find her.

Anastasia and her Sisters by Carolyn Meyer
Anastasia and her sistersYA FIC MEYER
A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.

Skandal by Lindsey Smith
SkandalYA FIC SMITH
In the sequel to SEKRET, Yulia and Valentine have escaped Russia to live in Washington DC where they are working with CIA psychics, including Yulia's increasingly erratic father.

Ms. Marvel. 2, Generation whyMs. Marvel 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson
YA GRAPHIC WILSON
Lies I toldAs Ms. Marvel discovers more about her past, the Inventor continues to threaten her future. Kamala bands together with some unlikely heroes to stop the maniacal villain before he does real damage, but has she taken on more than she can handle?

Lies I Told by Michelle Zink
YA FIC ZINK
Since Grace was adopted by the Fontaines, she has been carefully taught the art of the scam and has an uncanny ability to create a personality to help her "parents.” However, their latest job has her questioning everything she has been taught and the family she has grown to love.

The Bullies of Wall Street : this is how greedy adults messed up our economyYA 330.973 BAI
Can knowing how a financial crisis happened keep it from happening again? Sheila Bair, the former chairman of the FDIC, explains how the Great Recession impacted families on a personal level using language that everyone can understand.

YA 338.7 FRY
A fascinating account that captures the history, science, and economic and cultural implications of the harvesting of cacao and creation of chocolate.