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.
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.
YA 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.
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.
YA 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.
YA 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.
YA 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.
YA GRAPHIC WILSON
As 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?
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.
YA 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.
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