Yes, the school year is rapidly approaching, but there is JUST enough time to get some fun reading in before it starts!
YA FIC CONNOR
Bettina can hardly believe it when basketball star Brady asks
her out. Over the course of the summer, Bettina falls in love with Brady . . . but
when school starts up again, Brady changes. What happened to the sweet boy she
fell in love with? When tragedy strikes, Bettina must tell her family the
truth--and kiss goodbye the things she thought she knew about herself and the
men in her life.
YA FIC ENGLE
Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders
face discrimination, segregation, and harsh working conditions when American
recruiters lure them to the Panamanian rain forest in 1906 to build the great
canal.
YA FIC JOHNSON
Jackson Greene has a reputation as a prankster at
Maplewood Middle School, but after the last disaster he is trying to go
straight--but when it looks like Keith Sinclair may steal the election for
school president from Jackson's former best friend Gabriela, he assembles a
team to make sure Keith does not succeed.
YA FIC KENDALL
When a disease nearly wipes out Earth's adult population,
four children journey to find a cure, allegedly held by the one adult still
alive.
YA FIC QUINN
Gardnerville seems like a paradise. But every four years,
a strange madness compels the town's teenagers to commit terrible crimes. Four
years ago, Skylar's sister, Piper, led her classmates on a midnight death march
into a watery grave. Now Piper is gone. And to get her back, Skylar must find a
way to end Gardnerville's murderous cycle.
YA FIC REILLY
Coe is one of the few remaining teenagers on the
post-apocalyptic island of Tides. The only priority is survival. Is there an
escape from the horrific nightmare that their island home has become? Coe must
race to find the answers and save the people she cares about, before their
world and everything they know is lost to the waters.
YA FIC RODKEY
Egg is determined to take down ruthless slave trader
Roger Pembroke. But war is brewing among the Blue Sea's pirate gang, and Egg,
Guts, and Kira are running out of time to find the Fire King's treasure and
free the Okalu slaves from the silver mine on Sunrise. Can they save Kira's
people before Sunrise is plundered by Ripper Jones's pirates?
YA FIC SHIRVINGTON
Each night, eighteen-year-old Sabine transitions between
a life of privilege and security but no intimacy to one of economic struggle
but loving relationships, and the difficulty of this strange situation causes
her to consider suicide, at least in one physical reality.
YA GRAPHIC YANG
Hank just wants to enjoy his quiet life running the
family grocery store with his father, but his mother wants him to become a
superhero and clean up their Chinatown neighborhood.
YA 531.55 GUR
This updated and expanded step-by-step guide enables
ordinary folks to construct more than 13 awesome ballistic devices using inexpensive
household or hardware store materials.
YA 636.7 CAS
A dog's nose is so sensitive that if a human could see as
well as a dog could smell, we would be able to see the small letters on an eye
chart from four miles away. Is it any wonder then that dogs can be trained to
find missing people in piles of rubble or a certain flower blooming amongst
hundreds or thousands of other smells?
YA GRAPHIC 940.3 HAL
World War I set the tone for the 20th century and
introduced a new type of warfare. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most
fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable
Hazardous Tales twist. Easy to understand, funny, informative, and lively, this
series is the best way to be introduced to some of the most well-known battles
(and little-known secrets) of the infamous war.
