New Books

Chopsticks

Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral  YA/Anthony

Glory, having been raised by her father as a piano prodigy after the death of her mother, is drawn to her new neighbor Frank and begins a downward spiral into madness before disappearing.

 

Clockwork Angel

Cassandra Clare YA/Clare
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray travels to England in search of her brother only to be abducted by the Dark Sisters, residents of London’s Downworld, home to the city’s supernatural folk, and she becomes the object of much attention–both good and bad–when it is discovered she has the power to transform at will into another person.

Clockwork Prince

Cassandra Clare YA/Clare
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green YA/Green
Sixteen year old Hazel, who has cancer, meets Augustus at a kids-with-cancer support group and as they fall in love they both wonder how they will be remembered.

Why We Broke Up

Daniel Handler  YA/Handler
Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.

Switched: A Trylle Novel

Amanda Hocking YA/Hocking
When Wendy Everly was six years old her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her, and eleven years later Wendy learns that her mother was right and that she is actually a changeling troll, who, at the age of seventeen, must be returned to her rightful home.

The Games

Ted Kosmatka YA/Kosmatka
In a future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, genticist Silas Williams uses a supercomputer to design a new genetic code for a gladiator that cannot be beaten, but the result is a highly specialized killing machine that he may not be able to control.

Dead To You

Lisa McMann YA/McMann
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother’s suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.

Pandemonium

Lauren Oliver YA/Oliver
After falling in love, Lena and Alex flee their oppressive society where love is outlawed and everyone must receive “the cure”–an operation that makes them immune to the delirium of love–but Lena alone manages to find her way to a community of resistance fighters, and although she is bereft without the boy she loves, her struggles seem to be leading her toward a new love. .

Life: An Exploded Diagram

Mal Peet YA/Peet
In 1960s Norfolk, England, seventeen-year-old Clem Ackroyd lives with his mother and grandmother in a tiny cottage, but his life is transformed when he falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer in this tale that flashes back through the stories of three generations.

So Shelly

Ty Roth YA/Roth
When their mutual friend Shelly is drowned in a sailing accident, high school junior John Keats and his volatile classmate Gordon Byron decide to steal Shelly’s ashes and, in a romantic gesture, return them to the small Lake Erie island where her body washed up, but the journey proves more revealing and emotionally complicated than either of them had anticipated.

The Girls of No Return

Erin Saldin YA/Saldin
Lida Wallace, a troubled sixteen-year-old girl, attends a school in the Idaho mountains where she befriends glamorous Gia Longchamps, but the consequences of their friendship get revealed during the school’s planned wilderness hike.

Bluefish

Pat Schmatz YA/Schmatz
Thirteen-year-old Travis, living in cramped quarters with his alcoholic grandfather, longs for his old life in the country, and struggles in school to hide the fact that he cannot read, but a persistent teacher and a special girl open his eyes to a new world.

Shatter Me

Tahereh Mafi YA/Mafi
Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a post-apocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future.

Pretty Guardian: Sailor Moon, v. 1, 2 and 3

Naoko Takeuchi YA/Takeuchi
In this Manga series, Usagi Tsukino must fight evil and enforce justice in the name of the Moon and the mysterious Moon Princess with the help of the other girls destined to by the Sailor Senshi.

The Running Dream

Wendelin Van Draanen YA/Van Draanen
When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a way to help rekindle her dream of running again.

A Beautiful Friendship: A Star Kingdom Novel

Weber, David YA/Weber
Twelve-year-old Stephanie Harrington, a genetically-enhanced girl on the pioneer planet of Sphinx, bonds with a treecat, a telepathic and fully sentient animal, putting her in danger from highly placed enemies who want to ensure that the planet remains entirely in human hands.

Blink & Caution

Tim Wynne-Jones YA/Wynne-Jones
Blink, hoping to steal some breakfast, is forced to go on the run after stumbling upon the fake kidnapping of a CEO and recovering the man’s cell phone, and he meets up with Caution, a girl trying to ditch her drug-dealing boyfriend, who identifies Blink as a mark until he tugs at her heart strings.

Teens’ Top Picks

Wintergirls

Laurie Halse Anderson YA/Anderson
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend’s death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.

Abandon

Meg Cabot YA/Cabot
Pierce, trying to unravel the mysterious death of someone close to her, finds herself drawn to a dark stranger, even though she believes he may be a killer.

Graceling

Kristin Cashore YA/Cashore
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares

Rachel Cohn & David Levithan YA/Cohn
Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas time in New York, neither knowing quite what–or who–they will find.

Spoiled

Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan YA/Cohn
When her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Molly moves from Indiana to California, to live with her newly discovered father, a Hollywood megastar, and his pampered teenaged daughter.

Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins YA/Collins
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

Along for the Ride

Sarah Dessen YA/Dessen
Auden gets a chance to recapture the carefree teen life she missed while her parents were going through a divorce when she goes to spend the summer with her dad and his new family in a charming beach town and meets fellow insomniac Eli, an intriguing loner fighting demons of his own.

Entwined

Heather Dixon YA/Dixon
Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother’s death, Princess Azalea and her eleven sisters join The Keeper, who is trapped in a magic passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish.

I Am Number Four

Pittacus Lore YA/Lore
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a 15-year-old who has hidden on Earth for 10 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.

Virals

Kathy Reichs YA/Reichs
Tory Brennan and her friends are exposed to a canine parvovirus when they rescue a dog from a medical testing facility and soon realize they have heightened senses, which they use to solve a cold case murder.

Withering Tights

Louise Rennison YA/Rennison
Self-conscious about her knobby knees but confident in her acting ability, fourteen-year-old Tallulah spends the summer at a Yorkshire performing arts camp that, she is surprised to learn, is for girls only.

Shiver

Maggie Stiefvater YA/Stiefvater
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.

Green Mountain Book Award Winners & Nominees

A readers’ choice award designed to introduce Vermont students in grades 9 through 12 to some excellent books for their pleasure reading.

Crank

Ellen Hopkins YA/Hopkins
Kristina Georgia Snow’s life is turned upside-down, when she visits her absentee father, gets turned on to the drug “crank”, becomes addicted, and is led down a desperate path that threatens her mind, soul, and her life.

Looking for Alaska

John Green YA/Green
Sixteen-year-old Miles’ first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

My Sister’s Keeper

Jodi Picoult FIC/Picoult
Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate.

The First Part Last

Angela Johnson YA/Johnson
Bobby’s carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.

Vampires/The Supernatural

Love bites…

Tempted: A House of Night Novel

P. C. Cast + Kristin CastYA/Meyer

This highly addicting series offers a unique twist on the standard vampire story….These books will have the reader laughing hysterically and sobbing unreservedly –sometimes all at once.

Breaking Dawn

Stephanie Meyer YA/Meyer
Continues the story of the human Bella and the vampire Edward whose love is threatened by their difference, a werewolf named Jacob, and other outside influences.

Blood Promise

Richelle Mead YA/Mead
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.

Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story

Adam Rex YA/Rex
After Doug Lee is attacked by a vampire he is forced to remain overweight and fifteen for eternity and as he attempts to prove himself to the new Indian exchange student, Doug must navigate high school and avoid a persistent vampire hunter.

Jessica’s Guide to Eating on the Dark Side

Beth Fantaskey YA/Fantaskey
Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her.

The Reformed Vampire Support Group

Catherine Jinks YA/Jinks
Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them–until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.

Dystopian & Steampunk Novels

Dystopian novels are stories about horrible societies. Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction and speculative fiction. It often features elements of fantasy.

The Hunger Games (Series)

Suzanne Collins YA/Collins
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capital where young boys and girls are pitted against each other in a televised fight to the death.

Matches

Ally Condie YA/Condie
Cassia has always had complete trust in the Society to make decisions for her, but when she is being paired with her ideal mate, a second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia begins to doubt the Society’s infallibility as she tries to decide which man she truly loves.

Delirium

Lauren Oliver YA/Oliver
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.

Across the Universe

Beth Revis YA/Revis
Amy, having been cryogenically frozen and placed onboard a spaceship which was supposed to land on a distant planet 300 years in the future, is unplugged 50 years too early. She finds herself stuck inside an enclosed world ruled by a tyrannical leader and his rebellious teenage heir and confused about who to trust and why someone is trying to kill her.

Leviathan

Scott Westerfeld YA/Westerfeld
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.

Goliath

Scott Westerfeld YA/Westerfeld
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek’s throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.

Feed

M.T. Anderson YA/Anderson
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.

How I Live Now

Meg Rosoff YA/Rosoff
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.

Graphic Novels

Words and pictures…

The Eternal Smile: Three Stories

Gene Luen Yang YA741/YAN
A collection of three graphic stories featuring Duncan, a charming prince hoping to win the princess’s hand; Gran’pa Greenbax, a greedy old frog who longs to find true happiness; and Janet, a busy working woman who thinks she has found true love with a Nigerian prince who contacts her through an email asking for her help in liberating his family.

Orange

Benjamin YA741/BEN
Orange has become so disillusioned with herself that she decides her only option is to kill herself, but a mysterious man stops her just in time and convinces her that she has everything to live for.

Anya’s Ghost

Vera Brosgol YA/Brosgol
In this graphic novel, Anya, embarrassed by her family and lacking confidence in her body and her social skills, finally finds a friend after falling down a well, but quickly learns there are drawbacks to having a ghost for a friend.

Refresh, Refresh

Danica Novgorodoff YA741/NOV
While their fathers are fighting in the war in Iraq, three teenagers–Josh, Cody, and Gordon–are on the brink of graduating high school, but struggle to make the big decisions about their futures.

American Born Chinese

Gene Luen Yang YA741/YAN
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture.

The Plain Janes

Cecil Castelluci YA741/CAS
After a bombing in the city, Jane’s parents move to a suburb where she befriends a three outcasts–all named Jane–and starts a group called People Loving Art in Neighborhoods which tries to enrich their community with art but instead is viewed as a threat.

Perspolis

Marjane Satrapi YA741/SAT
Contains black-and-white comic strip images in which the author shares the story of her life in Tehran, Iran, where she lived from ages six to fourteen while the country came under control of the Islamic regime.

My Boyfriend is a Monster: I Love Him to Pieces

Evonne Tsang YA741.5/TSA
St. Petersburg High school juniors Dicey Bell, a baseball star, and Jack Chen, who loves science and role-playing, discover a mutual attraction when paired for a school project, but on their first date, a zombie-producing fungus sends them on the run.

My Boyfriend is a Monster: Made for Each Other

Evonne Tsang YA741.5/TSA
When Maria meets the new boy at her high school, Tom Stone, the two feel a connection, but Maria finds it hard to get to know Tom, the son of Persephone Falls, Alaska’s new funeral director. After learning that Tom is not Franklin Stone’s real son and that the family is into recycling in a new way, Maria finds herself having to fight to keep her new boyfriend.

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