New Books @theLibrary
November 2019
New Books for Fall Reading
We are getting new books @theLibrary all the time!
These are only 15 of the 100+ titles we've added.
If these new titles are checked out, please put them on hold using our catalog. If you have questions, please ask! We love to help @theLibrary!
Allies by Alan GratzHistorical Fiction, WW2. "It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this is the most important day of the twentieth century, and both children want to fight, and survive." 780L | The 57 Bus by Dashka SlaterRealistic Fiction. LGBTQ+. "If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes" 930L. | Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner Realistic Fiction. Grief.""Looks at a teen's life after the death of his best friend and how he navigates through the guilt and pain by celebrating their lives--and ultimately learning to forgive himself" 620L |
Allies by Alan Gratz
Historical Fiction, WW2.
"It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this is the most important day of the twentieth century, and both children want to fight, and survive." 780L
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
Realistic Fiction. LGBTQ+. "If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes" 930L.
Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose OlderFANTASY. ART. "When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends." | How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon REALISTIC FICTION. GUN VIOLENCE. "When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree" | Replica by Lauren Oliver SCIENCE FICTION. "[Presents] two novels which can be read separately or in alternating chapters. In "Lyra," two experimental subjects escape from the Haven Institute, where human replicas are created and observed; [and] in "Gemma," a lonely, often-ill teenager discovers her father's connection to the Haven Institute and travels there, meeting the escaped replicas"--OCLC. |
Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
FANTASY. ART.
"When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends."
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
Replica by Lauren Oliver
Apocalypse Taco by Nathan Hale Graphic Novel. "Twins Axl and Ivan, with Sid as their driver, make a late-night fast-food run for a high school theater crew but return to discover that aliens have made copies of everything" | Maker Comics: Bake Like a Pro by Falynn KochNon-fiction. How-to. In graphic novel format, looks at the simple science behind baking. | Pan's Labyrinth by G. del Toro and C. Funke FANTASY. "[Interconnected] short stories . . . flesh out the folklore of [the world of Pan's Labyrinth] . . . Takes readers to a sinister, magical, and war-torn world filled with richly drawn characters like trickster fauns, murderous soldiers, child-eating monsters, courageous rebels, and a long-lost princess hoping to be reunited with her family" |
Apocalypse Taco by Nathan Hale
Maker Comics: Bake Like a Pro by Falynn Koch
Non-fiction. How-to.
In graphic novel format, looks at the simple science behind baking.
Pan's Labyrinth by G. del Toro and C. Funke
Slay by Brittney Morris Realistic Fiction. Gaming. Race. "An honors student at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old Keira enjoys developing and playing Slay, a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture, until the two worlds collide." | The Team Curse; A League of the Paranormal Bk by I. Keats Supernatural. "When Isaac joins the notoriously terrible Middleton High baseball team, he gets frustrated by the lack of effort from his teammates. But then he learns the team is cursed and becomes determined to end it"- | Disaster Strikes by Jeffrey Kluger Non-fiction. Space Missions.""There are so many . . . missions to outer space that have succeeded. But for every success, there are mistakes, surprises, and flat-out failures that happen along the way. In this collection . . . recounts twelve such disasters, telling the stories of the astronauts and the cosmonauts, the trials and the errors, the missions and the misses" |
Slay by Brittney Morris
The Team Curse; A League of the Paranormal Bk by I. Keats
Disaster Strikes by Jeffrey Kluger
The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi FANTASY. "When twelve-year-old Farah and her two best friends get sucked into a mechanical board game called The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand--a puzzle game akin to a large Rubik's cube--they know it's up to them to defeat the game's diabolical architect in order to save themselves and those who are trapped inside, including her baby brother Ahmed. But first they have to figure out how. Under the tutelage of a lizard guide named Henrietta Peel and an aeronaut Vijay, the Farah and her friends battle camel spiders, red scorpions, grease monkeys, and sand cats as they prepare to face off with the maniacal Lord Amari, the man behind the machine. Can they defeat Amari at his own game...or will they, like the children who came before them, become cogs in the machine?" | The Girl in the Well is Me by Karen Rivers REALISTIC FICTION. MEAN GIRLS. Eleven-year-old Kammie reflects on her life as she fights claustrophobia while waiting to be rescued from a well she fell into while trying to impress some mean girls. | The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Pods MYSTERY. REALISTIC FICTION. "A mystery writer's daughter sets out to find her missing father and, along the way, begins to understand the loneliness that has gripped them both since her mother abandoned them years before." |
The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi
The Girl in the Well is Me by Karen Rivers
Eleven-year-old Kammie reflects on her life as she fights claustrophobia while waiting to be rescued from a well she fell into while trying to impress some mean girls.