Off The Shelf---West Media Center
New Fiction Issue # 7
New Fiction!
Stop by the West Media Center and check out a great read!
Before my eyes by Caroline Bock
Told in three separate voices, dreamy Claire, seventeen, with her complicated home and love life, shy Max, also seventeen, a state senator's son whose parents are too focused on the next election to see his pain, and twenty-one-year-old paranoid schizophrenic Barkley teeter on the brink of destruction.
Goodbye, Rebel Blue by Shelley Coriell
Rebecca "Rebel" Blue, a loner rebel and budding artist, reluctantly completes the bucket list of Kennedy Green, an over-committed do-good classmate who dies in a car accident following a stint in detention where both girls were forced to consider their morality and write bucket lists.
Ask again later by Liz Czukas
Instead of a "No Drama Prom-a" with a group of friends, seventeen-year-old Heart LaCoeur must choose between two boys with good reasons for asking her, but a flip of a coin leads not to one date but two complete--and very different--prom nights.
Nowhere to run by Claire J. Griffin
School runner Calvin and his best friend Deej get suspended from school on a trumped-up charge and Calvin has some tough choices to make.
Her dark curiosity : a Madman's daughter novel /bk. 2 by Megan Shepherd
Back in London after escaping from her father's island and the secrets she left behind, Juliet Moreau strives to stop a killer while searching for a serum to cure her own worsening illness.
When Mr. Dog bites by Brian Conaghan
All seventeen-year-old Dylan Mint wants is to keep his Tourette's in check and live as a normal teen, but during a routine hospital visit he overhears that he is going to die, and in an attempt to claim the life he has always wanted he makes a list of "Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It" and sets out to have some fun.
The secret side of empty by Maria E. Andreu
As a straight-A student with a budding romance and loyal best friend, M.T.’s life seems as apple-pie American as her blondish hair and pale skin. But M.T. hides two facts to the contrary: her full name of Monserrat Thalia and her status as an undocumented immigrant.
Rumble by Ellen Hopkins
Eighteen-year-old Matt's atheism is tested when, after a horrific accident of his own making that plunges him into a dark, quiet place, he hears a voice that calls everything he has ever disbelieved into question.
Going over by Beth Kephart
In the early 1980s Ada and Stefan are young, would-be lovers living on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall--Ada lives with her mother and grandmother and paints graffiti on the Wall, and Stefan lives with his grandmother in the East and dreams of escaping to the West.
Free to fall by Lauren Miller
In a near-future world where everyone is controlled by their smartphones, sixteen-year-old Rory Vaughn suddenly begins listening to the voice within--which kids are taught to ignore--and discovers a terrible plot at the heart of the corporation that makes the devices.
Anatomy of a misfit by Andrea Portes
The third most popular girl in school's choice between the hottest boy in town and a lonely but romantic misfit ends in tragedy and self-realization.
The young world /bk. 1 by Chris Weitz (Series: Young World Trilogy.)
Jefferson, with his childhood friend Donna, leads a tribe of teenagers in New York City on a dangerous quest to find an antidote for a mysterious illness that wiped out all adults and children.
Andre the Giant : life and legend by Box Brown
A graphic novel about the life and career of Andre Roussinoff, the seven and a half foot tall, six hundred pound professional wrestler known as Andre the Giant.
The graveyard book / bk.1 based on the novel by Neil Gaiman ; adapted by P. Craig Russell
The first volume of a two-volume graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The graveyard book, in which the orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures. But Bod must remain in the graveyard, for leaving it could mean his death at the hands of a man named Jack--the man who murdered Bod's family.
Star wars : rite of passage script, John Ostrander ; pencils, Jan Duursema ; inks, Ray Kryssing ; colors, Brad Anderson ; letters, Digital Chameleon.
A graphic novel in which Quinlan Vos and his newly advanced Jedi Knight, Aayla Secura, face off against father-and-son assassins--whose life's work is training to fight Jedi--as they struggle to rescue their imprisoned mentor Master Tholme and an abducted noble son from the planet Ryloth.