NEW FICTION

F—ABR

Reality check by Peter Abrahams

After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody’s college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town; but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.

F—BAC

Ship breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.

F—BED

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds she is living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.

F—BLA

The poison eaters by Holly Black

A collection of short stories for younger readers that feature fantasy elements and illustrations, including “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown,” “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” “Paper Cuts Scissors,” and more.

F—BOG

The house of tomorrow by Peter Bognanni

Sebastian Prendergast, having left the safety of the geodesic dome in which he lived after his grandmother had a stroke, meets sixteen-year-old Jared Whitcomb, and together the boys experience the angst of being teenagers while forming a punk rock band, but when Jared’s grandma asks him to return to her home, he is faced with choosing between her dying wish and his newfound life.

F—CHR

Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.

F—DOC

For the win by Cory Doctorow

A group of teens from around the world find themselves drawn into an online revolution arranged by a mysterious young woman known as Big Sister Nor, who hopes to challenge the status quo and change the world using her virtual connections.

F—DON

Room: a novel by Emma Donoghue

Five-year-old Jack has spent his life living in an eleven-by-eleven foot space his mother calls Room and while Jack uses his imagination to create wondrous fantasies to entertain himself, his mother dreads the day her son begins to question why they must remain in Room and tries to find a way to escape.

F—JOC

Folly by Marthe Jocelyn

In a parallel narrative set in late nineteenth-century England, teenaged country girl Mary Finn relates the unhappy conclusion to her experiences as a young servant in an aristocratic London household while, years later, young James Nelligan describes how he comes to leave his beloved foster family to live and be educated at London’s famous Foundling Hospital.

F—KNO

Girl in translation by Jean Kwok

Ah-Kim Chang and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn, where they work for Kim’s Aunt Paula in a Chinatown clothing factory earning barely enough to keep them alive; however, Kim’s perseverance and hard work earns her a place at an elite private school where she is befriended by Annette, who helps her adjust to American culture.

F—MEY

The bad queen: rule and instructions for Marie-Antoinette by Carolyn Meyer

In eighteenth-century France, Marie Antoinette rails against the rules of etiquette that govern her life even as she tries to fulfill her greatest obligation, giving birth to the next king, but she finds diversion in spending money on clothing, parties, and gambling despite her family’s warnings and the whispers of courtiers.

F—PAT

The postcard killers: a novel by James Patterson and Liza Marklund

New York police detective Jacob Kanon searches for the killer of his daughter and her boyfriend, who were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in other European cities have been found dead with little to connect the murders except a postcard to the local newspaper. Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm, and they think they know where to find the next victims.

F—PEE

Life: an exploded diagram by Mal 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.

F—PLU

Fire will fall by Carol Plum-Ucci

Moved to a mansion in the south Jersey Pine Barrens, four teenagers, trying to recover from being poisoned by terrorists, struggle with health issues, personal demons, and supernatural events, as operatives try to track down the terror cell.

F—TAY

Daughter of smoke & bone by Laini Taylor

Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters, the chimaerae, form the only family she has ever known.

F—WOO

The freak observer by Blythe Woolston

Suffering from a crippling case of post-traumatic stress disorder, sixteen-year-old Loa Lindgren tries to use her problem solving skills, sharpened in physics and computer programming, to cure herself.

NEW NON-FICTION

322.4—BAR

They called themselves the K.K.K.: the birth of an American terrorist group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Documents the history and origin of the Ku Klux Klan from its beginning in Pulaski, Tennessee, and provides personal accounts, congressional documents, diaries, and more.

323.1196—BOW

Spies of Mississippi: the true story of the spy network that tried to destroy the civil rights movement by Rick Bowers

Chronicles how the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission attempted to halt racial integration in the 1950s and 1960s through an extensive propaganda effort to label civil rights leaders and their followers as communists.

327.73—JAN

The dark game: true spy stories by Paul B. Janeczko

A collection of true spy stories from throughout the history of the United States, discussing personalities, missions, traitors, technological advances, and more.

614.18—INF

Influenza, Clay Farris Naff, ed.

Contains fourteen articles that provide varying perspectives on issues related to influenza, providing an overview of the disease, surveying various flu viruses, and discussing controversies about influenza, personal experiences with influenza, and related topics.

615.954—FOO

Food-borne diseases, Arthur Gillard, ed.

Provides an overview of food-borne diseases, explaining their causes, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

616.836—CER

Cerebral palsy, Jacqueline Langwith, ed.

616.978—AUT

Autoimmune diseases, Jacqueline Langwith, ed.

Provides an overview of autoimmune diseases, explaining their causes, transmission, symptoms, and sharing personal narratives.

616.99—LUN

Lung cancer, Jacqueline Langwith, ed.

Presents a study of lung cancer and discusses what it is and what causes the disease, how it can be treated, how to live with it, and the future of medical research.

743.4—RHE

How to draw wizards: discover the secrets to drawing, painting, and illustrating a world of sorcery by John Rheaume

Offers step-by-step instructions for drawing and painting wizards including materials, character design tips, and basic techniques.

743.87—BUT

How to draw vampires by Mike Butkus and Merrie Destefano

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing, painting, and digitally creating a variety of vampires, including a provocative vampire slayer, a romantic teenage vampire, and a flying deadly vampire. Includes vampire lore as a background to this how-to-draw book.

743.87—BUT

How to draw zombies: discover the secrets to drawing, painting, and illustrating the undead by Mike Butkus and Merrie Destefano

A guide to drawing, painting, and illustrating zombies that provides step-by-step instructions for creating different types of undead monsters.

813.54—WAR

War in Tim O’Briens’ The things they carried, Gary Wiener, ed.

Provides a background on the life of American novelist Tim O’Brien and his influences, features twenty-three articles that explore war in his novel “The things They carried,” and examines issues of war in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

931.1 RUB

Every bone tells a story: Hominin discoveries, deductions, and debates by Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw

Discusses the unearthing of four hominins—Turkana Boy, Lapedo Child, Kennewick Man, and Iceman—and the ways that new technology has helped archaeological specialists to refine their theories and change their view of the past.

973.7—GOU

The horrors of Andersonville: life and death inside a civil war prison by Catherine Gourley

Tells the story of Andersonville, a Civil War prison camp in Georgia where thousands of Union prisoners died in the last fourteen months of the war, drawing from a variety of documents to consider whether the prison’s commandant, Captain Henry Wirz, was justifiably convicted and hanged.