Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool

Call Number: YA Vanderpool

ISBN: 0385742096

Publication Date: 2013-01-08

Odyssey-like adventure of two boys' incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with

pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters

Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross

Call Number: YA Ross

ISBN: 0375990054

Publication Date: 2013-06-11

Sixteen-year-old Maude Pichon, a plain, impoverished girl in Belle Epoque Paris, is hired by

Countess Dubern to make her headstrong daughter, Isabelle, look more beautiful by comparison but

soon Maude is enmeshed in a tangle of love, friendship, and deception

The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson

Call Number: YA Sanderson

ISBN: 0765320320

Publication Date: 2013-05-14

As Wild Chalklings threaten the American Isles and Rithmatists are humanity's only defense, Joel

can only watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice

Allegiant (Divergent Series) byVeronica Roth

Call Number: YA Roth

ISBN: 006202406X

Publication Date: 2013-10-22

The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered--fractured by violence and

power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past

the limits she's known, Tris is ready

The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan

Call Number: YA Crossan

ISBN: 1599909677

Publication Date: 2013-07-23

Twelve-year-old Kasienka and her mother have immigrated to Coventry, England from Poland,

searching for Kasienka's father, but everyone is unfriendly except for an African neighbor and a boy

Kasienka meets at the swimming pool, which is her only refuge from an alien society

Zebra Forest by Adina Rishe Gewirtz

Call Number: YA Gewirtz

ISBN: 0763660418

Publication Date: 2013-04-09

Eleven-year-old Annie and her younger brother are being raised by their Gran and are surrounded by

family secrets, but everything changes when an escaped criminal shows up at their house and takes

them all hostage.

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The False Prince (Ascendance Trilogy, Book 1) by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Call Number: YA Nielsen

ISBN: 0545284139

Publication Date: 2012-04-01

In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be

selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war. Ascendency

Trilogy (Book 1)

Rebel Fire (Sherlock Holmes, the legend begins) by Andrew Lane

Call Number: YA Lane

ISBN: 0374387680

Publication Date: 2012-04-24

In 1868, teenaged Sherlock Holmes discovers that his American tutor is hunting a notorious killer

who was supposedly killed by the United States government, but who is apparently alive and well in

Surrey, England

Insignia (Book 1) by S. J. Kincaid

Call Number: YA Kincaid

ISBN: 0062093002

Publication Date: 2013-06-04

Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to

begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized

drones that do the actual fighting off-planet

Cinder (Lunar Chronicles, Book 1) by Marissa Meyer

Call Number: YA Meyer

ISBN: 0312641893

Publication Date: 2012-01-03

Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her

stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's

life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle

Graphic Novels

Primates by Jim Ottaviani; Maris Wicks (Illustrator)

Call Number: MS GRA 599.8 Ott

ISBN: 1596438657

Publication Date: 2013-06-11

In graphic novel format, explores the lives and work of scientists Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and

Biruté Galdikas, who lived with and studied chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, respectively, in

their natural habitats, creating between them a body of work that greatly improved our

understanding of primates, including humans

Science Fiction

The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau

Call Number: YA Charbonneau

ISBN: 0547959109

Publication Date: 2013-06-04

Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University;

however, Cia is fearful when she figures out that her friends who do not pass The Testing are

disappearin

When We Wake by Karen Healey

Call Number: YA Healey

ISBN: 0316200778

Publication Date: 2014-03-18

My name is Tegan Oglietti, and on the last day of my first lifetime, I was so, so happy.

Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027--she's happiest when playing the

guitar, she's falling in love for the first time, and she's joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the

world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice.

But on what should have been the best day of Tegan's life, she dies--and wakes up a hundred years in

the future, locked in a government facility with no idea what happened

Orleans by Sherri L. Smith

Call Number: YA Smith

ISBN: 0147509963

Publication Date: 2014-03-06

First came the storms.

Then came the Fever.

And the Wall.

After a string of devastating hurricanes and a severe outbreak of Delta Fever, the Gulf Coast has been

quarantined. Years later, residents of the Outer States are under the assumption that life in the Delta

is all but extinct…but in reality, a new primitive society has been born.

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In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters

Call Number: YA Winters

ISBN: 141970530X

Publication Date: 2013-04-02

In San Diego in 1918, as deadly influenza and World War I take their toll, sixteen-year-old Mary

Shelley Black watches desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort and,

despite her scientific leanings, must consider if ghosts are real when her first love, killed in battle,

returns

45 Pounds (More or Less) by Kelly Barson

Call Number: YA Barson

ISBN: 0670784826

Publication Date: 2013-07-11

Here are the numbers of Ann Galardi's life: She is 16 . And a size 17 . Her perfect mother is a size 6 .

Her Aunt Jackie is getting married in 2 months, and wants Ann to be a bridesmaid. So Ann makes up

her mind: Time to lose 45 pounds (more or less). Welcome to the world of informercial diet plans,

wedding dance lessons, endless run-ins with the cutest guy Ann's ever seen--and some surprises

about her not- so-perfect mother

Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger

Call Number: YA Carriger

ISBN: 031619008X

Publication Date: 2013-02-05

In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school

where, she is surprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette,

but also diversion, deceit, and espionage

Enclave by Ann Aguirre

Call Number: YA Aguirre

ISBN: 0312551371

Publication Date: 2012-08-07

The Huntress Duece is drawn to her new partner, Fade, a mysterious boy who is not afraid to break

the rules of the elders, and as she learns of the elders' deceptions, she and Fade push the enclave to

test their faith and protect themselves from unexpected dangers

Mira in the Present Tense by Sita Brahmachari

Call Number: YA Brahmachari

ISBN: 080755149X

Publication Date: 2013-09-01

Mira begins to discover the secrets of those around her and also starts to keep some of her own. She

is drawn to mysterious Jide, a boy who is clearly hiding a troubled past. As Mira is experiencing grief

for the first time, she is also discovering the wondrous and often mystical world around her

School Spirits byRachel Hawkins

Call Number: YA Hawkins

ISBN: 1423148495

Publication Date: 2013-05-14

Fifteen-year-old Izzy, who comes from a long line of monster hunters, investigates a series of

hauntings at her new high school.

Far Far Away by Tom McNeal

Call Number: YA McNeal

ISBN: 0375849726

Publication Date: 2013-06-11

When Jeremy Johnson Johnson's strange ability to speak to the ghost of Jacob Grimm draws the

interest of his classmate, Ginger Boltinghouse, the two find themselves at the center of a series of

disappearances in their hometown

Seeing Red by Kathryn Erskine

Call Number: YA Erskine

ISBN: 0545464404

Publication Date: 2013-09-24

When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their

automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale

even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions

Biography

Steve Jobs by Karen Blumenthal

ISBN: 125001557X

Publication Date: 2012-02-14

Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one semester, and at the

age of twenty, created Apple in his parents' garage with his friend Steve Wozniack. Then came the

core and hallmark of his genius--his exacting moderation for perfection, his counterculture life

approach, and his level of taste and style that pushed all boundaries. A devoted husband, father, and

Buddhist, he battled cancer for over a decade, became the ultimate CEO, and made the world want

every product he touched.

Charles and Emma byDeborah Heiligman

Call Number: MS 576.8 Hei

ISBN: 0805087214

Publication Date: 2009-01-06

A biography of English naturalist Charles Darwin that provides an account of the personality behind

evolutionary theory and the affect of his work on his personal life, such as his relationship with his

religious wife

TIME to READ

How They Croaked byGeorgia Bragg; Kevin O'Malley (Illustrator)

Call Number: MS 920 Bra

ISBN: 0802798179

Publication Date: 2011-03-15

Shares the sometimes gruesome details of the deaths of nineteen famous historical figures, including

King Tut, Pocahontas, George Washington, Edgar Allan Poe, and Marie Curie