New Young Adult Fiction Books
New arrivals added to our Young Adult Fiction Collection in the last 7 days
| Title |
Date added |
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| Rules of summer by Philbin, Joanna. |
Spending the summer working as an errand girl for the Rule family in the Hamptons, seventeen-year-old Rory befriends the family's teenaged daughter and develops feelings for their older son, but she finds that societal rules can be hard to break. |
May 22, 2013 |
| Witch fire by Powell, Laura, 1979- |
In an alternate London, where witches are registered and allowed to practice, Lucas and Glory, young members of WICA (Witchkind Intelligence and Covert Affairs), are assigned to infiltrate the witch-terrorist organization called Endor but what Glory really wants is to solve the mystery of her missing mother. |
May 22, 2013 |
| Wasteland by Kim, Susan, 1958- |
In a post-apocalyptic world where everyone dies at age nineteen and rainwater contains a killer virus, loners Esther and Eli band together with a group of mutant, hermaphroditic outsiders to fight a corrupt ruler and save the town of Prin. |
May 22, 2013 |
| Invisibility by Cremer, Andrea R. |
"To break his curse of invisibility, a boy is helped by a girl, who is the only one who can see him"-- |
May 22, 2013 |
| The 5th Wave by Yancey, Richard. |
"Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them"-- |
May 22, 2013 |
| Paperboy by Vawter, Vince. |
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month. |
May 22, 2013 |
| Wild awake by Smith, Hilary T. |
"The discovery of a startling family secret leads seventeen-year-old Kiri Byrd from a protected and naive life into a summer of mental illness, first love, and profound self-discovery"-- |
May 22, 2013 |
| The outlaws of Sherwood Street - giving to the poor by Abrahams, Peter, 1947- |
"Robbie and friends, using a magical charm, protect a Canarsee Indian burial ground from urban developers."-- |
May 22, 2013 |
| My chemical mountain by Vacco, Corina. |
The summer before they begin high school, best friends Jason, Charlie, and Cornpop go after the chemical plant that has been polluting their town, one seeking revenge for his father's death and the others mainly for the thrill of it. |
May 22, 2013 |
| Mortal fire by Knox, Elizabeth. |
When sixteen-year-old Canny of the Pacific island, Southland, sets out on a trip with her stepbrother and his girlfriend, she finds herself drawn into enchanting Zarene Valley where the mysterious but dark seventeen-year-old Ghislain helps her to figure out her origins. |
May 22, 2013 |
| Money run by Heath, Jack, 1986- |
Fifteen-year-olds Ashley and Benjamin are planning the heist of a lifetime, but they are not counting on a hit man who has plans of his own. |
May 22, 2013 |
| Meant to be by Morrill, Lauren. |
During an educational trip to London away from her friends and the boy she thinks she is fated to love, Massachussets high school junior Julia Lichtenstein is paired with her nemesis, Jason, and begins seeing many things differently. |
May 22, 2013 |
| The last free cat by Blake, Jon. |
In a future world where only the wealthy can afford to own cats, and only felines bred by the Viafara corporation are legal, Jade finds a beautiful stray cat and risks everything to keep it, aided by her friend Kris. |
May 22, 2013 |
| The language inside by Thompson, Holly |
Raised in Japan, American-born tenth-grader Emma is disconcerted by a move to Massachusetts for her mother's breast cancer treatment, because half of Emma's heart remains with her friends recovering from the tsunami. |
May 22, 2013 |
| Camp by Wolf, Elaine. |
In 1963 at a Maine summer camp, fourteen-year-old Amy Becker is forced to face the camp bully, Rory, family secrets revealed by her cousin Robin, and worry about having to leave her mentally challenged brother with their cold, harsh mother. |
May 22, 2013 |
| Arthur Quinn and the world serpent by Early, Alan. |
When he moves to Dublin, Arthur has premonitions about a great evil that threatens the world and soon finds himself up against the trickster Viking god Loki and the World Serpent. |
May 22, 2013 |
| Arthur Quinn and the Fenris Wolf by Early, Alan |
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May 22, 2013 |
| School spirits by Hawkins, Rachel, 1979- |
Fifteen-year-old Izzy, who comes from a long line of monster hunters, investigates a series of hauntings at her new high school. |
May 22, 2013 |
| The rules for disappearing by Elston, Ashley. |
High school student "Meg" has changed identities so often that she hardly knows who she is anymore, and her family is falling apart, but she knows that two of the rules of witness protection are be forgettable and do not make friends--but in her new home in Louisiana a boy named Ethan is making that difficult. |
May 22, 2013 |
| The Rithmatist by Sanderson, Brandon. |
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. |
May 22, 2013 |