New Young Adult Fiction Books
New arrivals added to our Young Adult Fiction Collection in the last 7 days
Title |
Date added | |
|---|---|---|
| The Catastrophic History of You & Me by Rothenberg, Jess. |
Just before her sixteenth birthday, Brie Eagan literally dies of a broken heart when her boyfriend tells her he does not love her, and she then must go through the five stages of grief, while watching her friends and family try to cope with her death, before her faith in love is restored and she can move on to the afterlife. |
May 17, 2013 |
| The crossing by Hager, Mandy. |
On the post-apocalyptic island of Onewere, Maryam lives a cloistered life, chosen as a young child to fulfill religious duties and join the island's spiritual leader when she reaches puberty--a fate she tries to escape after learning the truth. |
May 18, 2013 |
| The Cydonian pyramid by Hautman, Pete, 1952- author. |
Tucker Feye and Lah Lia each hurtle through time, relating their stories in alternating viewpoints that converge at crucial moments. |
May 18, 2013 |
| The dark shore by Emerson, Kevin. |
On the run from EdenWest, Owen, Lily, and Leech cross North American deserts seeking Atlantis and find a third Atlantean, the wild child Seven, who is goddess of the Heliad-7 death cult in Yucatan. |
May 18, 2013 |
| The elementals by Mitchell, Saundra. |
In 1917, Kate Witherspoon, who has lived a bohemian life with her artist parents, goes to Los Angeles where she meets crippled midwestern farm boy Julian Birch, another runaway, and together they realize they have the ability to triumph over death and time. |
May 18, 2013 |
| The Elite by Cass, Kiera. |
"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is one of only six girls still competing in the Selection--but before she can fight to win Prince Maxon and the Illean crown, she must decide where her own heart truly lies"-- |
May 18, 2013 |
| The end games by Martin, T. Michael. |
"In the rural mountains of West Virginia, seventeen-year-old Michael Faris tries to protect his fragile younger brother from the horrors of the zombie apocalypse"-- |
May 18, 2013 |
| The fairest beauty by Dickerson, Melanie. |
Sophie is trying desperately to escape her stepmother's jealousy, when a young man named Gabe arrives from Hagenheim Castle announcing that she is betrothed to his older brother. As Gabe, who is also betrothed, fulfills his mission to find Sophie, emotional conflict ensues as they realize that their feelings for each other have developed into romance, though they are both promised to other partners. |
May 18, 2013 |
| The girl in the clockwork collar by Cross, Kady, 1971- |
Sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne and her "straynge band of mysfits" have journeyed from London to America to rescue their friend Jasper, hauled off by bounty hunters. But Jasper is in the clutches of a devious former friend demanding a trade ; the dangerous device Jasper stole from him for the life of the girl Jasper loves. One false move from Jasper and the strange clockwork collar around Mei's neck tightens. And tightens. From the rough streets of lower Manhattan to elegant Fifth Avenue, the motl |
May 18, 2013 |
| The hidden deep by Kinde, Christa. |
Fourteen-year-old Prissie Pomeroy has adjusted to the knowledge that many of the "people" she knows in her town are actually angels, but one of them, Adin, is not what he claims to be--and a new boy named Ransom is not making her life any easier. |
May 18, 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 18, 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 15, 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 15, 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 18, 2013 |
| The Lazarus machine by Crilley, Paul, 1975- |
In an alternate 1899 London, seventeen-year-old Sebastian Tweed searches for his kidnapped father, uncovering both a horrific technological secret and a political conspiracy that could destroy the British Empire. |
May 18, 2013 |
| The loop by Lawson, Shandy. |
In New Orleans, Louisiana, star-crossed teens Ben and Maggie try to find a way to escape the time loop that always ends in their murder. |
May 18, 2013 |
| The Lucy variations by Zarr, Sara. |
"Sixteen-year-old San Franciscan Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. Her chance at a career has passed, and she decides to help her ten-year-old piano prodigy brother, Gus, map out his own future, even as she explores why she enjoyed piano in the first place."-- |
May 18, 2013 |
| The milk of birds by Whitman, Sylvia, 1961- |
When a nonprofit organization called Save the Girls pairs a fourteen-year-old Sudanese refugee with an American teenager from Richmond, Virginia, the pen pals teach each other compassion and share a bond that bridges two continents. |
May 16, 2013 |
| The murmurings by West, Carly Anne. |
After her older sister dies from an apparent suicide and her body is found hanging upside down by one toe from a tree, sixteen-year-old Sophie starts to hear the same voices that drove her sister to a psychotic break. |
May 18, 2013 |
| The Originals by Patrick, Cat. |
Seventeen-year-olds Lizzie, Ella, and Betsy Best are clones, raised as identical triplets by their surrogate mother but living as her one daughter, Elizabeth, until their separate abilities and a romantic relationship force a change. |
May 18, 2013 |