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New @ Your CPL - September 2011

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The Gathering The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong || Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a relationship between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets. All Just Glass Cover All Just Glass by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes || Turned into a vampire by the boy she thought she loved, seventeen-year-old Sarah, daughter of a powerful line of vampire-hunting witches, is now hunted by her older sister Adia, who has been given the assignment to kill Sarah.
Chime Cover Chime by Franny Billingsley || In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about. Beauty Queens cover Beauty Queens by Libba Bray || When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island’s other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
 Gaia Warriors Cover Gaia Warriors: Urgent the Fight Is On! by Nicola Davies || Here is a book that takes a clear look at how and why Earth's climate is changing and the ways we can deal with it. Its style is simple and its explanations are compelling, illuminating not only hard facts but also the opinions and potential solutions of scientists all over the world. Nickel Platted Cover Nickel Plated by Aric Davis || Raised in abusive foster homes, Nickel escapes at the age of ten and pays his way by blackmailing online pedophiles, selling marijuana to high school students, and investigating crimes. When a beautiful high school girl named Arrow asks him to find her runaway sister Shelby, Nickel takes the case, but soon discovers that finding Shelby is one thing, surviving is another.
Ten Miles Cover Ten Miles Past Normal by Frances O’Roark Dowell || Because living with “modern-hippy” parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers. The Call Cover The Call by Michael Grant || A seemingly average twelve-year-old learns that he is destined to gather a team of similarly gifted children to try to save the world from a nameless evil, which is threatening to reappear after having been imprisoned for three thousand years.
Warped Cover Warped by Maurissa Guibord || When seventeen-year-old Tessa Brody comes into possession of an ancient unicorn tapestry, she is plummeted into sixteenth-century England, where her life is intertwined with that of a handsome nobleman who is desperately trying to escape a terrible fate. Last Little Blue Postcard Cover The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson || Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist.
Darkest Mercy Cover Darkest Mercy by Melissa Marr || The political and romantic tensions that began when Aislin became Summer Queen threaten to boil over as the Faerie Courts brace against the threat of all-out war. Kick Cover Kick by Walter Dean Myers and Ross Workman || Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
Trapped Cover Trapped by Michael Northrop || Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive. Fire Will Fall Cover Fire Will Fall by Carol Plum-Ucci (sequel to: Streams of Babel) || 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.
Queens of Water Cover The Queen of Water by Laura Reseau and María Virginia Farinango || Living in a village in Ecuador, a Quechua Indian girl is sent to work as an indentured servant for an upper class "mestizo" family. Boyfriends with Girlfriends Cover Boyfriends With Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez || When Lance begins to date Sergio, who's bisexual, he's not sure that it'll work out, and when his best friend Allie, who has a boyfriend, meets Sergio's lesbian friend, she has unexpected feelings which she struggles to understand.
Amulet Cover The Amulet of Samarkand: a Bartimaeus Graphic Novel by Jonathon Stroud || Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace. Orchards Cover Orchards by Holly Thompson || Sent to Japan for the summer after an eighth-grade classmate's suicide, half-Japanese, half-Jewish Kana Goldberg tries to fit in with relatives she barely knows and reflects on the guilt she feels over the tragedy back home.
Kiss Cover Kiss by Jacqueline Wilson || Sylvie and Carl have been friends since they were tiny children. They've always played together, eaten meals with each other's families, called each other boyfriend and girlfriend ... and deep down, Sylvie has always believed that they'll end up married to each other. But as they become teenagers, Carl seems much less happy to be called Sylvie's boyfriend. Sylvie can tell his feelings have changed, but can she guess at the true reasons behind it all? Blink and Caution Cover Blink and Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones || Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot and make an unexpected connection with each other.