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By Stacey Lee. 2016
San Francisco, California; 1906. Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong--daughter of Chinese immigrants--struggles to hold her own among the spoiled heiresses at prestigious…
St. Clare's School for Girls. When tragedy strikes, everyone must put aside their differences and band together to survive. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2016By Elisa Carbone, Nancy Carpenter. 2012
When the Pliny, a huge steamship, runs aground off the New Jersey coast in 1882, two boys and their families…
are among the passengers dramatically rescued by members of the U. S. Life-Saving Service. Includes notes about the event on which the story is based. For grades K-3. 2012By Lea Lyon, Reem Faruqi. 2015
Lailah is delighted that she can fast during the month of Ramadan like her family and her friends in Abu…
Dhabi, but finding a way to explain the fast to her teacher and classmates in Atlanta is a challenge until she receives some good advice from a librarian. For grades K-3. 2015By Laura Watkinson, Anna Woltz. 2016
Furious at her father and his scandal, fifteen-year-old Emilia runs away from Amsterdam to New York City, where she meets…
Seth and his younger sister Abby. Then hurricane Sandy hits and plunges them into darkness. Translated from the original 2014 Dutch edition. Violence. For senior high and older readers. 2016By Mara Rockliff, Hadley Hooper. 2016
By Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth Cobbs. 2016
Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler are firebrands in different parts of the world until they are brought together during the…
American Revolution. They both work for freedom and deeply love one another, despite challenges from both outside and inside their marriage. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2016By Courtney Sheinmel, Jennifer A. Bell. 2014
Stella and her family drive to Los Angeles to attend her aunt Laura's wedding. Stella is excited to be a…
flower girl, but things don't go as planned, and she is involved in a few mishaps. For grades 3-6. 2014By Katharine McGee. 2016
2118. In a magnificent thousand-story tower in New York City, a girl falls to her death from the penthouse floor.…
Five teens--Avery, Leda, Eris, Rylin, and Watt---are tangled up in a web of lies, betrayals, and desires--and one will die. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2016By William Ritter. 2016
Miss Rook and Jackaby search for the killer of Jennifer Cavanaugh, the ghost lingering in Jackaby's residence. But soon a…
new, similar murder sheds light on the ten-year-old cold case. Sequel to Jackaby; Beastly Bones (DB 83832). Violence. For senior high and older readers. 2016By Matthew J. Kirby. 2016
In order to clear his father's name, fifteen-year-old Owen accesses his genetic memories with a machine called Animus. But he…
ends up unlocking and entering a history he never fathomed. Based on Ubisoft Entertainment's video game Assassin's Creed. Some violence. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2016By Heather Vogel Frederick. 2016
Emma, Jess, Megan, Becca, and Cassidy go to Camp Lovejoy in New Hampshire to serve as counselors. When some of…
the young campers become homesick, the friends decide to start a summer-camp book club. Sequel to The Complete Mother-Daughter Book Club Collection (DB 81149). For grades 5-8. 2016By Wendy Mills. 2016
Interweaving stories of two sixteen-year-olds. Modern-day Jesse tries to cope with the ramifications of her brother's death on 9/11; and…
back in 2001, Alia, a Muslim, gets trapped in one of the Twin Towers with a boy who changes everything for her as flames rage around them. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2016By Adam Selzer. 2016
After taking a summer job with a Chicago ghost-tour company, eighteen-year-old Megan is disturbed by increasing reports of "real" ghost…
sightings along the route and investigates. There are just some things a gal can't ignore. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2016By David Roberts, Julian Clary. 2015
After two hyenas in Africa find discarded passports beside a crocodile pond, they decide to take on the identities of…
the humans, the Bolds, and move to Teddington, England, to raise a family. Problems arise when Mr. McNumpty, their nosy neighbor, takes an interest in them. For grades 2-4. 2015By Sharon Creech. 2016
When her parents find themselves unemployed, twelve-year-old Reena and her family move to a coastal Maine town. Unsure what to…
expect, Reena is surprised that her parents volunteered her to help on an elderly lady's farm filled with crazy animals, including an ornery cow named Zora. For grades 3-6. 2016By Alyson Noël, Alyson Noel. 2016
Aspiring reporter Layla, budding actress Aster, and guitar player Tommy find themselves with a VIP invite to the world of…
Los Angeles nightlife. They are lured into a competition with Hollywood's hottest starlet, Madison Brooks, as the target. Then Madison goes missing. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2016By Alexander Cordell. 1986
Brunel, Stephenson, Locke and Vignoles - these were the magic names.And under them 10,000 laboured, blasting, shovelling and digging, changing…
the contours of Britain for a new age of railways. Among them is Nick Wortley, whose love for the daughter of the local mill owner is cruelly thwarted. Taking flight he is drawn by the irresistable clamour of the great Sheffield to Manchester, a railway which is preparing to drive a path of steel under thePennines. Stephenson said it was impossible; Nick and his companions will provehim wrong, but at a terrible price...By Maggie O'Farrell. 2013
Set during the legendary summer of 1976, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE by Maggie O'Farrell was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa…
Novel Award and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.'The Riordans will stay in your mind long after you finish this book. They're funny, infuriating and impossible not to love. They feel like family' Irish TimesIt's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back. The search for Robert brings Gretta's children - two estranged sisters and a brother on the brink of divorce - back home, each with different ideas as to where their father might have gone. None of them suspects that their mother might have an explanation that even now she cannot share.By Keris Stainton. 2011
Jessie's just arrived in New York, hoping to forget about her awful ex.New Yorker Finn is in love with his…
best friend's girlfriend.They might be perfect together, but in a city of eight million people, will they find each other?By Courtney Sheinmel, Jennifer A. Bell. 2015
Stella gets a chance to audition for her favorite television show when she meets a casting director who thinks she…
is perfect for the role. She rehearses her lines until she knows the part by heart, but the audition does not go as planned. For grades 3-6. 2015