What’s New Wednesday
Here’s some of our newest YA books. Click the pic to read reviews or place the book on hold!
Jersey Angel (Bauman, Beth Ann)
Shapely seventeen-year-old Angel Cassonetti, who lives with her younger siblings and single mother in a house at the Jersey Shore, finds it hard to stay away from ex-boyfriend Joey Sardone. (Realistic Fiction)
Wentworth Hall (Grahame, Abby)
In 1912 England, eighteen-year-old Maggie Darlington returns from France to learn that her father hopes to restore the family fortunes through her marriage and his guardianship of two orphaned teens, but scandalous satires in the newspaper threaten to spoil his plans and reveal the family’s many secrets. (Historical Fiction - For fans of The Luxe or Gossip Girl)
See You at Harry’s (Knowles, Johanna)
Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible in her family, where grumpy eighteen-year-old Sarah is working at the family restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is struggling with school bullies and his emerging homosexuality, and adorable, three-year-old Charlie is always the center of attention, and when tragedy strikes, the fragile bond holding the family together is stretched almost to the breaking point. (Tearjerker)
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
—Carols Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind (via how-novelistic)
(via booklover)
Enter to win a $25 Barnes & Noble gift card!
Come to our program:
Teen Book Trailer Viewing
Monday, April 30th @ 6-7 pm
All program participants will be entered into a raffle
to win a $25 Barnes & Noble gift card!!!
We’ll be watching book trailers for popular and upcoming teen books. Remember to bring your library card - if you see a trailer you like, we’ll place its matching book on hold for you at the program. Maybe you’ll even win a gift card to buy a copy of your own :)
Registration is required. Sign up online, visit the library or call (908) 369-2200 x 14.
The Kristin Cashore Graceling Realm digital sampler is now available for FREE for all e-reading devices (except B&N, slight glitch there, but should be up and running shortly)! The sampler contains an excerpt of each Graceling, Fire and Bitterblue, AND some exclusive content—letters between Bitterblue, Katsa, Raffin, Bann, and Po that were exchanged the spring before Bitterblue takes place. Links below:
What’s New Wednesday
Here’s some of our newest YA books. Click the pic to read reviews or place the book on hold!
Kill Me Softly (Cross, Sarah)
When sixteen-year-old Mira runs away to discover her secret past, she finds a place where Grimm’s fairy tales come to life, and she cannot avoid her accursed fate. (Fantasy/Fractured Fairytales)
The Obsidian Blade (Hautman, Pete)
After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye’s parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and when he steps inside of one he is whisked on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures. (Science Fiction)
Ghost Flower (Jaffe, Michele)
Eve is a runaway with a shadowy past. Bain and Bridgett approach her as Eve is working at the Starbucks on the outskirts of Tucson. They want Eve, who looks exactly like their cousin Aurora, who disappeared three years ago, to stage Aurora’s return, fool the family, and get the money Aurora is due to inherit and split it with Bain and Bridgett. Eve slips easily into the role of Aurora until the ghost of Eva’s friend Liza, who died on the night Aurora disappeared, says that there is more to her own death than anyone thinks. And is Liza’s ghost there to protect Eve, or does it have an agenda of its own? (Mystery/Ghost Story)
Grave Mercy (LaFevers, Robin)
In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts - and a violent destiny. (Historical Fantasy)
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mademoiselle Odile (Reese, James)
In this prequel to “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” set in 1870’s Paris during the Prussian siege, an orphaned sixteen-year-old girl whose knowledge of witchcraft includes transformation spells meets a young medical doctor from London. (Classic Literature Twists/Witchcraft/Fantasy)
Emma Watson reads.
What’s New Wednesday
Here’s some of our newest YA books. Click the pic to read reviews or place the book on hold!
I Hunt Killers (Lyga, Barry)
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious “Dear Old Dad,” but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father’s wrongs, so he secretly helps police apprehend the town’s newest murderer, “The Impressionist.” (Mystery, Suspense - For fans of Dexter)
Starters (Price, Lissa)
To support herself and her younger brother in a future Beverly Hills, sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder unless her mind can stop it. (Science Fiction, Thriller)
The Final Four (Volponi, Paul)
Four players at the Final Four of the NCAA basketball tournament struggle with the pressures of tournament play and the expectations of society at large. (Realistic Fiction, Sports)
It Doesn't Have to Rhyme - Teen Poetry Compilation ★
In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Somerset County Library System invites students in Grades 6-12 to contribute to the 12th annual teen poetry compilation, “It Doesn’t Have to Rhyme.”
Send your original compositions to:
hil.teens.scls [at] gmail.com
Poems are due April 30th. For submission guidelines and additional information, click the starred link above!
