New YA Books @ the West Caldwell Public Library - June 2014

School's finally out, so you've got PLENTY of time to catch up on some new, awesome books this summer!

Starbird Murphy and the World Outside by Karen Finneyfrock

YA FIC FINNEYFROCK

In her sixteen years of life, Starbird has never touched a dollar bill. She's never been in a car. She's never used a cell phone. That's because Starbird has always lived on the Free Family Farm, a commune in the woods of Washington State. But all that is about to change.

The Body in the Woods by April Henry

YA FIC HENRY

While helping the Portland County Sheriff's Search and Rescue to seek a missing autistic man, teens Alexis, Nick, and Ruby find, instead, a body and join forces to find the girl's murderer, forming an unlikely friendship, as well.

The Prince of Venice Beach by Blake Nelson

YA FIC NELSON

Robert "Cali" Callahan, gets swept up into the private-investigator business and must deal with the ramifications of looking for fellow runaways who may not want to be found---and with falling in love with one of them.

Dorothy Must Die by D.M. Paige

YA FIC PAIGE

Whisked to Oz by a Kansas twister, Amy Gumm discovers that the magical land has been destroyed by Dorothy's tyrannical rule, a situation that compels Amy to join an order of deposed magic-wielders who seek to put an end to Dorothy's reign.

She is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick

YA FIC SEDGWICK

A London teenager who is blind and her younger brother travel to New York to find their missing father, using clues from his notebook.

Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii by Vicky Shecter

YA FIC SHECTER

Tagus is a medical slave who wants be a gladiator, Lucia is the daughter of Tag's owner and betrothed to an older man. The two teenagers are in love with each other---but it is the year 79 and soon Vesuvius will alter their lives forever.

The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith

YA FIC SMITH

After making a connection in a stuck elevator during a city-wide blackout, Owen and Lucy stay in touch through postcards, occasional e-mails, and phone calls. But can they -- despite the odds -- find a way to reunite?

A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller

YA FIC WALLER

In 1909 London, as the world of debutante balls and high society obligations closes in around her, seventeen-year-old Victoria must figure out just how much she is willing to sacrifice to pursue her dream of becoming an artist.

Dirt Bikes, Drones, and Other Ways to Fly by Conrad Wesselhoeft

YA FIC WESSELHOEFT

Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.S. military with his first-place ranking on a video game featuring drone warfare, and must reconcile the work they want him to do with the emotional scars he has suffered following a violent death in his family.

The Museum of Intangible Things by Wendy Wunder

YA FIC WUNDER

Best friends Hannah and Zoe leave their down-and-out New Jersey town and drive west chasing storms, making new friends, and seeking the intangibles--audacity, insouciance, happiness--that their lives have lacked.

Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose

YA BIOG ROSE

They say that high school is supposed to be the best time of your life. But what if that's just not true? More than anything, Mary Rose wants to fit in. To be loved. And she'll do whatever it takes to make that happen. Even if it costs her her life.

The Freedom Summer Murders by Don Mitchell

YA 323.1196 MIT

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom Summer murders, this book traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African Americans for the vote.

Hidden Like Anne Frank: Fourteen True Stories of Survival by Marcel Prins

YA 940.53 PRI

Jaap Sitters was only eight years old when his mother cut the yellow stars off his clothes and sent him, alone, on a fifteen-mile walk to hide with relatives. Before the end of the war, Jaap would hide in secret rooms and behind walls. This is just one of the incredible stories in this collection of eye-opening first-person accounts that share what it was like to go into hiding during World War II.

The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight forCivil Rights by Steven Sheinkin

YA 940.54 SHE

On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty men in their bunks, and shattering windows up to a mile away. On August 9th, 244 men refused to go back to work until unsafe and unfair conditions at the docks were addressed. When the dust settled, fifty were charged with mutiny, facing decades in jail and even execution.