New YA Books - August 2014 Edition

Yes, the school year is rapidly approaching, but there is JUST enough time to get some fun reading in before it starts!

The Things You Kiss Goodbye by Leslie Connor

YA FIC CONNOR

Bettina can hardly believe it when basketball star Brady asks her out. Over the course of the summer, Bettina falls in love with Brady . . . but when school starts up again, Brady changes. What happened to the sweet boy she fell in love with? When tragedy strikes, Bettina must tell her family the truth--and kiss goodbye the things she thought she knew about herself and the men in her life.

Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal by Margarita Engle

YA FIC ENGLE

Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders face discrimination, segregation, and harsh working conditions when American recruiters lure them to the Panamanian rain forest in 1906 to build the great canal.

The Great Greene Heist by Varian Johnson

YA FIC JOHNSON

Jackson Greene has a reputation as a prankster at Maplewood Middle School, but after the last disaster he is trying to go straight--but when it looks like Keith Sinclair may steal the election for school president from Jackson's former best friend Gabriela, he assembles a team to make sure Keith does not succeed.

The Garden of Darkness by Gillian Murray Kendall

YA FIC KENDALL

When a disease nearly wipes out Earth's adult population, four children journey to find a cure, allegedly held by the one adult still alive.

(Don’t You) Forget About Me by Kate Karyus Quinn

YA FIC QUINN

Gardnerville seems like a paradise. But every four years, a strange madness compels the town's teenagers to commit terrible crimes. Four years ago, Skylar's sister, Piper, led her classmates on a midnight death march into a watery grave. Now Piper is gone. And to get her back, Skylar must find a way to end Gardnerville's murderous cycle.

Drowned by Nichola Reilly

YA FIC REILLY

Coe is one of the few remaining teenagers on the post-apocalyptic island of Tides. The only priority is survival. Is there an escape from the horrific nightmare that their island home has become? Coe must race to find the answers and save the people she cares about, before their world and everything they know is lost to the waters.

Blue Sea Burning by Geoff Rodkey

YA FIC RODKEY

Egg is determined to take down ruthless slave trader Roger Pembroke. But war is brewing among the Blue Sea's pirate gang, and Egg, Guts, and Kira are running out of time to find the Fire King's treasure and free the Okalu slaves from the silver mine on Sunrise. Can they save Kira's people before Sunrise is plundered by Ripper Jones's pirates?

One Past Midnight by Jessica Shirvington

YA FIC SHIRVINGTON

Each night, eighteen-year-old Sabine transitions between a life of privilege and security but no intimacy to one of economic struggle but loving relationships, and the difficulty of this strange situation causes her to consider suicide, at least in one physical reality.

The Shadow Hero by Gene Leun Yang

YA GRAPHIC YANG

Hank just wants to enjoy his quiet life running the family grocery store with his father, but his mother wants him to become a superhero and clean up their Chinatown neighborhood.

Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper MatchRockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices by William Gurstelle

YA 531.55 GUR

This updated and expanded step-by-step guide enables ordinary folks to construct more than 13 awesome ballistic devices using inexpensive household or hardware store materials.

Sniffer Dogs: How Dogs (And Their Noses) Save the World by Nancy F. Castaldo

YA 636.7 CAS

A dog's nose is so sensitive that if a human could see as well as a dog could smell, we would be able to see the small letters on an eye chart from four miles away. Is it any wonder then that dogs can be trained to find missing people in piles of rubble or a certain flower blooming amongst hundreds or thousands of other smells?

Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Treaties, Trenches, Mud,and Blood: A World War I Tale by Nathan Hale

YA GRAPHIC 940.3 HAL

World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist. Easy to understand, funny, informative, and lively, this series is the best way to be introduced to some of the most well-known battles (and little-known secrets) of the infamous war.