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