New Arrivals
Every month our library receives new books that are selected for young adults. Most of these books have won awards, and come highly recommended.

SELECT THIRTEEN YOUNG ADULT

DECEMBER, 2007

BEAUTIFUL CITY OF THE DEAD    by Leander Watts     
After joining a heavy metal band, high school student Zee learns that she is a god of water and is called upon to fight sinister forces that want her powers for their own.

BLIND FAITH    by Ellen Wittlinger
While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her mother's resulting depression and fascination with a spiritualist church, whose ministers claim to communicate with the dead, fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer.

GUNSTORIES: LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCES WITH GUNS
      by S. Beth Atkin
Guns are a fact of life for young people growing up in the United States. They are found in homes for protection, sport, and hunting. Guns are also on the street for defense and security, and in gang-related uses. Guns can cause accidents, and even deaths, while they can also nurture self-esteem and athletic abilities. The impact of guns on young people's lives is  undebatable, and often dramatic.

JUMP CUT    by Max Allan Collins    
Criminal Minds. Summary: The Behavioral Analysis Unit, an elite team of FBI profilers, are tasked with examining the nation's most twisted criminal minds-anticipating their next moves before they strike again.
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LETTING GO OF LISA    by Lurlene McDaniel 
Home-schooled for most of his education, Nathan enters the public high school as a senior where he meets a beautiful girl with a secret and together they learn about loving, living, and dying.

MONKEY TOWN: THE SUMMER OF THE SCOPES TRIAL       by Ronald Kidd       
When her father hatches a plan to bring publicity to their small Tennessee town by arresting a local high school teacher for teaching about evolution, the resulting 1925 Scopes trial prompts fifteen-year-old Frances to rethink many of her beliefs about religion and truth, as well as her relationship with her father.

THE POSSIBLILTY OF FIREFLIES    by Dominique Paul       
Fourteen-year-old Ellie fights to keep her life together while her emotionally unstable mother deteriorates and her rebellious older sister begins to hang out with a rough crowd.

RASH    by Pete Hautman  
In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.
SO THIS IS HOW IT ENDS    by Tui T. Sutherland 
Avatars bk. 1. Summary: During an earthquake in the year 2012 five teens are transported seventy-five years into the future, where the end of the world is imminent, and are drawn together by a mysterious force.

STAY WITH ME    by Garret Freymann-Weyr    
When her sister kills herself, sixteen-year-old Leila goes looking for a reason and, instead, discovers great love, her family's true history, and what her own place in it is.

SWEET 16    by Kate Brian      
On the night of her sweet sixteen birthday party, self-centered snob Teagan Phillips receives a visit from a special person who tries to convince the teenager to change the way she lives her life.

TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE    by Zoran Drvenkar 
On a secret visit to her father's grave, sixteen-year-old Alissa discovers the crypt of a child and acquires terrible powers from which only her friend Evelin can save her.

TERRIER    by Tamora Pierce     
Beka Cooper bk. 1. Summary: When sixteen-year-old Beka becomes "Puppy" to a pair of "Dogs," as the Provost's Guards are called, she uses her police training, natural abilities, and a touch of magic to help them solve the case of a murdered baby in Tortall's Lower City.