More New Fiction for February 2008
Alexie, Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian. YA/ ALE
Junior, a budding cartoonist, leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white school.
Clarke, Judith. One Whole And Perfect Day. YA/ CLA
When her grandmother decides to throw party, Lily can't imagine how her "freakish" family will make it through the day.
Jenkins, A.M. Repossessed. YA/ JEN
Readers will relish this devilishly funny look at the complexities of being a teen in this unforgettable and endearing story of a demon's sojourn on earth, where he learns more than he ever expected about humans and himself.
Le Guin, Ursula K. Powers. YA/ LEG
In this third book in the Annals of the Wester Shore series, Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and inexplicably, he sometimes remembers things that are going to happen in the future.
Limb, Sue. Girl, Barely 15: Flirting For England. YA/ LIM
Jess Jordan is barely 15. Fred is her often-aggravating best guy friend; her father is a lonely bachelor; Flora is her gorgeous best friend, a constant liability; and Ben Jones is barely a twinkle in her eye.
Marks, Graham. Omega Place. YA/ MAR
Seventeen-year-old Paul Hendry runs away from home and joins Omega Place, a radical organization intent on upsetting England's country-wide closed-circuit surveillance system, but soon discovers that the other members of the group may not be entirely altruistic.
Mccaughrean, Geraldine. The White Darkness : A Novel. YA/ MCC
Taken by the man she thinks of as her uncle from England to Antarctica for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
Peet, Mal. Tamar. YA/ PEE
When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box with a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland fifty years before.
Vrettos, Adrienne. Sight. YA/ VRE
Dylan has visions of the last moments in a child's life and helps the police by giving them clues, but she keeps the most personal information about the victims to herself until Cate moves to town, but is Cate all she seems to be?
Zarr, Sara. Sweethearts. YA/ ZAR
As children, Jennifer Harris and Cameron Quick were one another's only friend. So when Cameron disappears without warning, Jenna thinks she has lost her one true friend. When Cameron suddenly reappears, both confront their changed lives.
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