More New Fiction for August 2008
Beck, Nina. This book isn't fat, it's fabulous. YA/ BEC
Sixteen-year-old Riley Swain, pushed into spending Spring Break at an upstate New York “fat farm” by her father’s fiancée, is happy with her weight but finds she has a lot to learn about friendship and love.
Cabot, Meg. Airhead. YA/ CAB
Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.
Harper, Suzanne. The Juliet Club. YA/ HAR
When high school junior Kate wins an essay contest that sends her to Verona, Italy, to study Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" over the summer, she meets both American and Italian students and learns not just about Shakespeare, but also about star-crossed lovers--and herself.
Hegamin, Tonya. Pemba’s Song. YA/ HEG
As fifteen-year-old Pemba adjusts to leaving her Brooklyn, NY home for small-town Connecticut, a Black history researcher helps her understand the paranormal experiences drawing her into the life of a mulatto girl who was once a slave in her house.
Jones, Frewin. The Faerie Path. YA/ JON
Anita's life was ordinary until she discovered she was Tania, the lost princess of Faerie.
Marsden, John. The Ellie Chronicles. YA/ MAR
Ellie Linton, an Australian teen who engaged in guerilla warfare with invading forces after returning home from a camping trip with friends to find her family and the entire town imprisoned, tries to adjust to life on the farm following theend of hostilities, but finds the peace uneasy both across the border and within herself.
McNish, Cliff. Angel. YA/ McN
An unlikely friendship develops between fourteen-year-olds Stephanie, an angel-obsessed social outcast, and Freya, a popular student whose visions of angels sent her to a mental institution and who is now seeing a dark angel at every turn.
Ostow, Micol. Popular Vote. YA/ OST
In an election year, sixteen-year-old Erin Bright sets aside her familiar supporting role as daughter of the mayor and girlfriend of the student body president to stand up for what she believes in and protect an historic park from being replaced by a gas station.
Pfeffer, Susan. The Dead and the Gone. YA/ PFE
After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.
Reinhardt, Dana. How To Build A House :--A Novel. YA/ REI
Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans hopes to escape the effects of her father's divorce on her family and friendships by volunteering her summer to build a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado.
Shepard, Sara. Flawless. YA/ SHE
In this second installment of the series, the girls face scrutiny from the police because their scandalous ways haven't changed.
Supplee, Suzanne. Artichoke’s Heart. YA/ SUP
When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from the outside.
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