New Fiction for August 2008
Averett, Edward. The Rhyming Season. YA/ AVE
The grace of basketball, the rhythm of poetry, and the eccentricities of small town life come together in this novel about the one season that changes everything.
Bodeen, S.A. The Compound. YA/ BOD
Fifteen-year-old Eli, locked inside a radiation-proof compound built by his father to keep them safe following a nuclear attack, begins to question his future, as well as his father's grip on sanity as the family's situation steadily disintegrates over the course of six years.
Calonita, Jen. Secrets Of My Hollywood Life :--On Location : A Novel. YA/ CAL
Life is good for Hollywood princess Kaitlin Burke, ready to star in a movie by her favorite director, but an old love and a scheming new publicist complicate her already hectic existence.
De La Cruz, Melissa. Masquerade. YA/ DEL
The story of the powerful New York "blue bloods" continues in this book, as the young vampire Schuyler Van Alen travels to Venice to find someone who can help her solve the recent rash of young blue blood deaths in New York.
Fehler, Gene. Beanball. YA/ FEH
Twenty-eight free-verse narrators relate the impact of a beanball on star center fielder Luke "Wizard" Wallace--a wild pitch that shatters his skull and destroys the vision in his left eye.
Gehrman, Jody. Confessions of a Triple-Shot Betty. YA/ GEH
Sixteen-year-olds Geena, Hero, and Amber spend the summer working at a Sonoma, California coffee shop, where they experience romance, identity crises, and newfound friendships.
Gemmell, David. Troy series. YA/ GEM
This trilogy, beginning with Fall of Kings, followed by Lord of the Silver Bow and finally Shield of Thunder, tells the story of Achilles, Agamemnon, Odysseus, and others fighting the Trojan War.
Gerber, Linda, and others. S.A.S.S. (Students Across the Seven Seas) series. YA/ SAS
This sassy book transports teen girls to enticing worlds of international travel, adventure, and even romance through the experiences of studying abroad.
Grant, Michael. Gone. YA/ GRA
In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.
Green, Simon. The Unnatural Inquirer. YA/ GRE
John Taylor, a private investigator who specializes in working the Nightside, a hotbed of supernatural activity in London, is hired by the editor of the "Unnatural Inquirer" to find Pen Donavon who vanished shortly after announcing he has evidence of the Afterlife on DVD, and the nearly impossible task gets more complicated when Taylor realizes there is someone else even more determined to find Donavon first.
Halam, Ann. Snakehead. YA/ HAL
Compelled by his father Zeus to accept the evil king Polydectes's challenge to bring the head of the monstrous Medusa to the Aegean island of Serifos, Perseus, although questioning the gods' interference in human lives, sets out, accompanied by his beloved Andromeda, a princess with her own harsh destiny to fulfill.
Jinks, Catherine. The Genuis Squad. YA/ JIN
After the Axis Institute is blown up, fifteen-year-old Cadell Piggot is unhappily stuck in foster care with constant police surveillance to protect him from the evil Prosper English until he gets an offer to join a mysterious group called Genius Squad.
Jones, Frewin. The Faerie Path series. YA/ JON
Anita's life was ordinary until she discovered she was Tania, the lost princess of Faerie.
Jongman, Mariken. Rits. YA/ JON
When his father runs off with his girlfriend and his distraught mother is admitted to an institution, thirteen-year-old Rits goes to live with his uncle and tries to make the best of his unusual circumstances.
Kadohata, Cynthia. Outside Beauty. YA/ KAD
Thirteen-year-old Shelby and her three sisters must go to live with their respective fathers while their mother, who has trained them to rely on their looks, recovers from a car accident that scarred her face.
L'Engle, Madeleine. The Joys of Love. YA/ LEN
Elizabeth Jerrold pursues her dream of becoming an actress after her high school graduation, and lands a position as an apprentice in a summer theater company where she falls in love with an aspiring director.
Marr, Melissa. Ink Exchange. YA/ MAR
Seventeen-year-old Leslie wants a tattoo as a way of reclaiming control of herself and her body, but the eerie image she selects pulls her into the dangerous Dark Court of the faeries, where she draws on inner strength to make a horrible choice.
Marriott, Zoë. The Swan Kingdom. YA/ MAR
When Alexa's mother is killed, her father marries a cunning and powerful woman and her brothers disappear, sending Alexa on a long, dangerous journey as she attempts to harness the mystical power she inherited from her mother and restore the kingdom to its proper balance.
McPhee, Peter. New Blood. YA/ McP
Callum's family moves from Glasgow to Winnipeg, Canada, after he is beaten nearly to death by bullies, hoping for a new start in a new country, but trouble seems to follow the teen who finally gets tired of running.
Mills, Sam. The Viper Within. YA/ MIL
Bitter and angry after his parents' divorce, Jon joins a cult, The Religion of Hebetheus, at his high school and soon becomes embroiled in a plot to kidnap a fellow student and suspected terrorist, but their plans go terribly wrong.
Nanji, Shenaaz. Child of Dandelions. YA/ NAN
In Uganda in 1972, fifteen-year-old Sabine and her family, wealthy citizens of Indian descent, try to preserve their normal life during the ninety days allowed by President Idi Amin for all foreign Indians to leave the country, while soldiers and others terrorize them and people disappear.
Patterson, James. Dangerous Days of Daniel X. YA/ PAT
Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence of Earth and another planet are at stake.
Pressler, Mirjam. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie. YA/ PRE
Johanna discovers that her grandfather acquired his clothing store by taking it from a family of Jews during the Nazi regime.
Richards, Justin. The Chaos Code. YA/ RIC
Fifteen-year-old Matt and his new friend Robin search the globe to retrieve an ancient code--rumored to have brought down the ancient civilization of Atlantis--from the hands of a madman who is bent on destroying the modern world.
Roe, Monica. Thaw. YA/ ROE
Talented athlete and high school senior Dane is admitted to a facility to undergo therapy for Guillain-Barre syndrome and is forced to reevaluate his life and attitude when the treatment doesn't seem to be working.
Shepard, Sara. Pretty Little Liars series. YA/ SHE
Best friends Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna find themselves under suspicion when the mysterious stranger named A tries to blame one of the girls for the death of their friend Alison and threatens to reveal the girls' darkest secrets.
Swoish, Tammy. Hot Scots, Castles, and Kilts. YA/ SWO
Sixteen-year-old Sami and her romance-writer mother spend a month in Scotland fixing up an old farm as a tourist destination, while Sami and her new friend Fiona hunt for the resident ghost and Sami helps resolve a centuries-old feud.
Taylor, Drew. The Night Wanderer. YA/ TAY
This unique blend of Gothic romance and modern coming-of-age story takes place on an Indian reservation. Sixteen-year-old Tiffany is surprised when her father rents out a spare room to a creepy stranger, Pierre L'Errant.
Volponi, Paul. Hurricane Song. YA/ VOL
Twelve-year-old Miles Shaw goes to live with his father, a jazz musician, in New Orleans, and together they survive the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in the Superdome, learning about each other and growing closer through their painful experiences.
Womack, Philip. The Other Book. YA/ WOM
Capable of elevating men to heroism or destroying them through malice and evil, The Other Book has laid dormant for four hundred years, waiting for someone to restore it to its original glory. Edward Pollock lives an ordinary life at his boarding school until he comes in contact with the book.
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