NEW ADULT BOOKS
Both Fiction and Non-Fiction

KELLERMAN, JONATHAN:  NIGHT MOVES, an Alex Delaware novel.
WOODS, STUART:  SHOOT FIRST
CONNELLY, MICHAEL:  TWO KINDS OF TRUTH
MINROSE, GWIN:  WISHING FOR SNOW
McCAFFERTY, KEITH:  COLD HEARTED RIVER a new author to try.
LEWIS, BEVERLY:  THE ROAD HOME 
LEWIS, TIMOTHY:  FOREVER FRIDAY
HANNON, IRENE:  DANGEROUS ILLUSIONS
KRENTZ, JAYNE ANN:   WHEN ALL THE GIRLS HAVE GONE & TRUST NO ONE    

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NEW JUVENILE BOOKS
K-3

Hockey by Mari Schuh, The Ants Go Marching a count and sing board book by Priscilla Burris, Bath! Bath! Bath! (board book) by Douglas Florian, Easter Fun! (board book) by Jo Ryan, Fun in the Sun! (board book) by Jo Ryan, Chicks in the Barn (board book) by Aly Fronis, Coyote Moon by Maria Gianferrari, Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes, Jojo and the Big Mess by Jane O’Connor, Pete the Cat and the Cool Caterpillar by James Dean, Fancy Nancy: Time for Puppy School by Jane O’Connor, Big Cat, Little Cat by Elisha Cooper, Ice in the Jungle by Ariane Hofmann-Maniyar.

Francine Poulet Meets the Ghost Raccoon by Kate DiCamillo.  Francine Poulet is the greatest animal control officer in Gizzford County.  Francine is never scared—until she’s faced with a screaming raccoon who may or may not be a ghost.  But whether Francine is scared or not, there’s a raccoon on the loose, and the folks of Deckawoo Drive need her.

 Leroy Ninker Saddles Up by Kate DiCamillo. Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots.  What he doesn’t have is a horse—until he meets Maybelline, and then it’s love at first sight. But when Leroy forgets the third and final rule of caring for Maybelline, disaster ensues.  Can Leroy wrestle fate to the ground and rescue the horse of his heart?


JUVENILE
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles /Ghostbusters Volume 2 (graphic novel) by Erik Burnham & Tom Waltz, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle /Ghostbusters Volume 3 (graphic novel) by Erik Burnham & Tom Waltz, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle /Ghostbusters Volume 4 (graphic novel) by Erik Burnham & Tom Waltz, Grand Canyon (non-fiction) by Jason Chin, I Survived: The American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis.

Check out this fa-mouse-ly funny story, The Cheese Experiment by Geronimo Stilton. New Mouse City was in a panic.  A strange epidemic had broken out—mice everywhere were covered in weird blue spots!  Mouse Island’s most famouse doctor immediately set to work with his team to try to find the cure . . . but someone wat trying to stop him.  Can the main character find out who before he ends up blue himself?

The storm came out of nowhere . . .  Eleven-year-old John Hale has already survived one brutal Dakota winter, and now he’s about to experience one of the deadliest blizzards in American history.  The sorm of 1888 was a monster, a frozen hurricane that slammed into America’s Midwest without warning.  Within hours, hundreds would be dead, thousands terrified, lost, and freezing.  John’s inner strength is seriously tested when he finds himself trapped in the blinding snow, the wind like a giant crushing hammer pounding him over and over again.  Will John ever find his way home? I Survived, The Children’s Blizzard, 1888 by Lauren Tarshis.

Rules by Cynthia Lord.  No toys in the fish tank.  Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life.  Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability.  She’s spent years trying to teach David the rules from “a peach is not a funny-looking apple” to “keep our pants on in public”—in order to head off David’s embarrassing behaviors.  But the summer Catherine meets Jason, a surprising, new sort-of friend, and Kristi, the potential next-door friend she’s always wished for, it’s her own shocking behavior that turns everything upside down and forces her to ask: What is normal?

A day that will challenge the nation . . . The only thing Lucas loves more than football is his dad’s friend Benny, a firefighter and former football star.  He taught Lucas the game and helps him practice.  So when Lucas’s parents decide football is too dangerous and he needs to quit, Lucas has to talk to his biggest fan.  On a whim, Lucas takes the train to the city instead of the bus to school.  It’s a bright, beautiful day in New York. But just as Lucas arrives at the firehouse, everything changes . . . and nothing will ever be the same again.  I Survived: The Attacks of September 11, 2001.
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The best beneath the mountain is restless . . . No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet.  The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes—and always goes back to sleep.  But Marcus is afraid.  He knows something is terribly wrong—and his father, who trusts science more than mythical beasts, agrees.  When Vesuvius explodes into a cloud of fiery ash and rocks fall from the sky like rain, will they have time to escape—and survive the epic destruction of Pompeii? I Survived, The Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79.

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NEW YOUNG ADULT
YA

Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical.  But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight.  Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: If he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his secret will become everyone’s business.  Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing with, will be jeopardized.  With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more every day, Simon’s junior year has gotten all kinds of complicated.  Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable person he’s never met. 
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Levon Grady keeps to himself.  His classmates at the Clock School know him as brilliant and handsome, but unreachable.  Samantha Vash is new to the Clock School.  She spent the last year in mental health facilities, where she was treated for crippling depression after a suicide attempt.  No one really knows Levon or Sam, but when their guidance counselor, Meg, pairs them for a unique senior project, their stories begin to emerge, first in their own voices, and then from points of view of the people in their lives, the people who know them best. Love is Both Wave and Particle, by Paul Cody, is the story of Levon and Sam.  But it’s also the story of love.  Love that suffocates.  Love that paralyzes.  Love that can shed light on even the darkest heart.  And love that sometimes when the conditions are just right, has the ability to save.