| Authors writing for the teen audience have really been knocking it out of the park with some amazing new titles! This week, we highlight some of the new and noteworthy YA titles your teen patrons will love. There are some great dramas this week in Liv, Forever by Amy Talkington, If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch, the California Diaries Series by Ann M. Martin and The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton. Or if you have teen readers who are still loving all things steampunk, check out The Girl with the Iron Touch by Kady Cross. Fantasy and sci-fi are also not to be missed with The Maze Runner author James Dashner's new novella Gunner Skale: An Eye of Minds Story, a fresh spin on what's going on in Oz with Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Page, and Earth Star by Janet Edwards. Happy Reading! 
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Fiction
Lucy Connors – The Lonesome Young The Rhodales and the Whitfields have been sworn enemies for close on a hundred years, with a whole slew of adulterous affairs, financial backstabbing, and blackmailing that’s escalated the rivalry to its current state of tense ceasefire. Victoria Whitfield and Mickey Rhodale are about to find out the most passionate romances are the forbidden ones. Romantic Times Most Anticipated YA Books of 2014
Kady Cross – The Girl with the Iron Touch When mechanical genius Emily is kidnapped by rogue automatons, Finley Jayne and her fellow misfits fear the worst. What’s left of their archenemy, The Machinist, hungers to be resurrected, and Emily must transplant his consciousness into one of his automatons or forfeit her friends’ lives. eBook newly available.
James Dashner – Gunner Skale: An Eye of Minds Story From James Dashner, the New York Times bestselling author of the Maze Runner series, comes an original thirty-page e-short returning fans to the fast-paced, high-tech world from The Eye of Minds, the first book in the Mortality Doctrine series. Find out how Gunner Skale, the best gamer on the VirtNet, becomes a legend in this story available exclusively online. Not available in print format.
Janet Edwards – Earth Star The highly anticipated follow-up to Janet Edward’s sensational YA sci-fi debut, Earth Girl. 18-year-old Jarra has a lot to prove. After being awarded one of the military’s highest honors for her role in a daring rescue attempt, Jarra finds herself – and her Ape status – in the spotlight. An Amazon Best Book of the Month.
John Green – The Fault In Our Stars Just in case you missed this bestseller when Penguin books became available for schools, we thought we'd remind you. The movie is coming on June 6!
Jaleigh Johnson – The Mark of the Dragonfly Piper has never seen the Mark of the Dragonfly until she finds the girl amid the wreckage of a caravan in the Meteor Fields. The girl doesn’t remember a thing about her life, but the intricate tattoo on her arm is proof that she’s from the Dragonfly Territories and that she’s protected by the king. Which means a reward for Piper if she can get the girl home. An Amazon Best Book of the Month. 100,000 print run.
Julie Kagawa – The Forever Song Allie will embrace her cold vampire side to hunt down and end Sarren, the psychopathic vampire who murdered Zeke. But the trail is bloody and long, and Sarren has left many surprises for Allie and her companions. Goodreads Can’t Wait Books of 2014 #42. 150,000 print run.
Sherrilyn Kenyon – Illusion: Chronicles of Nick, Book 5 Nick Gautier is tired of his destiny. He doesn’t want to be the son of a demon who’s fated to end the world. Nor does he want to see another demon or other preternatural creature who wants to kill or enslave him. He just wants to be normal and have normal problems like everyone else. But normality isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Goodreads Can’t Wait Books of 2014 #45. 350,000 print run.
M. E. Kerr – Deliver Us from Evie, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack, Frankenlouse, Gentlehands, Hello I Lied, Is That You Miss Blue? Little, Little, Someone Like Summer M. E. Kerr has been described by The New York Times as "one of the grand masters of young adult fiction." She has won multiple awards for her novels, some of which are now newly available in eBook format.
Ann M. Martin – California Diaries Series Ann M. Martin's California Diary Series is newly available in eBook format. The series is a spinoff of The Baby-Sitters Club books. The premise is that students are required to keep a journal for a school project, and each book covers a part of a journal for that girl. The series covers more mature subject matter than The Baby-Sitters Club books, such as alcohol, eating disorders, cancer, and more.
Emily Murdoch – If You Find Me A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey’s younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one fateful day their mother disappears for good, and two strangers arrive. Booklist, SLJ, Kirkus Starred Reviews. 2013 book, but newly available.
Danielle Page – Dorothy Must Die "Dorothy. They say she found a way to come back to Oz. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. And now no one is safe. My name is Amy Gumm–and I’m the other girl from Kansas. I’ve been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked. I’ve been trained to fight." An Amazon Best Book of the Month. 125,000 print run.
Amy Talkington – Liv, Forever When Liv Bloom lands an art scholarship at Wickham Hall, it’s her ticket out of the foster system. Liv isn’t sure what to make of the school’s weird traditions and rituals, but she couldn’t be happier. But Liv’s bliss is doomed. Weeks after arriving, she is viciously murdered and, in death, she discovers that she’s the latest victim of a dark conspiracy that has claimed many lives. Debut fiction with lots of buzz. 50,000 print run.
Leslye Walton – The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender Ava, in all other ways a normal girl, is born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit in with her peers, sixteen-year old Ava ventures into the wider world, ill-prepared for what she might discover and naive to the twisted motives of others. An Amazon Best Book of the Month.
Nonfiction
William H. Harrison – Spanish Memory Book: A New Approach to Vocabulary Building The Intermediate Spanish Memory Book makes use of a series of mnemonic jingles that are by turns playful, sardonic, touching, and heroic to help both students and independent learners acquire and remember Spanish vocabulary.
Mark C. Purcell – Mindfulness for Teen Anger Using proven effective mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), Mindfulness for Teen Anger teaches teens the difference between healthy and unhealthy forms of anger.
R. Kent Rasmussen – World War I for Kids Emphasizing connections among events as well as the war’s influence on later historical developments, it leads young readers to fully understand the most important aspects of the war, including how the war came about, how changing military technology caused the western front to bog down into a long stalemate, how the war fostered an era of rapid technological advances, and how the entry of the United States helped end the war. 100th Anniversary of World War I coming in July
Murray Shukyn, Dale E. Shuttleworth, Achim Krull – GED Test for Dummies, Quick Prep Edition This complete guide provides test-prep instruction and information on the question types that apply to the 2014 GED test, and provides a quick check-up to test one's preparedness.
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Weekly eHighlights: Teen edition
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