| Welcome to this month's eHighlights newsletter for kids and teens. Check back on the second Thursday of every month for a new edition listing some of the best new youth titles added to OverDrive's Marketplace. The featured titles below are some of the best picks, but don't miss the complete list of 200 titles! Click on the link below to see these and even more great purchases conveniently placed for you into a Marketplace cart. Click here to view the Marketplace cart of these titles and more.
Top Authors: No Annotation Needed David A. Adler – Cam Jansen and the Joke House Mystery – Ages 7-8 – Penguin Holly Black and Cassandra Clare – The Iron Trial – Ages 9-11 – Scholastic eBook and Books on Tape audiobook; first in a new series by these two blockbuster authors. P. C. Cast – The Fledgling Handbook 101 – Ages 12-14 – Macmillan; Companion to House of Night. Carl Hiaasen – No Surrender – YA – Random House eBook & Books on Tape audiobook; Skink series. Pittacus Lore – The Revenge of Seven– YA – HarperCollins eBook and audiobook; Lorien Legacies. Mike Lupica – Fantasy League – Ages 9-11 – Penguin eBook and Books on Tape audiobook Rachel Renee Russell – Tales from a Not So Happily Ever After – Simon & Schuster eBook and audiobook; Dork Diaries 8. Maggie Stiefvater – Blue Lily, Lily Blue – Ages 12-14 – Scholastic; Raven Cycle series Book 3. Tui T. Sutherland – Against the Tide – Ages 9-12 – Scholastic eBook; Spirit Animals series Book 5. Cynthia Voigt – Book of Secrets– Ages 9-11 – Random House eBook and Books on Tape audiobook. Mister Max, Book 2.
Picture Books Tracey Fern, illus. by Emily Arnold McCully – Dare the Wind Macmillan The true story of Ellen Prentiss, who in the early 1800s learned sailing and navigation from her father, a sea captain. She married another sea captain and served as his navigator when he was given command of The Flying Cloud, one of the most famous of clippers, and this book tells the story of their record breaking journey from New York City to San Francisco in 1859. Kirkus and PW starred reviews.
Sanrio – Hello Kitty, Hello Halloween Hello Kitty tries to decide on her Halloween costume. This book is in our newly available Fixed Format, which means simply that the digital book displays illustrations in the way that the author and illustrator intended. Check the Marketplace cart linked at the top and bottom of the page for other great Halloween titles as well.
Fiction for Early Readers Chris Duffy – Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists – Ages 8-9 Nineteen top cartoonists each tell a fairy tale—some classic, but some not so well known. Second in the series after the Eisner-nominated Nursery Rhyme Comics. Starred Reviews from Booklist and Publisher Weekly.
Chris Monroe – Bug on a Bike – Ages 6-7 Rhyming silliness makes this book a hit, but the illustrations just may steal the show. A ladybug hops on his bike and begins inviting friends to come along on a ride, but he won't tell them where he's going. It turns out that it's a birthday party, and the hilarious pictures show the pickle breakdancing, the clams eating buckets of nachos, and a bunny on a skateboard.
Middle Grade Fiction Lynda Beauregard – The Missing Cuckoo Clockand The Whispering Lake Ghosts– Ages 9-11 Books 5 and 6 in the Summer Camp Science Mystery series. This series of graphic novels teaches about math and science while the kids in the story solve a mystery. The first title is about the science of gravity, and the second is about sound. Click here to see all the books in the series.
Stuart Gibbs – Space Case – Ages 9-11 A whodunit set on the moon, and the details of what life on a moon base would be like are a bonus. 12-year-old Dash Gibson is totally bored in Moon Base Alpha, but when the beloved base physician dies, he is convinced it's murder. Kirkus starred review.
Teens Scott Westerfeld – Afterworlds Booklist, SLJ, and PW starred reviews. Darcy Patel has finished high school and is accepted at her college of choice, but when her "Hindu paranormal romance" novel that she pounds out during National Novel Writing Month is accepted with a large advance, she decides to move to New York, revise her novel and being the second one. Westerfeld has masterfully written two novels in one, with alternating chapters between Darcy's story, and the story in her novel. Booklist, SLJ, PW starred reviews.
Rick Yancey – The Infinite Sea The first book in this series—last year's The Fifth Wave, received rave reviews in adult media like Entertainment Weekly and The NY Times Book Review, plus starred reviews from Kirkus, PW, and Booklist. Now, the second book in the series continues the story of Cassie and her brother Ben and friends, who are fighting aliens who have managed to kill 7 billion humans in the first waves of their attacks. Yancey is a Printz finalist and the author of Carnegie medal honor book.
Nonfiction Mike Dillingham et al. – Alaska Dogs and Iditarod Mushers– Ages 12-14 True adventures of four famous sled dogs.
Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illus. by Brian Floca – Ballet for Martha – Ages 7-8 Newly available in eBook, this was an ALA Notable Book, a Kirkus and SLJ Best Book of the Year, and received starred reviews from Booklist, Kirkus, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Horn Book. It tells the story of the creation of one of the most beloved ballets—Appalachian Spring, with beautiful watercolor illustrations.
Yona Zeldis McDonough – Little Author in the Big Woods – Ages 9-11 An autobiography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, making it clear that her books were largely autobiographical. Supplemented by recipes, games, and crafts of the time.
S. D. Nelson – Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story– Ages 9-11 Another ALA Notable Book newly available. This story of Black Elk, who fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn, traveled with Buffalo Bill, and was injured at the Massacre of Wounded Knee, received starred reviews from Booklist and School Library Journal, and won multiple awards.
Jacqueline Woodson – Brown Girl Dreaming – Ages 9-11 The memoir of the beloved award winning author is told in her very recognizable voice: "I am born in Ohio but the stories of South Carolina already run like rivers through my veins.” Written in free verse. Starred reviews from all sides: Booklist, Horn Book, Kirkus, PW, SLJ.
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Thursday, September 11, 2014
Weekly eHighlights: Kids and teens edition
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