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February New Books


Feb 2013 New Books

Wonder Show by Hannah Barnaby
Fourteen-year-old Portia joins a circus freak show looking for the father who abandoned her, but she finds much more.

In the Darkness by Nick Lake (Michael Printz award)
In the aftermath of the Haiti Eartquake, fifteen-year-old poor gang member is trapped and tells his story of violence and his lost twin sister.

Help Thanks Wow by Anne Lamont
Lamont explains how she comes to the insights of God and prayer and what this means to her.

Blink: the power of thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickels: America’s First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone
The role of African-Americans in World War II.

Just One Day by Gayle Forman
Allyson decides “In Just One Day,” to uproot her life to Paris for one year.

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Seraphina is a talented musician, is of royal order and is part dragon-part human.

Delirum by Lauren Oliver (1st in Triology) Do you like Hunger Games??
There is a government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love that leads Lena to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until just before her eighteenth birthday when she falls in love.

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis (Oprah book club)
About the migration African Americans took from the rural south to the north from the 1920s to 1980s.

The Diviners by Libba Bray (1st in Triolgy)
Seventeen-year-old Evie O’Neill moves from small-town Ohio to New York in 1926 and uncovers a mystery.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth
Early 1990s gay teenager Cameron rebels against her conservative Montana ranch town and is sent away to a gay conversion therapy center.

We’ve Got a Job The 1963 Birmingham’s March by Cynthia Levison