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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
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