Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Recent Returns

Here are 5 recently returned titles from the YA return cart:

Peach Girl: Change of Heart, vol 1 by Miwa Ueda - this graphic novel tells the story of Peach Girl, Momo, and her complex love life. She's just gotten settled in her relationship with Kiley, when her sworn enemy Sae shows up, and plots to break them up. But when trouble strikes, Momo realizes that she may not know Kiley as well as she thought. Can she work hard enough to make this relationship last? Read along and find out. 3 copies - 74 checkouts!

Gamer Girl by Mari Mancusi - Maddy is devoted to her online gaming, so when she's forced to move with her grandmother to a small town after her parents divorce, she turns to her character online, where she doesn't seem odd and geeky. And then Allora meets the charming, considerate Sir Leo, who sweeps her off her feet. Could it be true love? When her true life problems intrude, though, she's forced to realize that she has to find out who she is IRL as well as online... 1 copy, 9 checkouts.

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan - follow the adventures of 3 new residents of Camp Halfblood, as Jason, Piper and Leo discover that they're no longer the "bad kids". Rather, they're descendants of the Greek Gods, and must rescue Hera, who is being held prisoner by Mother Earth herself. 6 copies, 28 circs for the book, 3 audios, 8 circs for them

Haters by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez - Paski has tried for years to deny, to herself and everyone else, that she has psychic abilities. But from the first day at her new High School in Southern California, Pasquala discovers that the "Haters" rule. And she begins to have disturbing visions that concern beautiful, wicked Jessica Nguyen, who leads them. 3 books, 53 circs and 1 audio for 7 circs

Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley - Jack lives with his father at the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park. He knows that dragons are an endangered species, but he's barely ever seen one. On his first overnight solo campout in the park, he meets a dragon; to his horror, it is wounded, dying. And then Jake discovers something even more terrifying; the dragon's last surviving baby. Jake must decide, very quickly, without anyone to help him, whether to reveal that the dragon has killed her killer, or to keep the secret, and try to raise the baby, in violation of all known laws and safety. 4 copies, 62 circs

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