Tuesday, June 28, 2011

New YA

Graphic Novels:
Mouse Guard. Legends of the Guard. Vol. 1 -- A collection of stories about the brave, fabled Mouse Guard are told by the patrons in the June Alley Inn, whose proprietor has offered a prize to whoever can tell the greatest tale.
Meanwhile by Jason Shiga -- In this choose-your-own adventure graphic novel, a boy stumbles on the laboratory of a mad scientist who asks him to choose between testing a mind-reading device, a time machine, and a doomsday machine.
Sakura Hime: the Legend of Princess Sakura vol. 2 by Arina Tanemura -- Sakara, on the run after Prince Oura's attempt on her life, is taken in by the ninja Kohaka.
Slam Dunk vol. 16 by Takehiko Inoue -- Thanks to the impressive showing during a scrimmage between Shohoku's rookie and veteran players, Coach Anzai decides to give Sakuragi a crack at playing center. And though the game reveals several of Sakuragi's weaknesses, it also highlights just how far his technique has come in a very short amount of time.
Sky Pirates of Neo Terra by Josh Wagner -- In Neo Terra, a world that blends forgotten technology with natural magic, reckless young glide-wing pilot Billy Boom Boom must outwit the Pirate King to stop him from ushering in a new Dark Age.
Fractured Fables edited by Jim Valentino -- Presents, in comic book format, thirty familiar fairy tales, songs, fables, and stories as retold by such acclaimed authors and illustrators as Ben Templesmith, Jim Di Bartolo, Scott Morse, and May Ann Licudine.

Nonfiction:

Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal -- The rise and fall of Prohibition, and the lawless era that it brought to America.
How They Croaked: the awful ends of the awfully famous by Georgia Bragg -- A look at the deaths of twenty famous people throughout history and the circumstances surrounding those deaths.

Fiction:

Black by D.J. MacHale -- Cooper Foley, who has a knack for getting into trouble, ends up in the middle of a border war between the worlds of the living and the dead, trying to find out about the mysterious Morpheus Road.
Tempest Rising by Tracy Deebs -- On her seventeenth birthday, Tempest must decide whether to remain a human and live on land or submit to her mermaid half, like her mother before her, and enter into a long-running war under the sea.
Night School by Marianne Mancusi -- After learning that their ex-hippie parents are actually fairies, vampire Rayne and her twin sister Sunny are forced to hide out in a secluded Swiss boarding school for vampire slayers that, the twins discover, is hiding some secrets of its own.
Cleopatra Confesses by Caroline Meyer -- Princess Cleopatra, the third (and favorite) daughter of King Ptolemy XII, comes of age in ancient Egypt, accumulating power and discovering love.
Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma -- Two years after sixteen-year-old Chloe discovered classmate London's dead body floating in a Hudson Valley reservoir, she returns home to be with her devoted older sister Ruby, a town favorite, and finds that London is alive and well, and that Ruby may somehow have brought her back to life and persuaded everyone that nothing is amiss.
Double Take: a Novel by Melody Carlson -- Two look-alike, discontented seventeen-year-olds -- one a sophisticated city girl and the other an Amish farm girl -- decide to trade lives for a week.
Flawless by Lara Chapman -- In this modern take on the Cyrano story, brilliant and witty high school student Sarah Burke, who is cursed with an enormous nose, helps her beautiful best friend try to win the heart of a handsome and smart new student, even though Sarah wants him for herself.
Displacement by Thalia Chaltas -- After her younger sister tragically drowns, Vera runs away to a small desert town where she tries unsuccessfully to forget her grief and sorrow.
Love, Inc. by Yvonne Collins -- When three fifteen-year-old Austin, Texas, girls who met in group therapy discover that they are all dating the same boy, they first get revenge and then start a wildly successful relationship consulting business.
Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow -- In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.
Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have) by Sarah Mylnowski -- Sixteen-year-old April, a high school junior, and her friend Vi, a senior, get a crash course in reality as the list of things they should not do becomes a list of things they did while living parent-free in Westport, Connecticut, for the semester.
Fairy Bad Day by Amelia Ashby -- High schooler Emma is devastated to learn that she may not follow in her mother's footsteps as a dragon slayer, but with an unlikely band of allies, she discovers that she may, indeed, be more adept at slaying giant killer fairies.
Blood Red Road by Moira Young -- In a distant future, eighteen-year-old Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister Saba and little sister nine-year-old Emmi are trailing him across bleak Sandsea, they are captured, too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an escape.
Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross -- Finley, who has a beastly alter ego inside of her, joins Duke Griffin's army of misfits to help stop the Machinist, the criminal behind a series of automaton crimes, from carrying out a plan to kill Queen Victoria during the Jubilee.
Between Here and Forever by Elizabeth Scott -- When her older, "perfect" sister Tess has a car accident that puts her in a coma, seventeen-year-old Abby, who has always felt unseen in Tess's shadow, plans to bring her back with the help of Eli, a gorgeous boy she has met at the hospital, but her plans go awry when she learns some secrets about both Tess and Eli, enabling her to make some decisions about her own life.
In the Arms of Stone Angels by Jordan Dane -- Two years after Brenna accused her first love, White Bird, of killing a girl, she discovers he has been placed in a mental hospital, and she soon finds herself trapped in his vision quest and she must fight to free them both.
Teenage Love Affair by Ni-ni Simone -- Seventeen-year-old Zsa-Zsa is torn between her current boyfriend who is abusive and her first love, Malachi.

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