Graphic Novels:
Card Captor Sakura omnibus vol. 2 -- The beautiful new teacher in Sakura's class, Kaho Mizuki, soon reveals that she's a shrine maiden with magic powers of her own. But as always, the struggle to capture the Clow cards is woven together with the mysterious - and complicated - threads of love and affection between Sakura and all the people in her life. Will her heart be strong enough as she faces the one who will judge her worthiness to master the cards at last?
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, adapted by Dragon Leigh and illustrated by Emma Vieceli -- Runaway vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.
Hero Tales vols 1-3 by Hiromu Arakawa -- Legend speaks of seven heroes, each one bearing the power of one of the stars of the Big Dipper. Two of these stars are constantly in conflict, destined to battle and throw the world into chaos...these are their tales!
Slam Dunk vol. 17 by Takehiko Inoue -- the much anticipated game between Ryonan High and Kainen High is heating up, but then word reaches Captain Akagi that Coach Anzai has collapsed!
Possessions vols 1-2 by Ray Fawkes -- Gurgazon the Unclean (demon or little girl?) is determined to escape once she becomes part of Mrs. Llewellyn-Vane's collection of captured spirits and ghostly curiosities. Or will her spirit finally be broken by offers of ice cream and friendship?
Flight vol 8, edited by Kazu Kibuishi -- a visual feast of short stories, beautifully illustrated and fascinating to read.
Fiction:
Hidden by Helen Frost -- When fourteen-year-olds Wren and Darra meet at a Michigan summer camp, both are overwhelmed by memories from six years earlier when Darra's father stole a car, unaware that Wren was hiding in the back.
There's No Place Like Home by Jen Calonita -- bk. 6 of Secrets of My Hollywood Life -- Seventeen-year-old Kaitlin Burke is back in Los Angeles after her brilliant run on Broadway, but her new sitcom is such a success that she finds herself again wishing for a normal life when a bad run-in with aggressive paparazzi puts her boyfriend Austin in danger. (The rest of the series is on order)
Brother/Sister by Sean Olin -- Told in alternating perspectives, Will and Asheley relate the events of the summer and explain how their lives became violently out of control.
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