Tuesday, October 18, 2011

New Books

Wonderstruck: a novel in words and pictures by Brian Selznick -- Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.

Game Over by James Patterson -- Daniel X, book 4 - In Tokyo, fifteen-year-old Daniel X faces two of the most dangerous aliens on the planet, who are plotting to use video games to control children and turn them into an army of doom.

Vanish by Sophie Jordan -- sequel to Firelight - To save the life of the boy she loves, Jacinda did the unthinkable: she betrayed the most closely guarded secret of her kind. Now, she must return to the protection of her pride knowing she might never see Will again -- and worse, that because his mind has been shaded, Will's memories of that fateful night and why she had to flee are gone.

Forever by Maggie Stiefvater -- When Sam met Grace, he was a wolf and she was a girl. Eventually he found a way to become a boy, and their love moved from a curious distance to the intense closeness of shared lives. That should have been the end of their story. But Grace was not meant to stay human. Now she is the wolf. And the wolves of Mercy Falls are about to be killed in one final, spectacular hunt. Sam would do anything for Grace. But can one boy and one love really change a hostile, predatory world?  

Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles -- When he returns to Illinois and the gang culture on the south side of Fairfield after six years in Colorado, high school senior Luis Fuentes, who dreams of becoming an astronaut, falls for a girl and enters a dark world after learning some disturbing news about his family.

Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick -- Hush, Vol 3 - Patch and Nora enter a desperate fight to stop a villain who holds the power to shatter everything they've worked for -- and their love -- forever.

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