White Sands, Red Menace by Ellen Klages is the sequel to The Green Glass Sea. It tells the continuing story of Dewey Kerrigan and her best friend Suze Gordon growing up in Alamogordo, New Mexico, just after the end of World War II. Suze's dad is a researcher for the Government's V-2 rocket program and was part of the team who developed the Atomic Bomb. At this time, people were still learning what the Atom bomb was capable of. Dewey's new foster-mother is a peacenik, and she is adamantly against the further development of nuclear weapons. At the same time, Dewey, who loves math and science, is trying to understand where a girl like her fits into society's views on women. This fascinating historical fiction has only two checkouts.
Initiation by Susan Fine is the story of Mauricio Londono, now 18, once a freshman at a prestigious ivy-league private school, struggling to fit in with the monied students, always feeling like he's the odd one out. As he describes his first year at the school, he tells of the pressure to fit in, the struggle to be himself in a place where nobody wants to stand out. But then, just as he's beginning to feel comfortable, trouble breaks out, and he finds himself caught in the middle of a vicious scandal involving FaceSpace and the whole of St. Stephens. This one also has just two circulations...
Ghosts of Ashbury High by Jaclyn Moriarty is another school story - this time set in Australia. Best friends Emily, Cassie, and Lydia are intrigued by the new kids, Amelia and Riley, who have just transferred in as Seniors. But the behaviour of the new kids isn't the only thing going on - Cassie senses a mysterious, cold, ghostly presence in the Art Rooms. Suddenly there's danger all around them...4 circs for this haunting book.
Hunger, a Gone Novel by Michael Grant is the sequel to Gone. 3 months after the FAYZ, food is almost gone, people are divided into "normals" and those with "powers", and trouble is brewing on all sides. Sam longs to give up his authority and let someone else take charge, but with Caine stirring, the Darkness on the fringes, manipulating them, he dares not let go. Can they all find a way to survive? Second in a six book series. 2 copies have 12 checkouts.
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