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More of our brand new books! Click on the titles to found out if the book you're looking at is available now and to reserve it if it's not!

Edenville Owls
Robert B. Parker

Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover the identity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.

The Hollow People
Brian Keaney

On an island that houses the asylum where law-breakers are imprisoned, two teenagers rebel against a rigidly controlled society where dreams are considered antisocial and all citizens over the age of 14 take a drug to control their behavior.

Kiki Strike: The Empress's Tomb
Kirsten Miller

Ananka, Kiki Strike, and the other Irregulars encounter a Chinese mummy, a ghost, trained squirrels, and old enemies as they try to stop an art forgery ring and safeguard the secret streets hidden beneath New York City. (If you haven't already, check out Kiki Strike: Inside The Shadow City - this is the sequel!)

Marked
P.C. Cast

Zoey Redbird's world is very much like our own, except in her world, vampires have always existed. In this first book of this new series, Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the "Change", she will train to become an adult vampire--that is, if she makes it through.

Thieves Till We Die
Stephen Cole

Teen geniuses Jonah, Motti, Con, Tye, and Patch, working for their mysterious benefactor, Coldhardt, are out to recover more stolen artefacts when one of their members is kidnapped, and they must add a rescue operation to the mission. (Also check out the first in this series: Thieves Like Us.)

Hot Off The Presses!

Here are some more great new YA books that can be found on the PPL shelves. Make sure to reserve the one you want if it's not available now. Click on the pictures and titles to look these up in the catalog.

Evil Genius
Catherine Jinks

As a diligent student of criminal mastermind Dr. Phineas Darkkon, Cadel Piggott has grown into quite an intelligent thief and computer hacker, but he's only 14. Is he really ready to go all Super Villain?

The Marvelous Journey Home
John M. Simmons

This wonderful story is a fictional adaptation of the author's real-life experience with the Russian adoption process. Read it and gain unique insight into the perspectives of several players in the adoption process including the adoptive parents, the children and adoption officials and supervisors.

Peak
Roland Smith

After Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he's left with two choices: wither away in Juvenile Detention or go live with his long-lost father, who runs a climbing company in Thailand. When Peak joins his fathers he's in for a surprise: he wants Peak to be the youngest person to reach the Everest summit--and his motives are selfish at best.

Secrets Of My Hollywood Life
Jen Calonita

Longing to experience the life of a "normal" teenager, sixteen-year-old actress Kaitlin Burke assumes a false identity to attend a local high school.

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
Peter Cameron

With his freshman year at Brown looming in the near future, eighteen-year-old James begins to plan his escape by saving the money from his summer job at his mother's art gallery in order to get a cabin on the prairie where he can finally find the sanctuary he needs.

Looking For New Books?

You've come to the right place! PPL just got in a whole bunch of new YA books. I'm only putting some here now - watch this space for the rest over the next week or so.

Don't forget to click the books to find out if the one you want is in. If they're not, just add yourself to the reserve list from home!

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school...where the only other "Indian" is the school mascot.

Freak
Marcella Pixley

While her sister blossoms into a beautiful being and makes new friends, 7th grader Miriam is left alone to deal with her "freak" status. She faces the harsh criticism and teasing of the popular clique whose merciless abuse pushes her to the breaking point.

How To Ruin A Summer Vacation
Simone Elkeles

When sixteen-year-old Amy, a spoiled American teenager, goes to Israel for a three-month summer vacation with a father she barely knows, she is not prepared for his Jewish family and the changes they bring about in her life.

Slam
Nick Hornby

At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's relationship with his girlfriend gets complicated and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically. At a loss for what to do, Sam turns to Hawk's autobiography for answers.

Uprising
Margaret Peterson Haddix

In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old.