New YA Books

Every Soul a Star - Wendy Mass
Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at the one place the Great Eclipse can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of different personal problems, which become dim when compared to the task they embark upon and the friendship they find.

The Sisters Grimm: The Unusual Suspects - Michael Buckley
Although filled with anger over her parents' disappearance, eleven-year-old Sabrina Grimm--along with her grandmother, sister, and several fairy-tale characters--tries to discover who has killed her teacher.

Steinbeck's Ghost - Lewis Buzbee
Unhappy after his parents move to a weird subdivision and become workaholics, thirteen-year-old Travis returns to his old Salinas neighborhood and becomes actively involved in saving the John Steinbeck Library and, at the same time, begins seeing characters from Steinbeck's books who seem to have a message for him.

Christy Miller Collection, Volume 3 - Robin Jones Gunn
Collects books seven through nine of the Christy Miller Series: True friends -- Starry night -- Seventeen wishes

The Gypsy Crown - Kate Forsyth
Emilia Finch and her cousing Luka are Rom-Gypsies. To the repressive Puritan government, the Gypsies are thieving, fortune-telling vagrants. A series of events lands the family in jail, charged with murder. Only Emilia and Luka manage to escape, promising to bring back help.

11 Birthdays - Wendy Mass
After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.

Patience, Princess Catherine - Carolyn Meyer
In 1501 fifteen-year-old Catharine of Aragon arrives in England to marry Arthur, the eldest son of King Henry VII, but soon finds her expectations of a happy settled life radically changed when Arthur unexpectedly dies and her future becomes the subject of a bitter dispute between the kingdoms of England and Spain.

Straw into Gold - Gary D. Schmidt
Pursued by greedy villains, two boys on a quest to save innocent lives meet the banished queen whose son was stolen by Rumpelstiltskin eleven years earlier, and she provides much more than the answer they seek.