New YA Books

Before Green Gables: The Prequel to Anne of Green Gables - Budge Wilson
An authorized prequel to L.M. Montgomery's classic series about the irrepressible red-haired orphan follows Anne's early years before her adoption by the Cuthberts.

The Boy Who Dared - Susan Campbell Bartoletti
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.

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.

Geronimo - Joseph Bruchac
Geronimo is coming to the end of his life. His grandson visits him where he is imprisoned, in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1908. From this comes the story of Geronimo's life.

Codebreaker - Stephen Pincock
Codebreakers reveals the complexity and near unparalleled ingenuity of the codemaker's craft. This book teaches the principles behind many different code systems and gives the reader the opportunity to solve several codes themselves.

When the Black Girl Sings - Bil Wright
Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only black student, fourteen-year-old Lahni Schuler feels like an outcast, particularly when her parents separate, but after attending a local church where she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice.

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street - Jeanne Birdsall
The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.

Lawn Boy - Gary Paulsen
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.

The Hour of the Outlaw - Maiya Williams
Rowan, Nina, Xanthe, and Xavier are reunited for their first solo time travel trip, venturing to Bloomington, Illinois, in 1856 in search of an unhappy teen whose decision to run away from his father seems to have changed history.

The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd
When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.

William Shakespeare's King Lear - retold by Gareth Hinds
Adaptation of King Lear in a graphic novel format.