New Books

Spies of Mississippi - Rick Bowers
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation.

Sky High: The True Story of Maggie Gee - Marissa Moss
Presents the life and career of the Chinese American woman who dreamed of flying as a child and who went on to become one of only two Chinese American Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) to serve during World War II.

New Children's Books

The Quiet Book - Deborah Underwood
From the quiet of being the first one awake in the morning to "sweet dreams quiet" when the last light is turned off, simple text explores the many kinds of quiet that can exist during the day.

Your Daddy Was Just Like You - Kelly Bennett
A grandmother describes to her grandson how his father was just like him when he was a child, never wanting to take a bath, fearing the dark, and swooping through the house in a cape and mask.

Field Trip Day - Lynn Plourde
Juan Dore-Nomad, a boy who has a tendency to wander, provokes mayhem on a field trip to the farm.

Black Elk's Vision - S.D. Nelson
A simple biography of Lakota-Oglala medicine man Black Elk, from his childhood vision which shaped his life through his battles with the whites and his travels with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.

New Graphic Format Book

Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess - George O'Connor
From the moment she emerged, fully grown, from the head of Zeus, Athena was one of the most complex Olympians. This graphic novel retells her many interwoven tales: how she killed Pallas, fought the Gigantes, aided Perseus, and cursed Arachne.

New YA Books

Sold - Patricia McCormick
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.

Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs - Ron Koertge
Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland, poet and first baseman, is torn between his cute girlfriend Mira and Amy, who is funny, plays Chopin on the piano, and is also a poet.

New YA Books

Alchemy and Meggy Swann - Karen Cushman
In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths.

13 Treasures - Michelle Harrison
Bedeviled by evil fairies that only she can see, thirteen-year-old Tanya is sent to stay with her cold and distant grandmother at Elvesden Manor, where she and the caretaker's son solve a disturbing mystery that leads them to the discovery that Tanya's life is in danger.

The Night Fairy - Laura Amy Schlitz
When Flory the night fairy's wings are accidentally broken and she cannot fly, she has to learn to do everything differently.

The Time Pirate - Ted Bell
Sequel to Nick of Time, in which the young time traveler mus prove his courage once more, on two fronts : in World War Two-era England, where Nazis have invaded his homeland, and in America during the Revolution, where Nick stands shoulder to shoulder with General George Washington.

The Story of Cirrus Flux - Matthew Skelton
In 1783 London, the destiny of an orphaned boy and girl becomes intertwined as the boy, Cirrus Flux, is pursued by a sinister woman mesmerist, a tiny man with an all-seeing eye, and a skull-collecting scoundrel, all of whom believe that he possesses an orb containing a divine power.

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New YA Books

The Dreamer - Pam Munoz Ryan and Peter Sis
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.

Enchanted Glass - Diana Wynne Jones
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives.

The Emperor's Code (Book 8 of The 39 Clues) - Gordon Korman
One belief has sustained fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, on their hunt for the 39 clues : they are the good guys. But then a shocking discovery about their parents shatters everything Amy and Dan think they know, dividing the two siblings for the first time ever. When Dan disappears in a country of more than a billion people. Amy has to make a terrible choice - find the next clue - or find her younger brother.

New YA Books

The Last Summer of the Death Warriors- Francisco X. Stork
Seventeen-year-old Pancho is bent on avenging the senseless death of his sister, but after he meets D.Q, who is dying of cancer, and Marisol, one of D.Q.'s caregivers, both boys find their lives changed by their interactions.

Fever Crumb - Philip Reeve
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.

Some Girls Are - Courtney Summers
Regina, a high school senior in the popular--and feared--crowd, suddenly falls out of favor and becomes the object of the same sort of vicious bullying that she used to inflict on others, until she finds solace with one of her former victims.

New Mathematics Activity Books

Spectrum Math - for grades K-8
These workbooks feature drills and practice in math fundamentals that meet current national and state math standards.

New Picture Books

Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse - Marilyn Singer
A collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature.

Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors - Joyce Sidman
Poems and factual information about some of the creatures that live on Planet Earth.

New Children's Books

Pouch! - David Ezra Stein
A baby kangaroo takes his first tentative hops outside of his mama's pouch, meeting other creatures and growing bolder each time. Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book

The Hallelujah Flight - Phil Bildner
In 1932, James Banning, along with his co-pilot Thomas Allen, make history by becoming the first African Americans to fly across the United States, relying on the generosity of people they meet in the towns along the way who help keep their "flying jalopy" going.

Shark vs. Train - Chris Barton
A shark and a train compete in a series of contests on a seesaw, in hot air balloons, bowling, shooting baskets, playing hide-and-seek, and more.

New YA Books

Woods Runner - Gary Paulsen
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes.

Magic Under Glass - Jaclyn Dolamore
A wealthy sorcerer's invitation to sing with his automaton leads seventeen-year-old Nimira, whose family's disgrace brought her from a palace to poverty, into political intrigue, enchantments, and a friendship with a fairy prince who needs her help.

The Mysterious Howling - Maryrose Wood
Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a recent graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, is hired as governess to three young children who have been raised by wolves and must teach them to behave in a civilized manner quickly, in preparation for a Christmas ball.

The Sky Is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson
In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.

New Children's Book

Here Comes the Big, Mean Dust Bunny! - Jan Thomas
Dust bunnies who enjoy rhyming games and a boisterous cat who likes to chase and grab learn how to play together.

New Children's Book

Garmann's Street - Stian Hole
After succumbing to peer pressure from a bully, an unusual friendship between Garmann and the Stamp Man arises out of a near-disaster.