New Audiobooks

Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater


In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Having survived the Hunger Games twice before, Katniss Everdeen is lucky to be alive.
However, she is far from safe. With the Capitol and President Snow blaming her for the strife plaguing District 12, Katniss must sacrifice herself to protect her loved ones.

Middle Grade & Young Adult Fiction

A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return - Zeina Abirached

Living in the midst of civil war in Beirut, Lebanon, Zeina and her brother face an evening of apprehension when their parents do not return from a visit to the other side of the city. A 2013 Mildred L. Batchelder Honor book.

Perfect Escape - Jennifer Brown
Seventeen-year-old Kendra, living in the shadow of her brother's obsessive-compulsive disorder, takes a life-changing road trip with him.

Pandemonium - Lauren Oliver
Sequel to Delirium. After falling in love, Lena and Alex flee their oppressive society where love is outlawed and everyone must receive "the cure"--an operation that makes them immune to the delirium of love--but Lena alone manages to find her way to a community of resistance fighters, and although she is bereft without the boy she loves, her struggles seem to be leading her toward a new love.

Requiem - Lauren Oliver
The final book in the Delirium trilogy. While Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous Wilds, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland.

Runaway King - Jennifer A. Nielsen
Book Two in the 'Ascendance Trilogy'. Young King Jaron has taken the throne of Carthya, but after enemies attempt to assassinate him, and a neighboring kingdom threatens invasion, he finds that he has no friends in the palace, not even his bride-to-be, princess Amarinda--and his regents think it would be better for Carthya if he just disappeared again.

New Fiction

Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover - Cece Bell
A 2013 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor book.  Rabbit is excited about the sleepover he has carefully planned for his friend Robot, but Robot has some different ideas about how things should go.

Amelia Bedelia Means Business - Herman Parish
Young Amelia Bedelia will do almost anything for a shiny new bicycle. Her parents say they'll split the cost with her, and that means Amelia Bedelia needs to put the pedal to the metal and earn some dough! With Amelia Bedelia anything can happen, and it usually does.
 

A Dog Called Homeless - Sarah Lean Fifth-grader Cally Louise Fisher stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.

Young Adult Fiction
Insurgent - Veronica RothSequel to Divergent. As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

 Seraphina - Rachel Hartman
The William C. Morris Debut Award winner for 2013. In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.

New Picture Books

The Goldilocks Variations - Allan Ahlberg - Presents a traditional retelling of the "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" fairy tale as well as six variations on the classic story. On pop-up and lift-the-flap pages, with a minitature book.

Honey...Honey...Lion! A Story From Africa - Jan Brett - After working together to obtain honey, the African honey badger always shares it with his partner, the honeyguide bird, until one day when the honey badger becomes greedy and his feathered friend decides to teach him a lesson.

Itsy Bitsy Spider - Richard Egielski - An illustrated version of the classic nursery rhyme about a spider climbing a water spout on pop-up pages.        

Penny and Her Marble - Kevin Henkes

Penny feels guilty after taking a beautiful blue marble that she sees in Mrs. Goodwin's grass, but gets a pleasant surprise when she goes to return it the next day.

I, Too, Am America - Langston Hughes
The Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner for 2013. Presents the popular poem by one of the central figures in the Harlem Renaissance, highlighting the courage and dignity of the African American Pullman porters in the early twentieth century.


Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons - Eric Litwin
Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing. A 2013 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor book.


Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding - Lenore Look
A Chinese American girl describes the festivities surrounding her uncle's Chinese wedding and the customs behind each one.

Ellen's Broom - Kelly Starling Lyons
A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Honor book. Ellen has always known that the broom hanging on her family's cabin wall is a special symbol of her parents' wedding during slave days, so she proudly carries it to the courthouse when the marriage becomes legal.

H.O.R.S.E. : A Game of Basketball and Imagination - Christopher Myers
A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award book. Two friends try to outdo each other on the basketball court in an out-of-this-world game of H.O.R.S.E.


Chopsticks - Amy Krouse Rosenthal
"Not exactly a sequel to Spoon. More like a change in place setting." When a pair of chopsticks get separated, after some traumatic moments the two friends eventually learn to stand on their own.


It Jes' Happened: When Bill Tralor Started to Draw - Don Tate
A biography of twentieth-century African American folk artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban life in Alabama. Includes an afterword, author's note, and sources.

A Few Bites - Cybèle Young
When her brother Ferdie would rather play than eat, Viola spins a tale about how dinosaurs ate broccoli to escape predators and carrots provide alien super-vision, an effort repaid when Viola is tired and Ferdie presents a surprise.

New Fiction

Starring Jules (As Herself) - Beth Ain
Jules is an ordinary seven-year-old girl, concerned with school and friends and other ordinary things--until a chance meeting with a casting director leads to an audition for a television commercial.


Ungifted - Gordon Korman
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.


Chasing the Prophecy - Brandon Mull
Book 3 of the Beyonders series. Jason and Rachel's adventures and friendships have made Lyrian more of a home to them than they could have imagined, so now, armed with the prophecy of a dying oracle, they are ready to become Lyrian's heroes whatever the cost to themselves.

YA FICTION

Etiquette and Espionage - Gail Carriger
In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is suprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.

Scarlet - Marissa Meyer
Scarlet Benoit and Wolf, a street fighter who may have information about her missing grandmother, join forces with Cinder as they try to stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana in this story inspired by Little Red Riding Hood.

New Picture Books

Chu's Day - Neil Gaiman
A little panda named Chu has a habit of getting himself into trouble when he sneezes.

Grumpy Goat - Brett Helquist
Goat is the grumpiest animal at Sunny Acres farm until he remembers that there is more to life than eating and being alone.

Exclamation Mark - Amy Krouse Rosenthal
A punctuation mark feels bad that he doesn't fit in with the others until a friend reveals the possibilities that exist when differences are accepted.

Polar Bear Morning - Lauren Thompson
A little polar bear cub ventures out of her den for the first time and meets a new friend.

A Trip to the Bottom of the World With Mouse: A Toon Book - Frank Viva
A boy and a mouse take a bumpy sea journey to the majestic expanses of the Antarctic, where they see the sights and meet new friends.

Nonfiction

Henry and the Cannons: An Extraordinary True Story of the American Revolution - Don Brown
Presents an illustrated account of bookseller Henry Knox's heroic contributions during the Revolutionary War, describing how he dragged fifty-nine cannons to Boston across 225 miles filled with danger and hardship.

Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 - Michelle Markel
An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.

Nonfiction

Elementary Nonfiction

Nic Bishop Snakes Introduces snakes and provides information on their physical characteristics, how they hunt, and why some snakes are poisonous.

Great Estimations - Bruce Goldstone
Learn to train your eyes and your mind to help you estimate number of objects in a group.

From the Good Mountain:How Gutenberg Changed the World - James Rumford
Describes how Johann Gutenberg's printing press changed the world and how early books were printed.

 You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! - Jonah Winter and Terry Widener
A visual profile of the record-setting baseball star traces his Birmingham childhood, achievements in the Negro Leagues, and fame as a center fielder for the Giants.

Middle/High School Nonfiction

Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers - Tanya Lee Stone

Examines the role of African-Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought against attacks perpetrated on the American West by the Japanese during World War II.

(See "New Fiction" for Jump Into the Sky for historical fiction tie-in.)

New Fiction

Middle Grade Fiction

One Year in Coal Harbor - Polly Horvath
Sequel to Everything on a Waffle. In a small fishing village in British Columbia, twelve-year-old Primrose tries to be a matchmaker for her Uncle Jack, befriends Ked, a new foster child, tries to decide if she is willing to go to jail for her convictions, and together with Ked, publishes a cook book to raise money for the Fisherman's Aid. Includes recipes.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel - Jeff Kinney
A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's middle school has turned his world upside down until an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves his best friend Rowley the odd man out.

The Colossus Rises - Peter Lerangis
The first book in the Seven Wonders series. Teens Jack, Marco, Aly, and Cass begin a quest to find seven pieces of Atlantis's power that were hidden long ago and that will, if returned to Atlantis, save them from certain death due to the genetic abnormality that also gives them superior abilities.

Little White Duck: A Childhood in China - Na Liu
A young girl describes her experiences growing up in China, beginning with the death of Chairman Mao in 1976.

Fire in the Streets - Kekla Magoon
Sequel to The Rock and the River. In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.

I, Funny: A Middle School Story - James Pattesron and Chris Grabenstein
Resolving to become the world's greatest stand-up comedian despite less-than-funny challenges in his life, wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm endures bullying from his mean-spirited cousin and hopes he will be fairly judged when he enters a local comedy contest.

Jump into the Sky - Shelley Pearsall
In 1945, thirteen-year-old Levi is sent to find the father he has not seen in three years, going from Chicago, to segregated North Carolina, and finally to Pendleton, Oregon, where he learns that his father's unit, the all-Black 555th paratrooper battalion, will never see combat but finally has a mission. Includes historical notes.
(See "New Nonfiction" for Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickels - America's First Black Paratroopers for nonfiction tie to this story.)

Lincoln's Grave Robbers - Steve Sheinkin
Describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader, and how a fledging Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.

Young Adult Fiction

The Kill Order - James Dashner
Prequel to The Maze Runner. Mark and Trina struggle to survive as modern civilization is destoryed by sun flares and mutating diseases.

Prodigy: A Legend Novel - Marie Lue
June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.