Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
July 2017 - August 2017
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
Additional information about each title can be found in the catalog (click on the title). For older acquisition lists choose from Select another list. To request any of these titles please contact your local library branch.
| Juvenile | FictionPicture booksReaders Young adult fiction Non-fiction |
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By Cabot, Meg Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels. |
By Cabot, Meg Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Studious, socially conscious Emerson Watts learns startling news about the family of Nikki Howard, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted by the nefarious Stark corporation. |
By Cabot, Meg Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: YA Call Number: YA When sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts learns the truth about Nikki, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted, she finds that there is only one person to turn to for help--especially since her loved ones seem to be furious with her. |
By Clare, Cassandra Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: YA Call Number: YA When Jace vanishes with Sebastian, Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and Clary infiltrates the group planning the world's destruction. |
By Eisenstadt, Jill Publishing Date: 1987 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Set in Rockaway, New York, and following a year in the lives of high school graduates and summer lifeguards Timmy, Chowderhead, Peg, and Alexandra, this novel depicts the cynicism, casual violence, and ritualized recklessness of unshockable youths - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Gilbert, Kelly Loy Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: YA Call Number: YA "A small-town boy questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder"-- |
By Girard, M-E Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: YA Call Number: YA All Pen wants is to be the kind of girl she s always been. So why does everyone have a problem with it? They think the way she looks and acts means she s trying to be a boy that she should quit trying to be something she s not. If she dresses like a girl, and does what her folks want, it will show respect. If she takes orders and does what her friend Colby wants, it will show her loyalty. But respect and loyalty, Pen discovers, are empty words. |
By Green, John Publishing Date: c2005 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. |
By Green, John Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: YA Call Number: YA One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears. |
The unfinished life of Addison Stone By Griffin, Adele Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: YA Call Number: YA When a celebrated New York City teenager, known for her subversive street art, mysteriously dies, her life is examined in a series of interviews with her parents, friends, boyfriends, mentors, and critics. |
By Hughes, Dean Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: YA Call Number: YA BASED ON REAL HISTORY: The 442nd Regimental Combat Team-the Four-Four-Two-was a real unit that fought in World War II. It was a segregated regiment made up entirely of Japanese American soldiers. For its size, it became the most decorated military unit in American history-and it also suffered some of the highest casualty rates of the war. As Dean explains in his introduction, while all of his characters are fictional, the framework of his story is based on very real military history. |
By Kadohata, Cynthia Publishing Date: c2008 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Thirteen-year-old Shelby and her three sisters must go to live with their respective fathers while their mother, who has trained them to rely on their looks, recovers from a car accident that scarred her face. |
A school for brides: a story of maidens, mystery, and matrimony By Kindl, Patrice Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: YA Call Number: YA The Winthrop Hopkins Female Academy of Lesser Hoo, Yorkshire, has one goal: to train its students in the feminine arts with an eye toward getting them married off. This year, there are five girls of marriageable age. There s only one problem: the school is in the middle of nowhere, and there are no men. |
By McGinnis, Mindy Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: YA Call Number: YA Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn t feel bad about it. When her older sister, Anna, was murdered three years ago and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best. The language of violence. |
By Ness, Patrick Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: YA Call Number: YA What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life. Even if your best friend is worshiped by mountain lions. |
By Silvera, Adam Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: YA Call Number: YA When it first gets announced, the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure seems too good to be true to Aaron Soto-miracle cure-alls don't tend to pop up in the Bronx projects. Aaron can't forget how he's grown up poor, how his friends all seem to shrug him off, and how his father committed suicide in their one bedroom apartment. He has the support of his patient girlfriend, if not necessarily his distant brother and overworked mother, but it's not enough. Then Thomas shows up. He doesn't mind Aaron's obsession over the Scorpius Hawthorne books and has a sweet movie set-up on his roof. There are nicknames. Aaron's not only able to be himself, but happiness feels easy with Thomas. The love Aaron discovers may cost him what's left of his life, but since Aaron can't suddenly stop being gay Leteo may be the only way out. |
By Vizzini, Ned Publishing Date: c2006 Classification: YA Call Number: YA A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital. |
By Vizzini, Ned Publishing Date: c2006 Classification: YA Call Number: YA A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital. |
By Zarr, Sara Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: YA Call Number: YA In the three years since her father caught her in the back seat of a car with an older boy, sixteen-year-old Deanna's life at home and school has been a nightmare, but while dreaming of escaping with her brother and his family, she discovers the power of forgiveness. |
By Blexbolex Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: YA Call Number: YA GRAPHIC A child walks home from school enjoying her surroundings, but as the story progresses the world becomes more complex, darker, and terrifying. |
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