Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
November 2018 - January 2019
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.
By English, Karen Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J "Third-grader Gavin and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new boy in their class, Khufu. He doesn't look or act like other kids. When Gavin's bike goes missing, they think Khufu stole it, but did he?"-- |
Eleanor Roosevelt's in my garage By Fleming, Candace Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J When Eleanor Roosevelt and Fala turn up in ten-year-old Nolan's bedroom closet, his mother, taking Mrs. Roosevelt for the new baby sitter, leaves him and his little sister Olive with her. |
Hazy Bloom and the pet project By Hamburg, Jennifer Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J "Hazel 'Hazy' Bloom uses her tomorrow power--her ability to see visions of things that happen one day in the future--to try to convince her parents she's ready for a pet iguana"-- |
By Hanlon, Abby Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Dory, nicknamed Rascal, has her first loose tooth, but her excitement turns to concern when imaginary evil robber Mrs. Gobble Gracker captures the tooth fairy. |
The island at the end of everything By Hargrave, Kiran Millwood Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J When the Phillipine government takes over Culion, an island for people with leprosy, Ami is put in an orphanage on another island, where she finds a friend willing to help her return before her mother dies. |
By Horvath, Polly Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Ten-year-old Rupert, from a very large, very poor family, accidently becomes part of an eccentric rich family's life beginning at Christmas, and soon sees that wealth is not everything. |
By Humphrey, Anna Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Megabat was just napping on a papaya one day when he was stuffed in a box and shipped halfway across the world. Now he's living in an old house far from home, feeling sorry for himself and accidentally scaring the people who live there. |
By Johnson, Varian Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out to find the inheritance, exonerate her grandmother, and expose an injustice once committed against an African American family in Lambert. |
By Kelly, Erin Entrada Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Charlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school. |
By Lloyd, Natalie Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Seven siblings are forced by the destruction of their swamp home to move into their grandpa's mansion, but greedy neighbors plot to steal their secrets and place them in homes far away from each other. |
By McCaulay, Diana Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Gone to Drift tells the story of a 12-year-old Jamaican boy, Lloyd, and his search for his beloved grandfather, Maas Conrad, a fisherman who is lost at sea. Lloyd suspects that his grandfather has witnessed an illegal capture of dolphins for the tourist trade and that he has come to harm. Interspersed with Lloyd's quest on land and sea is a second voice - of Maas Conrad himself, who, unknown to Lloyd is alive; marooned on a rock, he describes his life growing up in a rural fishing village in a long-gone era. Gone to Drift is an exciting adventure story about a boy confronted with difficult moral choices. |
By Montefiore, Santa Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J When shy, quiet Shylo overhears the plan of a band of ratzis to embarrass the Queen, he must travel to Buckingham Palace and convince the Royal Rabbits of London to stop them. |
By Mull, Brandon Publishing Date: c2007 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J When Kendra and Seth return to Fablehaven, they discover that Grandpa Sorenson has asked three specialists to protect the property from the Society of the Evening Star, a group determined to steal an artifact of great power from the preserve. |
By Pennypacker, Sara Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J "Waylon and Baxter share in the care of a stray dog, Dumpster Eddy"-- |
By Potter, Ellen Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J "Hugo is a young Sasquatch who longs for adventure. Boone is young boy who longs to see a Sasquatch. When their worlds collide, they become the unlikeliest pair of best friends"-- |
Americanized: rebel without a green card By Saedi, Sara Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J In San Jose, California, in the 1990s, teenaged Sara keeps a diary of life as an Iranian American and her discovery that she and her family entered as undocumented immigrants. |
By Schmatz, Pat Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J "Tash doesn't want to go to camp, doesn't want to spend the summer with a bunch of strangers, doesn't want to be separated from the only two people she has ever been able to count on: her uncle Kevin, who saved her from foster care, and Cap'n Jackie, who lives next door. Camp turns out to be pretty fun, actually, but when Tash returns home, Cap'n Jackie is gone. And Tash needs her -- the made-up stories of dolphin-dragons, the warm cookies that make everything all right after a fight, the key Cap'n Jackie insists has magic in it. The Captain has always said that all Tash has to do is hold it tight and the magic will come. Is it true? And can the key bring Cap'n Jackie back?"--from dust jacket. |
The heart and mind of Frances Pauley By Stevens, April Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J Future anthropologist Francis "Figgrotten" Pauley loves being unique, even if that means having only one friend, and that her puzzling older sister pretends Francis was adopted, until a death changes her perspective. |
I survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888 By Tarshis, Lauren Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: JFIC Call Number: J When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy (too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and that is just the beginning); but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to survive what became known to history as The Children's Blizzard. |
By Turnage, Sheila Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: JFIC Call Number: J "A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"-- |