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.
| Juvenile | FictionPicture booksReaders Young adult fiction Non-fiction |
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By Carriger, Gail Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: YA Call Number: YA In her alternate England of 1851, while taking her friend Sidheag by train to her werewolf pack in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to dissolve all of London into chaos and must decide where her loyalties lie once and for all. |
By Dessen, Sarah Publishing Date: 2000 Classification: YA Call Number: YA After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous. |
By Dessen, Sarah Publishing Date: c2006 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life. |
By Grant, Michael Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: YA Call Number: YA As the young residents of Perdido Beach begin to better comprehend the truths of who they are and their relationships to one another, the Darkness finds a new way to be born, bringing their understanding of fear to a new level. It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone. Despite the hunger, despite the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear. Within the FAYZ, life breaks down while the Darkness takes over, literally--turning the dome-world of the FAYZ entirely black. A will to survive and a desire to take care of those they love endures in this ravaged band, even in the bleakest moments. But in darkness, the worst fears of all emerge, and the cruelest of intentions are carried out. After so many months, is all about to be lost in the FAYZ? |
By Grant, Michael Publishing Date: 2013, c2008 Classification: YA Call Number: YA In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not. |
By Grant, Michael Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens. |
By Grant, Michael Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: YA Call Number: YA It happens in one night: a girl who died now walks among the living; Zil and the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach, and amid the flames and smoke, Sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the most:Drake. But Drake is dead--or so they thought. Perdido Beach burns and battles rage: Astrid against the Town Council; the Human Crew versus the mutants; and Sam against Drake, who is back from the dead and ready to finish where he and Sam left off. They say that death is a way to escape the FAYZ. But are the kids of Perdido Beach desperate enough to believe that death will set them free. |
By Grant, Michael Publishing Date: 2012, c2011 Classification: YA Call Number: YA A deadly, flu-like epidemic and a plague of flesh-eating creatures threaten the lives of the children at Perdido Beach while Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Diana each struggle with doubts and uncertainties. |
It's not easy being mean: a Clique novel By Harrison, Lisi Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Five girls in the Clique each face challenges during eighth grade -- from the soccer field to getting the key to the secret room at OCD from a Briarwood boy. |
Sealed with a diss: a Clique novel By Harrison, Lisi Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Five teenage girls with the power to see what boys are thinking about them must find dates for Skye Hamilton's "famous couples" costume party if they want to hang onto their popularity. |
By Harrison, Lisi Publishing Date: 2004 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Wealthy Massie is determined to exclude middle class Claire, the daughter of her father's old friend, from her seventh-grade clique at a very exclusive private school in Westchester, New York, but after Massie steals her only friend, Claire strikes back. |
By Kenyon, Sherrilyn Publishing Date: 2013, c2012 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Nick Gautier isn't the average teenager. He's a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands. And his first mandate is to stay alive while everyone, even his own father, tries to kill him. He's learned to annihilate zombies and raise the dead, divination and clairvoyance. He is on the brink of becoming either the greatest hero mankind has ever known, or he'll be the one who ends the world. With enemies new and old gathering forces, he will have to call on every part of himself to fight or he'll lose everyone he cares about. |
By Kenyon, Sherrilyn Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Streetwise, tough, and savvy, Nick and his quick sarcasm are the stuff of legend... until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity. With his fellow students turning into flesh-eating zombies, how can he stop them... without getting grounded by his mom? |
By Nielsen, Jennifer A. Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Now a driver in the chariot races, Nic is still a target of the Praetors because of the magical amulet he found, and they will do anything to get their hands on it--and meanwhile Atroxia is beginning to wake up. |
By Pierce, Tamora Publishing Date: c2003 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Alianne must call forth her mother's courage and her father's wit in order to survive on the Copper Isles in a royal court rife with political intrigue and murderous conspiracy. |
By Pierce, Tamora Publishing Date: c2004 Classification: YA Call Number: YA Aly fails to foresee the dangers that await as she uses her magic to safeguard Dova and her younger siblings, despite knowing that her thirteen-year-old charge might be queen of the Copper Isles when the colonial rulers are defeated. |
Here we are: feminism for the real world Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: YA Call Number: YA 305.42 "A scrapbook-style teen guide to understanding what it really means to be a feminist packed with contributions from a diverse range of voices, including celebrities and public figures, and featuring more than forty-four pieces, including an eight-page insert of full-color illustrations"-- |
A journey to the center of the earth By Helfand, Lewis Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: YA Call Number: YA GRAPHIC HEL Presents in graphic novel format, the story of Professor Von Hardwigg, his nephew Harry, and their guide Hans as they explore a volcanic crater in Iceland that leads them to the center of the Earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries. |
By Rafter, Dan Publishing Date: [2010] Classification: YA Call Number: YA GRAPHIC RAF An adaptation of the nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. |
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