Tuesday, July 5, 2011

New Teen Books for July, 2011

What Would My Cell Phone Do? by Micol Ostow
Teen Romance

When Aggie Eckhart's family moves from Miami, Florida to Denville, Alaska, because of her father's job, Aggie feels like a fish out of water. Not only is frozen Denville a far cry from sunny Miami, but she's got no friends, her mother is driving her crazy, and she loses her cell phone within the first month - cutting off her lifeline to civilization. But when an online search for her phone (using the fancy-schmancy built-in GPS tracker) reveals that the cell is enjoying life up north much more than Aggie is, she adopts a whole new outlook. No more woe-is-me, now it's all WWMCPD (What Would My Cell Phone Do)? And before Aggie knows it, things are looking a whole lot brighter!

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Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini
Teen Romantic Fantasy

Helen Hamilton has spent her entire sixteen years trying to hide how different she is -- and it's getting harder. At school she's haunted by hallucinations of three women weeping tears of blood... and when Helen first crosses paths with Lucas Delos, she has no way of knowing they're destined to play leading roles in a tragedy the Fates insist on repeating throughout history.

As Helen unlocks the secrets of her ancestry, she realizes that some myths are more than just legend. But even demigod powers might not be enough to defy the forces that are drawing both her and Lucas together -- and trying to tear them apart.

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The Wikkeling by Steven Arntson
Teen Fantasy

In the enormous city of the Addition, all children are SAFE, SECURE, and SUPERVISED, and are watched by cameras even while they sleep. Henrietta is unlikeable at her competitive school until she meets Gary and Rose. They all share something in common: headaches with an unknown cause. Then, late one night, Henrietta makes a startling discovery when she finds a wounded cat in the attic above her bedroom. Soon after, a series of strange occurrences follow, including the appearance of a threatening creature with long, waxy fingers, who calls itself the Wikkeling. With the help of an ancient Bestiary, will Henrietta and her friends solve these mysteries before the Wikkeling finally catches them?

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Hourglass by Myra McEntire
Teen Science Fiction

For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn't there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents' death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She's tried everything, but the visions keep coming back.

So even when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson's willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only changer her future, it may change her past.

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Hereafter by Tara Hudson
Teen Paranormal Romance

Drifting in the dark waters of a mysterious river, the only thing Amelia knows for sure is that she's dead. But her nightmarish existence changes when she tries to rescue a boy, Joshua, from drowning in her river and, in an unforgettable moment of connection, she helps him survive.

While they struggle to keep their bond hidden from the living world, a frightening spirit named Eli is doing everything in his power to destroy their newfound happiness and drag Amelia back into the ghost world... forever.

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Forgotten by Cat Patrick
Teen Mystery

Each night at precisely 4:33 am, while sixteen-year-old London Lane is asleep, her memory of that day is erased. In the morning, all she can "remember" are events from her future. London is used to relying on reminder notes and a trusted friend to get through the day, but things get complicated when a new boy at school enters the picture. Luke Henry is not someone you'd easily forget, yet try as she might, London can't find him in her memories of things to come. When London starts experiencing disturbing flashbacks, or flash-"forwards," as the case may be, she realizes it's time to learn about the past she keeps forgetting... before it destroys her future.

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The Absolute Value of Mike by Kathryn Erskine
Teen Fiction

Mike tries so hard to please his father, but the only language his dad seems to speak is calculus. And for a boy with a math learning disability, nothing could be more difficult. When his dad sends him to live with distant relatives in rural Pennsylvania for the summer to work on an engineering project, Mike figures this is his big chance to buckle down and prove himself. But when he gets there, nothing is what he thought it would be. The project has nothing at all to do with engineering, and he finds himself working alongside his wacky eighty-something-year-old aunt, a homeless man, and a punk rock girl as part of a town-wide project to adopt a boy from Romania. Mike may not learn anything about engineering, but what he does learn is far more valuable.

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Ruby's Slippers by Tricia Rayburn
Teen Fiction

Up until this point, Ruby Lee's slippers have been a pair of red Converse sneakers. Raised in rural Kansas, she's never downloaded an iTune, heard of Facebook, or seen a video on YouTube.

But everything changes dramatically when her mother uproots the family and moves them to Florida to care for Ruby's grandmother.

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