New Book Alert!!!
New Book Alert!!!
New Book Alert!!!
New Book Alert!!!
New Book Alert!!!
Here are NEW titles to enjoy for the summer.....
Close to Famous by Joan Bauer
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College life is so different from high school. It can be better or worse, depending on how you look at it, if you are away from home while experiencing the beginning of your adult life. Seven, the main character, in Ni-Ni Simone's Upgrade U, can say it is a little bit of both. What she imagined for the next stage of her life is not exactly what came to be. In fact, she began to learn more about herself than she had in her 17 plus years during her first year at Stiles U.
Seven, along with her best friend, Shae, transferred to Stiles U from Spellman. Shae wanted to experience college life with Seven. On their first day in the dorms, they meet Khya, their new roommate. She is the life of any party, even when there is nothing happening at that very moment. For Seven life could not get any better, especially since she has her boyfriend, Josiah, already one year into college with his basketball career. They had been together since high school; however, high school relationships do not always continue into college life. Of the ones that do they do not always make it through the four years. Where does Seven and Josiah's relationship stand? Will the change of scenery affect their closeness and feelings for one another or will it make it stronger than ever?
Jennifer Coissiere
APOOO BookClub
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Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother leave Memphis in the middle of the night, fleeing the mother’s abusive boyfriend. Foster has a severe learning disability, a pillowcase full of mementos of her dead father, and a real gift for baking. When she and her singer mother relocate to a tiny, rural West Virginia town, they discover a friendly and welcoming population of delightfully quirky characters. Foster finally learns to read from a reclusive, retired movie star; markets her baked goods at Angry Wayne’s Bar and Grill; helps tiny but determined Macon with his documentary; and encourages her mother to become a headliner rather than a backup singer, all the while perfecting her baking technique for the time when she gets her own cooking show like her TV idol, Sonny Kroll. Bauer gently and effortlessly incorporates race (Foster’s mother is black; her father was white), religion, social justice, and class issues into a guaranteed feel-good story that dodges sentimentality with humor. Readers who want contemporary fiction with a happy ending will find it here. Grades 5-8. --Debbie Carton
Upgrade U by Ni-Ni Simone
College life is so different from high school. It can be better or worse, depending on how you look at it, if you are away from home while experiencing the beginning of your adult life. Seven, the main character, in Ni-Ni Simone's Upgrade U, can say it is a little bit of both. What she imagined for the next stage of her life is not exactly what came to be. In fact, she began to learn more about herself than she had in her 17 plus years during her first year at Stiles U. Seven, along with her best friend, Shae, transferred to Stiles U from Spellman. Shae wanted to experience college life with Seven. On their first day in the dorms, they meet Khya, their new roommate. She is the life of any party, even when there is nothing happening at that very moment. For Seven life could not get any better, especially since she has her boyfriend, Josiah, already one year into college with his basketball career. They had been together since high school; however, high school relationships do not always continue into college life. Of the ones that do they do not always make it through the four years. Where does Seven and Josiah's relationship stand? Will the change of scenery affect their closeness and feelings for one another or will it make it stronger than ever?
Jennifer Coissiere
APOOO BookClub
Blood & Flowers by Penny Blubaug
Three years ago, Persia ran away from her drug-addict parents and found a home with the Outlaws, an underground theater troupe. This motley band of mortals and fey, puppeteers and actors, becomes the loving family Persia never had, and soon Persia not only discovers a passion for theater but also falls in love with Nicholas, one of the other Outlaws. Life could not be more perfect.
Until an enemy with a grudge makes an unfair accusation against the group and forces them to flee the mortal world and hide in the neighboring realm of Faerie. But in Faerie, all is not flowers and rainbows—with bloodthirsty trolls, a hostile monarchy, and a dangerous code of magic, the fey world is not quite the safe haven the Outlaws had hoped for. And they must decide what’s more important: protecting their right to perform or protecting themselves.
From critically acclaimed author Penny Blubaugh comes this mesmerizing tale of family, faeries, and finding a place to call home.
Check out these and other new titles at
St. Andrews Regional Library
1735 North Woodmere Drive
Charleston, SC 29407
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