Check Out What's New In Young Adult!!! September 2013- Part 2

Check out these new books that just arrived at the

St. Andrews Regional Library 

 

 

 

 

The Shade of the Moon by Susan Beth Pfeffer

"Jon Evans is one of the lucky ones--until he realizes that escaping his safe haven may be the only way to truly survive"--Provided by publisher.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zom-B Angels by Darren Shan

"Near to giving up hope in a London overrun by zombies, B meets the Angels, a group gathered to fight the living dead and the forces that introduced them"--Provided by publisher.








Warriors: The Sun Trail by Erin Hunter

"For many moons, a tribe of cats has lived peacefully near the top of a mountain. But prey is scarce and seasons are harsh--and their leader fears they will not survive. When a mysterious vision reveals a land filled with food and water, a group of brave young cats sets off in search of a better home. But great dangers await them. In this unfamiliar world, faced with loners and fierce rogues all vying for territory and power, the traveling cats must find a new way to live side by side--or risk tearing one another apart."--P. [4] of cover

Out of Reach by Carrie Arcos
  Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away from home.











No Easy Way Out by Dayna Lorentz

"Teens Marco, Shay, Ryan, and Lexi form new allies in the quarantined mall--as the bodies pile up, the disease mutates, the Senator's authority is questioned, and it becomes clear there's no one to trust"--Provided by publisher.

 

 

 

Creeping with the Enemy by Kimberly Reid

"There's nothing like having someone in your corner when you're the new girl in school, but Chanti can't help suspecting that everything about her new friend, Bethanie, is a lie--especially once she starts skipping classes and blowing Chanti off for her mysterious crush, Cole. Chanti really doesn't need the trouble of finding out the truth. She's busy enough trying to convince her hot almost-boyfriend Marco that her amateur sleuthing won't come between them again. But when Bethanie disappears with Cole, Chanti has only one chance to find her--even as her investigation puts her love life, and everything else, at risk ..."--P. [4] of cover.

 

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Check Out What's New In Young Adult!!! September 2013- Part 1

Check out these new books that just arrived at the

St. Andrews Regional Library 

 

 

 

 

 In the After by Demitria Lunetta

In a post-apocalyptic world where nothing is as it seems, seventeen-year-old Amy and Baby, a child she found while scavenging, struggle to survive while vicious, predatory creatures from another planet roam the earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salt by Helen Frost

Twelve-year-olds Anikwa, of the Miami village of Kekionga, and James, of the trading post outside Fort Wayne, find their friendship threatened by the rising fear and tension brought by the War of 1812.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

45 Pounds (More or Less) by K. A. Barson

"When Ann decides that she is going to lose 45 pounds in time for her aunt's wedding, she discovers that what she looks like is not all that matters"--Provided by publisher.






 



The Originals by Cat Patrick
Seventeen-year-olds Lizzie, Ella, and Betsy Best are clones, raised as identical triplets by their surrogate mother but living as her one daughter, Elizabeth, until their separate abilities and a romantic relationship force a change.









Earthbound by Aprilynne Pike

Tavia Michaels is the only survivor of a plane crash that killed her parents. Grieving and lonely, she starts having strange visions ... of a boy she's never met but feels compulsively drawn to, a boy who tells her to do things she never dreamed of. Tavia begins to suspect that secrets are being kept from her, and that her kindly aunt and uncle know more than they are letting on. Was the plane crash really an accident? Or is Tavia part of something bigger than she ever imagined?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black 

When seventeen-year-old Tana wakes up following a party in the aftermath of a violent vampire attack, she travels to Coldtown, a quarantined Massachusetts city full of vampires, with her ex-boyfriend and a mysterious vampire boy in tow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check out these and other great new novels

@ The St. Andrews Regional Library
We have something for everyone!!!

 

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Charleston County Public Library

1735 North Woodmere Blvd

Charleston, SC 29407

843-766-2546

www.ccpl.org

 

 

 

 

New Books @ St. Andrews Library TeenSpot

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Hot New Titles 

@ St. Andrews Library TeenSpot

Road Trip by Gary Paulsen & Jim Paulsen 

    A father and son embark on a road trip to a distant animal shelter to save a homeless border collie puppy.

Passion Blue by Victoria Strauss

In fifteenth-century Italy, seventeen-year-old Giulia, a nobleman's illegitimate daughter, buys a talisman hoping it will bring her true love to save her from life in a convent. But at the convent she begins to learn the painter's craft, including how to make the coveted paint, Passion Blue, and to wonder about her true heart's desire.

The Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne

by Catherine Reef

Explores the turbulent lives of the three literary siblings and the oppressive times in which they lived, and offers insight into their classic nineteenth-century novels.

Colin Fischer by Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz 

A fourteen-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome faces life in high school and teams up with the school bully to get to the bottom of a cafeteria crime.

Check out these and other great new novels @ The St. Andrews Library TeenSpot.
We have something for everyone!!!


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St. Andrews TeenSpot Young Adult Book Club

St. Andrews TeenSpot Young Adult Book Club

St. Andrews Regional Library Teen Blog

This is where you get the 411 on all the fun that's happening at the St. Andrews' Library TeenSpot, the young adult department of the St. Andrews Regional Library Branch of the Charleston County Public Library. For additional information on the TeenSpot you can call us at 843-766-2546, come by 1735 North Woodmere Drive, Charleston, SC, friend us on Facebook at St. Andrews TeenSpot or follow us on Twitter at St.AndrewsTeens.

January/ February

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Strombreaker

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Anthony Horowitz

 

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3. Read that book during the next two months. Post your review as a comment on Blogspot or Facebook after you have read the book and before the end of the two months.

4. After you have read the YA Book of the Month and posted your review your name will be enter into a drawing for a small prize to be given away. Winner will be notified by phone or email.  

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St. Andrews TeenSpot has new hot YOUNG ADULT titles for you to check out....

DEVOTED BY HILARY DUFF- Since Sage was kidnapped, Clea has no way of knowing if he is alive or dead. And even though she has only just discovered they were soulmates, she feels like a part of her is lost forever. What’s worse, she can’t even turn to her best friend Ben—because every time she looks at him, all she sees is his betrayal. But waiting for something to happen is not an option, so Clea is ready for action. Suffering through dreams of seeing Sage with another woman, she makes an uneasy alliance with Sage’s enemies and sets out to be reunited with Sage...in this life or the next.

ENCLAVED BY ANN AGUIRRE- WELCOME TO THE APOCALYPSE In Deuce's world, people earn the right to a name only if they survive their first fifteen years. By that point, each unnamed 'brat' has trained into one of three groups-Breeders, Builders, or Hunters, identifiable by the number of scars they bear on their arms. Deuce has wanted to be a Huntress for as long as she can remember.

MY BEATING TEENAGE HEART BY C.K. KELLY MARTIN- Ashlyn Baptiste is falling. One moment she was nothing—no memories, no self—and then suddenly, she's plummeting through a sea of stars. Is she in a coma? She doesn't remember dying, and she has no memories of the life she left behind. All she knows is that she's trapped in a consciousness without a body and she's spending every moment watching a stranger.
Breckon Cody's on the edge. He's being ripped apart by grief so intense it literally hurts to breathe. On the surface, Breckon is trying to hold it together for his family and his girlfriend, but underneath he's barely hanging on.

THE FAIREST BY ANNE SCHRAFF
The Princess of the Fair contest is supposed to infuse and inspire students with school spirit. The winner should embody the qualities of Harriet Tubman, the schools namesake. But everyone knows it will turn into a nasty popularity contest where mean girls like Jasmine Benson will stop at nothing to win.

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Here are NEW titles to enjoy for the summer.....



Close to Famous by Joan Bauer

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.

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Here are some hot reads to burn the summer away!!!!

Angry Young Man by Chris Lynch

Alexander grew up constantly overshadowed and relentlessly, if good-naturedly, teased by his older brother, Robert, whose first-person narration provides the window into this complex sibling relationship. Both brothers take classes at the community college and fret about their single mother’s financial straits, but Robert is the more responsible brother, and Xan the wildcard. Xan finally finds an outlet for his frustrations and inability to connect when he falls in with a group of young activists, who justify their frighteningly extremist means with questionably beneficial ends. As a loan shark hounds the family and hints of violence whisper in, Robert wonders what his brother is really capable of. Lynch cuts to the quick during this short novel. He shows how two brothers can be a part of a sibling relationship but have drastically different interpretations of it. And Robert’s voice displays the claustrophobia of uncertainty about the forces that threaten the family even as he dwells on how he could have done better by his brother. It rings true, and hurts, at that. BOOKLIST

Throat by R. A. Nelson

Seventeen-year-old epileptic Emma’s truly bad day ends with crashing her mother’s car and swimming to consciousness in the presence of a vampire intent on making her his next victim. She stops him before he kills her, but he threatens harm to her family if she doesn’t bend to his will. Rather than endanger them, Emma runs away and eventually decides to eliminate the threat—if she can. These are brutal, old-style German vampires, a far cry from the elegant Cullens of Forks. Emma’s first-person narrative shows someone who is all prickly warrior, and tender moments are too few and one-note to evoke much sympathy for her situation. There is imaginative and original vampire lore, a detailed setting, and even romance in the form of a lovely nerd to assist the female hero, but unless readers click with the characters, the slow pacing may tempt them to skip ahead now and then. Those who prefer their vampires closer to the black-and-white version (but without the camp) should check into Nelson’s world—and watch their throats. BOOKLIST

The Visconti House by Elsbeth Edgar

Quiet Laura feels decidedly different from her classmates. Though an outsider herself, she initially lacks the courage to be seen with newcomer Leon, who lives near her home (known officially as the Visconti House and unofficially as the haunted house). Vacant before her parents bought it with plans to restore its faded grandeur someday, the shabby mansion begins to give up its many secrets when Laura and Leon join forces to explore the place and research its history. Convincing dialogue and well-drawn characters, both major and minor, bring energy to the story, which focuses on Laura, her slowly developing friendship with Leon, and the changes brought about by the experiences they share. The house's history tinges the quiet story with faded romance and sadness, but that tone is counterbalanced by the increasing vividness and confidence of Laura's character. A fine, sensitive first novel by an Australian writer. BOOKLIST

Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa

My name is Meghan Chase.

I thought it was over. That my time with the fey, the impossible choices I had to make, the sacrifices of those I loved, was behind me. But a storm is approaching, an army of Iron fey that will drag me back, kicking and screaming. Drag me away from the banished prince who's sworn to stand by my side. Drag me into the core of conflict so powerful, I'm not sure anyone can survive it.

This time, there will be no turning back.