NEW BOOKS FOR SUMMER READING

DEFINING DULCIE by Paul Acampora.
When 16 year-old Dulcie's father dies, her mother makes a decision to move them to California, where Dulcie makes an equally radical decision to steal her dad's old truck and head back home.

GILDA JOYCE, THE LADIES OF THE LAKE by Jennifer Allison.
Having earned a scholarship to a private girls' high school, self-proclaimed psychic investigator Gilda Joyce investigates the circumstances surrounding the drowning death of a student whose ghost supposedly haunts the campus.

HUGGING THE ROCK by Susan Taylor Brown.
Through a series of poems, Rachel expresses her feelings about her parents' divorce, living without her mother, and her changing attitude towards her father.

WINTER DOOR by Isobelle Carmody. 
When her own world and Valley are threatened with an endless winter, Rage and her friends seek to stop the powerful Stormlord from using the despair of others to create the bleak weather. The Gateway Trilogy – Book 2.

THE TENTH POWER by Kate Constable. 
Having lost her magical powers of chantment, 18 year-old Calwyn searches for the missing half of the broken Wheel of the Tenth Power with the hope of stopping the plague and endless winter that have fallen on her world. The Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy – Book 3.

CURSE OF THE BANE by Joseph Delaney. 
Now 13 years old, Tom Ward continues his apprenticeship with the Spook as they confront a dangerous bane who can control people's thoughts. The Last Apprentice series.

 CORYDON & THE FALL OF ATLANTIS by Tobias Druitt. 
Corydon, an outcast Greek boy with the leg of a goat, reluctantly sets off on another adventure with the "monsters" of Greek mythology when the Minotaur is apparently kidnapped by the people of Atlantis.Sequel to: Corydon & The Island of Monsters.

MY LAST SKIRT by Lynda Durrant.
Enjoying the freedom afforded her while dressing as a boy in order to earn higher pay after emigrating from Ireland, Jennie Hodgers serves in the 95th Illinois Infantry as Private Albert Cashier, a Union soldier in the American Civil War.

THE SUMMONING by Lynne Ewing. 
Three fifteen-year-old girls living in Washington D.C. learn that they are the direct descendants of Egyptian pharoahs, with special powers that will allow them to battle demonic members of the Cult of Anubis, who are trying to return the universe to the chaos from which it sprung. Sisters of Isis – Book 1.

DAY OF THE SCARAB by Catherine Fisher.                  
As she works to return peace to Two Lands, Mirany travels through the Gates of the Underworld. Book 1 – The Oracle Prophecies

THE SPHERE OF SECRETS by Catherine Fisher. 
Together with Alexos, Seth, Oblek, and a fallen silver star, Mirany is forced to continue the battle against the evil general Argelin. Book 2 – The Oracle Prophecies.

 BLAZE OF SILVER by K. M. Grant.
Using principles of their shared Muslim faith to persuade him, an agent of the Old Man of the Mountain convinces Kamil to lead Will and Ellie into a trap, but Kamil repents and seeks a way to save his friends and redeem himself. The De Granville Trilogy – Book 3.

 PART OF ME by Kimberly Willis Holt.
10 stories trace the connections between four generations of one Louisiana family from 1939 when a young girl leaves school to help support her family to 2006 when an 80 year-old woman embarks on a book tour.

 LA LINEA by Ann Jaramillo.
When 15 year-old Miguel's time finally comes to leave his poor Mexican village, cross the border illegally, and join his parents in California, his younger sister's determination to join him soon imperils them both.

STANDING AGAINST THE WIND by Traci L. Jones.
As she tries to escape her poor Chicago neighborhood by winning a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, shy and studious 8^th grader Patrice discovers that she has more options in life than she previously realized.

THE SHAMER’S WAR by Lene Kaaberbol.
Dina, a Shamer, and her friend Nico, the legitimate heir to the lordship of Dunark, lead a dangerous rebellion against Drakan, the ruthless Dragon Lord who is hunting down Shamers to burn at the stake.  The Shamer Chronicles – Book 4.           

CRACKER! THE BEST DOG IN VIETNAM by Cynthia Kadohata.
A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog.

CUPID, A TALE OF LOVE AND DESIRE by Julius Lester.
Cupid, the spoiled and mischievous god of love, is attracted to and marries the beautiful mortal, Psyche, and both learn many lessons about the nature of love.

RETURNABLE GIRL by Pamela Lowell.
Friendship with an outcast classmate and memories of her mother's desertion interfere with the relationship 13 year-old Ronnie tries to establish with her new foster mother.

TRUE TALENTS by David Lubar.
Over a year after 14 year-old Eddie "Trash" Thalmeyer and his friends from Edgeview Alternative School find out about their psychic abilities, Trash is kidnapped and Torchie, Cheater, Lucky, Flinch, and Martin must join forces to rescue their friend, discovering their true talents in the process.

THE STONE LIGHT by Kai Meyer. 
While Merle and the Flowing Queen travel to Hell to enlist Lord Light's help in Venice's fight against the invading Egyptian army, Serafin joins a resistance group that is led by an ancient sphinx. The Dark Reflections Trilogy – Book 2.

OPERATION RED JERICHO by Joshua Mowll.                                                                
The posthumous papers of Rebecca MacKenzie document her adventures, along with her brother Doug, in 1920s China as the teenaged siblings are sent to live aboard their uncle's ship where they become involved in the dangerous activities of a mysterious secret society called the Honourable Guild of Specialists.

 l8r, g8r by Lauren Myracle.
Throughout their senior year in high school, Zoe, Maddie and Angela continue to share im’s with one another about their day to day experiences as they consider college and the inevitable end of their inseparable trio.  Sequel to: ttyl and ttfn.

LADY FRIDAY by Garth Nix.                                                       
Young Arthur Penhaligon must weigh an offer from Lady Friday that is either a cunning trap for the Rightful Heir or a golden opportunity that he must seize.  Keys to the Kingdom series

HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS by James A. Owen.
Three young men are entrusted with the Imaginarium Geographica, an atlas of fantastical places to which they travel in hopes of defeating the Winter King whose bid for power is related to the First World War raging in the Real World.

SOUL EATER by Michelle Paver.
When Wolf is taken by the Soul-Eaters, Torak must infiltrate their clan to bring him back.  Chronicles of Darkness – Book 3.

DEAD CONNECTION by Charlie Price.
A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her.

AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP by Ann Rinaldi.
Relates the lives of Mary Todd Lincoln, raised in a wealthy Virginia family, and Lizzy Keckley, a dressmaker born a slave, as they grow up separately then become best friends when Mary's childhood dream of living in the White House comes true.

THE PIG SCROLLS BY GRYLLUS THE PIG by Paul Shipton.
A translation of an ancient Greek manuscript written by Gryllus, a talking pig who was once a man, which describes the many adventures that he and his companions--a junior prophetess named Sybil and a bumbling goatherd--experience while traveling to Delphi to try to prevent the universe from coming to an end.

 DEMONS OF THE OCEAN by Justin Somper.                            
When twins Connor and Grace's ship is wrecked in a storm and Connor is rescued by pirates, he believes that Grace has been taken aboard the mythical Vampirate's ship, and he is determined to find her.  Vampirates series.

THE TRAP by John Smelcer.
In alternating chapters, 17 year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.

CRANE by Jeff Stone.
In China in the mid-17^th century, 12 year-old Hok, disguised as a boy for most of her life, must now assume her proper identity as a girl and try to save her brothers' lives by entering the notorious Jinan City Fight Club.  Five Ancestors - Book 4.

A TRUE AND FAITHFUL NARRATIVE by Katherine Sturtevant.
In London in the 1680s, Meg--now 16 years old--tries to decide whether to marry either of the two men who court her, taking into account both love and her writing ambitions.

THE NEW POLICEMAN by Kate Thompson.
Irish teenager JJ Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into Tír na n'Óg, the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out a lot about his family history, the music that he loves, and a crime his great-grandfather may or may not have committed.

VOYAGE OF PLUNDER by Michele Torrey.
14 year-old Daniel's life is turned upside down when his father's merchant ship is plundered by pirates in 1696 and Daniel is forced to stay aboard the pirate ship as a hostage.

FLORA SEGUNDA by Ysabeau S. Wilce.
14 year-old Flora Fyrdraaca, whose mother is the Warlord's Commanding General and whose father is mad, kindly helps her house's magical--and long-banished--butler, unaware that he draws strength from the Fyrdraaca will.

 THE MISLAID MAGICIAN OR TEN YEARS AFTER by Patricia C. Wrede.
In 1828, English cousins Cecelia and Kate and their husbands search for a missing German railway engineer and with the help of their wizardry skills, uncover a plot that could endanger the unity of England.