So many books, so little time! Here's what's new for kids at your local library. Please check back frequently for our new arrivals!
Mike Stellar : nerves of steel
by Holt, K. A.
Mike is suspicious when his family joins an expedition to Mars at the last minute, and his fears are confirmed when all of the adults on the colonizing mission, including his parents, begin to act strangely.
Strawberry Hill
by Hoberman, Mary Ann
Ten-year-old Allie's family moves from urban New Haven to rural Stamford, Connecticut, in the midst of the Great Depression.
The minions of time.
by Jenkins, Jerry B.
Having discovered that he is the King's Son, Owen contemplates his future with trepidation as he must fulfill his destiny to lead the battle with the Dragon, unite the worlds of the Highlands and the Lowlands, and marry a princess.
Tracktown summer
010 and up
by Holmes, Elizabeth Ann
Spending the summer with his father at a run-down house between a railroad track and a polluted section of a lake, twelve-year-old Jake gets involved with a fourteen-year-old neighbor who is hiding a secret within his home.
Umbrella summer
008-012
by Graff, Lisa(Lisa Colleen)
After her brother Jared dies, ten-year-old Annie worries about the hidden dangers of everything, from bug bites to bicycle riding, until she is befriended by a new neighbor who is grieving her own loss.
When the whistle blows
by Slayton, Fran Cannon
Jimmy Cannon tells about his life in the 1940s as the son of a West Virginia railroad man, loving the trains and expecting one day to work on the railroad like his father and brothers.
Cemetery Street
by Seabrooke, Brenda
Courtney Carmichael, her younger brother, and her depressed, newly-divorced, out-of-work mother move from New Hampshire to Florida into a decrepit house on Cemetery Street, where spooky occurrences make the family feel increasingly unsettled.
Sophie under pressure
by Rue, Nancy N.
Worried that her parents are breaking up, Sophie gets lost in an imaginary world again as she and her friends transform Fiona's tree house into a space station as a school science project, despite sabotage and jealousies.
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