Look for these great new books coming soon to Riverdale Public Library!
What We Saw at Night by Jacquelyn Mitchard: Allie Kim suffers from
Xeroderma Pigmentosum: a fatal allergy to sunlight
that confines her and her two best friends, Rob and Juliet, to the night. When
freewheeling Juliet takes up Parkour—the stunt-sport of scaling and leaping off
tall buildings—Allie and Rob have no choice but to join her, if only to protect
her. Though potentially deadly, Parkour after dark makes Allie feel truly alive,
and for the first time equal to the “daytimers.” On a random summer
night, the trio catches a glimpse of what appears to be murder. Allie alone
takes it upon herself to investigate, and the truth comes at an unthinkable
price. Navigating the shadowy world of specialized XP care, extreme sports, and
forbidden love, Allie ultimately uncovers a secret that upends everything she
believes about the people she trusts the most.
New Teen Fiction Mitchard
In Darkness by Nick Lake: "Shorty" is a
Haitian boy trapped in the ruins of a hospital when the earth explodes around
him. Surrounded by lifeless bodies and growing desperately weak from lack of
food and water, death seems inevitable. Yet as Shorty waits in darkness for a
rescue that may never come, he becomes aware of another presence, one reaching
out to him across two hundred years of history. It is the presence of slave and
revolutionary leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, whose life was marred by violence,
and whose own end came in darkness. What unites a child of the slums with the
man who would shake a troubled country out of slavery? Is it the darkness they
share...or is it hope?
In Darkness won the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award for Distinguished Contribution to Young Adult Literature.
New Teen Fiction Lake
Prodigy: A Legend Novel by Marie Lu: In this sequel to the best-selling
Legend, June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and offer passage to the Colonies. They have only one request—June and Day must assassinate the new Elector. It’s their chance to change the nation, to give voice to a people silenced for too long. But as June realizes this Elector is nothing like his father, she’s haunted by the choice ahead. What if Anden is a new beginning? What if revolution must be more than loss and vengeance, anger and blood—what if the Patriots are wrong?
New Teen Fiction Lu
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool: At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly
uprooted after his mother's death and placed in a boy's boarding school in
Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the
number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of a great black
bear in the nearby mountains. Newcomer Jack feels lost yet can't help being
drawn to Early, who won't believe what everyone accepts to be the truth about
the Great Appalachian Bear, Timber Rattlesnakes, and the legendary school hero
known as The Fish, who never returned from the war. When the boys find
themselves unexpectedly alone at school, they embark on a quest on the
Appalachian Trail in search of the great black bear. But what they are searching
for is sometimes different from what they find. They will meet truly strange
characters, each of whom figures into the pi story Early weaves as they travel,
while discovering things they never realized about themselves and others in
their lives.
New Teen Fiction Vanderpool
My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century by Rachel Harris: On the precipice of her sixteenth birthday, the last thing lone wolf Cat
Crawford wants is an extravagant gala thrown by her bubbly soon-to-be stepmother
and well-meaning father. So even though Cat knows the family's trip to Florence,
Italy is a peace offering, she embraces the magical city and all it offers. But
when her curiosity leads her to an unusual gypsy tent, she exits...right
into Renaissance Firenze. Thrust into the sixteenth century armed with
only a backpack full of contraband future items, Cat joins up with her
ancestors, the sweet Alessandra and protective Cipriano, and soon falls for the
gorgeous aspiring artist Lorenzo. But when the much-older Niccolo starts
sniffing around, Cat realizes that an unwanted birthday party is nothing
compared to an unwanted suitor full of creeptastic amore. Can she find her way
back to modern times before her Italian adventure turns into an Italian
forever?
New Teen Fiction Harris
Girl With Borrowed Wings by Rinsai Rossetti: Controlled by her father and bound by the desert, Frenenqer Paje's life
is tediously the same, until a small act of rebellion explodes her world and she
meets a boy, but not just a boy--a Free person, a winged person, a
shape-shifter. He has everything Frenenqer doesn't. No family, no attachments,
no rules. At night, he flies them to the far-flung places of their childhoods to
retrace their pasts. But when the delicate balance of their friendship threatens
to rupture into something more, Frenenqer must confront her isolation, her
father, and her very sense of identity, breaking all the rules of her life to
become free. A stunningly written tale of an isolated girl and the shape-shifting boy who shows her what freedom could be--if only she has the courage to take it.
New Teen Fiction Rossetti
Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin: In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking
discovery: when placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in
two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned three
continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their
way into the scientific community. In Norway, a commando force slipped behind
enemy lines to attack German heavy-water manufacturing. And deep in the desert,
one brilliant group of scientists was hidden away at a remote site at Los
Alamos. This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius
that created the world's most formidable weapon. This is the story of the atomic
bomb.
Bomb was a 2012 National Book Awards finalist for Young People's
Literature.
New Teen Non-Fiction 623.4 SHE
What We Saw at Night by Jacquelyn Mitchard: Allie Kim suffers from Xeroderma Pigmentosum: a fatal allergy to sunlight
that confines her and her two best friends, Rob and Juliet, to the night. When
freewheeling Juliet takes up Parkour—the stunt-sport of scaling and leaping off
tall buildings—Allie and Rob have no choice but to join her, if only to protect
her. Though potentially deadly, Parkour after dark makes Allie feel truly alive,
and for the first time equal to the “daytimers.” On a random summer
night, the trio catches a glimpse of what appears to be murder. Allie alone
takes it upon herself to investigate, and the truth comes at an unthinkable
price. Navigating the shadowy world of specialized XP care, extreme sports, and
forbidden love, Allie ultimately uncovers a secret that upends everything she
believes about the people she trusts the most. New Teen Fiction Mitchard
In Darkness by Nick Lake: "Shorty" is a
Haitian boy trapped in the ruins of a hospital when the earth explodes around
him. Surrounded by lifeless bodies and growing desperately weak from lack of
food and water, death seems inevitable. Yet as Shorty waits in darkness for a
rescue that may never come, he becomes aware of another presence, one reaching
out to him across two hundred years of history. It is the presence of slave and
revolutionary leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, whose life was marred by violence,
and whose own end came in darkness. What unites a child of the slums with the
man who would shake a troubled country out of slavery? Is it the darkness they
share...or is it hope? In Darkness won the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award for Distinguished Contribution to Young Adult Literature. New Teen Fiction Lake
Prodigy: A Legend Novel by Marie Lu: In this sequel to the best-selling Legend, June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and offer passage to the Colonies. They have only one request—June and Day must assassinate the new Elector. It’s their chance to change the nation, to give voice to a people silenced for too long. But as June realizes this Elector is nothing like his father, she’s haunted by the choice ahead. What if Anden is a new beginning? What if revolution must be more than loss and vengeance, anger and blood—what if the Patriots are wrong? New Teen Fiction Lu
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool: At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly
uprooted after his mother's death and placed in a boy's boarding school in
Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the
number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of a great black
bear in the nearby mountains. Newcomer Jack feels lost yet can't help being
drawn to Early, who won't believe what everyone accepts to be the truth about
the Great Appalachian Bear, Timber Rattlesnakes, and the legendary school hero
known as The Fish, who never returned from the war. When the boys find
themselves unexpectedly alone at school, they embark on a quest on the
Appalachian Trail in search of the great black bear. But what they are searching
for is sometimes different from what they find. They will meet truly strange
characters, each of whom figures into the pi story Early weaves as they travel,
while discovering things they never realized about themselves and others in
their lives.
New Teen Fiction Vanderpool
My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century by Rachel Harris: On the precipice of her sixteenth birthday, the last thing lone wolf Cat
Crawford wants is an extravagant gala thrown by her bubbly soon-to-be stepmother
and well-meaning father. So even though Cat knows the family's trip to Florence,
Italy is a peace offering, she embraces the magical city and all it offers. But
when her curiosity leads her to an unusual gypsy tent, she exits...right
into Renaissance Firenze. Thrust into the sixteenth century armed with
only a backpack full of contraband future items, Cat joins up with her
ancestors, the sweet Alessandra and protective Cipriano, and soon falls for the
gorgeous aspiring artist Lorenzo. But when the much-older Niccolo starts
sniffing around, Cat realizes that an unwanted birthday party is nothing
compared to an unwanted suitor full of creeptastic amore. Can she find her way
back to modern times before her Italian adventure turns into an Italian
forever? New Teen Fiction Harris
Girl With Borrowed Wings by Rinsai Rossetti: Controlled by her father and bound by the desert, Frenenqer Paje's life
is tediously the same, until a small act of rebellion explodes her world and she
meets a boy, but not just a boy--a Free person, a winged person, a
shape-shifter. He has everything Frenenqer doesn't. No family, no attachments,
no rules. At night, he flies them to the far-flung places of their childhoods to
retrace their pasts. But when the delicate balance of their friendship threatens
to rupture into something more, Frenenqer must confront her isolation, her
father, and her very sense of identity, breaking all the rules of her life to
become free. A stunningly written tale of an isolated girl and the shape-shifting boy who shows her what freedom could be--if only she has the courage to take it. New Teen Fiction Rossetti
Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin: In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking
discovery: when placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in
two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned three
continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their
way into the scientific community. In Norway, a commando force slipped behind
enemy lines to attack German heavy-water manufacturing. And deep in the desert,
one brilliant group of scientists was hidden away at a remote site at Los
Alamos. This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius
that created the world's most formidable weapon. This is the story of the atomic
bomb. Bomb was a 2012 National Book Awards finalist for Young People's
Literature. New Teen Non-Fiction 623.4 SHE
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