Check out these awesome new YA books now hitting the Loft!!!!!!
YA BUR NEW
All the Broken Pieces: a novel in verse
Burg, Ann
New York: Scholastic Press, c2009
Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.
YA NAP NEW
Alligator Bayou
Napoli, Donna Jo
New York: Wendy Lamb Books, c2007.
Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs at every turn.
YA 305.235 BOW NEW
The American Teenager
Bowman, Robin
New York: Umbrage Editions, c2007.
Robin Bowman’s five-year journey into the heart of teenage America created a series of 414 “collaborative portraits,” wherein she shares her discoveries of a generation now coming of age. Searing and intimate photographs, presented alongside the young people’s voices of passion, pride, embarrassment, lust, pain, bewilderment, anxiety, joy, uncertainty, and rage.
YA LLO NEW
The Carbon Diaries 2015
Lloyd, Saci
New York: Holiday House, 2009, c2008.
In 2015, when England becomes the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing in a drastic bid to combat climate change, sixteen-year-old Laura documents the first year of rationing as her family spirals out of control.
YA GOL NEW
Deep in the Heart of High School
Goldbach, Veronica
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.
Three friends, Olivia Silverstein, Fatima Garcia, and Vanessa Reynolds, help one another through family troubles, romantic crushes, and the perils of freshman year at a San Antonio, Texas, high school.
YA 306.903 NOY NEW
Encyclopedia of the end: mysterious death in fact, fancy, folklore, and more
Noyes, Deborah
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., c2008.
A stylish A-to-Z encounter with all things related to death and dying.
YA 305.235 BUR NEW
Girls Against Girls: why we are mean to each other and how we can change
Burton, Bonnie
San Francisco, CA: Zest Books, c2009.
This guide for teenage girls explains why girls can sometimes be mean to each other, what to do if you are a victim of bullying, and the importance of treating other girls with respect.
YA MAR NEW
Jellicoe Road
Marchetta, Melina
New York: HarperTeen, 2008, c2006.
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
YA 345.73 KRY NEW
Juvenile Court: a Judge’s guide for young adults and their parents
Leora, Krygier
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, c2009.
The juvenile court system -- I received a citation to court : what do I do? -- Preparing for court -- Coming to court for my hearing -- Driving, pedestrian, bicycle, and related violations -- Other offenses -- What can I expect at court? -- Returning to court, the DMV, and will I have a record? -- How to avoid getting another citation.
YA SF CLA NEW
The Mortal Instruments
Clare, Cassandra
New York: Margaret K McElderry Books, c2009.
Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon.
YA NO NEW
No Such Thing as the Real World: stories about growing up
New York: Laura Geringer Books/HarperTeen, c22009.
Six award-winning young adult authors present short stories featuring teens who have to face the "real world" for the first time.
YA WIS NEW
Puppet: a novel
Wiseman, eva
Toronto, Ont.: Tundra Books, c2009.
Times are hard in Julie Vamosi’s Hungarian village in the late nineteenth century, and the townspeople, including her father, blame the Jewish people. After Julie’s best friend, Esther, a young servant-girl, disappears, anti semitic rumors begin to spread.
YA WHI NEW
Sag Harbor: a novel
Whitehead, Colson
New York: Doubleday, c2009.
Benji Cooper is one of the few black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs, playing too much Dungeons and Dragons. After a tragic mishap on his first day of school, when Benji reveals his deep enthusiasm for the horror movie magazine Fangoria -- his social doom is sealed for the next four years.
YA 618.92026 PAR NEW
Soldier’s Secret: the story of Deborah Sampson
Klass, Sheila Solomon
New York: HarperTeen, c2009.
During the Revolutionary War, a young woman named Deborah Sampson disguises herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army.
YA GRA NEW
Stargazer
Gray, Claudia
New York: HarperTeen, c2009.
Teenage vampire Bianca finds herself the target when evil wraiths attack her boarding school, Evernight Academy.
YA FLE NEWTen Cents a Dance
Fletcher, Christine
New York: Bloomsbury, c2008.
In 1940s Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby hopes to escape poverty by becoming a taxi dancer in a nightclub, but the work has unforeseen dangers and hiding the truth from her family and friends becomes increasingly difficult.
YA WEI NEW
Wherever Nina Lies
Weingarten, Lynn
New York: Point, c2009.
Two years after the disappearance of her older sister, sixteen-year-old Ellie goes on a quest to find her.
"The Awakening,: by Kelley Armstrong (YA ARM NEW)
"Bait," by Alex Sanchez (YA SAN NEW)
"Blade: Playing Dead," by Tim Bowler (YA BOW NEW)
"Boyology," by Sarah O'leary Burningham (YA 306.73 BUR NEW)
"Burn My Heart," by Beverley Nadioo (YA NAI NEW)
"Cre4ature of the Night," by Kate Thompson (YA THO NEW)
"Drawing Vampires: Gothic Creatures of the Night," by Chritopher Hart 
"Love and Peaches: a novel," by Jodi Lynn Anderson (YA AND NEW)
"Taken by the Storm,: by Angela Morrison (YA MOR NEW)
