New Arrivals

5 worlds

Siegel, Mark, 1967-

"Oona Lee surprised everyone--including herself--when she lit the first beacon to save the Five Worlds from extinction.Can she light the other four beacons in time? Next stop, Toki! On the blue planet, Oona must face the sister who lefther, and bring to light the Cobalt Prince's dark secrets. Meanwhile, An Tzu is fading away as his mysterious illness gets worse. Will it stop him from joining the fight? Or will his unique magic be just what the team needs? And Jax Amboy is a hero on the starball field, but in a moment of real danger, will he risk everything to save his friends?"--Amazon.

Al Capone throws me a curve

Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957-

"Moose has his hands full during the summer of 1936 watching his autistic sister, Natalie, and the warden's daughter, Piper, and trying to get on a baseball team by proving he knows Al Capone"--Provided by publisher.

Beyond the Bright Sea

Wolk, Lauren, author, narrator.

A boy called Christmas

Haig, Matt, 1975-, author. http://id.loc.gov/autho

"Nikolas, the boy who would one day be known as Santa Claus, goes on a life-changing quest to the North Pole"-- Provided by publisher.

The cardboard kingdom

Sell, Chad.

". . . A group of neighborhood children create[s] costumes from cardboard and use their imagination in adventures with knights, robots, and monsters"--OCLC.

Castle in the stars

Alice, Alex, 1974-

"On the aethership's maiden voyage, Seraphin and the Knights of Aether had prepared for everything--except treason. The villainous chamberlain wants to overthrow King Ludwig and claim the electro-aetheric technology for Prussia. The only escape for the king and his companions lies in the frosty skies above Bavaria. The ship's first flight is a success, but their respite is short-lived. As long as the chamberlain is free to spread his lies, these travelers will find no safe harbor. To save the king's throne, they must push the ship even farther--out of the sky . . . and into the stars!"--OCLC.

Code word courage

Larson, Kirby.

In September 1944 eleven-year-old Billie lives with her great aunt, Doff, eagerly waiting for her older brother Leo to return from boot camp, and desperate to find the father that left when she was little; but Leo brings a friend with him, a Navajo named Denny, and the injured dog they have rescued and named Bear--and when the two young men go off to war Bear becomes the thread that ties them all together, and helps Billie to find a true friend.

Confusion is nothing new

Acampora, Paul.

Fourteen-year-old Ellie Magari's mother left shortly after Ellie was born, and her father has raised her, but Ellie always figured that one day she would meet her mother and ask her some pertinent questions--but now her mother has died, and Ellie does not know exactly how to feel about that, but she is determined, with the help of her friends in the St. Francis of Assisi's Howling Wolves marching band (where she plays the glockenspiel), to make some kind of connection with her mother's memory.

Cucumber quest

Gigi D. G, (Artist)

"Cucumber, Almond, and friends arrive in the Melody Kingdom just in time for Queen Cymbal's royal birthday bash. But the party stops--or, let's be real, it starts--when Noisemaster, second of the Nightmare Knight's minions, crashes the scene"--Back cover.

The cure for cold feet : a novel in small moments

Ain, Beth Levine, author.

A novel in verse. Middle schooler Izzy Klein writes free verse poems about her middle school woes, which include a very annoying boy, lunch tables of popular girls, her mom's new friend and her dad's remarrying, her overly dramatic brother, and her woes over a ballroom dance.