New e-book titles!

Check out these new titles just added to the NCLS e-book collection:

Just Jake, by Jake Marcionette. 

Just Jake introduces readers to sixth-grader Jake, whose life is turned upside down when his family moves from Florida to Maryland, where Jake must adapt to a new school. Jake has always ranked the kids at school in his hand-made, humorous "Kid Cards," and when he arrives at his new school, Jake starts building a new collection, befriending as many people as he can while staying under the radar from the school bully. But what happens when the school bully decides Jake's next in line for annihilation and his Kid Cards get into the wrong hands?!! Just Jake is a genuine—and as Jake himself would say, AWESOME!—world of school, family, friends, and teachers; it's the product of a writer talented well beyond his years. (Description from Overdrive.)

The Boy on the Wooden Box, by Leon Leyson & Marilyn J. Harran. (Audio, narrated by Danny Burstein.)

Even in the darkest of times—especially in the darkest of times—there is room for strength and bravery. A remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler’s list. 

Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance, and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow. Ultimately, it was the generosity and cunning of one man, a man named Oskar Schindler, who saved Leon Leyson’s life, and the lives of his mother, his father, and two of his four siblings, by adding their names to his list of workers in his factory—a list that became world renowned: Schindler’s List.

This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler’s List child, perfectly captures the innocence of a small boy who goes through the unthinkable. Most notable is the lack of rancor, the lack of venom, and the abundance of dignity in Mr. Leyson’s telling. The Boy on the Wooden Box is a legacy of hope, a memoir unlike anything you’ve ever read. (Description from Goodreads.) 

And check out these classic titles, now in handy alphabetical order!

Breadcrumbs, by Anne Ursu.

Coraline, by Neil Gaiman.

Danny, the Champion of the World, by Roald Dahl.

Ella Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine.

The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

Paddington Here and Now, by Michael Bond.

The Red Pyramid, by Rick Riordan.

A Tale of Two Castles, by Gail Carson Levine.