Anna and the Swallow Man, by Gavriel Savit.
Kraków, 1939. A million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. This is no place to grow up. Anna Łania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father, a linguistics professor, during their purge of intellectuals in Poland. She's alone.
And then Anna meets the Swallow Man. He is a mystery, strange and tall, a skilled deceiver with more than a little magic up his sleeve. And when the soldiers in the streets look at him, they see what he wants them to see.
The Swallow Man is not Anna's father--she knows that very well--but she also knows that, like her father, he's in danger of being taken, and like her father, he has a gift for languages: Polish, Russian, German, Yiddish, even Bird. When he summons a bright, beautiful swallow down to his hand to stop her from crying, Anna is entranced. She follows him into the wilderness.
Over the course of their travels together, Anna and the Swallow Man will dodge bombs, tame soldiers, and even, despite their better judgment, make a friend. But in a world gone mad, everything can prove dangerous. Even the Swallow Man.
Destined to become a classic, Gavriel Savit's stunning debut reveals life's hardest lessons while celebrating its miraculous possibilities.
Front Lines, by Michael Grant.
World War II, 1942. A court decision makes women subject to the draft
and eligible for service. The unproven American army is going up
against the greatest fighting force ever assembled, the armed forces of
Nazi Germany.
Three girls sign up to fight. Rio Richlin, Frangie
Marr, and Rainy Schulterman are average girls, girls with dreams and
aspirations, at the start of their lives, at the start of their loves.
Each has her own reasons for volunteering: Rio fights to honor her
sister; Frangie needs money for her family; Rainy wants to kill Germans.
For the first time they leave behind their homes and families—to go to
war.
These three daring young women will play their parts in the
war to defeat evil and save the human race. As the fate of the world
hangs in the balance, they will discover the roles that define them on
the front lines. They will fight the greatest war the world has ever
known.
It's All Your Fault, by Paul Rudnick.
My name is Caitlin and up until forty-eight hours ago I had never:
Tasted alcohol, kissed a boy, sang in public at the top of my lungs,
kidnapped anyone or — WHAT? STOLEN A CONVERTIBLE? Now I'm in jail and I
have no idea what I'm going to tell: The police, my parents, the mayor,
all of those camera crews and everyone on Twitter. I have just noticed
that: My nose is pierced and I have-WAIT? IS THAT A TATTOO? I blame one
person for this entire insane weekend: My famous cousin. Who is also my
former best friend. Who I have HATED for the past four years. Who I miss
like crazy. NO I DON'T!!!! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, HELLER HARRIGAN!!!!
The Memory of Light, by Francisco X. Stork.
When Vicky Cruz wakes up in the Lakeview Hospital Mental Disorders ward, she knows one thing: After her suicide attempt, she shouldn't be alive. But then she meets Mona, the live wire; Gabriel, the saint; E.M., always angry; and Dr. Desai, a quiet force. With stories and honesty, kindness and hard work, they push her to reconsider her life before Lakeview, and offer her an acceptance she's never had. But Vicky's newfound peace is as fragile as the roses that grow around the hospital. And when a crisis forces the group to split up, sending Vick back to the life that drove her to suicide, she must try to find her own courage and strength. She may not have them. She doesn't know.
Inspired in part by the author's own experience with depression, The Memory of Light is the rare young adult novel that focuses not on the events leading up to a suicide attempt, but the recovery from one — about living when life doesn't seem worth it, and how we go on anyway.
A Mysterious Egg (The Dino Files #1) by Stacey McAnulty. Illustrations by Mike Boldt.
Frank's grandma is a famous paleontologist (that's a dinosaur
scientist). But she's also an adult who makes up rules. Rules like: no
digging for dinosaur bones when you have a sunburn. That means Frank is
stuck playing inside with his annoying cousin, Samantha. But then
Grandma finds a fossil of an egg! And when Frank and Sam sneak into the
dino lab late at night, they find something even more amazing. . . .
The hilarious Dino Files chapter book series follows a nine-year-old
dinosaur expert, his paleontologist grandparents, a cat named Saurus,
and fossils that might not be so extinct!
The Mystery of Hollow Places, by Rebecca Podos.
All Imogene Scott knows of her mother is the bedtime story her father
told her as a child. It's the story of how her parents met: he, a
forensic pathologist; she, a mysterious woman who came to identify a
body. A woman who left Imogene and her father when she was a baby, a
woman who was always possessed of a powerful loneliness, a woman who
many referred to as "troubled waters."
Now Imogene is seventeen,
and her father, a famous author of medical mysteries, has struck out in
the middle of the night and hasn't come back. Neither Imogene's
stepmother nor the police know where he could've gone, but Imogene is
convinced he's looking for her mother. And she decides it's up to her to
put to use the skills she's gleaned from a lifetime of reading her
father's books to track down a woman she's only known in stories in
order to find him and, perhaps, the answer to the question she's carried
with her for her entire life.
Secrets of Valhalla, by Jasmine Richards.
The Siren, by Kiera Cass. (Audio only* narrated by Arielle DeLisle.)
Kahlen is a Siren, bound to serve the Ocean by luring humans to watery
graves with her voice, which is deadly to any human who hears it. Akinli
is human—a kind, handsome boy who's everything Kahlen ever dreamed of.
Falling in love puts them both in danger . . . but Kahlen can't bear to
stay away. Will she risk everything to follow her heart?
To Catch a Cheat (Jackson Greene #2) by Varian Johnson.
When a video frames Jackson Greene and his friends for a crime they
didn't commit, Gang Greene battles the blackmailers in this sequel to
the acclaimed The Great Greene Heist.
Jackson Greene is riding
high. He is officially retired from conning, so Principal Kelsey is
(mostly) off his back. His friends have great new projects of their own.
And he's been hanging out a lot with Gaby de la Cruz, so he thinks
maybe, just maybe, they'll soon have their first kiss. Then Jackson
receives a link to a faked security video that seems to show him and the
rest of Gang Greene flooding the school gym. The jerks behind the video
threaten to pass it to the principal — unless Jackson steals an advance
copy of the school's toughest exam. So Gang Greene reunites for their
biggest job yet. To get the test and clear their names, they'll have to
outrun the school's security cameras, outwit a nosy member of the Honor
Board, and outmaneuver the blackmailers while setting a trap for them in
turn. And as they execute another exciting caper full of twists and
turns, they'll prove that sometimes it takes a thief to catch a cheat.
(All descriptions from OverDrive.)
*And yes, I wish I could give you the print version of this e-book on the very same day as the e-audio; I want nothing more than to simultaneously provide you both experiences, especially when NCLS can afford them and I know they'll be hugely popular, but they're not always released on the same day. Keep checking back!
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