New Books @ Aram Public Library for Teens

We've gotten a few new books in that might interest you as we gear up for summer reading. Check 'em out. All links go to our catalog record, so you can request the book from home:

Family by Micol Ostow: In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in.

* This book is loosely based on the Manson family story, and it's told in verse (like Ellen Hopkins).

Future Imperfect by K. Ryer Breese: Seventeen-year-old Ade is addicted to the feeling he gets after knocking himself unconscious brings visions of the future, but when he meets Vauxhall, with whom he knows he will fall in love, he discovers that she also has an addiction and that together they may be able to do the impossible--change the future.

The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow: In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.

Department 19 by Will Hill: After watching his father's brutal murder, sixteen-year-old Jamie Carpenter joins Department 19, a secret government agency, where he learns of the existence of vampires and the history that ties him to the team destined to stop them.