New Books @ APL for Teens

Check out some of the new books that just came in for teens at the library! All links go to our catalog so you can request the books from home. This week, it looks like lots of girl-friendly titles came in, but I promise to showcase tons of great guy books in the next weeks, too (though make sure to check out that awesome sounding baseball book -- the cover of ours looks cooler than the one pictured below)!

Unfriended by Katie Finn: After months of upheaval, seventeen-year-old Madison MacDonald of Putnam, Connecticut, is glad when summer brings some normalcy, but soon her deepening relationship with Nate is putting a strain on her friendships.

Dreams of Significant Girls by Cristina Garcia: In the 1970s, a teenaged Iranian princess, a German-Canadian girl, and a Cuban-Jewish girl from New York City become friends when they spend three summers at a Swiss boarding school.

The Summer I Learned to Fly by Dana Reinhardt: Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.

Beanball by Gene Fehler: Relates, from diverse points of view, events surrounding the critical injury of popular and talented high school athlete, Luke "Wizard" Wallace, when he is hit in the face by a fastball.

Eye of the Sun by Diane Hofmeyr: When Tuthmosis and Isikara return from Egypt, Tuthmosis's sister-in-law, Nefertiti, is terrified that he has come to usurp his brother's throne, and will stop at nothing to keep the two brothers apart.

Ripple by Mandy Hubbard: Lexi is cursed with a dark secret. Each day she goes to school like a normal teenager, and each night she must swim, or the pain will be unbearable. She is a siren--a deadly mermaid destined to lure men to their watery deaths. After a terrible tragedy, Lexi shut herself off from the world, vowing to protect the ones she loves. But she soon finds herself caught between a new boy at school who may have the power to melt her icy exterior, and a handsome water spirit who says he can break Lexi's curse if she gives up everything else. Lexi is faced with the hardest decision she's ever had to make: the life she's always longed for--or the love she can't live without?

Starstruck by Cyn Balog: Sixteen-year-old Dough is surprised when her long-distance boyfriend returns after four years and still finds her beautiful, despite her seventy-pound weight gain, until Dough learns that he is a member of the Luminati--an ancient cult of astrologers who can manipulate the stars to improve their lives.