We Will Be Crashing Shortly by Hollis Gillespie
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Page Count: 256
Synopsis:
April Mae Manning from Unaccompanied Minor is back, and back in trouble, but this time, she's run out of chances...
April
Mae was raised on airplanes by her flight-attendant parents. But since
her dad's death and her mom's remarriage to the nefarious pilot Ash
Manning, April's been in nothing but danger: two airplane crashes; two
car crashes; and now, as a student pilot, in an old plane crippled over
the Caribbean. Can she survive, and save her friends, or is this the
watery end to "Crash" Manning's story?
Praise for Unaccompanied Minor: "A laugh-out-loud thriller about family court, money laundering and skyjacking" ~Kirkus Reviews
Crossing into Brooklyn by Mary Ann McGuigan
Release Date: July 18, 2015
Page Count: 224
Synopsis:
To Find Your Future, You Have to Face Your Past
At sixteen, Morgan Lindstrum has the life that every other girl wants--at least from the outside. A privileged only child, she has everything she could ever want, except her parents' attention. A Princeton physicist and a high-powered executive, they barely have any time for each other, much less for Morgan. Then her beloved grandfather dies, depriving Morgan of the only stable figure in her life. If that's not enough, she suddenly finds out he was never her grandfather at all. To find out the truth about her family, Morgan makes her way to Brooklyn, where she meets Terence Mulvaney, the Irish immigrant father who her mother disowned. Morgan wants answers; but instead of just satisfying her curiosity, Mulvaney shows her the people in his condemned tenement building, who are suffering and have nowhere to go. He challenges her to help them, by tearing away the veil of shame, and showing her wealthy parents and her advantaged circle of friends a world they don't want to know exists. The temptation to walk away from this ugly reality, as her mother did, is strong. But if she does, can Morgan ever really leave behind what she learned when she crossed into Brooklyn?
To Find Your Future, You Have to Face Your Past
At sixteen, Morgan Lindstrum has the life that every other girl wants--at least from the outside. A privileged only child, she has everything she could ever want, except her parents' attention. A Princeton physicist and a high-powered executive, they barely have any time for each other, much less for Morgan. Then her beloved grandfather dies, depriving Morgan of the only stable figure in her life. If that's not enough, she suddenly finds out he was never her grandfather at all. To find out the truth about her family, Morgan makes her way to Brooklyn, where she meets Terence Mulvaney, the Irish immigrant father who her mother disowned. Morgan wants answers; but instead of just satisfying her curiosity, Mulvaney shows her the people in his condemned tenement building, who are suffering and have nowhere to go. He challenges her to help them, by tearing away the veil of shame, and showing her wealthy parents and her advantaged circle of friends a world they don't want to know exists. The temptation to walk away from this ugly reality, as her mother did, is strong. But if she does, can Morgan ever really leave behind what she learned when she crossed into Brooklyn?
Alice in Wonderland High by Rachel Shane
Release Date: April 18, 2015
Page Count: 304
Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Alice
just can't find a way to be free. Her parents are environmental
activists whose cringeworthy public protests might involve chaining
themselves to a fence and pleading with passersby to “Save the World.
Save Alice!” It’s not that Alice doesn’t believe there’s work to be
done. But after a petition to start a farmers’ market meets with more
snickers than signatures, she figures she should shut up instead of
speak out. At least, that is, until she can find something that feels
real. Then along comes Whitney Lapin, a girl who speaks in cryptic
riddles and spends her free time turning abandoned warehouses into
beautiful gardens. Charismatic Whitney leads Alice on a rabbit trail
into the underground—a.k.a. secret society—of Wonderland High.
Curiouser and curiouser. Alice is in wonderland! Even though Whitney’s group of teenage environmental vigilantes operates on the wrong side of the law, with them, Alice is finally free to be herself. She stomps on her good-girl image by completing a series of environmental pranks to impress the new group: flooding the school and disguising a pig as a baby in order to smuggle it out of a testing facility. She wants to trust them, and she especially wants to trust (or maybe kiss) Chester Katz—a boy with a killer smile, a penchant for disappearing, and a secret that will really turn Alice’s world backwards. But then one of the young vigilantes tries to frame Alice for all the pranks, and she must figure out their secret before she ends up in front of a jury that’s screaming, “Off with her head!”
Curiouser and curiouser. Alice is in wonderland! Even though Whitney’s group of teenage environmental vigilantes operates on the wrong side of the law, with them, Alice is finally free to be herself. She stomps on her good-girl image by completing a series of environmental pranks to impress the new group: flooding the school and disguising a pig as a baby in order to smuggle it out of a testing facility. She wants to trust them, and she especially wants to trust (or maybe kiss) Chester Katz—a boy with a killer smile, a penchant for disappearing, and a secret that will really turn Alice’s world backwards. But then one of the young vigilantes tries to frame Alice for all the pranks, and she must figure out their secret before she ends up in front of a jury that’s screaming, “Off with her head!”
Perdita by Faith Gardner
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Page Count: 224
Synopsis: Granted, Arielle has a
vast, excitable imagination. But she's not imagining how strange and out
of control her life becomes after the death by drowning of her older
sister's best friend, Perdita. Not only does this death echo the death
of Arielle's own older brother, ten years before, it leads to dreams and
visions in which Perdita seems to be reaching out to Arielle, asking
for her help. The only other explanation—that Arielle's high-strung
emotions have finally caused her to break with reality—is even more
terrifying. A story that builds to greater and greater heights of
suspicion and fear, Perdita is also a multi-layered literary achievement
that leaves no emotion untouched.
Unlovely by Celeste Conway
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Page Count: 256
Synopsis: Accidents happen. But
they happen more often when the beautiful ballet dancers return each
summer to the island. When he hears the ruthless way that the loveliest
dancer talks about boys getting what they deserve when they break girls'
hearts, Harley, home for the summer after his first year of college,
wonders if he's losing his mind. He knows for sure that he's losing his
heart to this girl...But then, strange incidents start happening all
over the island and Harley is caught between desire and fear: could he
also be in danger of losing his life?
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