Tuesday, December 23, 2014

December New Releases

We're going to be closed for the next three days - better hurry in and pick up some new books to get you through to Saturday!

Picture Books

The Snow Queen: A Tale in Seven Stories by Hans Christian Andersen
"Hans Christian Andersen's beloved tale The Snow Queen is an enchanting story of the bond of love and friendship between young playmates Kai and Gerda."

Telephone by Mac Barnett
"In this picture book a string of birds on a telephone wire plays a game of telephone, with the usual mixed up results."

Sleepover with Beatrice and Bear by Mรดnica Carnesi
"Beatrice the bunny wants to share winter with her best friend, Bear, but he will be busy hibernating."

I am Jazz! by Jessica Herthel
"Presents the story of a transgender child who traces her early awareness that she is a girl in spite of male anatomy and the acceptance she finds through a wise doctor who explains her natural transgender status."

Angelina's Big City Ballet by Katharine Holabird
"Angelina goes to the most famous city in Mouseland to perform at the Big Cheese Dance Show with her cousin Jeanie, but the two clash over whether tap or ballet is better."

Chapter Books

Magic in the Mix by Annie Barrows
"Life seems to be back to normal for 'newly twinned' sisters Miri and Molly until their magical house sends them on a new time-traveling adventure to the Civil War, where they must risk everything to save two unusual soldiers and come to terms with the emotional truth about Molly's past."

Ballerina Dreams: From Orphan to Ballerina by Michaela DePrince
"At the age of three, Michaela DePrince found a photo of a ballerina that changed her life."

Ares and the Spear of Fear by Joan Holub
"After overcoming many challenges, Zeus and his fellow Olympians arrive at the temple of Delphi -- only to find a giant snake guarding the entrance!"

Nuts to You by Lynn Rae Perkins
"After surviving being carried off by a hawk, a young squirrel resolves to find his way home, as his best friends begin their search for him."

I Survived True Stories: Five Epic Disasters by Lauren Tarshis
"...From the group of students surviving the 9.0 earthquake that set off a historic tsunami in Japan, to a boy nearly frozen on the prairie in 1888, these unforgettable kids lived to tell tales of unimaginable destruction -- and against all odds, survival."

Teen Books

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
"Spending her summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer."

Confessions: The Paris Mysteries by James Patterson
"Sixteen-year-old Tandy Angel moves to Paris for a fresh start with her siblings and to be reunited with James, her lost love, but her detective work soon uncovers long-buried family secrets that threaten to destroy her life."

If You're Reading This by Trent Reedy
"For a responsible sixteen-year-old Michael Wilson has a lot of problems -- his father was killed in Afghanistan in 2005, his overworked and overprotective mother will not talk about their situation, and does not want him playing football, and he has suddenly started to receive letters that his father wrote before his death."

Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross
"Sixteen-year-old Maude Pichon, a plain, impoverished girl in Belle Epoque Paris, is hired by Countess Dubern to make her headstrong daughter, Isabelle, look more beautiful by comparison but soon Maude is enmeshed in a tangle of love, friendship, and deception."

The Accidental Highwayman: Being the Tale of Kit Bristol, his Horse Midnight, A Mysterious Princess, and Sundry Magical Persons Besides by Ben Tripp
"In eighteenth-century England , young Christopher 'Kit' Bristol unwittingly takes on the task of his dead master, notorious highwayman Whistling Jack, who pledged a fairy he would rescue feisty Princess Morgana from an arranged marriage with King George III."

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