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YA Picks from CFPL August 2017
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Tash hearts Tolstoy
by Katie Ormsbee
Tash's little web series of the novel Anna Karenina goes viral and she has to juggle her passion for Tolstoy with sudden fame, her longtime crush getting serious, and her secret asexual orientation. If you like this, check out the Middlemarch web series by Rebecca Shoptow on Youtube and see that truth and fiction can run together in uncanny ways!
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Martians Abroad
by Carrie Vaughn
Polly wants to be a starship pilot but when she and her brother wind up at Galileo Academy, they have to team up to solve mysteries on campus. A very good start to what is sure to be a very cool series!
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One of us is Lying
by Karen M. McManus
As creepy as the best Agatha Christie, this whodunit centers on five students in detention (Breakfast Club, anyone?) But when one is found dead, his high-profile classmates—overachieving intellectual, popular beauty, a drug dealer on probation and an all-star athlete—are investigated and revealed to be the subjects of the victim's latest gossip. Who killed Simon?
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Fish Girl
by Donna Jo Napoli
David Wiesner, a three-time Caldecott Medalist, illustrates this coming of age fairy tale about a young mermaid who dreams of life outside the aquarium, and a human girl who befriends her. The fluidity of identity, gender, and even species are all examined with the lightest of touches. Sometimes big statements are made with soft voices!
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Batgirl : Beyond Burnside Vol. 1, Beyond Burnside
by Hope Larson
Batgirl’s alter ego, Barbara Gordon, decides to become a travel agent (because, well, why not?) and takes to the road on her motorcycle. DC Comics going for it with their Rebirth series of old favorites and again, why not?
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The Pearl Thief
by Elizabeth Wein
This is a prequel to Code Name Verity, one of the greatest YA titles of the past decade. Julia investigates the disappearance of a Traveler boy on her family's Scottish estate before WWII, just as her family prepares to sell their land. Discovering the secrets, sins and prejudices of her idyllic world help shape Julia into the hero we know she will become in wartime.
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Selections by Fiona Stevenson of the Kids & Young Adult Departments.
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