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New Juvenile & Young Adult Books
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The prisoner of Shiverstone
by Linette Moore
"In Linette Moore's debut, middle-grade graphic novel, The Prisoner of Shiverstone, eleven-year-old Helga Sharp is found unconscious in a drifting rowboat near the coast of Utley Island. Utley, as Helga finds out when she awakens in the hospital, is forbidden territory: it's a prison island to which the Mainland has exiled troublesome mad scientists for generations. The truth is, it's no accident that Helga landed here. While working on her projects in secret, Helga made radio contact with Erasmus Lope, a mad genius who everyone thought had died in a lab experiment gone spectacularly wrong. But Lope is alive, and Helga is on a mission to rescue him from the prison island"
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Frizzy
by Claribel A. Ortega
"Tired of going to the salon to have her curls straightened every weekend, Marlene slowly learns to embrace her natural curly hair with the help of her best friend and favorite aunt.
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Nana, Nenek & Nina
by Liza Ferneyhough
In this gorgeously illustrated picture book, which invites young readers to spot differences and similarities, Nina, who lives in San Francisco, visits her two faraway grandmasone in Malaysia and one in England.
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One boy watching
by Grant Snider
Celebrating the extraordinary found within the ordinary, this book puts into words what it feels like to be a passenger, inviting young readers to climb aboard Bus Number Four as it opens up a new world of discovery.
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Grounded for all eternity
by Darcy Marks
When a soul escapes from Hell, Mal and his friends slip through the veil on Halloween night and find themselves in Salem, Massachusetts, where they must stop one of historys greatest manipulators from shifting the balance on Earth.
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Fenris & Mott
by Greg Van Eekhout
Discovering the puppy she rescued is a legendary wolf named Fenris that is prophesied to bring about the end of the world, Mott vows to keep him save from the Norse gods who are determined to see the prophecy come true.
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Here we come!
by Janna Matthies
A boy marching along with his flute and his stuffed bear gathers together kids and creatures for an upbeat trek through woods and the town until a storm threatens to rain on their parade.
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We made it all up
by Margot Harrison
Friends Celeste and Vivvy become the suspects in the murder of Josh, a popular guy about whom they were writing a fanfiction love story, and soon discover that no one is as innocent as they appear.
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Into the Sublime
by Kate A. Boorman
With her cousin Sasha in a coma, guilt-stricken 17-year-old Amelie Desmarais, who is part of a meet-up for thrill seekers, searches an underground cave system for a lake rumored to reveal your deepest fears and discovers the truth about Sashas accident.
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City of magic
by Avi
In 1492 Venice, when Mangus the Magician is imprisoned for stealing a manuscript containing a revolutionary way of accounting at the behest of the king, Fabrizio must locate the most famous mathematician in the world to save Mangus from being executed.
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The midnighters
by Hana Tooke
Following the one clue her friend Sylvie left behind before she went missing, Ema seeks to infiltrate the mysterious Midnight Guild to rescue Sylvie, despite a peculiar fear of shadows and the ability to predict events before they happen.
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This appearing house
by Ally Malinenko
At the five-year marker of her cancer diagnosis, a house appears at the dead end of Juniper Driveknowing this is no coincidence, Jac enters this strange place to find out what it wants from her.
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I want my book back
by Viviane Elbee
When his favorite library book about dinosaurs has to be returned, Daryl desperately tries to get his book back until a clever librarian encourages him to share his book and make some new friends along the way.
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The Clackity
by Lora Senf
When her aunt, a paranormal expert, disappears, Evie makes a deal with The Clackity, a creature who lives in an abandoned slaughterhouse, which puts her very soul in danger as she enters into a strange otherworld to find her.
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Ruby and the itsy-bitsy icky bug
by Allison Wortche
When Ruby, who does NOT like bugs, discovers one on her window, she FREAKS OUT until her curiosity gets the better of her and, when night falls, she discovers just how special he is.
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Olive Free Library Association
P.O. Box 59
West Shokan, New York 12494
845.657.2482
http://olivefreelibrary.org
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