Sarah Ramsey’s summer at Loon Lake won’t be like any of the other summers spent at the isolated lake where her parents grew up. Sarah’s parents are barely speaking and her pretty and popular older sister is getting all the attention.Sarah enlists her two friends, Jake and Rob, on an excursion to the forbidden Big Island. There they discover a pile of old bones in tattered clothes half-buried near a small bungalow. Jake and Rob don’t want trouble, but Sarah’s curiosity won’t let it go. She begins to investigate and uncovers another mystery: a hotel that burned down in the 1920s, killing several people. A fire that was no accident.In an era of cell phones and Internet access, Sarah has to dig through old newspapers and talk to the great-grandmother of neighbors to glean facts. The revelations stir up something evil. Sarah is threatened, her sister mysteriously disappears, and Sarah must find answers before something terrible happens.

The Secrets of Loon Lake

Teen & Young Adult

Shaw, J.D.

Literature & Fiction

Tiny Satchel Press

Laura Pryce, 17, has just completed her junior year of high school when her parents are killed in a car accident and she must go live with her Great Aunt Melisande, whom she has never met. Once at her aunt's huge and rambling house, she discovers a series of paintings. The faces of the women--all from different historical periods--are the same as hers. Her aunt tells her it's a weird genetic anomaly--that each generation has the face and that it brings with it an exciting future. But Laura begins to have strange and terrifying dreams. She seeks out friendship in her aunt's assistant--Jake. Jake, however, has secrets of his own. What happened to his family? As Laura feels increasingly isolated by her surroundings where cell phones fail to work and internet connections easily die, the dreams escalate until Laura cannot discern the difference between what is really a dream and what is happening at the strange, huge house. All she is certain of is that she is in danger...

Sorceress

Children's Books

Herren, Greg

Science Fiction & Fantasy

In the midst of the biggest natural disaster in American history--Hurricane Katrina--15-year-old Summer "Sumbie" Elmwood's two-year-old sister disappears from the hospital after open-heart surgery and Sumbie is the prime suspect. But in the chaos of New Orleans after the storm, no one is looking for just one little girl. Sumbie must find her missing sister and enlists her two would-be boyfriends to help her, hoping against hope that it's not too late.

Taken Away

Friedmann, Patty

Mysteries & Detectives

In this innovative collection, thirteen established and emerging African-American writers present a range of compelling and provocative stories. One of America’s best-known African-American writers, Jewelle Gomez, acclaimed author of The Gilda Stories, offers a new episode in her historic series. Harlem native and award-winning writer Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, romance writer Anne Shade, short-story stylist Craig L. Gidney, actress and playwright Ifalade Ta’Shia Asanti, noted children's author Becky Birtha, and award-winning novelist Fiona Lewis each explore what it means to be black in America today as well as in America’s historic past, addressing issues not only of race, but also of class, gender, sexual orientation, and religion. Filmmaker Lowell Boston details the multi-faceted complexities of racism in America for young black men, while emerging writers Lisa R. Nelson, Guillaume Stewart, Misty Sol, kahlil almustafa, and Quincy Scott Jones take on different aspects of urban life: Nelson presents a young girl who wants to escape her middle-class neighborhood, Stewart writes provocatively about missing fathers in black America, Sol explores the impact of gun violence and no-snitch rules, almustafa details the day-to-day suspicion young black men face, and Jones places a young black man in white academe in a dazzling display of wordplay. This exciting collection combines a wide range of dynamic characters, divergent styles, and compelling issues that will appeal to all ages and which belongs in every American library.

From Where We Sit: Black Writers Write Black Youth

Lauren and Kayla are the perfect high school coupleexcept they aren’t actually a couple. The cute, smart, sarcastic Lauren is secretly in love with her best friend, Kayla, the gorgeous bi-racial lead actress in the drama club. But Kayla, one of the most popular girls at school, changes partners (male and female) like other girls change shoes. After seeing a play in Manhattan one autumn afternoon, the two 17-year-olds wander into a vintage clothing store, Deja Nous. Their impromptu shopping spree leads to a chance meeting with the mysterious and beautiful owner, Elizabeth Valiant. Despite strange, subtle warnings from Matt, another clerk at the store, both girls agree to take after-school jobs at the enticing shop. On the ride home to Queens, Kayla talks non-stop about the wonderful clothes, the fabulous Elizabeth and how much fun the girls will have working together. Deja Nousand the intriguing and sensual Elizabethsoon becomes an obsession for Lauren and Kayla. Then, after being accosted at the subway by a strange man and overhearing a surprising conversation, Lauren accidentally discovers the secret behind the shop and the Valiant family. As she delves deeper into the mystery, she realizes that her life and that of her beloved Kayla are in dangerlife-threatening dangerfrom a centuries-old curse.

Immortal Longings: A Vampire Novel

DEKELB-RITTENHOUSE, Diane

<div>Jamaican-American writer Fiona Zedde Lewis has authored best-selling novels and collections of short stories for adults. "Dreaming in Color" marks her debut writing for young adults-and a compelling debut it is. Carlene (Cee-Cee) has come to the U.S. from Jamaica to join her mother, who has been working for two years to bring her daughter to join her. But excited as Carlene is to be reunited with her beloved mother, she finds life in her new country daunting. She misses her island home and the father she left behind. High school is a difficult territory to navigate for many teens-bullying, mean girls, jock/thug boys, and just the normal daily stresses of trying to succeed in classes can present awesome challenges. When a group of mean girls led by one of the most popular girls in the school targets Carlene, taunting her for her accent and her skin color, she turns to art as a refuge. Problems with her mother, who reveals a secret Cee-Cee is not prepared for, just adds to her feelings of isolation. Then Carlene meets Greg, another teen from Jamaica. They bond over their shared feelings of dislocation and their inability to fit in. But a big party where the popular kids</div>

Dreaming in Color

Lewis, Fiona

It’s the middle of the night when Beth Watson sneaks out of the house, steals a car, and drives, desperate to run from what she’s seen, what happened to Jack. She drives across several states until she ends up in a sleepy little Michigan resort town as the summer season draws to a close. All Beth wants to do is escape, to stay unnoticed, to fly under the radar. But tiny Beaumont is a town with big secrets, some very like the ones she’s fled from, and she arrives in town at the same time a murderer strikes. Beth, who has never gone to school, never held a job, and isn’t even sure if 16 is her real age, enlists the help of a protector, Dee, the town’s café owner, who sees a little of herself in Beth. Beth has to jump into a world she’s never knowna world of other teens, of cell phones and computers, cliques and bullying, girlfriends and boyfriends. And killing. So much killing. When the murderer strikes again, and again, Beth is certain her plans to start a new life are over and the worst is yet to come. J.D. Shaw takes on child abuse, bullying, the deep need teens have to be loved and accepted, and the risks they’ll take to gain that love. Despite the horrors she’s faced, Beth is a character all teens can identify with. Leave No Footprints is a deftly drawn portrait of a young woman whose past is a mystery even to herself, but who, like most kids, just wants to be normalif only she can escape her past.” Joanne Dahme, author of Tombstone Tea and Contagion

Leave No Footprints

Fourteen- year-old Jasmine Hinton is leaving homebut not because she wants to. Bags piled high in the rear of their car, she and her father, Darryl, abruptly left their apartment in Richmond, Virginia heading for Raleigh, North Carolina. Jasmine has left her best friend, Rachel, the school she loves, and everything familiar behind. Bewildered, Jasmine doesn’t understand the sudden move and her father will only say that it’s best for them to move on. But why? A series of confusing events and strange behavior by her father leads Jasmine to question what’s really going on. Is her father in trouble? She starts to ask questions, but they never seem to be answered, leaving Jasmine baffled and even hurt. Father and daughter have gone from a pleasant suburban existence to living a strangely isolated life in a dilapidated residential hotel. Disobeying her father’s inexplicable rule that she spend all her days in their hotel room while he searches for work, a bored and lonely Jasmine becomes friends with the daughter of the hotel’s owner, 19-year-old Felicia. Jasmine and Felicia find they have something in commonboth their mothers are dead, both of them are only children, both of them are drifting. Soon they discover they have even more in commona plethora of secrets, lies, and betrayals. Drifting is an uncommon coming-of-age story about a young girl and her journey to uncover the truth about her life.

Drifting

Nelson, Lisa R.

On the last day of school fourteen-year-old Brit Dawson finds herself alone and homeless. Her addict mother has disappearedagain. Their apartment is padlocked; they’ve been evicted. Terrified of ending up in foster care, Brit runs through a storm to her favorite sanctuary, the local library and the one person she trusts, Miss Millie Thornton, the librarian.Desperate and unsure what to do next, with no money and nowhere to live and not even the free school breakfasts she’s been getting since her mother disappeared, Brit offers to work for Miss Millie for room and board, but Miss Millie invites Brit to come and stay with her.A strange house and an even stranger situation await her. Miss Millie lives in a once-elegant old mansion, now in disrepair. The ancient housekeeper doesn’t hide her dislike of Brit. And Brit never sees Miss Millie’s mysterious brother, who lives in the east wing.One day Brit answers the phone to a caller who assumes he’s talking to Miss Milliehe tells her not to speak, just listen. And as Brit listens, she realizes that the caller is a blackmailer and that in Miss Millie’s past, she had been accused of murder.Sure Miss Millie is innocent, Brit plots to stop the blackmail and find the real killer. But when her mother reappears and a strange man wants her to steal something from Miss Millie’s house, Brit’s attempts to protect the woman who has been so kind to her put her and Miss Millie in a kind of danger even the homeless Brit never imagined.

Miss Millie's Murder

Otto Fisher has ADHD. He’s also adopted. At thirteen, he never thought much about where he came from until his seventh-grade teacher at the prestigious St. Michael’s school in New Orleans asks her class to write about an ancestor. Each student must perform their piece in a school play. Otto’s adoptive mother, whom he adores, helps him write about one of her ancestors, who was in the Holocaust. Otto’s story is the most moving of allbut not for his father, a college English professor who is also a racist and an anti-Semite. The play triggers a series of conflicts in the Fisher household, culminating in Otto’s father beating his mother. Otto’s older sister, Ada, stops the fight. Then their father moves out. Which leaves Otto torn between the mother and sister he adores and the father he desperately needs. When he goes to visit his father, a series of events forces everyone in the Fisher family to question the meaning of family. In this funny, bittersweet, poignant and thoroughly engaging short novel, Otto narrates the story of his young life with humor, grace and surprising insight.

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