Recreation

Young Adults’ New Titles September 2011 (arrived in August)

Fiction

Truth & dare : 20 tales of heartbreak and happiness, Liz Miles.
Zenith, Julie Bertagna.
The world is gradually drowning, as mighty Arctic ice floes melt, the seas rise, and land disappears. Sixteen-year-old Mara and her ship of refugees are tracking the North Star, desperate to find a homeland in the melted ice mountains of Greenland. But, the floating city of Pomperoy is just one of the shocks that are not in their navigation plans.
Noughts & crosses, Malorie Blackman.
Callum and Sephy are teenagers living on different sides of a racial divide. Callum is from the despised group of Noughts, Sephy belongs to the elite Crosses. Their childhood friendship turns to first love, but is threatened when strict racial and sexual taboos lead those around them to violent acts with tragic consequences. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.
Tantony : secrets of Carrick.,
Dragon's oath : a House of night Novella, P. C. and Kristin Cast.
Wolfsbane.,
The summer of May, Cecilia Galante.
An angry thirteen-year-old girl and her hated English teacher spend a summer school class together, learning surprising things about each other.
Act of faith.,
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Mark Haddon.
A murder mystery like no other, this novel features Christopher Boone, a 15 year-old who suffers from Asperger's syndrome. When he finds a neighbour's dog murdered, he sets out on a terrifying journey destined to turn his whole world upside down.
He's after me.,
The bridge, Jane Higgins.
The City is divided. The bridges gated. In Southside, the hostiles live in squalor and desperation, waiting for a chance to overrun the residents of Cityside. Nik is still in high school but destined for a great career with the Internal Security and Intelligence Services, the brains behind the war. But when ISIS comes recruiting, everyone is shocked when he isn't chosen. There must be an explanation, but no one will talk about it. Then the school is bombed and the hostiles take the bridges. Buildings are burning, kids are dead, and the hostiles have kidnapped Sol. Now ISIS is hunting for Nik. But Nik is on the run, with Sol's sister Fyffe and ISIS hot on their trail. They cross the bridge in search of Sol, and Nik finds answers to questions he'd never dared to ask.
Million dollar mates.,
Like Mandarin, Kirsten Hubbard.
When shy, awkward fourteen-year-old Grace Carpenter is paired with the beautiful and wild Mandarin on a school project, an unlikely, explosive friendship begins but all too soon, Grace discovers that Mandarin is a very troubled, even dangerous, girl.
Born at midnight.,
Passion : a fallen novel, Lauren Kate.
This is the third book in the incredible "Fallen" series. Before Luce and Daniel met at Sword & Cross, before they fought the Immortals, they had already lived many lives. And so Luce, desperate to unlock the curse that condemns their love, must revisit her past incarnations in order to understand her fate. Each century, each life, holds a different clue. But Daniel is chasing her throughout the centuries before she has a chance to rewrite history. How many deaths can one true love endure? And can Luce and Daniel unlock their past in order to change their future?
Dangerously placed.,
Conspiracies, Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill.
Black ice.,
Diary of a crush. Kiss and make up.,
Breaking dawn, Stephenie Meyer.
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life-first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse-seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever?
Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer.
Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob and her relationship with Edward, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.
The short second life of Bree Tanner : an Eclipse novella, Stephenie Meyer.
Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by this riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character first introduced in Eclipse and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits. In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery, and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of Bree and the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion.
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer.
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
People's republic, Robert Muchamore.
A new hero, a new mission: meet CHERUB's latest recruit. Twelve-year-old Ryan is CHERUB's newest recruit. He's got his first mission: infiltrating the billion-dollar Aramov criminal empire. But he's got got no idea that this routine job will lead him into an explosive adventure involving drug smugglers, illegal immigrants and human trafficking, or that his first mission will turn into one of the biggest in CHERUB's history.
My dad is ten years old.,
The valley of blood and gold, Tony Palmer.
Killing honour.,
Forever, Maggie Stiefvater.
A human girl and her werewolf boyfriend must fight for their love as death comes closing in.
To die for.,
Corsets & clockwork,
The secret of Rover, Rachel Wildavsky.
Twelve-year-old twins Katie and David Bowen evade foreign militants and make their way from Washington, D.C. to their uncle's Vermont home, hoping he can help rescue their parents, who were kidnapped because of their secret invention, Rover.

Non-Fiction

Case closed. Volume 5, Gosho Aoyama.
Does my bum look big in this ad? : body image and the media, Lisa Cox ; [illustrator, Amanda Dunne].
NCEA level 1 Accounting 1.1 : AS 90022. Demonstrate an understanding of the conceptual basis of accounting, Eng Lim Lawrey.
Provides examples and exercises related to the achievement standards for Accounting NCEA level 1. Suggested level: senior secondary.
Natsume's book of friends. Volume 7, story and art by Yuki Midorikawa ; [translation & adaptation: Lillian Olsen].
Pandora hearts. [6], Jun Mochizuki ; [translation, Tomo Kimura ; lettering, Alexis Eckerman].
Uncle Oscar drags Oz and company on a "mission" to Lutwidge Academy, where Oz's little sister, Ada, is a student. But some carefree fun and a tearful reunion ten years in the making is not all for which Oz must prepare himself. Crimson-cloaked foes are lying in wait to torture him for answers about the events of a hundred years ago.
Black Jack. Volume 15, Osamu Tezuka ; [translation, Maya Rosewood].