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What's New @ the Teen Spot!

Looking for something new to read? Check out the hottest new books, CD's and graphic novels now available in the Teen Spot @ the Reading Public Library. Click the title to see if the item is on the shelf or to request a hold if the item is already checked out.


NON-FICTION

Kiss my math : showing pre-algebra who's boss
(McKellar, Danica)
TEEN 512 MCK

Ratchet and Clank: Up your arsenal official strategy guide
TEEN 793.932 RAT

AUDIO BOOKS

Breaking dawn (CD)
(Meyer, Stephenie)
Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for vampire Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection with werewolf Jacob Black, Ellen Swan has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife to reach the utimate turning point. She must choose to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life. This is the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs.

The angel experiment (CD)
(Patterson, James)
After the Mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the birdkids, who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.

GRAPHIC NOVELS

The book of bunny suicides
(Riley, Andy)
A darkly humorous collection of zany rabbit cartoons captures more than one hundred ways that depressed bunnies find to do themselves in, from supergluing themselves to a diving submarine to hanging around a loose stalactite. The Book of Bunny Suicides will appeal to anyone in touch with their evil side. Rabbits.; We'll never quite know why, but sometimes they decide they've just had enough of this world- and that's when they start getting inventive. ; The Book of Bunny Suicides follows over one hundred bunnies as they find ever more outlandish ways to do themselves in. ; From an encounter with the business end of Darth Vader's light saber, to super gluing themselves to a diving submarine, to hanging around underneath a loose stalactite, these bunnies are serious about suicide. Illustrated in a stark and simple style, The Book of Bunny Suicides is a collection of hilarious and outrageous cartoons that will appeal to anyone in touch with their evil side. Illustrated in a stark and simple style, this collection of outrageous cartoons follows over 100 bunnies as they find ever more outlandish ways to do themselves in.

Return of the bunny suicides
(Riley, Andy)
Return of the Bunny Suicides follows over one hundred bunnies as they find ever more bizarre ways to end their fuzzy little existences. From swimming with nibbly fishes, to hiding under an elephant's footstool, to getting on the sharp end of a Venetian gondola-no stone goes unturned (or undropped, or uncatapulted) in the twisted little creatures' next installment. Illustrated in a spare and simple style, Return of the Bunny Suicides is a collection of hilarious and outrageous cartoons that will appeal to anyone in touch with their evil side.

King Lear : a graphic novel
(Hinds, Gareth)

Apocalypse (X-Men)
(Kirkman, Robert)

SERIES

What if-- all the rumors were true : a choose your destiny novel
(Ruckdeschel, Liz)
As Haley's junior year at Hillsdale High begins, the reader helps her to make critical decisions about which activities will look best on her high school transcripts when she applies to colleges, as well as which will help her social life.(Adventure)

Vampire kisses 2 : kissing coffins
(Schreiber, Ellen)
Sixteen-year-old Raven, a vampire-obsessed goth girl, searches for her true love, Alexander, who she has learned is a real vampire.(Horror)

Vampire Kisses 3 : Vampireville
(Schreiber, Ellen)
As teen vampire twins Luna and Jagger try to trick a high school soccer star into bonding with Luna for eternity, sixteen-year-old goth girl Raven Madison and her vampire boyfriend, Alexander, strive to save him. (Horror)

Vampire kisses 4 : dance with a vampire
(Schreiber, Ellen)
When eleven-year-old Valentine, younger brother of vampires Jagger and Luna, comes to Dullsville looking for them, he threatens goth-girl Raven's younger brother, Billy Boy, as well as her relationship with her vampire boyfriend, Alexander. (Horror)

Kristen : a Clique novel
(Harrison, Lisi)
As the only member of the Pretty Committee clique not going on an exotic summer vacation, middle-schooler Kristen might just find romance sticking around to tutor math and attend a secret summer school for gifted students. (Romance)

Claire : a Clique novel
(Harrison, Lisi)
Back in Orlando for the summer, twelve-year-old Claire has difficulty connecting with her former best friends, but decides to prove her loyalty by entering Kissimmee's Miss Kiss beauty pageant.

FICTION

The Pox party
(Anderson, M. T.)
Octavian Nothing is raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers. He and his mother are the only people in their household assigned names. Young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies, only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments.Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.

Band geek love
(Bloss, Josie)
The marching band is high school senior Ellie Snow's all-consuming passion until she finds herself in a secret romance with a handsome sophomore.

Airhead
(Cabot, Meg)
Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.

Lamplighter
(Cornish, D. M.)
As Rosamund starts his life as a lamplighter on the Wormway, he continues his fight against monsters, making friends and enemies along the way, but questions about his origins continue to plague him.

Chosen
(Dekker, Ted)
As the land of the Forest Dwellers is increasingly decimated by the Horde, Thomas Hunter, supreme commander of the Forest Guard, choses four sixteen-year- old recruits for a special mission--to find the seven lost Books of History that have power over the past, present, and future.

Dingo
(De Lint, Charles)
Seventeen-year-old Miguel Schreiber and a long-term enemy are drawn into a strange dream world when they fall in love with shapeshifting sisters from Australia--twins hiding from a cursed ancestor who can only be freed with the girls' cooperation. new teen books

Suite Scarlett
(Johnson, Maureen)
Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Marvin is stuck in New York City for the summer working at her quirky family's historic hotel, but her brother's attractive new friend and a seasonal guest who offers her an intriguing and challenging writing project improve her outlook.

Girl at sea
(Johnson, Maureen)
High-school junior Clio Ford reluctantly gives up her dream job and a potential first kiss to take a working vacation with her estranged father on a yacht in Italy.

The Bermudez Triangle : a novel (Johnson, Maureen)
The friendship of three high school girls and their relationships with their friends and families are tested when two of them fall in love with each other.

The key to the Golden Firebird : a novel
(Johnson, Maureen)
As three teenaged sisters struggle to cope with their father's sudden death, they find they must reexamine friendships, lifelong dreams, and their relationships with each other and their father.

Vampire Academy, bk 1
(Mead, Richelle)
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.

Frostbite : a Vampire Academy novel, bk.2
(Mead, Richelle)
While on a school skiing trip, guardian-in-training Rose faces everything from misunderstandings between friends to fights among factions of Moroi as reports of horrific Strigoi attacks raise tensions, ultimately leading Rose and some of those closest to her into a battle that teaches her much about life, death, and love.

Breaking dawn
(Meyer, Stephenie) In the fourth and final book in the #1 bestselling teen vampire Twilight Saga, questions will be answered and the fate of Bella and Edward will be revealed.

The search for the Red Dragon
(Owen, James A.) Nine years after they came together to defeat the Winter King, John, Jack, and Charles return to the Archipelago of Dreams and face a new challenge involving the Lost Boys and giants.

Manga touch
(Pearce, Jacqueline)
Dana is spending two weeks in Japan, but in spite of her love of manga and Japanese culture, being there with her former best friend Melissa and her new exclusive clique might make the experience lonelier than expected. new teen books

Cathy's key : if found call (650) 266-8202
(Stewart, Sean)
"Cathy was your average high school student-doodling in the margins of her journal, crushing on a cute boy, and hanging out with her best friend Emma. As this story begins, she's trying to keep a job, her journal is stolen, the cute boy is not who he seems to be, and even Emma's side project/start-up company, Doubletalk Wireless, is about to get caught up in the mystery surrounding Cathy and her search for the truth about her father. Her presumed- dead father. It's just a simple story really: Girl loves Boy, Boy disappears, Girl discovers secret that will alter the course of humanity....:--Publisher's description.