May  24,2019


       June books have started arriving early!!  Here are just a few that you might like. More titles will be posted next week!

          In 2018, Elizabeth Acevedo's first book, The Poet X,  won so many awards that we can't even begin to count them. Now she is back with her second fiction book With The Fire On High.  Emoni Santiago has had a rough life- she has to make all the decisions for herself, Babygirl, and her grandmother. Emoni is an enormously talented cook, but with all the obstacles she faces, how will she achieve her dream of becoming a professional chef with her own kitchen?

   

 You met and loved Rishi and Dimple in When Dimple Met Rishi.  In There's Something About Sweetie, author Sandyha Menon tells us more about  Rishi's brother Ash. After his girlfriend dumps him, Ash challenges their parents to set him up with a new girl. Enter Sweetie, an overweight track star who can outrun anyone in California.   Can Sweetie and Ash find love in spite of their arranged relationship?

     Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald has an amazing cover and an amazing story. Told through text messages, hospital reports, interviews, newspaper reports, and other media,  Teddy Youngblood lies in a coma in a hospital after collapsing during football practice.  Teddy's family, friends, and doctors race to figure out what happened at football that day. Was it football practice, or something else, that landed Teddy in the hospital? Can or will he ever play football again?

    In Strange Days, teen Alex Mata likes playing his guitar, writing songs, and skateboarding. He pretty much ignores all those wild stories around town about space aliens and invasions.  Until the day he comes home from school and  discovers that his parents have been murdered by the aliens. Now innocent Alex is on the run. His talent for sliding through time and seeing futures gives him the ability to be one of a group of teens who can save the earth from the aliens.Can Alex fall in love, defeat the space aliens, save the earth, and figure how who he can trust?   Immerse yourself in this science-fiction  book by Constance Singer.