What We're Reading: Gretchen, Young Adult Services
In print
The Night Circus. Morgenster, Erin. New Fiction. "Opens at Nightfall; Closes at Dawn." The Le Cirque des Rêves is a circus unlike any other. At the center of The Night Circus spectacle are two specially gifted young magicians, Celia and Marco, pitted against each other in professional competition, drawn towards one another in love.
As an ebook
Manga/graphic novel
In print
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente: Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket), who invites her on an adventure, implying that her help is needed in Fairyland. The new Marquess is unpredictable and fickle, and also not much older than September. Only September can retrieve a talisman the Marquess wants from the enchanted woods, and if she doesn’t, then the Marquess will make life impossible for the inhabitants of Fairyland.
On audiobook
Abandon by Meg Cabot: Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she's never alone... because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back. But now she's moved to a new town. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid. Only she can't. Because even here, he finds her. That's how desperately he wants her back. She knows he's no guardian angel, and his dark world isn't exactly heaven, yet she can't stay away... especially since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most. But if she lets herself fall any further, she may just find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.
As an ebook
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson: When Ginny receives thirteen little blue envelopes and instructions to buy a plane ticket to London, she knows something exciting is going to happen. What Ginny doesn't know is that she will have the adventure of her life and it will change her in more ways than one. Life and love are waiting for her across the Atlantic, and the thirteen little blue envelopes are the key to finding them in this funny, romantic, heartbreaking novel.
Manga/graphic novel
Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata: Light Yagami, a high school student, discovers a supernatural notebook, the "Death Note," dropped on Earth by a shingami (god of death) named Ryuk. The Death Note grants its user the ability to kill anyone whose name and face they know by writing the name in the notebook while picturing their face. Light attempts to use the note to create and rule a world cleansed of evil, while a mysterious detective known only as L tries to stop him.
In print
Down the Mysterly River by Bill Willingham: Max “the Wolf” is a top notch Boy Scout, an expert at orienteering and a master of being prepared. So it is a little odd that he suddenly finds himself, with no recollection of his immediate past, lost in an unfamiliar wood. Even odder still, he encounters a badger named Banderbrock, a black bear named Walden, and McTavish the Monster (who might also be an old barn cat)—all of whom talk—and who are as clueless as Max. Before long, Max and his friends are on the run from a relentless group of hunters and their deadly hounds. Armed with powerful blue swords and known as the Blue Cutters, these hunters capture and change the very essence of their prey. For what purpose, Max can’t guess. But unless he can solve the mystery of the strange forested world he’s landed in, Max may find himself and his friends changed beyond recognition, lost in a lost world...
On audiobook
Factotum (The Foundling's Tale, Part 3) by DM Cornish: Rossamund Bookchild stands accused of not truly being a human at all, but of being a monster. Even the protection of Europe, the Branden Rose—the most feared and renowned monster-hunter in all the Half-Continent—might not be enough to save him. Powerful forces move against them both, intent on capturing Rossamund, whose existence some believe may hold the secret to perpetual youth.
As an ebook
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer: Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda’s struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all—hope—in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.
Manga/graphic novel
Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata: Light Yagami, a high school student, discovers a supernatural notebook, the "Death Note," dropped on Earth by a shingami (god of death) named Ryuk. The Death Note grants its user the ability to kill anyone whose name and face they know by writing the name in the notebook while picturing their face. Light attempts to use the note to create and rule a world cleansed of evil, while a mysterious detective known only as L tries to stop him.
In print
On audiobook
As an ebook
