Let us know what you think! At the beginning of each month, several newly published books will be selected by Teen Services Librarians at the Northport-East Northport Public Library. The titles are geared for teens and tweens, and include fiction, non-fiction, and audiobooks. You may submit multiple entries. Read the selected titles below and submit your review.
December 2007
Th1rteen R3asons Why by Jay Asher
Category: Fiction
Recommended Age: Teen
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Nobody’s Princess by Esther Friesner
Category: Fiction
Recommended Age: Tween
Determined to fend for herself in a world where only men have real freedom, headstrong Helen, who will be called queen of Sparta and Helen of Troy one day, learns to fight, hunt, and ride horses while disguised as a boy, and goes on an adventure throughout the Mediterranean world.
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Category: Fiction
Recommended Age: Teen
Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safely to the lands of her true love, where both must hide who they are as they work as kitchen maids.
Category: Fiction
Recommended Age: Teen
When seventeen-year-old Kyle reluctantly succumbs to family pressure and replaces his injured brother in the family racecar, he struggles to keep up with his trumpet playing while deciding how--or if--he can continue making music with a brass quintet and headlines as a Nascar racer.
The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh
Category: Fiction
Recommended Age: Tween
After fourteen-year-old classics prodigy Jack Perdu has a near fatal accident he meets Euri, a young ghost who introduces him to New York's Underworld, where those who died in New York reside until they are ready to move on, and Jack vows to find his dead mother there.
Category: Audiobook
Recommended Age: Teen
Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob and her relationship with Edward, both vampires, 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.
Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick
Category: Fiction
Recommended Age: Tween
When thirteen-year-old San Lee moves to a new town and school for the umpteenth time, he is looking for a way to stand out when his knowledge of Zen Buddhism, gained in his previous school, provides the answer--and the need to quickly become a convincing Zen master.
The Secret of Priest’s Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story by Peter Lane Taylor
Category: Non-Fiction
Recommended Age: Tween and Teen
Two explorers survey caves in the Western Ukraine and relate the story of how an extended Jewish family, fleeing persecution by the Nazis, lived for two years in a large cave, Popowa Yama, and survived the war.
First in Space by James Vining
Category: Graphic Novel
Recommended Age: Tween and Teen
Tells the story of Ham, the first chimpanzee in space, from his initial training and bond with his trainer, Airman Beach, through his space flight, to his end in the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
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