New Fiction

New Fairy Series: The Faraway Fairies, by Eleanor Coombe JFIC COO


The Fairy Gold Collectors and Trouble in Faraway Island
Meet Astara, fairy queen in waiting, as she fights to win back the fairy crown from the wicked Lord Foulweather, King of the Goblins. Then go on an amazing adventure with Astara and her friends the Midnight Fairy, the Moon Fairy, the Sea Fairy, Cedar, Eden, Blaize and Puck as they fight for good triumph over evil in Faraway Island.

 

 

 

 

 

New Graphic Novel: Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi JFIC KIB
Book One: The Stonekeeper


After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the strange house proves to be dangerous. Before long, a sinister creature lures the kids' mom through a door in the basement. Em and Navin, desperate not to lose her, follow her into an underground world inhabited by demons, robots, and talking animals. Eventually, they enlist the help of a small mechanical rabbit named Miskit. Together with Miskit, they face the most terrifying monster of all, and Em finally has the chance to save someone she loves.

 

 

 

Powers Ursula Le Guin JFIC LEG

Gavir is a slave boy who has the ability to see (or, as he puts it, "remember") events that will occur some time in their future. More important to him, though, is his day-to-day life in his household. Being a slave is all he knows; he rarely thinks to question his position, far less rebel against his masters. Then one of the masters commits a terrible act upon a slave and Gavir escapes. He joins the Barnavites, free people who live in the Heart of the Forest, and later goes looking for his relatives in the Marshes, where he and his sister were captured. Annals of the Western Shore: Book 3.

 

 

 

Ulysses Moore Series: The House of Mirrors Pierdomenico Baccalario JFIC BAC

Everyone in Kilmore Cove is hiding something. That's what Jason, Rick, and Julia realize when they first hear about Mirror House and its creator, the eccentric inventor Peter Dedalus. A close friend of Ulysses Moore, Dedalus has been missing for many years. But before he disappeared, he concealed a dangerous secret about the Doors to Time inside his extraordinary home. And it's up to Jason, Rick, and Julia

 

 

 

New Young Adult Fiction

Slam Nick Hornby JYAF HOR

Sam is an ordinary kid, from a line of people who always messed up their lives early on. He loves skateboarding, talks to his Tony Hawk poster, wants to be a graphic art designer, and his love life is just starting to bloom. So he's blindsided when his ex-girlfriend Alicia reveals that she's pregnant, and that she intends to keep the baby. Suddenly Sam is facing Alicia's snobby parents, his shattered dreams, and the fear that he can't be a good dad. Somehow his Tony Hawk poster flashes him months into the future, giving him glimpses of how his life will suddenly twist. And when Alicia has the baby, Sam finds that he needs to grow up in a hurry -- for his son, his parents, and the changes that are happening way too early.

 

 

 

The Red Necklace: A story of the French Revolution Sally Gardner JYAF GAR

This is the story of a remarkable boy called Yann Margoza, Tetu the dwarf - his friend and mentor, Sido - unloved daughter of a foolish Marquis, and Count Kalliovski - Grand Master of a secret society who wants Yann dead. Yann is spirited away to London but three years later, when Paris is gripped by the bloody horrors of the Revolution, he returns to find out Kalliovski's darkest deeds and to save Sido from the guillotine.

 

 

 

 

My Life and Other Catastrophes Rowena Mohr JYAF MOH

Ever get the feeling your life would qualify for National Disaster relief? Say hello to Erin Costello. Erin’s pretty much your average teenage girl… except that her mother has all the maternal instincts of a black widow spider, and her dad is out of work and completely clueless. It’s an eventful year for Erin Costello, but is her imagination running wild?

 

 

 

 

 

The Cure Michael Coleman JYAF COL
Third book in the Annuals of the Western Shore series.

Raul and his sister Arym live in a nuture house (a refuge for abandoned children) in a post-revolution world that has banned all religion and instead follows the laws of Science, centred on the theories of their "Saviour", Charles Darwin. . When Raul begins to have doubts about the regime, he rebels and, as a result, he and his sister are sent away to The Sanatorium. Will Raul allow himself to be ‘cured’ of his doubts and become an unthinking believer like his sister, or is there another way to survive?