New Stand-Alone YA Books

I recently posted a list of series books and sequels that have been added to the collection. Here's a list of some new stand-alones that have also come in recently. Check 'em out!

The Blue Girl
By Charles DeLint

New at her high school, Imogene enlists the aid of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy who haunts the school after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life.

Just Listen
By Sarah Dessen

Annabel was “the girl who has everything.” This year, she’s the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister became anorexic, and no one to sit with at lunch. Until she meets Owen Armstrong, a reformed bad boy with a commitment to truth-telling. With Owen’s help, maybe Annabel can face what happened the night she and Sophie stopped being friends.

Quid Pro Quo
By Vicki Grant

When his mom, a former street kid who became an activist lawyer, disappears, thirteen-year-old Cyril becomes involved in a web of intrigue and deceit. A quick read with plenty of humor as well as suspense.

Looking For Alaska
By John Green

Sixteen-year-old Miles’ first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Castle in the Air
By Diana Wynne Jones

If you liked Howl’s Moving Castle, Jones’ book on which the wonderful anime movie is based, check out the sequel. There are good and bad djinns, a genie in a bottle, wizards, witches, cats and dogs (but are they cats and dogs?), and a mysterious floating castle filled with kidnapped princesses, as well as two puzzling prophecies.


Private Peaceful
By Michael Morpurgo

It's the longest night of young Thomas Peaceful's life, as he stands watch over the battlefields of France in WW I, and he spends it thinking back on his life, including lying about his age to enlist in the army with his older brother, and trying not to think about the terrible event scheduled to take place at dawn.

A Room on Lorelei Street
By Mary Pearson

To escape a miserable existence taking care of her alcoholic mother, seventeen-year-old Zoe rents a room from an eccentric woman, but her earnings as a waitress after school are minimal and she must go to extremes to cover expenses.

Finding Lubchenko
By Michael Simmons

Since his millionaire father never gives him any money, slacker genius Evan Macalister "liberates" equipment from Dad’s business and sells it on-line. But then a man is murdered and Mr. Macalister is accused. Evan alone can clear his father’s name, but only by revealing his own theft operation. There’s just one thing to do—find the real murderer.