It’s banned books week and Wild Things: Acts of Mischief in Children’s Literature has got all the insider info on your favorite  books. Transgender character in 10,000 dresses? check. Feminist paper-bag-wearing Princess? check. Even Goodnight Moon? Wait, what….?

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Get your hands on a copy of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl before the movie comes to the Garde Theater just across the street! (Playing August 22nd at 7:30.) The novel and movie seem just as gripping as the super popular The Fault in Our Stars, so catch this new one it while its still on the shelf!

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Cast out by his parents.  Raised by crows.  Hunted by darkness.

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This book edited by Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones contains 70 stories by YA Authors about their own experiences with bullying.  An important and moving read.  

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This fascinating non-fiction book gives a insider’s look on this history of the traditions, culture and history behind death and burial.  Complete with photos of famous grave sites, epitaphs and carvings, this book is a part of the Beneath the Surface Teen Summer Reading Program. 

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This fifth book in the Mortal Instruments series continues the saga of Jace, Clary and their friends as battle to fight the powers of evil.  Get caught up with the books before they become major motion pictures!

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This new book by Sir Terry Pratchett follows the main character, London street urchin, Dodger, as he tries to save an unknown girl from a dangerous fate.  From Dodger’s encounter with the mad barber Sweeney Todd, to his meetings with the great writer Charles Dickens, and the calculating politician Benjamin Disraeli, history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking account of adventure and mystery.

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New to the library and a brand new 2014 Nutmeg Nominee…this enchanting book by Laini Taylor takes place in the mysterious city of Prague and follows 17 year old art student Karou who was raised by chimaera, or creatures that each have different human attributes.  Described by the New  York Times as a “breath-catching romantic fantasy, this teen book is the first of a trilogy. 

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Already a fan favorite for her adult fiction, Jodi Picoult returns, this time with a young adult novel, co-written with Samantha van Leer.  This book follows two characters, told in their separate voices.  Sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom. 

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Based on a true story, this book by Alan Gratz tells the story of Yanek, a Jewish boy in 1930’s Poland.  As he is taken to a concentration camp by the Nazi’s, he experiences the horror of war, but also the triumph of the human spirit.

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