New Ranger's Apprentice - The Early Years

When the former Baron Morgarath escaped to avoid punishment for treason, an uneasy peace fell on Araluen. But Morgarath, now in hiding, is already planning his next move, recruiting an army of savage, overpowering beasts known as Wargals. Newly crowned King Duncan knows he must assemble his troops for battle.

To find out the full extent of Morgarath's plan of attack, Halt prepares for a seemingly impossible task--climbing the deadly cliffs of the Mountains of Rain and Night and venturing deep into enemy territory to spy. After all, the winner of this war could be determined by one wrong move.

At the Battle of Hackham Heath, the fate of a Kingdom will be decided.

Flanagan, J. (2016). The battle of Hackham Heath. North Sydney, NSW: Penguin Random House Australia.

New Series - Book 1 The Reader

Sefia lives her life on the run. After her father is viciously murdered, she flees to the forest with her aunt Nin, the only person left she can trust. They survive in the wilderness together, hunting and stealing what they need, forever looking over their shoulders for new threats. But when Nin is kidnapped, Sefia is suddenly on her own, with no way to know who’s taken Nin or where she is. Her only clue is a strange rectangular object that once belonged to her father left behind, something she comes to realize is a book.

Though reading is unheard of in Sefia’s world, she slowly learns, unearthing the book’s closely guarded secrets, which may be the key to Nin’s disappearance and discovering what really happened the day her father was killed. With no time to lose, and the unexpected help of swashbuckling pirates and an enigmatic stranger, Sefia sets out on a dangerous journey to rescue her aunt, using the book as her guide. In the end, she discovers what the book had been trying to tell her all along: Nothing is as it seems, and the end of her story is only the beginning.

Chee, T. (2016). The Reader (Sea of Ink and Gold). Putnam and Sons.

New BOOK...Thunder Boy Jr.

Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that's all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn't mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder.

But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the perfect name...a name that is sure to light up the sky.

Alexie, S. (2016). Thunder Boy Jr. Little Brown Books.

Asylum Series - NEW

Come into the library and check out this new series!!

This series is a spooky tale of a teenager, Dan, who goes to a college for the summer to attend a camp for gifted students.  While there he meets other students and together they begin exploring an old asylum on campus.  As the summer progresses the three learn about a terrible past and how they are all somehow entangled in the story.  At the end of the first book, Asylum, the three plan to go on with their life, but in the second book, Sanctum, they head back as "perspective" students on a college weekend where they encounter the same Carnival that has not been at the school in years.   They begin exploring the town with abandoned houses and creepy people and learn that the asylum has played a part in the town as well.  In the third book, Catacomb, the three have finished their senior year and are taking a trip to visit an uncle in New Orleans, but as they travel there strange messages and occurrences begin to happen and Dan finds out he is tied to an old organization called the Bone Artists.  They begin to wonder if they will make it out of this whole ordeal alive...

Asylum Book Trailer

Roux, M. (2014). Asylum. New York, NY: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Roux, M. (2015). Sanctum. New York, NY: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Roux, M. (2016). Catacomb. New York, NY: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins.