The Agony House by Cherie Priest

Available September 25, 2018.

A hybrid of text and graphic novel.  Denise has just moved back to New Orleans with her mom and step-dad.  They are planning on fixing up an old, dilapidated house into a bed and breakfast, but the neighborhood is not exactly welcoming.  Weird things start to happen in the house, unexplained things and Denise begins to research what happened in the house and learns a famous author died there.  She begins to realize there are TWO spirits, one that is EVIL and one who is trying to help her.  

If you like ghost stories, this is the book for you!  I could not put it down.   

Grenade by Alan Gratz

Available on October 9, 2018


Told in two voices for the majority of the book Hideki and Ray. Hideki is a child on the island of Okinawa during WWII. The Japanese army has come to his school and given all the boy students two grenades, one to kill an American Soldier and one to kill themselves. They are then sent out to search for soldiers.

Ray is an American Soldier on the island and he feels that he wants to serve his country, but he also doesn't want to kill people unnecessarily. They've been told the differences about Japanese and Okinawans.

As Ray and Hideki begin making their way across the island they end up encountering each other in a way that will change their lives forever.

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Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

Beans Curry lives in Key West Florida in 1934.  The town is barely hanging on during the Great Depression.  Garbage is piled up everywhere,  the fire stations are closed (except one), there is no electricity around town, dogs are roaming the streets and Beans dad is looking for work....even all the way in New Jersey.  Beans tries to make money selling cans, but Winky pays him less than promised.  Beans makes a decision to work for an "unsavory" fellow, but really makes some good money, but at what cost to Beans?

Good historical fiction with fun mixed in.  

Ban this Book by Alan Gratz

Great Book!  Amy Anne has a favorite book From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konisburg.  When she goes to check it out the librarian says that is has been removed.  Amy learns that other books have been removed as well and she doesn't think it's fair.  She starts a library out of her locker called the B. B. L. L. (Banned Books Locker Library) and things begin to grow bigger than she ever thought.  Students are constantly wanting to check out books from her and she is scared she will get in trouble, but she learns somethings about herself in the process. 

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