Vampires Don’t Wear Polka Dots: A Graphix Chapters Book (The Adventures Of The Bailey School Kids) by Marcia Thornton Jones The third graders at Bailey School are so mischievous that they have made every teacher quit – but then Mrs. Jeepers moves to town from Transylvanian Alps. Her powers help her deal with the rascals – but while her methods may be a little unusual, perhaps they are just what the kids need. This graphic novel adaptation of the classic chapter book series helps young readers with reading comprehension and will hopefully turn them into lifelong bookworms.
a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what’s happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forest – and in turn, they teach her some surprising lessons about opening her heart after years of isolation. But when she is betrayed and escapes into a German-occupied village, her past and present come together in a shocking collision that could change everything.” The Book of Accidents: A Novel by Chuck Wendig A family returns to their hometown in rural Pennsylvania, where long ago something terrible happened. Where something evil walked in its tunnels and its mountains and its coal mines. Not only do they return to their hometown, but also to the dark past that haunts them still. The Book of Accidents is literary horror at its finest.
YOUNG ADULTS Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim Elizabeth Lim’s latest work has it all – fairytale, folklore, mystery, and discovery. As described by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kerri Maniscalco, “A princess with a secret, forbidden magic, betrothals gone awry – Six Crimson Cranes is an unputdownable, sweeping fairytale that thrills as much as it delights.”
The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny (Available August) Louise Penny is back with the latest in her Inspector Gamache series, the spellbinding page turner The Madness of Crowds. This time, Gamache is on holiday with his family when he gets a small request to help with security for a visiting professor. Sounds easy and innocent enough, right?
Any Way The Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell As quoted on the author’s website (rainbowrowell.com), the first of her Simon Snow Trilogy, Carry On, “was conceived as a book about Chosen One stories; (its final book) Any Way The Wind Blows is an ending about endings. About catharsis and closure, and how we choose to move on from the traumas and triumphs that try to define us.”
We Keep The Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard And a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper We Keep The Dead Close – history, true crime, and mystery, all wrapped into one mind-blowing book. Publisher Grand Central Publishing depicts it as “a memoir of mirrors, misogyny, and murder. It is at once a rumination on the violence and oppression that rules our revered institutions, a ghost story reflecting one young woman’s past onto another’s present, and a love story for a girl who was lost to history.” This ghost story, investigated by Cooper for 10 years, was designated NPR’s best book of 2020.
ADULT The Forest Of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel Following her breakout novel The Book of Lost Names comes another historical fiction winner based on true stories. As summarized by publisher Simon & Schsuter: “After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon
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