By Kate Pritchard, MS/HS Librarian
If You’re Out There, by Katy Loutzenhiser
When Zan’s best friend moves away, the girls promise to stay in touch, but soon Priya stops responding to her messages. Has Priya simply dropped Zan, or is something more sinister going on?
The Day It Finally Happens, by Mike Pearl
How likely is it that aliens might one day contact Earth? Or, more worryingly, that antibiotics might stop working? This fascinating and entertaining book examines 19 potential future scenarios and the consequences, good and bad, of each.
Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson
As Melody makes her grand entrance at her 16th birthday party, this slim novel looks back through several generations of her close-knit family, including her mother, who gave birth to Melody when she was 16 herself.
Dear America, by Jose Antonio Vargas
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Vargas, who was sent to the United States from the Philippines at the age of 12 by his mother, now opens up about his life as an undocumented immigrant in America.
Westside, by W.M. Akers
In a Manhattan divided by a 13-mile fence separating the affluent Eastside from its otherworldly neighbor, Westside, detective Gilda Carr specializes in “tiny mysteries,” but her latest case will bring her face to face with the darkness at the city’s heart. This inventive historical mystery/fantasy mashup, which the New York Times called a “superb debut,” is the creation of USN alumnus Will Akers '06.
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