What's New? Stacking the Shelves

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Image: HarperCollins

Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland. Unabridged audiobook on one MP3-CD. 14.5 hours. Read by Bahni Turpin and Jordan Cobb. HarperAudio/ HarperCollins Publishers, February, 2020. 9781084113609. 

Publisher synopsis: The sequel to the New York Times bestselling epic Dread Nation is an unforgettable journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America.

After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother.

But nothing is easy when you’re a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodemus has Jane questioning everything she thought she knew about surviving in 1880s America.

What’s more, this safe haven is not what it appears—as Jane discovers when she sees familiar faces from Summerland amid this new society. Caught between mysteries and lies, the undead, and her own inner demons, Jane soon finds herself on a dark path of blood and violence that threatens to consume her.

But she won’t be in it alone.

Katherine Deveraux never expected to be allied with Jane McKeene. But after the hell she has endured, she knows friends are hard to come by—and that Jane needs her too, whether Jane wants to admit it or not.

Watching Jane’s back, however, is more than she bargained for, and when they both reach a breaking point, it’s up to Katherine to keep hope alive—even as she begins to fear that there is no happily-ever-after for girls like her.

Image: Simon & Schuster

Tyrannosaurus Wrecks by Stuart Gibbs. A Funjungle Novel. 328 p. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, March, 2020. 9781534443754. 

Publisher synopsis:In the latest novel in New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs’s FunJungle series, Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle’s resident sleuth to solve his most improbable mystery yet—with a victim that’s 65 million years old.

Teddy was all set for a campout at his friend Sage’s family ranch—but then Sage gets terrible news: The skull of a rare dinosaur that was being excavated on his property has mysteriously vanished overnight in the middle of a rainstorm, even though it weighed 500 pounds. Not a single footprint has been left behind. Since the dinosaur was top secret, the police don’t believe anyone outside the dig could have stolen it.

A T-rex skull can sell for millions of dollars, and everyone is a suspect—including J.J. McCracken, the owner of FunJungle.

Meanwhile, Teddy’s old foes, the Barksdale twins, have gotten into trouble with an illegally purchased anaconda, and Teddy’s girlfriend Summer wants to find out who’s behind the local trade in black market reptiles. The two cases will drag Teddy into more danger and chaos than ever before, in this mystery that’s stranger than fiction.

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Mulan: Before the Sword by Grace Lin. 380 p. Disney Press, February, 2020. 9781368020336.

Publisher synopsis: New York Times bestselling author Grace Lin pens this novel filled with adventure and wonder set before the upcoming Walt Disney Studios Mulan film.

Image: Scholastic

Agallas (Guts) by Raina Telgemeier. 224 p. Graphix/ Scholastic Inc., March, 20209781338601183.

Guts en español! I have a few new students who speak little to no English this year and they appreciated the Spanish version of Ghosts that I had on the shelf.

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