New Books

FIC COL Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

In Hunger Games, Katniss stayed alive but her actions during the games fueled unrest in the Districts. Catching Fire is the exciting sequel to the Hunger Games.

FIC APP The Underneath by Kathi Appelt (A Newberry Honor Book)

"There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road." North of the Gulf of Mexico, west of the Sabine River that divides Texas and Louisiana, three hundred miles north of Houston in far East Texas a cat is left to fend for itself in a forest with her belly full of unborn kits. She is looking for somewhere safe to live, but instead she finds Ranger. Ranger is a hound, shot be accident years ago and chained ever since to the house of a man known only as Gar Face. Ranger warns the cat that this place is dangerous and that Gar Face will kill her if he finds her, but she refuses to leave. The two curl up under the house into the Underneath and there she gives birth to two kittens that she names Puck and Sabine. Unbeknownst to them Gar Face searches the nearby swamps for a massive alligator, hoping to kill it and earn the respect of the men he despises. And even further in the forest a bowl waits, containing a serpent known only as Grandmother Moccasin who remembers how she was trapped and contemplates her imminent escape. All storylines finally coincide in unpredictable, interesting ways.

The above comes from a review written by E.R. Bird on Amazon.com.

796.72 BLA The Great Race: the Amazing Round-The-World Auto Race of 1908 by Gary Blackwood

This is the true story of a race around the world in 6 early automobiles from France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. They traveled from New York west to Paris, driving through many terrains on unpaved roads, facing hardships and bandits.

FIC COL The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

This is a new book by the author of the Underland Chronicles, which includes Gregor the Overlander. In Hunger Games, 16 year old Katniss takes the place of her younger sister who is chosen by lottery to be in the Hunger Games, a reality TV show in which 24 teenagers fight to the death.

FIC PFE The Dead and Gone by Susan Beth PFeffer

The author uses the same situation (an asteroid hitting the moon and moving it closer to Earth) as she used in her last book, Life As We Knew It but the setting is New York city. High School senor, Alex Morales, finds himself having to take care of himself and his two sisters as food shortages, floods, and weather changes make day to day living increasingly difficult.