New Jh Reads for May

As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds Call #: Jh REY

When Genie and his older brother spend their summer in the country with their grandparents, he learns a secret about his grandfather and what it means to be brave.

Barakamon Vol. 1 by Satsuki Yoshino Call #: Jh GN YOS

Seishuu Handa, a handsome young calligrapher, uproots himself and moves to an island on the westernmost edge of Japan. "Sensei," as he comes to be known, is a city boy through and through and has never experienced rural life until now

Cherub Mission 10: The General by Robert Muchamore Call #: Jh MUC

James Adams and his sister Lauren take on a training mission in the desert near Las Vegas, but find big trouble waiting in the form of an entire American battalion.

Free Verse by Sarah Dooley Call #: Jh DOO

When her last family member dies in a fire, Sasha is placed in foster care but is intent on leaving her small West Virginia mining town, until she makes a new friend at school and learns how to manage her grief through poetry.

Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnet Call #: Jh HAR

Colt Jenson and his younger brother Bastian live in a world of shiny, new things – skateboards, slot cars, train sets and even the latest BMX. But underneath the surface of the perfect family, is there something unsettling about the Jensons? To the local kids, their father Rex becomes a kind of hero, but Colt senses there's something in his father that could destroy their fragile new lives.

OCDaniel by Wesley King Call #: Jh KIN

A thirteen-year-old boy's life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder until a girl at school, who is unkindly nicknamed Psycho Sara, notices him for the first time and he gets a mysterious note that changes everything.

Playing for the Devil’s Fire by Phillippe Diederich Call #: Jh DIE

Thirteen-year-old Boli lives in Izayoc, a small pueblo in a tiny valley west of Mexico City where nothing much happens. One Sunday on the way to church someone discovers the severed head of Enrique Quintanilla propped on the ledge of one of the cement planters in the plaza and everything changes. Boli's parents leave for Toluca and don't arrive at their destination. No one will talk about it. Boli hopes to inspire a washed-up luchador to set out with him to find his parents.

Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton Call #: Jh HAM

Amani is desperate to leave the dead-end town of Dustwalk, and she's counting on her sharpshooting skills to help her escape. But after she meets Jin, the mysterious rebel running from the Sultan's army, she unlocks the powerful truth about the desert nation of Miraji...and herself.

Savngs Montgomery Sole by Mariko Tamaki Call #: Jh TAM

“In sight not see black light not be” This is the curious instruction that comes with the Eye of Know, the possibly powerful crystal amulet that Montgomery Sole buys online for $5.99.When Monty wears the Eye of Know, strange things happen, all targets at people she despises. Maybe it will help Monty take down her newest enemy, a preacher who has come to save her town from so-called sinners, including her moms.

Scar: A Revolutionary War Tale by J. Albert Mann Call #: Jh MAN

Sixteen-year-old Noah Daniels wants nothing more than to fight in George Washington's Continental Army, but an accident as a child left him maimed and unable to enlist. He is forced to watch the Revolution from his family's hard scrabble farm in Upstate New York--until a violent raid on his settlement thrusts him into one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolution, and ultimately, face to face with the enemy.

Silence is Goldfish by Annabel Pitcher Call #: Jh PIT

Fifteen-year-old Tess Turner of Manchester, England, decides to stop speaking in the wake of discovering a heartbreaking family secret

Slacker by Gordon Korman Call #: Jh KOR

When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are takingit seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or not.

The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock Call #: Jh HIT

Ruth wants to be remembered. Dora wishes she were invisible. Alyce can’t bring herself leave. Hank is running away. They live in Alaska, on the cold edge of America, where each one, must find the strength, courage, and heart to survive.

Starflight by Melissa Landers Call #: Jh LAN

The outer realm may be lawless, but it's not like the law has ever been on Solara Brooks's side. Since off-world travel doesn't come cheap, Solara indentures herself in exchange for passage to the outer realm. She just wishes it could have been to anyone besides Doran Spaulding, the rich pretty-boy who made her life miserable in school. When Doran is framed for conspiracy on Earth, Solara cons him into playing the role of her servant on board the Banshee, a ship manned by an eccentric crew with their own secrets.

What Elephants Know by Eric Dinerstein Call #: Jh DIN

In the threatened jungle of the Borderlands between Nepal and India during the 1970s, an orphaned boy discovers his fate as a great elephant driver.