Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum, 2022)

BTSB #: 748298 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-14   
AR: 5.2 UG

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: African Americans - Fiction Freedom - Fiction Family life - Fiction

Summary: A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it means to not be able to breathe, and how the people and things you love most are actually the oxygen you most need.

Echoes of Grace by McCall, Guadalupe Garcia 

BTSB Prebound(Tu Books, 2022)

BTSB #: 617626 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4.8 UG

Genres: Family Life Supernatural

Subjects: Sisters - Fiction Ghosts - Fiction Supernatural - Fiction Rape - Fiction Mexican Americans - Fiction Family life - Texas - Fiction Family life - Mexico - Fiction

Summary: On the Texas-Mexico border, eighteen-year-old Grace's relationship with her older sister Mercy is fractured when Mercy's two-year-old son dies in an accident, bringing to the surface old family traumas and literal ghosts as the family struggles to heal.

Eden's Everdark by Strong, Karen 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2022)

BTSB #: 861514 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.5 MG Lexile: 750

Genres: Fantasy Fiction

Subjects: Magic - Fiction Witches - Fiction Fantasy fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Eden, on a visit to her late mother's birthplace of Safina Island, Georgia, discovers a creepy sketchbook that leads her to Everdark--a spirit world ruled by an evil witch who Eden must defeat in order to make it back home.

Jennifer Chan is not alone by Keller, Tae 

BTSB Prebound(Random House, 2022)

BTSB #: 512105 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 640 F&P: W

Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Middle schools - Fiction School stories Friendship - Fiction Bullies - Fiction Missing persons - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction

Summary: When her new neighbor and alien-enthusiast Jennifer Chan goes missing, Mallory Moss must follow the clues to find her, and think about her own part in why Jennifer might have run away.

Odder by Applegate, Katherine 

BTSB Prebound(Feiwel and Friends, 2022)

BTSB #: 064987 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.6 MG Lexile: NP

Genres: Animals

Subjects: Sea otters - Fiction Animal rescue - Fiction Novels in verse

Summary: Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her.

Patron thief of bread by Eagar, Lindsay 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 299486 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.9 MG Lexile: 840

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Orphans - Fiction Theft - Fiction Apprentices - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction Bakers - Fiction

Summary: Fished from the river as an infant and raised by a roving band of street urchins who call themselves the Crowns, eight-year-old Duck keeps her head down and her mouth shut. The ragtag Crowns infiltrate an abandoned cathedral in the city of Odierne and decide to set down roots. One of their very own will pose as an apprentice to the local baker, relieving Master Griselde of bread and coin to fill the bellies and line the pockets of all the Crowns.

Storm by Skinner, Nicola 

BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2022)

BTSB #: 823382 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Supernatural

Subjects: Ghosts - Fiction Anger - Fiction Emotions - Fiction Storms - Fiction

Summary: Frances - you can call her Frankie - was not a happy baby. She was born amidst chaos, to two loving but unprepared parents. On a beach. In a storm. And you know what did nothing to quell her anger? Dying dramatically in a freak natural disaster that wiped out her whole town. As a ghost, it's not so easy for Frankie to hide her rage, especially when suspicious visitors to her ruined home seem to have a keen and ominous interest in her.

When the angels left the old country by Lamb, Sacha 

BTSB Prebound(Levine Querido, 2022)

BTSB #: 538325 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 6.8 UG

Genres: Supernatural

Subjects: Angels - Fiction Demonology - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Missing persons - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction United States - Immigration and emigration - Fiction

Summary: Uriel the angel and Little Ash the demon are the only two supernatural creatures in their small town. The search for a new life has drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young people, Essie, goes missing, Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her. Along the way the angel and demon encounter humans in need of their help. But there are obstacles ahead of them as difficult as what they've left behind.