Acceleration by Graham McNamee

Acceleration
 by Graham McNamee

If you found someone’s diary on the school bus, would you read it, or would you turn it in to the school’s lost and found unopened? [Wait for response:] What if you worked at the school’s lost in found? And nobody was ever looking…

Duncan had a summer job with the Toronto Subway. He worked in the always-cold “Lost and Found” deep underground the city. It was pretty boring. Pretty much unsupervised, so… Duncan read the diary. It was pretty sicko. Some guy writing about his fantasies about stalking girls. Hurting them. He seemed obsessed with this one pretty girl who rode the Toronto subway.

Slowly Duncan realized that this sicko wasn’t just fantasizing. He was going to kill the girl… and the last diary entry was only a couple weeks old! How far would you go to stop a serial killer?

Booktalk by Kirsten Edwards, King County Library System

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud

The Amulet of Samarkand 
by Jonathan Stroud

Like Harry Potter & wizards on the rampages? Have we got a treat for you! Nathaniel may be only a scrawny 11-year-old wizard’s apprentice but he’s got the magical chops to summon a powerful 5,000-year-old Djinni! And control him.

The Djinni is Bartimeus, he’s powerful, grumpy, saracastic and has seen it ALL. Like the dad from “That ‘70s Show” there’s NO way he’s going to be the slave of some punk apprentice! He’ll bide his time and wait for the boy to make a mistake—and then he’ll take a bloody revenge!

But Nathanial has other plans. He’s going to use Bartimeus to get revenge against Simon Lovelace by stealing Simon’s magical amulet – the amulet of Samarkand. If Simon Lovelace thinks Nathaniel is just another apprentice to be mocked and embarrassed he can think again!

Unfortunately for Bartimeus, Nathanial IS the Harry Potter of this dark, alternate world where magic is as commonplace as science and the country is run by dark wizards. Bartimeus is going to wait a LONG, LONG time before Nathanial makes a mistake. And that’s lucky for Nathanial because he’s going to need all his power AND Bartimeus – the amulet is no minor trinket – it’s power will attract every dark wizard in London. If Nathanial and Bartimeus can’t work together, they’ll both be destroyed.

Booktalk by Kirsten Edwards & Jane Wheeler, Whatcom County Library System

 

Dangerous Girls by R. L. Stine

Dangerous Girls
 by R. L. Stine 

Some summer camps are more exciting than others. You’ve heard of the ones where all the counselors are just so amazingly hot. (I never got to go to one of those) or the ones where monsters like Jason or Freddy or some THING chow down on all the teenagers? Camp Blue Moon, where sisters Destiny and Livvy have summer jobs is just a little bit of both.

See, there is a monster stalking the camp. But he’s a totally hot monster: He’s Lorenzo Angelini, a tall, dark, exceptionally good looking vampire. And this particular vampire been taking free samples from the young ladies working at Camp Blue Moon. Unfortunately for Destiny and Livvy, he decides to follow them home from camp, and make their lives in small town Dark Springs really interesting.

Because it’s not bad enough that Destiny and Livvy suddenly don’t like chocolate any more, have a hard time staying up during the day, and develop a taste for very rare, very bloody steaks. Lorenzo has decided that Destiny (or maybe Livvy) is the reincarnation of his first love and that Livvy (or maybe Destiny) is going to become a vampire and live with him forever. Whether she likes it or not.