This is a chance for you to come into the library and look for a book that you KNOW will not be followed by a sequel, being able to relax with the book for a light, quick read!
So, here is this weeks 5 STAND-ALONE SPOTLIGHTS:
Seventeen-year-old high school senior Shannon Card needs money. And lots of it. She's been admitted to Wellesley, but her dad just lost his job, and somehow she has to come up with a year of tuition herself. But Shannon's dream of making big bucks waitressing at the local casino, the Collosio, disappears faster than a gambler's lucky streak. Her boss is a tyrant, her coworker is nuts, and her chances of balancing a tray full of drinks while wearing high-heeled shoes are slim to none. Worse, time is running out, and Shannon hasn't made even half the money she'd hoped.
When Shannon receives a mysterious invitation to join Aces Up, a secret network of highly talented college poker players, at first she thinks No way. She has enough to worry about: keeping her job, winning the coveted math scholarship at school, and tutoring her secret crush, Max. But when Shannon musters up the never to kiss Max and he doesn't react at all, the allure of Aces Up and its sexy eighteen-year-old leader, Cole, is suddenly too powerful to ignore.
Soon Shannon's caught up in a web of lies and deceit that makes worrying about tuition money or a high school crush seem like kid stuff. Still, when the money's this good, is the fear of getting caught reason enough to fold?
Jake Riley is a nice guy.
Jake Riley is a loser.
Jake Riley is a good friend.
Jake Riley is dangerous. Everyone has a different idea about Jake. Lainey's friends think he's her boyfriend. Lainey's mother thinks he's sad. Lainey's guidance counselor thinks he is a bad influence on her.
None of these people really know the truth about Jake. Not even Lainey.
By the time Lainey learns the truth about Jake, she no longer has to wonder about one thing.
She knows he's dangerous.
"If I really wanted to open up, I'd confess that I really am the liar everyone believes I am."
High-school junior Tola Riley has green hair, a nose ring, an attitude problem, and a fondness for fairy tales, which are a great escape from real life. Everyone thinks she's crazy; everyone says so. Everyone except Mr. Mymer, her art teacher. He gets her paintings and lets her hang out in the art room during lonely lunch periods.
But then rumors start flying and Tola is suddenly the center of a scandal. The whole town is judging her-even her family. When Mr. Myer is suspended for what everyone thinks is an affair, she has no choice but to break her silence. Fairy tales won't help her this time...so how can she tell the truth? And, more importantly, will anyone believe her?
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life -- dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge -- he follows.
After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enginma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues -- and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer Q gets , the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew.
...An amazing, touching story of two friends navigating the dark waters of their senior year.
New to town, Beatrice is expecting her new best friend to be one of the girls she meets on the first day. But instead, the alphabet conspires to seat her next to Jonah, aka Ghost Boy, a quiet loner who hasn't made a new friend since third grade. Something about him, though, gets to Bea, and soon they form an unexpected friendship. It's not romance, exactly -- but it's definitely love. Still, Bea can't quite dispel Jonah's gloom and doom -- and as she finds out his family history, she understands why. Can Bea help Jonah? Or is he destined to vanish?
Hope some of these books sound intriguing! And remember - they are stand alone's so no waiting in agony for the sequel!
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