The Public Library of Brookline

New Arrivals

A lot of great new fiction titles have just hit our shelves!  Stop by and take a look!

• Bad Kitty for President by Bruel.  It’s time to elect a new president of the Neighborhood Cat Club.  Once Bad Kitty and Big Kitty figure out what the heck an election is, one kitty will win by a whisker!  When the votes are in, the results might surprise you.  The newest installment in the popular Bad Kitty series doesn’t disappoint!
• Once Upon a Toad by Frederick.  When her mother is sent on a long-term mission for NASA Cat has to move in with her father and share a room with her real-life evil stepsister.  Just when she thinks things can’t get any worse her Aunt Abyssinia comes to her rescue, sort of.  Now Cat and her stepsister Olivia are on the run from jewel thieves and a government agency!  Can Cat save the day?  And get rid of the toads that are popping out of her mouth?  An enchanting fractured fairy-tale.
• The Invisible Tower by Johnson-Shelton.  In Artie Kingfisher’s world, wizards named Merlin, fire-breathing dragons, and swords called Excalibur only exist in legends and lore—until the day his video game Otherworld takes on a life of its own.  Cryptic clues lead Artie and his sister to a strange place called the Invisible Tower and Merlin!  Suddenly dragons and powerful sorcerers are real and Artie has to battle them all as he wields Excalibur and embarks on a quest straight towards his destiny.  A great adventure story with video games!
 
• Remarkable by Foley.  Ten year old Jane Doe, the only student average enough to be excluded from Remarkable’s School for the Remarkably Gifted, is joined at public school by the trouble-making Grimlet Twins.  With their help Jane gets caught up in a series of adventures involving a out-of-control science fair project, a pirate captain on the run from a mutinous crew, a lonely dentist, and a newly constructed bell tower that endangers Remarkable’s most beloved inhabitant—a skittish lake monster named Lucky.  Quirky characters, an unremarkable heroine and a lake monster!  What could be better?
• Spy School by Gibbs.  A spy academy in Washington D.C. recruits twelve-year old Ben Ripley for his amazing cryptography skills, even though he’s pretty sure he doesn’t have any.  Turns out he’s right!  The real reason he’s there is as bait to uncover a mole that’s sharing CIA secrets with a criminal organization.  Even though he doesn’t start off as spy material Ben really is a smart kid and, with a lot of help from Erica, the star student, he hunts down the spy himself and gains acceptance into the school for real.  This is a fun spy adventure with lots of boy humor and tons of gadgets!
• The Storm Makers by Smith.  The McDuff parents moved to Wisconsin to follow their dreams bringing twelve-year-old twins Simon and Ruby with them.  When Simon literally starts to spark the twins find out that there are people out there who can make different weather, Storm Makers, and it seems like Simon’s one of them!  At first Ruby is disappointed that it’s just Simon who seems to be special, but in the process of taking down the nefarious chairman of MOSS (Makers of Storms Society), who seems to be causing the worst Wisconsin drought in years, she finds out there’s much more to herself than meets the eye!  A great story with a plucky main character, and if you liked Savvy you’ll definitely enjoy this book too!

Stop by to see us and we’ll help you find these titles and more.  Happy reading Brookline!