The Ellinwood School/Community Library has some new books. They are:

"The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To" by D.C. Pierson. This is an original and hilarious debut novel about the high school experience: the homework, the awkwardness, and the extraordinary experiences of Eric, a young man who never sleeps. When the government gets involved in his unique condition, he ends up on the run. It could be that not sleeping is only part of what Eric is capable of doing.

"Nothing" by Janne Teller. Pierre Anthon decides that there is no meaning to life, leaves the classroom, climbs a plum tree, and stays there. His friends decide to prove to him that there is a meaning to life, and they set out to build a heap of meaning in an abandoned sawmill, by sacrificing what seems important to each of them to the heap. Is it enough?

"Out of My Mind" by Sharon Draper. Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory, and she is the smartest person in her class, not to mention in the whole school! The problem is that nobody knows it. Melody can’t talk. She can’t walk. She can’t write. Life changes drastically when she finally discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time ever, in this story full of heartache and hope.

"The Dark Endeavor" by Kenneth Oppel. In this prequel to Mary Shelley’s gothic classic Frankenstein, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein begins a dark journey that will change his life forever. Victor’s twin, Konrad has fallen ill and no doctor can cure him. Unwilling to give up on his brother, Victor searches for the ingredients to create the forbidden Elixir of Life. How far is he willing to push the boundaries of nature and science, and how much is he willing to sacrifice.

"Divergent" by Veronica Roth. In a futuristic Chicago, society is divided into five factions each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue. On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen year olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. But one young woman, facing her selection, discovers a horrifying secret in this Utopian society, one that might help her save those she loves, or it might destroy her.

"Sisterhood Everlasting" by Ann Brashares. Return to the Sisterhood of the traveling pants...10 years later in the next installment of four friends, who have grown up and started their lives on their own. And though the jeans they shared are long gone, the sisterhood is everlasting, but put to the test in a long awaited reunion.