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  Tallahassee Higgins

  Mary Downing Hahn

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  "Out of sight, out of mind." That's what Tallahassee Higgins's mother, Liz, always says about her ex-boyfriends. But now that Tallahassee has been sent to live with her aunt and uncle in Maryland so Liz can start a movie career in California, the words are taking on new meaning. 
   
   
   
  Aunt Thelma says that Liz is gone for good, but Talley is sure her mother will come for her. So who cares if mean Aunt Thelma hates her, if she's failing sixth grade, or if the kids at school think she's a liar? It’s not like she's staying in Maryland forever. 
   
   
   
  Unless Aunt Thelma is right, and Liz isn't coming back.

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  Goalkeeper

  Edward Bloor

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  In this page-turning follow-up to the modern-day classic Tangerine, an underdog kid from a troubled home navigates a tumultuous summer while finding friendship and confidence on the soccer field. 
  Paul Fisher is eager to leave his rich-kid private school and get back to Tangerine Middle, where he’d found acceptance as the goalkeeper of the War Eagles, the toughest soccer team in the county. First, though, he must survive the summer at home, where lightning strikes spark underground fires that never go out and a tropical storm provides cover for criminals—including his own brother. 
  Then a new crisis unfolds, and Paul must testify against one of the War Eagles in a criminal case. Suddenly, the lessons about Truth vs. Loyalty and Justice vs. Mercy that Sister Catherine taught at Saint Anthony’s Prep don’t seem so theoretical anymore. In fact, they might be just what Paul needs to figure out how to fight an unjust legal system and stay true to himself and his teammates.

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  The Adventures of Surf Dude -...

  Zelle Andrews

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  In a remote part of the South Carolina woods, a small Carolina pup plays with his brothers and sisters while their mother hunts rabbits. In one irreversible moment, his life changes forever. For a while, he lives happily with a human in Panacea, Florida, but he soon finds himself alone and homeless. Between encounters with native wildlife, thunder storms, and hunters, he learns to trust no-one but himself – until a man named Russ brings him honey-buns and calls him Surf Dude. After being on his own for so long, should he go home with Russ to a fenced-in yard with rules, or enjoy the life with no boundaries that he was born into? A portion of each sale supports dog rescue groups. 
  The story is a novel, based on the life of a real stray dog who was "adopted" by a town in North Florida. The story is told by the dog, Surf Dude. Surf Dude (now known as Buddy) has his own Facebook page ("Surf Dog/Buddy") with over 4,000 followers. Because the main character was a stray dog, the publisher donates a portion of all sales to animal rescue groups and shelters.

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  The Farnsworth Chronicles - Book...

  William Staub

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  NJ Farnsworth is a thirteen-year-old in the seventh grade. He is the third of four children in his single-parent family—and he was born with spina bifida. Until this year, NJ hated school and merely endured every day in his wheelchair. But when his school gave him a laptop for his homework, he discovered an artificial intelligence game in which he could walk and run and play like other children. On each level of the game, he learns new principles, values, and skills to help him live better in his wheelchair. This time the game’s mission requires him to save the lives of three people before he can complete the level successfully and advance in the game. But who does he have to save? What must he save them from? How can he save anyone else when he is just thirteen years old? Will he even be able to save himself inside this level of Rhineheart’s Game? 
  William Staub has been writing fiction (novels, short stories, flash fiction stories) most of his adult life. He graduated from Brigham Young University in the field of Education and taught special needs students in Baltimore, Maryland for 13 years. He studied writing at the University of Maryland. However, he spent most of his adult life in the military, living in four different countries, eight different states of the US and traveling to many other places around the world. Married to his wife of 54+ years, they have four grown children, seven grandchildren, and at least four great-grandchildren (and growing). He is currently retired, writing in his spare time and living in Florida with his wife and their emeritus service dog, Ranger.

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  Ada Lovelace: The Life and...

  Charles River Editors

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  Although a recent movie revived interest in Alan Turing’s achievements with computing during World War II, Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace were the first to conceive the notion of a programmable and automatic universal computer, which, on top of its ability to calculate any mathematical equation at an unmatched speed, could also be used for a seemingly infinite number of other applications. In other words, they envisioned the precursor to the modern computer.  
  It was certainly an unusual path for any woman, and she managed to do so before an incredibly premature death. Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, died in 1852 at the age of 36, but during her short and tumultuous life, she was one of the first to recognize that computers could do far more than complex calculations. This was all the more surprising given that, during her life, no computers existed, and her ideas were based on an implicit understanding of the theoretical work of Charles Babbage, who himself is today recognized as the “Father of the Computer.” What makes her work truly startling is that she did this more than 100 years before the first computer had even been created. But Ada Lovelace was a woman, and in Victorian England, her work was generally either ignored or disparaged - after all, Britons in the Victorian Era assumed that women weren’t mentally equipped to be scientists or mathematicians. For that reason alone, it's likely inevitable that Ada received very little recognition for her work, but on top of that, she wasn’t simply ahead of her time - she was so far ahead that almost no one was able to recognize the importance of what she had done until more than 100 years after her death.  
  Moreover, while countless others benefited from wealthy backgrounds and noble births, Ada was regarded with suspicion by her contemporaries in large part because she was the daughter of the era’s most famous and controversial poet, Lord Byron.

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  Hope For The Best Series

  Vanessa Lafleur

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  Without hope only fear remains.Surviving in the world of 2090 is difficult for teenagers like Lareina, Rochelle, and Charlie. The constant threats of the fever (a pandemic sweeping the world), the Defiance (a vicious gang of teenagers), and the pendants (a key to world endangering research) leave young adults wondering how to do the right thing.Follow Lareina, Rochelle, and Charlie on their journey to save the world with help from their family and friends. 

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