Frank Carlson Library

"Caroline George sweeps readers up into two different time periods with an unexpected love story that prompts us to reimagine what it means to be present with the people we love"--

Summer on Nantucket island. Three high school friends drinking warm beer on a rooftop. Everything is cool, until a seemingly innocent game takes a sinister turn, and the course of their lives are changed forever. For a year, they keep it a secret, until the following summer when they meet a mysterious girl with her own dark past who may have the answers they are looking for. A story about friendship, mistakes, and the quest for redemption, One Stupid...

How these animals came together in one place at the same time under the same circumstances, will remain a mystery to be solved. Some say that it was the storm of all storms, that this storm was really the earth shaking for days, tossing the animals up in the sky in the same direction. Others say that the winds swooped them up from the ground and carried them together along the same path. Some even believe that the rains flooded the lands and directed...

What if your entire life you knew the exact day you were going to die?​Liz does. ​Magick in the Kingdom of Aegis has almost run out. When that happens, the seasons will stop changing, the tides will cease to turn, and the sun will no longer be able to rise and set. The only way to save the lives of her people is if Liz agrees to be a blood sacrifice in a brutal ceremony that will take her life. ​The problem is, Liz isn't ready...

"The South Asian Province is split in two. Uplanders lead luxurious lives inside a climate-controlled biodome, dependent on technology and gene therapy to keep them healthy and youthful forever. Outside, the poor and forgotten scrape by with discarded black-market robotics, a society of poverty-stricken cyborgs struggling to survive in slums threatened by rising sea levels, unbreathable air, and deadly superbugs. Ashiva works for the Red Hand, an...

In 1881 Chicago, 16-year old Emma Evans is restless and bored, working at her family bakery. She sees the delivery boys having adventures and convinces her Papa to let her work on the delivery wagons. She is dressed as a boy for convenience and protection. Her adventures begin and soon she is involved in cases ranging from robbery to murder. She utilizes her skills with knives and self-defense to find her way through.

Sixteen-year-old Phoebe Benson wasn't always germophobic. There was a time she didn't worry obsessively about rogue pathogens lurking on every surface, lying in wait to contaminate her. But that was before her brother Toby's premature birth left him with underdeveloped lungs. Before she got Covid and infected him, putting his already fragile life in danger. To protect Toby's health in the years that follow, Phoebe dedicates herself to pathogen avoidance,...

Sixteen-year-old Katie Camilleri can’t believe she’s accidentally created a teenage boy. A boy six-feet tall with floppy hair and eyes like the sky on a clear summer’s day. A boy whose lips taste like cookie dough and whose skin smells like springtime. A boy completely devoted to Katie. But silly musings and kitchen antics with her best friend, Libby, have definitely taken a whimsical twist into something bigger than Katie could have ever daydreamed....

In this coming of age story, Keely Beck, a teen from Tennessee, loses her best friend in an unexpected accident and she finds herself alone in a room full of people. In trying to find herself again and regain parts of her memory, she comes across a group of friends that steer her down a negative path. Dealing with the pain of her friend's death, her parent's divorce, and guilt about events she can't recall, Keely turns to self-harm in more ways than...

All ten-year-old Morley Star wants is to be allowed to adopt the kitten she rescued and for her step-father to come home. When it looks like neither wish will be granted, she mounts a plan to get her family back to the happy place they used to be. Can making armloads of bracelets, helping her mother sell carloads of cookies, standing up to mean girl Julia and volunteering at the pet shelter possibly help? A heartwarming story about being a modern...