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Here are some new books that the library has gotten that may interest you!

Elementary
*Life Under The Sea*

Clumsy Crab by Ruth Galloway
Tells about Nipper a crab who hates his huge, clumsy claws because they always seem to get in the way. but one day, he finds to his delight that his claws are the way he can help a friend who is in trouble.

Fidgety Fish by Ruth Galloway
Mama Fish sends Fidgety Fish out to play when he can't seem to hold still for three seconds. But, first she warns him to be careful of Big Fish. Fidgety enjoys exploration of the sea until he enters a cave and finds its not what he first thought. Can he escape? Read and find out.

Blue Sea by Robert Kalan
In this book, Little Fish comes across many larger fish that want to eat him, but he manages to escape them all by being the smallest of them all.

Sea Horses by Lola Schaefer 
and
The Journey of the Humpback Whale by Caryn Jenner
In these books you learn many interesting facts about these two creatures including the fact that sea horses have long tails that act like anchors and that humpback whales travel thousands of miles from the Caribbean Sea to the North Atlantic. If you want to know more, read these books.

Middle School and High School

*Historical fiction and nonfiction*

Seer of Shadows by Avi
Is Horace really a seer of the shadows or is spiritualism all a fraud? In this book Horace is apprenticed to a photographer who sets out to fool society women into thinking that the ghosts of her dead daughter appears in a picture he is asked to take. Horace secretly must take a picture of the daughter's portrait which will be superimposed on the other photograph. But when Horace takes the picture of the dead girls portrait, he finds that the ghost of the girl has been released and she is bent on revenge toward the people she feels are responsible for her death. Does Horace really have this extraordinary power? Why is the ghost of Eleanora bent on revenge against her mother? What will happen in this book that keeps you turning the pages to find out the whole story?

Ten Days: Anne Frank by David Colbert
In this book Colbert chooses ten of what he feels are the ten most important days of Anne's short life beginning with the first day in the secret annex. More importantly, he chooses to show Anne's life in the work camp called Westerbork and then later, the time Anne and her family spent in Auschwitz, the most feared of all concentration camps. On the first day there, after riding in cattle cars, half of the thousand or so people sent, are put to death in the gas chambers because of weakness. Here Anne is separated from her father, but she, her mother and Margot stay together until sickness finally overtakes them one at a time. Heartbreakingly, it is not long after Anne's death that Auschwitz is freed by the Americans.

Night by Elie Wiesel
This book is the moving account of Elie's entire life first in Auschwitz and then in Buchenwald. This account by Wiesel is famous throughout the world and is responsible for informing many people about the terrible life in concentration camps and how that took away the innocence of Wiesel as a teen in 1944. Although lucky enough to survive his time in the camps, he was forever changed by it and his message is that this must never be allowed to happen again.

Shackleton's Stowaway by Victoria McKernan.
This story is based on the real life exploration of the Antarctic by Sir Ernest Shackleton in the early 20th century and is very close to the actual events that took place at the time. There was a young stowaway aboard the Endurance and he along with the other men that sailed with Shackleton, endured desperate hunger, freezing seas, frostbite, the loss of most of their belongings and of their animals when the Endurance is crushed by ice floes. Shackleton promised his men that all of them would get home and because of his sheer determination and strong will he never showed and fear or let them down. You will follow the trek of these men and feel the hardships they experienced in this excellent book.

**Following this you may also want to read Endurance: Shipwrekc and Survival o n a Sea of ice, the nonfiction account of the famous Shckleton Expedition. Then you can compare how closely the fiction book follows the true story.