Library Book Haul!!

I know, I know! I shouldn't have gotten more books when I still have a ton in my TBR pile. But the way I look at it is that I am not paying for these books so if I don't end up reading them it's no big deal ;) So here's what I got!

"Living with hope is like rubbing up against a cheese grater 

It keeps taking slices off you until there's 

so little left you just

crumble."

Quick witted, prank pulling graffiti artist Maxwell Connors is more observant then the average New Middletown teenager. And he doesn't like what he sees. New Middletown's children are becoming frighteningly obedient, and their parents and teachers could not be happier. As Max and his friend Dallas watch their classmates transform into model citizens, Max wonders if their only hope of freedom lies in the unknown world beyond New Middletown's walls where creativity might be a gift instead of a liability.

"Sometimes in the dream it's a faceless boy who chases her through the woods

dogging her heels like a loping predator.

She's running down the narrow trail that leads toward the creek, 

and there he'll be, right on her tail

his sinewy arm reaching for her."

Caleb Devlin is a legand on Mockingbird Lane, the boy who terrorized an entire town before he got sent away. They say he hurt other kids, tortured animals, set fires and did things grown ups only speak of only in whispers. But that was all before Penny and her little brother moved here.

Now Caleb's back. Older and more dangerous then ever, and terrible things have started happening again. The whole town knows he's responsible,but the police can't do anything without proof. So penny and her friends have no choice but to try to stop him themselves.

Except now he's after them.

A sleepy summer is filled with dread in this tense and absorbing thriller by acclaimed Newberry Honor author Lennifer L. Holm