September Picks

1. The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
   Prince Sebastian's parents want him to find a bride. But he has a secret: At night, he wears the most fashionable dresses and goes around as Lady Crystallia. Only his best friend and dressmaker, Frances, knows his secret.

2. Secrets of Camp Whatever by Chris Grine
   Willow finds herself neck-deep in a confounding mystery involving stolen snacks, suspected vampires, and missing campers, all shrouded in the sinister fog that hides a generation of secrets at Camp ... Whatever it's called.

3. Time After Time by Allen Appel

   The story follows New School history professor Alex Balfour as he is tossed back and forth between present-day New York City and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Seeking an explanation for his unusual situation, Alex attempts to save Czar Nicholas and his family. In the course of the novel, he encounters Ivan Pavlov, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Grigory Rasputin.

4. War Cross by Marie Lu
   Emika Chen uses Warcross, an interactive game, as an escape from her personal problems which included the passing of her father and expulsion from school. She works as a bounty hunter, catching illegal players of the game. However, she takes a risk and accidentally hacks herself into an official game of Warcross, catching the eye of the creator of the game, Hideo Tanaka. He recruits her for a secret security project, and her life changes from a single apartment with a lousy landlord to a lively penthouse in Tokyo, Japan.

5. The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
   "The Canterville Ghost" is a short story by Oscar Wilde in which a girl befriends the ghost haunting Canterville Chase and helps him cross over into the afterlife. Horace B. Otis and his family move into Canterville Chase, which is haunted by the ghost of Sir Simon, who killed his wife there.