Tiger Lily
By Jodi Lynn Anderson
Fifteen-year-old Tiger Lily receives special protections from the spiritual forces of Neverland, but then she meets her tribe's most dangerous enemy—Peter Pan—and falls in love with him.
I love a good spin on an old story. This story is told from Tinker Bell’s point of view, but it is not the Happily Ever After kind of story we are used to. If you like your fairytales a little darker and grittier with a great strong female character, you might enjoy this book.
Recommended by Janelle
West Dade Regional Library
First Frost
By Sarah Addison Allen
Featuring characters from her beloved novel, Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen's new novel picks up ten years after that eventful summer when Claire Waverly's wild half‑sister Sydney returned to Bascom and Claire met her now‑husband Tyler. Things have settled down and Claire finds she has slipped back into a place of tightly sequestered sameness. It's comfortable. She likes it. But when her father Russell shows up he brings with him information that Claire doesn't want to hear and that will challenge everything she thought she knew about herself.
Sweet, magical and refreshing…
Recommended by Miriam
Palmetto Bay Branch Library
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
By Terry McMillan
Stella Payne is forty‑two, divorced, a high‑powered investment analyst, and mother of 11‑year‑old Quincy. She does it all. In fact if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry. So what if there's no man in her life? On a whim, she embarks on a Jamaican vacation and finds romance under tropical skies. Winston is seductive, gorgeous… and twenty years younger than Stella. Now she must confront her hopes and fears about love, and question all of her expectations, passions and ideas about life and the way she has lived it.
A story of a woman who goes on vacation and falls in love with a much younger man.
Recommended by Alan
South Dade Regional Library
Quiet!
By Paul Bright
Mama and Papa Lion don't want any of the animals in the jungle to wake up Baby Leo while he takes his morning nap. As king of the animals, Papa Lion tells them that he will eat up any creature who makes too much noise. As the day passes, Papa Lion gets hungrier and hungrier, but no one is loud enough to wake up Baby Leo until, an unexpected noisemaker rumbles onto the scene!
Recommended by Ana
West Kendall Regional Library
Alphabeep: A Zipping, Zooming ABC
By Debora Pearson
Beep! Beep! Kids can zoom through the alphabet in this entertaining concept book with colorful bumper‑to‑bumper traffic they will love. From ambulances to Zambonis, each page describes and defines a vehicle or road sign with charming word play and sound words.
This fun picture book is ideal for helping young children develop early literacy skills.
Recommended by Edda
West Kendall Regional Library
I’ll Mature When I’m Dead: Dave Barry’s Amazing Tales of Adulthood
By Dave Barry
In this brilliantly funny exploration of the treacherous state of adulthood by the Pulitzer Prize‑winning humorist, Barry tackles everything from fatherhood to new fatherhood to songs.
For anyone who needs great laugh‑out‑loud reading material. Miami‑native Dave Barry is riotously self‑deprecating and relatable all at the same time.
Recommended by Ricci
North Dade Regional Library
The Amulet of Samarkand
By Jonathan Stroud
Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, becomes caught in a web of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion, after he summons the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Loveland.
Recommended by Liz
Main Library
The Carnival at Bray
By Jessie Ann Foley
It's 1993, and Generation X pulses to the beat of Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement. Sixteen‑year‑old Maggie Lynch is uprooted from big‑city Chicago to a windswept town on the Irish Sea. Surviving on care packages of Spin magazine and Twizzlers from her rocker uncle Kevin, she wonders if she'll ever find her place in this new world. When first love and sudden death simultaneously strike, a naive but determined Maggie embarks on a forbidden pilgrimage that will take her to a seedy part of Dublin and on to a life‑altering night in Rome to fulfill a dying wish. Through it all, Maggie discovers an untapped inner strength to do the most difficult but rewarding thing of all, live.
Recommended by Alisha
Main Library