This micro-digital library is for you because you're someone who likes to know what the greatest new books are in YA. You also want to know where to find more great books like the ones you enjoy. BumperCrop gives you both by providing the Cream of the Crop titles selected by the Southern Maine Library District and including author websites, so you can find out more about your favorite writers.
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Featured Item
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
When twelve year old September receives an invitation from the Green Wind to leave Nebraska and journey to Fairyland, she willingly embarks on a quest…
Featured Collection
Cream of the Crop 2012
This is a collection of the best young adult fiction and non-fiction published in 2011, as chosen by librarians in southern Maine.
Featured Exhibit
Award Winning Cream of the Crop Titles
The titles in this exhibition have been nominated for and, in many cases, awarded literary honors from a number of...
Recently Added Items
All These Things I've Done
In a tersely, but fascinatingly imagined futuristic New York city, Anya, the daughter and de facto head of a mobster family involved in dealing…
Four Seasons: A Novel in Four Moments
A talented young pianist struggles to tell her musician parents that she wants to give up her training in this gripping novel about the pressures of a…
Breaking Stalin's Nose
Ten year old Sasha Zaichik has trained his whole life to be a good Communist under Stalin, but when Sasha’s father is arrested for being a spy, Sasha…