Each month the Youth Services department will list a recent young adult title that we don’t think you should miss!  If you’d like to submit a suggestion for a title to be featured on Book of the Month, please email Linda.

This month… July 2008

H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villainous Education by Mark Walden

Otto Malpense may only be thirteen years old, but so far he has managed to run the orphanage where he lives, and he has come up with a plan clever enough to trick the most powerful man in the country. He is the perfect candidate to become the world's next super villain.

That is why he ends up at H.I.V.E., handpicked to become a member of the incoming class. The students have been kidnapped and brought to a secluded island inside a seemingly active volcano, where the school has resided for decades. All the kids are elite; they are the most athletic, the most technically advanced, and the smartest in the world. Inside the cavernous marble rooms, floodlit hangars, and steel doors, the students are enrolled in Villainy Studies and Stealth and Evasion 101. But what Otto soon comes to realize is that this is a six-year program and leaving is not an option.

With the help of his new friends: an athletic martial-arts expert; a world-famous, beautiful diamond thief; and a spunky computer genius – the only other people who seem to want to leave -- can Otto achieve what has never been done before and break out of H.I.V.E.?

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