
These are great reads which are not brand new, so you may have missed them when they were first published, but are well worth trying:
Stravaganza: City of Masks by Mary Hoffman
A magical time travel story. Lucien's father buys him a beautiful notebook, and when he falls asleep clutching it he wakes up in Bellezza, a parallel Venice. Bellezza is a city of contrasts that values magic and science in equal regard. And Lucien finds himself in a position of power, danger and intrigue as he continues to 'stravagate' between the two worlds...