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Behind the Canvas
Alexander P Vance - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Book
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Discovering that she has the ability to enter into the worlds depicted in famous paintings, Claudia endeavors to save a Dutch boy named Pim who has been trapped behind the canvas for centuries by a power-hungry witch.
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Change-Up: Mystery at the World Series
John Feinstein - Yearling
Format: Paperback
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While covering baseball's World Series, teenage sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol investigate a rookie pitcher whose evasive answers during an interview reveal more than a few contradictions in his life story.
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Greetings from Witness Protection!
JAKE BURT - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover
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Nicki Demere is an orphan and a pickpocket. She also happens to be the U.S. Marshals' best bet to keep a family alive. . . .The marshals are looking for the perfect girl to join a mother, father, and son on the run from the nation's most notorious criminals. After all, the bad guys... |
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
DUSTI BOWLING - Sterling Children's Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Aven is a perky, hilarious, and inspiring protagonist whose attitude and humor will linger even after the last page has turned." - School Library Journal (Starred review) Chosen for the Autumn 2017 Kids' Indie Next List!Winner of the 2017 Reading the West... |
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Mark of the Thief
Jennifer A. Nielsen - Scholastic Press
Format: Book
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Forced to enter a sealed cavern that reputedly holds the lost treasures of Caesar, slave boy Nic discovers an amulet imbued with divine power and finds himself at the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and spark the Praetor War.
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Night of the Howling Dogs
Graham Salisbury - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Book
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In 1975, eleven Boy Scouts, their leaders, and some new friends camping at Halape, Hawaii, find their survival skills put to the test when a massive earthquake strikes, followed by a tsunami.
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Pashmina
NIDHI CHANANI - First Second
Format: Paperback
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In this heartwarming graphic novel debut, Nidhi Chanani weaves a tale about the hardship and self-discovery that is born from juggling two cultures and two worlds.
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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
Steve Sheinkin - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Book
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Presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.
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Posted
John David Anderson - Walden Pond Press
Format: Hardcover
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With multiple starred reviews, don't miss this humorous, poignant, and original contemporary story about bullying, broken friendships, social media, and the failures of communication between kids. From John David Anderson, author of the acclaimed Ms. Bixby's Last Day.In middle school, words... |
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The Red Bandanna
Tom Rinaldi - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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The inspirational story of September 11 hero Welles Crowther traces his faith-based outlook on life, his position as a volunteer in his local fire department and desire to join the FDNY, and how he sacrificed his life to save people trapped in the South Tower.
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Refugee
ALAN GRATZ - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft,... |
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Restart
GORDON KORMAN - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't remember hitting his head. He doesn't, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name.... |
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The Rule of Three
Eric Walters - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book
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A teen's suburban neighborhood bands together for its own survival in a world stricken by a catastrophic blackout.
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Space Case
Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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IDashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors.
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Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE - Walden Pond Press
Format: Book
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Separated from his grandfather and placed in a foster home, Prez forges a friendship with an alien who appears as a dog to everyone else and entreats Prez to help compile a list of Earth's redeeming qualities.
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The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
Leslie Connor - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: eBook
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A 2018 National Book Award Finalist! From the critically acclaimed author of Waiting for Normal and All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook, Leslie Connor, comes a deeply poignant and beautifully crafted story about self-reliance, redemption, and hope.Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest... |
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The Wolf Wilder
Katherine Rundell - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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In the days before the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Feodora sets out to rescue her mother when the Tsar's Imperial Army imprisons her for teaching tamed wolves to fend for themselves.
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The Worst Class Trip Ever
Dave Barry - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Book
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Attending a class trip in Washington, D.C., Wyatt and his friends encounter a group of mysterious men and find themselves dodging their long-suffering teachers to stop what may or may not be a plot against the president.
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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
Carole Boston Weatherford - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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An innovative history in verse celebrates the heroic contributions of the pioneering African-American pilots who broke racial barriers to serve their country in World War II.
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