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The Cruelty Sneak Peek

Scott Bergstrom - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Read the first five chapters of THE CRUELTY for free!Daughter. Hunter. Killer. High school student Gwendolyn Bloom doesnt believe in heroes - until her father vanishes and she must become one. Under a new identity, and battling her way through Europes criminal underworld, Gwen is determined...
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The Raft

S. A. Bodeen - Feiwel & Friends; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Robie is an experienced traveler. She's taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute....
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Avalanche

Melinda Braun - Simon & Schuster Books
Format: Print book

Two groups of teens - those waiting to be saved and those doing the saving - are in a race against time and a battle against Mother Nature after an avalanche traps them in an isolated cabin in this chilling novel."I promise it'll be a weekend you'll never forget." A trip...
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Little Brother

Cory Doctorow - Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Format: Book

Marcus, a.k.a "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works-and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance...
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The Ruins of Gorlan

John Flanagan
Format: Paperback

The international bestselling series with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. alone!They have always scared him in the past - the Rangers, with their dark cloaksand shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to
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Don't Turn Around

Michelle Gagnon - HarperCollins; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In Michelle Gagnons debut YA thriller, Dont Turn Around, computer hacker Noa Torson is as smart, tough, and complex as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoos Lisbeth Salander.The first in a trilogy, Dont Turn Arounds intricate plot and heart-pounding action will leave readers desperate for book...
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Adrift

Paul Griffin - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

From critically acclaimed writer Paul Griffin comes a fast-paced young adult novel about five very different teens lost at sea with no one to count on but each other. Matt and John are best friends working out in Montauk for the summer. When Driana, JoJo and Stef invite the boys to their...
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The Glass Sentence

S. E. Grove - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Best SellerAn Indiebound Best SellerA Kids' Next Top Ten BookA Summer/Fall 2014 Indies Introduce New Voices SelectionA Junior Library Guild SelectionOne of Publishers Weekly's Best Summer Reads"Not since Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass have I seen such...
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Safekeeping

Karen Hesse - Feiwel & Friends; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Radleys parents had warned her that all hell would break loose if the American Peoples Party took power. And now, with the president assassinated and the government cracking down on citizens, the news is filled with images of vigilante groups, frenzied looting, and police raids. It seems...
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Sure Fire

Jack Higgins - Putnam Juvenile
Format: Book

The first young adult novel from legendary New York Times- bestselling author Jack Higgins. For thirty years, Jack Higgins has enraptured adult readers with his thrilling tales of spies and intrigue. Now, for the first time he brings his bestselling touch to the world of teens with an adventure...
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Go Big or Go Home

Will Hobbs - HarperCollins; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

A meteorite is hurtling toward the Black Hills of South Dakota. . . . Brady Steele watches in awe as a fireball comes crashing through the roof of his house. Brady immediately calls up his cousin, Quinn. They both love all things extreme, and this is the most extreme thing ever!Fred, as Brady...
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False Memory

Dan Krokos - Hyperion Book CH; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Miranda wakes up alone on a park bench with no memory. In her panic, she releases a mysterious energy that incites pure terror in everyone around her. Except Peter, a boy who isn’t at all surprised by Miranda’s shocking ability. Left with no choice but to trust this stranger,...
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The Skeleton Tree

Iain Lawrence - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding

Award-winning author Iain Lawrence presents this modern-day adventure and classic in the making, in the vein of The Call of the Wild, Hatchet, and The Cay. Less than forty-eight hours after twelve-year-old Chris sets off on a sailing trip down the Alaskan coast with...
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The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence

Stan Lee - Disney Press
Format: Hardcover

Stan Lee presents a brand new, magical, super-powered adventure! When twelve magical superpowers are unleashed on the world, a Chinese-America teenager named Steven will be thrown into the middle of an epic global chase. He'll have to master strange powers, outrun super-powered mercenaries,...
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Illusive (Illusive, 1)

Emily Lloyd-Jones - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The X-Men meets Oceans Eleven in this edge-of-your-seat sci-fi adventure about a band of "super" criminals.. When the deadly MK virus swept across the planet, a vaccine was created to stop the epidemic, but it came with some unexpected side effects. A small percentage of the population...
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A Girl Named Digit

Annabel Monaghan - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Farrah Digit Higgins may be going to MIT in the fall, but thisL.A. high school geniushas left her geek self behind in another school district so she can blend in with thepopular crowd at Santa Monica High and actually enjoy her senior year.But when Farrah, the daughter of a UCLA math professor,unknowingly...
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Hatchet: 20th Anniversary Edition

Gary Paulsen - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; 20 Anv edition
Format: Hardcover

Since it was first published in 1987, the story of thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson's survival following a plane crash has become a modern classic. Stranded in the desolate wilderness, Brian uses his instincts and his hatchet to stay alive for fifty-four harrowing days. This twentieth-anniversary...
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Captives

Tom Pow - Roaring Brook Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Martin and his family are enjoying a sun-filled vacation on a beautiful Caribbean island--until they are stopped at gunpoint, blindfolded, and bundled into a truck that heads for the dense forest of the island's interior. Pushed to their physical and emotional limits as they are forced...
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Courage test

James Preller - Feiwel and Friends
Format: Print book

Will has no choice. His father drags him along on a wilderness adventure in the footsteps of legendary explorers Lewis and Clark--whether he likes it or not. All the while, Will senses that something about this trip isn't quite right. Along the journey, Will meets fascinating strangers...
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Virals

Kathy Reichs - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show) , is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage "sci-philes" who live on a secluded island off the coast of South Carolina. When the group rescues a dog caged for medical...
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Steelheart

Brandon Sanderson - Delacorte Press
Format: Book

The #1 New York Times bestseller that James Dashner called "fantastic," with "relentless" suspense and an "explosive" climax. And don't miss the rest of the Reckoners series, including Firefight - now a #1 New York Times bestseller...
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Fire & Flood

Victoria Scott - Scholastic Press, 2014.
Format: Print book

What would you do to save someone you love?Time is slipping away. . . .Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can't determine what's wrong, her parents decide to move to the middle of nowhere for the fresh air. She's lost her friends, her parents...
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The Edge

Roland Smith - Harcourt Brace and Company
Format: Book

* "A winner at every level." - BOOKLIST , starred review of Peak The International Peace Ascent is the brainchild of billionaire Sebastian Plank: Recruit a global team of young climbers and film an inspiring, world-uniting documentary. The adventure begins when fifteen-year-old...
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All Our Yesterdays

Cristin Terrill - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

Thriller Award Winner, Best Young Adult Novel, 2014 "You have to kill him." Imprisoned in the heart of a secret military base, Em has nothing except the voice of the boy in the cell next door and the list of instructions she finds taped inside the drain. Only Em can complete...
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Reboot

Amy Tintera - HarperTeen
Format: Book

In this fast-paced dystopian thrill ride, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Legend, and Divergent, a seventeen-year-old girl returns from death as a Reboot and is trained as an elite crime-fighting soldier . . . until she is given an order she refuses to obey.Wren Connolly died five...
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The Young World

Chris Weitz - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Chris Weitz has made a beautiful transition from writing and directing films to novels. The Young World is populated with characters you won't forget and a story as fresh and urgent as Divergent."--James Patterson, #1 NY Times bestselling author of Maximum Ride.
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