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If I Stay

Gayle Forman - Speak
Format: Paperback

The critically acclaimed, bestselling novel from Gayle Forman, author of Where She Went, Just One Day, and Just One Year. Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Chloe Moretz! In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only...
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The Maze Runner (Maze Runner Series #1) (Maze Runner Trilogy)

James Dashner - Delacorte Press
Format: Library Binding

Read the first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent. The Maze Runner is now a major motion picture featuring the star of MTV's Teen Wolf, Dylan O'Brien; Kaya Scodelario; Aml Ameen;...
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Grave Mercy: His Fair Assassin, Book I

Robin LaFevers - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover

Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf? Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with...
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Monument 14

Emmy Laybourne - Feiwel and Friends
Format: Print book

Your mother hollers that you're going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don't stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don't thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not -- you launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner.Only,...
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The Wee Free Men: A Story of Discworld

Terry Pratchett
Format: Book

Wednesday, January 14 ~ 7:00pm "Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "All the monsters are coming back.""Why?" said Tiffany."There's no one to stop them.There was silence for a moment.Then Tiffany said, "There's...
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Crank

Ellen Hopkins - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

This is a story about a monster. Not a dragon or a mythological beast, but a very real, very destructive monster--crystal meth--that takes hold of seventeen-year-old Kristina Snow and transforms her into her reckless alter-ego Bree. Based on her own daughter's addiction to crystal meth,...
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs - Quirk Books
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times best-selling series. Includes an excerpt from Hollow City and an interview with author Ransom Riggs A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss...
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Little Brother

Cory Doctorow - Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Format: Audiobook on CD

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 systems.But...
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Nation

Terry Pratchett
Format: Book

Wednesday, May 13 ~ 7:00pm When a giant wave destroys his village, Mau is the only one left. Daphne—a traveler from the other side of the globe—is the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Separated by language and customs, the two are united by catastrophe. Slowly,...
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Eleanor & Park

Rainbow Rowell - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Best Seller!"Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be young and in love with a book."-John Green, The New York Times Book ReviewBono met his wife in high...
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