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Swing
Kwame Alexander - Blink
Format: Hardcover
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Things usually do not go as planned for seventeen-year-old Noah. He and his best friend Walt (aka Swing) have been cut from the high school baseball team for the third year in a row, and it looks like Noah's love interest since fifth grade, Sam, will never take it past the "best... |
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Blink & Caution
Tim Wynne-Jones - Candlewick
Format: Paperback
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Two street kids get tangled in a plot over their heads - and risk an unexpected connection - in this heart-pounding thriller by Tim Wynne-Jones.Boy, did Blink get off on the wrong floor. All he wanted was to steal some breakfast for his empty belly, but instead he stumbled upon a fake kidnapping... |
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The Epic Crush of Genie Lo
F. C. Yee - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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American Born Chinese meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this grounded supernatural YA mash-up. The struggle to get into a top-tier college consumes 16-year-old Genies every waking thought. But when she discovers shes a celestial spirit whos powerful enough to bash through the gates of heaven... |
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Shadow of the Fox
Julie Kagawa - Harlequin Teen
Format: Hardcover
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Once Every Thousand Years...Every millennium, one age ends and another age dawns...and whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers holds the power to call the great Kami Dragon from the sea and ask for any one wish. The time is near...and the missing pieces of the scroll will be sought... |
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Meet the Sky
McCall Hoyle - Blink
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning author McCall Hoyle comes a new young adult novel, Meet the Sky, a story of love, letting go, and the unstoppable power of nature.It all started with the accident. The one that caused Sophie's dad to walk out of her life. The one that left Sophie's older sister,... |
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NIGHT DIVIDED
JENNIFER A NIELSEN - SCHOLASTIC (US)
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A Night Divided joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!With the rise of the Berlin Wall, Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled... |
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The First Time She Drowned
Kerry Kletter - Speak
Format: Paperback
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The beautiful struggle of a girl desperate for the one relationship that has caused her the most pain. In "one of the most lyrical novels I've ever read. Haunting and exquisite." - Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also... |
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Wild Bird
Wendelin Van Draanen - Ember
Format: Paperback
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From the award-winning author of The Running Dream and Flipped comes a remarkable portrait of a girl who has hit rock bottom but begins a climb back to herself at a wilderness survival camp. 3:47 a.m. That's when they come for Wren Clemmens. She's hustled out of her house and into... |
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The Golden Day
Ursula Dubosarsky
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When their teacher goes missing during an outing, eleven girls grapple with the aftermath in this haunting, exquisitely told psychological mystery.The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning |
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary Roach - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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From Barnes & NobleMary Roach has been described as "America's funniest science writer," not a superlative that one would expect that an author on a book about human cadavers would receive. In her latest effort, the author of Stiff and Packing for Mars takes us on an incredible... |
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Olivia Twist
Lorie Langdon - Blink
Format: Hardcover
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Olivia Twist is an innovative reimagining of Charles Dickens' classic tale Oliver Twist, in which Olivia was forced to live as a boy for her own safety until she was rescued from the streets. Now eighteen, Olivia finds herself at a crossroads: revealed secrets threaten to destroy the "proper"... |
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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
Meg Medina - Candlewick Press, 2013.
Format: Print book
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Winner of the 2014 Pura Belpr Author AwardIn Meg Medina's compelling new novel, a Latina teen is targeted by a bully at her new school - and must discover resources she never knew she had.One morning before school, some girl tells Piddy Sanchez that Yaqui Delgado hates her and wants to kick... |
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Heretics Anonymous
Katie Henry - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!From Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, and the internationally bestselling Mistborn series, comes the first book in an epic new series about a girl who dreams of becoming a pilot... |
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The Name of the Star
Maureen Johnson - Speak
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestseller Maureen Johnson takes on Jack the Ripper in this captivating paranormal thriller! The day that Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London to start a new life at boarding school is also the day a series of brutal murders breaks out over the city, killings... |
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Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The first memoir for young readers by sports legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.At one time, Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, with pleasing a strict father, and with overcoming shyness that... |
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Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
Deborah Heiligman - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Printz Honor Book * YALSA Nonfiction Award Winner * Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner * SCBWI Golden Kite Winner * Cybils Senior High Nonfiction Award WinnerFrom the author of National Book Award finalist Charles and Emma comes an incredible story of brotherly love.The deep... |
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The Go-Between
VERONICA CHAMBERS - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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Fans of Jane the Virgin will find much to love about The Go-Between, a coming-of-age novel from bestselling author Veronica Chambers, who with humor and humanity explores issues of identity and belonging in a world that is ever-changing. She is the envy of every teenage girl... |
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Kids of Appetite
David Arnold - Speak
Format: Paperback
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"Funny, sweet, utterly heart-wrenching." - Entertainment WeeklyThe New York Times bestseller from the critically acclaimed author of MosquitolandVictor Benucci and Madeline Falco have a story to tell. It begins with the death of Vic's father. It ends with the murder of Mad's... |
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Akata Witch
Nnedi Okorafor - Speak
Format: Paperback
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Affectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter," Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world.Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's... |
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All the Crooked Saints
Maggie Stiefvater - Scholastic Audio
Format: Hardcover
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From best-selling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full... |
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Astray
Emma Donoghue - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghues stories have all gone astray they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too those of race, law, sex, and sanity.... |
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A girl like that
Tanaz Bhathena - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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"Fascinating and disturbing. " - Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Small Great Things and Leaving Time A timeless exploration of high-stakes romance, self-discovery, and the lengths we go to love and be loved. Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things:... |
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Tear Down This Wall: A City, a President, and the Speech that Ended the Cold War
Romesh Ratnesar - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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On June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan addressed a crowd of 20,000 people in West Berlin in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. The words he delivered that afternoon would become among the most famous in presidential history. “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate,” Reagan said. “Mr. Gorbachev,... |
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