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Cracking the SAT with 4 Practice Tests, 2017 Edition

Princeton Review. · Random House
Pages: 768
Format: Print book

The Princeton Review is the fastest growing test-preparation company in the country, with over 60 franchise offices in the nation. Each year, we help more than 2 million students prepare for college, grad school, professional licensing exams, and successful careers.
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Speak of Me As I Am

Sonia Belasco · Philomel Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A moving story of grief, honesty, and the healing power of art - the ties that bind us together, even when those we love are gone.Melanie and Damon are both living in the shadow of loss. For Melanie, it's the loss of her larger-than-life artist mother, taken by cancer well before her time....
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Draw the Line

Laurent Linn · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

After a hate crime occurs in his small Texas town, Adrian Piper must discover his own power, decide how to use it, and know where to draw the line in this stunning debut novel exquisitely illustrated by the author.Adrian Piper is used to blending into the background at his Texas high school....
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Vincent Van Gogh

Valerie Bodden · Creative Education
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

"A biography of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, examining his contributions to the Post-Impressionist style and his early death, as well as many of his greatest paintings"--
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Barron's AP U.S. Government and Politics, 9th Edition

Curt Lader M.Ed. · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

In-depth preparation for the AP U.S. Government and Politics exam features:Two full-length model AP exams with answer keys and explanationsAn extensive subject review covering constitutional development, the branches of federal government, political parties, social welfare, foreign policy,...
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Blood Passage

Heather Demetrios · Balzer Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2015.
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

Blood Passage is the electrifying second book in the Dark Caravan Cycle - a modern jinni fantasy-adventure trilogy from author Heather Demetrios, perfect for fans of Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone series and Leigh Bardugo's Grisha Trilogy.When Nalia arrives in Morocco...
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The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily

Rachel Cohn · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 215
Format: Print book

A 2016 Zoella Book Club Pick!New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Cohn and David Levithan are back together with a life-affirming new holiday romance starring Dash and Lily of Dash & Lily's Book of Dares! Dash and Lily have had a tough year since readers watched the couple fall...
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Iron Cast

Destiny Soria · Amulet Books
Pages: 376
Format: Print book

It's Boston, 1919, and the Cast Iron club is packed. On stage, hemopaths - whose "afflicted" blood gives them the ability to create illusions through art - Corinne and Ada have been best friends ever since infamous gangster Johnny Dervish recruited them into his circle. By night...
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Unsolved Historical Mysteries

Allison Lassieur · Capstone Press
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

What happened to the people of the Roanoke Colony? Why did the crew of the Mary Celeste abandon ship? Who wrote the mysterious Voynich Manuscript and what does it mean? History is filled with many unexplained and baffling mysteries. With dramatic photos and intriguing theories, readers...
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The Dog, Ray

Linda Coggin · Candlewick Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

By turns humorous, poignant, and moving, this tale of a girl who comes back to Earth as a dog is a nuanced portrait of death, love, grief, and hope.When my death came it was swift. Swift as a running horse. It wasted no time.Daisy, age twelve, has died in a car accident. She finds herself...
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Thornghost

Tone Almhjell · Dial Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Fans of "Gregor the Overlander" and "Five Kingdoms" will love this alternate-realm fantasy full of heart-racing action Strange things are happening around Niklas Summerhill s home. A green-eyed beast is killing animals in the woods, and the nightmares that have haunted...
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Waiting for Anya

Michael Morpurgo · Viking Juvenile; 1st American ed edition
Format: Hardcover

Jo places his life in danger when he helps protect a growing number of Jewish children who have sought refuge at a reclusive widow's farm.
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To Die for

Anne E Schraff · Saddleback Publishing,
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback

Local homeless man, Griff Slocum, has been found dead. Murdered. Rod and Clay, Chavez High seniors, fall under suspicion--as well as a few other school bullies including Humberto Gomez, who suddenly has money to throw around. Ernesto is on the case because he can't let the police handle...
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