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A House Without Mirrors

Marten Sanden · Pushkin Childrens Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

A moving ghost story that explores the overcoming of loss, and how to move onThomasine has spent months living in her great-great-aunt's dusty, dark house with her father, and her aunt, uncle and cousins. While her father's siblings bicker about how much the house must be worth,...
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Bad Blood

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · Hyperion
Pages: 373
Format: Print book

When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI's Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her mother's murder. But now, everything Cassie thought she knew about what happened that night has been called into question. Her mother is alive, and the people holding her captive are more...
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Sexual assault : the ultimate teen guide

Olivia Ghafoerkhan · Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Hardcover

Out of all reported cases of sexual assault, nearly 70 percent occur with victims who are under the age of seventeen, and it has been estimated that one in ten children will be sexually abused before they turn eighteen. Sexual assault has become an all-too-common occurrence among young...
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Empire of Storms

Sarah J. Maas · Audible Studios on Brilliance
Format: Audiobook

The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those don't.As the kingdoms of Erilea fracture around her, enemies must become allies...
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Sons of Sparta: A Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis Mystery

Jeffrey Siger · Poisoned Pen Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Did the warriors of ancient Sparta simply vanish without a trace along with their city, or did they find sanctuary at the tip of the mountainous Peloponnese? That stark, unforgiving regions roots today run deep with a history of pirates, highwaymen, and neighbors ferociously repelling any foreigner...
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An Uninterrupted View of the Sky

MELANIE CROWDER · Philomel Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Modern history unearthed as a boy becomes an innocent victim of corruption in the underbelly of Bolivia's crime world, where the power of family is both a prison and the only means of survival.It's 1999 in Bolivia and Francisco's life consists of school, soccer, and trying to find space...
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Allegedly

Tiffany D Jackson · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 387
Format: Print book

Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myer's Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by Tiffany D. Jackson about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home.Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview...
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Hatchet

Gary Paulsen · Random House
Format: Audio CD

Haunted by his parents' divorce and the secret that caused it, young Brian Robeson, the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, must draw on untested skills and strength to survive.
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How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

Sandra Uwiringiyimana · HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Format: Audio CD

[Young Adult Nonfiction (Ages 12-17) ] [*Read by the author - Sandra Uwiringiyimana] This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated...
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Snake Bite

Andy Lane · Square Fish, 2015.
Pages: 294
Format: Print book

Kidnapped and taken to China, teenage Sherlock finds himself plunged into the heart of a deadly mystery. How can three men be bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai? Who wants them dead, and why? The answers seem to lie in a message hidden in a diagram that looks...
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We Are Still Tornadoes: A Novel

Michael Kun · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Growing up across the street from each other, Scott and Cath have been best friends for most of their lives. Now they've graduated high school and Cath is off to college while Scott stays at home trying to get his band off the ground. Neither of them realized that their first year after...
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Welcome Home

Eric Smith · Flux
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Welcome Home collects a number of adoption-themed fictional short stories, and brings them together in one anthology from a diverse range of celebrated Young Adult authors. The all-star roster includes Edgar-award winner Mindy McGinnis, New York Times best-selling authors C.J. Redwine (The...
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Running Full Tilt

Michael Currinder · Charlesbridge Teen
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A debut novel that sensitively and memorably depicts a teen runner's relationship with his autistic older brother.Like most siblings, Leo and Caleb have a complicated relationship. But Caleb's violent outbursts literally send Leo running. When the family is forced to relocate due to Caleb's...
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Edgeland

JAKE HALPERN · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover

An upper-middle grade thriller by the New York Times bestselling Nightfall authors-perfect for fans of James Dashner's Maze Runner books.Thousands of miles south of the island of Bliss, day and night last for 72 hours. Here is one of the natural wonders of this world: a whirlpool thirty...
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Swarm

Scott Westerfeld · Simon Pulse
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

X-Men meets Heroes when New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld teams up with award-winning authors Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti in the second book of an explosive new trilogy about a group of teens with amazing abilities.They thought they'd already faced their toughest...
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