Back Teens | May Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Teens  
Highly Illogical Behavior

John Corey Whaley · Dial Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Teen and adult fans of Matthew Quick, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell will adore this quirky story of coming-of-age, coming out, friendship, love...and agoraphobia.

Sixteen-year-old Solomon is agoraphobic. He hasn't left the house in three years, which is fine by him.

...
Read More check catalog
 
 
City of Heavenly Fire

Cassandra Clare · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 725
Format: Paperback

Shadowhunters and demons square off for the final showdown in the spellbinding, seductive conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series.Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B

Teresa Toten · Delacorte Press
Format: Audiobook

Filled with moments of deep emotion and unexpected humor, this understand and wise novel explores the complexities of living with OCD and offers the prospect of hope, happiness and healing. Perfect for readers who love Eleanor Park and All the Bright Places. ADAMS GOALSGrow immediately.Find...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Eden West

Pete Hautman · Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Tackling faith, doubt, and transformation, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman explores a boy's unraveling allegiance to an insular cult.Twelve square miles of paradise, surrounded by an eight-foot-high chain-link fence: this is Nodd, the land of the Grace. It is all seventeen-year-old...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza

Jack Gantos · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 154
Format: Hardcover

The fifth and final book in the groundbreaking Joey Pigza series brings the beloved chronicle of this wired, wacky, and wonderful boy to a crescendo of chaos and craziness, as everything goes topsy-turvy for Joey just as he starts to get his feet on the ground. With his dad MIA in the wake...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Nancy Drew Diaries #4

Stefan Petrucha · Papercutz
Format: Print book

Ned Nickerson arrested for shoplifting! Nancy Drew threatened with a lawsuit! A rare computer chip stolen from Rackham Industries! It all gets even more exciting when Nancy receives a mysterious charm bracelet in the mail - and soon a crime is committed for each charm! Will Nancy, even...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Perfect Couple (The Superlatives Book 2)

Jennifer Echols · Simon Pulse; Reprint edition
Format: Kindle Edition

In this second book in The Superlatives trilogy from Endless Summer author Jennifer Echols, Harper and Brody think they’re an unlikely match—but the senior class says they belong together.As yearbook photographer, Harper is responsible for those candid moments that make high...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Of Dreams and Rust

Sarah Fine · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 277
Format: Print book

"Desperate, dark, and violent, this amazingly complex and beautifully written novel ... offers excitement on every page" (VOYA) . War erupts in this bittersweet sequel to Of Metal and Wishes, inspired by The Phantom of the Opera.In the year since the collapse of the slaughterhouse...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The pros and cons of coal

Rebecca Stefoff · Cavendish Square Publishing
Format:  Book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats

Examines the history, benefits and risks, and future of coal as a fuel source. Includes color photographs, a glossary, and further resources.
Read More check catalog
 
 
Famous Last Words

Katie Alender · Point
Format: Hardcover

Hollywood history, mystery, murder, mayhem, and delicious romance collide in this unputdownable thriller from master storyteller Katie Alender.Willa is freaking out. It seems like shes seeing things. Like a dead body in her swimming pool. Frantic messages on her walls. A reflection that...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Dauntless (Valiant Hearts Book #1)

Dina L. Sleiman · Bethany House Publishers
Format: Kindle Edition

Where Legend and History Collide,
One Young Woman Will Fight for the Innocent


Born a baron's daughter, Lady Merry Ellison is now an enemy of the throne after her father's failed assassination attempt upon the king. Bold and uniquely skilled, she is willing to go to any lengths...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Ship to Nowhere

Rona Arato · Second Story Press
Pages: 169
Format: Print book

Rachel Fletcher is nine years old when she, her mother and sister are crammed on board the Exodus, a dilapidated vessel smuggling 4500 refugees of the Holocaust to their biblical homeland, Israel, known as Palestine. Since the end of the war, Rachel has been shuffled between a series of displaced...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Hold Me Like a Breath: Once Upon a Crime Family

Tiffany Schmidt · Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In Penelope Landlow's world, almost anything can be bought or sold. She's the daughter of one of the three crime families controlling the black market for organ transplants. Because of an autoimmune disorder that causes her to bruise easily, Penny is considered too "delicate"...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Sabotage: The Mission to Destroy Hitler's Atomic Bomb: Young Adult Edition

Neal Bascomb · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Neal Bascomb delivers another nail-biting work of nonfiction for young adults in this incredible true story of spies and survival.
The invasion begins at night, with German cruisers slipping into harbor, and soon the Nazis occupy all of Norway. They station soldiers throughout the country....
Read More check catalog