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The Burning Shadow

Michelle Paver · Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2014. ©2013
Pages: 291
Format: Print book

For fans of Nancy Farmer and Lloyd Alexander comes international bestselling author Michelle Paver's second novel in the Bronze Age adventure series. While searching for his kidnapped sister, Outsider Hylas takes a dangerous detour when he's captured as a slave and sent to the copper...
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My Best Friend, Maybe

Caela Carter · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Right before they started high school, Colette's best friend, Sadie, dumped her. Three years later, Colette is still lonely. She tries to be perfect for everyone left in her life: her parents, her younger brothers, her church youth group, even her boyfriend, Mark. But Colette is restless....
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The Sun Is Also a Star

Nicola Yoon · Delacorte Press
Pages: 384
Format: Library Binding

Be the first to read the dazzling new novel from Nicola Yoon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, EverythingNatasha: I'm a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I'm definitely not the kind of girl...
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Spirit of a Mountain Wolf

Rosanne Hawke · Scarlet Voyage
Pages: 209
Format: Hardcover

Fourteen-year-old Razaq Khan lives in the Pakistani tribal area of Kala Dhaka, Black Mountain. When an earthquake devastates his family home, Razaq's dying father tells him to travel to his uncle Javaid. A man preying on orphans lures Razaq to the city with the promise of finding his uncle....
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Diamond Boy

Michael Williams · Little Brown & Co
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

My father says that a journey should always change your life in some way. Well, when you have nothing, I suppose a journey promises everything.
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Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics

Kathryn J Atwood · Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A commemoration of brave yet largely forgotten women who served in the First World War In time for the 2014 centennial of the start of the Great War, this book brings to life the brave and often surprising exploits of 16 fascinating women from around the world who served their countries...
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Dying to Return

Trish Marie Dawson · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Piper Willow's adventure in the afterlife continues in the third book of The Station Series, as she struggles to discover who she is and what is expected of her. Faced with decisions that could change everything, she must weigh her desire to be with the ones she has come to love, or satisfy...
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Where Futures End

Parker Peevyhouse · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Perfect for fans of innovative storytelling, like Marcus Sedgwick's The Ghosts of Heaven and David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks, Where Futures End is a collection of five time-spanning, interconnected novellas that weave a subtly science-fictional web stretching out from the present into...
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School Made Easier: A Kid's Guide to Study Strategies and Anxiety-Busting Tools

Wendy L. Moss PhD and Robin Deluca-Acconi LCSW · Magination Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

On the first day of school, students and teachers have high hopes for the year. But as homework piles up and test dates approach, a lot of kids start to feel stressed and struggle to deal with it. School Made Easier focuses on how to manage that academic stress and the emotions that might...
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After the Game

ABBI GLINES · Simon Pulse
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Field Party series - a southern soap opera with football, cute boys, and pick-up trucks - from USA TODAY bestselling author Abbi Glines.Two years ago, Riley Young fled from Lawton, Alabama. After accusing the oldest Lawton son, Rhett,...
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Pat of Silver Bush

L M Montgomery · Sourcebooks Fire,
Pages: 356
Format: Print book

There's no place like home Do fairies really come for the dish of milk we leave them? Is Mrs. McClenahan really a witch? How is it possible to find a new baby in a bed of parsley? These are all questions Pat Gardiner wants to know. And it seems her Irish housekeeper, the incomparable...
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Sexual Harassment

Gale · Greenhaven Press
Format: Hardcover

Each title in this colorful series discusses an issue that either is part of students' lives or is likely affecting someone they know. Presenting multiple sides to current issues, each title distinguishes itself through its dedicated focus on concerns that today's middle and high...
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Piecing Me Together

Rene Watson · Bloomsbury
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A timely and powerful story about a teen girl striving for success in a world that too often feels like it wants to break her. Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way....
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Dear Killer

Katherine Ewell · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 359
Format: Print book

Full of "can't look away" moments, Dear Killer is a psychological thriller perfect for fans of gritty realistic fiction such as Dan Wells's I Am Not a Serial Killer and Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why, as well as television's Dexter. Rule One - Nothing is right, nothing is wrong....
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Wrecked

Maria Padian · Algonquin Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Everyone has heard a different version of what happened that night at MacCallum College. Haley was already in bed when her roommate, Jenny, arrived home shell-shocked from the wild Conundrum House party. Richard heard his housemate Jordan brag about the cute freshman he hooked up with....
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