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Kingdom Keepers VII: The Insider

Ridley Pearson · Disney Pr
Pages: 609
Format: Print book

The Kingdom Keepers' senior year in high school is almost over. For more than three years, things have been quiet. Their battles are long behind them, they agree, the threat to the Disney realm silenced albeit at great cost. But inside the catacombs of the Aztec temple where Finn Whitman...
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Somebody on This Bus Is Going to Be Famous

J.B. Cheaney · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

Who's it going to be?Spencer's the smart kid. Shelly's the diva. Miranda's the scaredy-cat. Matthew's just average (so far) . In fact, there's nothing about any of the nine middle-schoolers on Mrs. B's bus route that screams "fame." But before the end of the year,...
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I'm Just Me.

M. G. Higgins · Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc.
Format: Book

Nasreen and Mia are two very different girls. But they stand out at Arondale High. And kids make assumptions about the only Muslim and the new black girl--the only African American--in school. Who let you into the suburbs Samantha asks. Everyone gawks. Nasreen has kept her head down for years....
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The Prince of Venice Beach

Blake Nelson · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Robert "'Cali" Callahan is a teen runaway, living on the streets of Venice Beach, California. He's got a pretty sweet life: a treehouse to sleep in, a gang of surf bros, a regular basketball game...even a girl who's maybe-sorta interested in him.What he doesn't...
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All Star

Jesse Lonergan · NBM Publishing
Pages: 179
Format: Paperback

Winner of: 2015 ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens Nominee: 2015 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, Firecracker Awards, Graphic Novel As the summer of 1998 nears, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa are racing each other to break...
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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

ELLEN OH · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings: these are the stuff of fairy tale, myth, and folklore that have drawn us in for centuries. Fifteen bestselling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia...
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Rebel Belle

Rachel Hawkins · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 345
Format: Hardcover

Harper Price, peerless Southern belle, was born ready for a Homecoming tiara. But after a strange run-in at the dance imbues her with incredible abilities, Harper's destiny takes a turn for the seriously weird. She becomes a Paladin, one of an ancient line of guardians with agility,...
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I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Hidden Enemy

Pittacus Lore · HarperCollins
Format: Book

The perfect companion book to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series! I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Hidden Enemy is a collection of three action-packed novellas by bestselling author Pittacus Lore! Originally published as the e-novellas Five's Legacy, Return to Paradise,...
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The Tightrope Walkers

David Almond · Candlewick Press, 2015. ©2014
Pages: 326
Format: Print book

International award winner David Almond draws on memories of his early years in Tyneside, England, for a moving coming-of-age novel, masterfully told.A gentle visionary coming of age in the shadow of the shipyards of northern England, Dominic Hall is torn between extremes. On the one hand,...
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Rush Revere and the First Patriots: Time-Travel Adventures With Exceptional Americans

Rush Limbaugh · Threshold Editions; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

America's #1 radio talk-show host and multi-million-copy #1 New York Times bestselling author presents the second book in a series for young readers with a history teacher who travels back in time to have adventures with exceptional Americans.Rush Revere rides again! Saddle up with...
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Being Me with OCD: How I Learned to Obsess Less and Live My Life

Alison Dotson · Free Spirit Publishing
Format: Print book

Part memoir, part self-help for teens, Being Me with OCD tells the story of how obsessive-compulsive disorder OCD dragged the author to rock bottom—and how she found hope, got help, and eventually climbed back to a fuller, happier life. Using anecdotes, self-reflection, guest essays,...
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Oh Yeah, Audrey!

Tucker Shaw · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

It’s 5:00 a.m. on Fifth Avenue, and 16-year-old Gemma Beasley is standing in front of Tiffany & Co. wearing the perfect black dress with her coffee in hand—just like Holly Golightly. As the cofounder of a successful Tumblr blog—Oh Yeah Audrey!—devoted to all things...
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Vango: Between Sky and Earth

Timothee de Fombelle · Candlewick Press
Pages: 421
Format: Hardcover

A breathless adventure from international award winner Timothée de Fombelle charts a desperate search for identity across the vast expanses of Europe.In a world between wars, a young man on the cusp of taking priestly vows is suddenly made a fugitive. Fleeing the accusations of police...
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Vanishing throne

Elizabeth May · Chronicle Books
Pages: 480

When we last saw her, Aileana Kameron, the Falconer, disappeared through the fae portal that she was trying to close forever. When she escapes and reenters the human world, she finds her beloved city--indeed, the entire world--has been destroyed, and the fae world itself is slowly dying....
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The Golden Yarn

Cornelia Funke · Breathing Books, 2015.
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Jacob Reckless continues to travel the portal in his father's abandoned study. His name has continued to be famous on the other side of the mirror, as a finder of enchanted items and buried secrets. His family and friends, from his brother, Will to the shape-shifting vixen, Fox, are on a collision...
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