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The 2013 Oklahoma City Tornadoes

Stephanie Watson · Abdo Publishing Company
Format: Book

Essential Events offers a behind-the-scenes look at crucial moments of world history. Read ab out revolutions, natural disasters, discoveries, and conflicts that had lasting effects. Study their causes and historical contexts. Through eyewitness accounts, learn what happened in critical...
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Blood, Bullets, and Bones: The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA

Bridget Heos · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

Blood, Bullets, and Bones provides young readers with a fresh and fascinating look at the ever-evolving science of forensics.Since the introduction of DNA testing, forensic science has been in the forefront of the public's imagination, thanks especially to popular television shows like...
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The Turncoat's Gambit

Andrea R Cremer · Philomel Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

What if America had lost the Revolutionary War? And now lived in constant fear and oppression? From the bestselling author of Nightshade, this is the action-packed final chapter of The Inventor's Secret trilogyCharlotte has spent her whole life fighting the British Empire, following in the footsteps...
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The Amateurs Book 1 The Amateurs

Sara Shepard · Freeform Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

As soon as Seneca Frazier sees the post on the Case Not Closed website about Helena Kelly, she's hooked. Helena's high-profile disappearance five years earlier is the one that originally got Seneca addicted to true crime. It's the reason she's a member of the site in the first place. So when...
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UnDivided

Neal Shusterman · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Teens control the fate of America in the fourth and final book in the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology by Neal Shusterman that Horn Book Magazine calls "ambitious, insightful, and devastating - a fitting conclusion to a provocative series."Proactive Citizenry, the company...
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Sometimes It Lasts

Abbi Glines · Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

Cage York has to choose between a love of the game and a love of the girl in this sultry Sea Breeze novel from New York Times bestselling author Abbi Glines.Cage York finally has everything he ever wanted. And Eva is at the very top of that list - the perfect girl with a temper as hot as her fabulously...
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The Haters

Jesse Andrews · Amulet Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From Jesse Andrews, author of the New York Times bestselling Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and screenwriter of the Sundance award-winning motion picture of the same name, comes a groundbreaking young adult novel about music, love, friendship, and freedom as three young musicians follow...
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Sway

Kat Spears · Griffin
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A YALSA 2015 Best Fiction for Young Adults PickIn Kat Spears's hilarious and often poignant debut, high school senior Jesse Alderman, or "Sway," as he's known, could sell hell to a bishop. He also specializes in getting things people want---term papers, a date with the prom...
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Be the One: Six True Stories of Teens Overcoming Hardship with Hope

BYRON PITTS · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Emmy Award-winning ABC News chief national correspondent and Nightline coanchor, Byron Pitts shares the heartbreaking and inspiring stories of six young people who overcame impossible circumstances with extraordinary perseverance.Abuse. Bullying. War. Drug Addiction. Mental Illness. Violence....
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The Fire Wish

Amber Lough · Random House
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover

A jinni. A princess. And the wish that changes everything. . . . Beautifully written and accessible fantasy for fans of Tamora Pierce, Rachel Hartman, and Laini Taylor. In this romantic and evocative fantasy, Najwa is a jinni, training to be a spy in the war against the humans. Zayele...
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The Season of You & Me

Robin Constantine · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

From Robin Constantine, author of The Promise of Amazing and The Secrets of Attraction, comes a funny and heartfelt summer romance set in New Jersey. Perfect for fans of Sarah Mlynowski, Jenny Han, and Morgan Matson.Cassidy Emmerich is reeling from a sudden, humiliating breakup. The last...
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Looking for Jack Kerouac

Barbara Shoup · Lacewing Books
Format: Book

It wasnt Duke Walczaks fault that I took off for Florida, like Kathy thought. The truth is, we started getting sideways with each other on our class trip to New York and Washington D.C. nearly a year earlier—which, looking back, is ironic since she was the one dead set on going.From the author...
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The Murderer's Ape

Jakob Wegelius · Delacorte Press
Pages: 588
Format: Print book

A captivating story about dark truths and heinous crimes as well as unexpected friendships, with detailed black-and-white illustrations throughout. Perfect for fans of mystery and detective stories. Sally Jones is not only a loyal friend, she's an extraordinary individual. In overalls or in a maharaja's...
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Camp Utopia: & The Forgiveness Diet

Jenny Ruden · Koehler Books
Format: Print book

Sixteen-year-old Baltimore teen Bethany Stern knows the only way out of spending her summer at Camp Utopia, a fat camp in Northern California, is weight-loss. Desperate, she tries The Forgiveness Diet, the latest fad whose infomercial promises that all she has to do is forgive her deadbeat...
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They Had a Dream: The Struggles of Four of the Most Influential Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to ... X

Jules Archer · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The majority of the civil rights movement in the United States occurred in three stages. The first stage began with the slaves in America fighting for their freedom. Frederick Douglass was a key player from the very beginning. Born a slave, Douglass escaped and went on to become one of the most...
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