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Sexting

Roman Espejo · Greenhaven Press
Format: Hardcover

"This title in the At Issue Series debates the issue of sexting, touching on such topics as the rise of sexting among teens and adults, if it is hurtful to teens, and whether or not sexting is a criminal offense."--Provided by publisher.
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Storm

Amanda Sun · Harlequin Teen
Format: Print book

After almost a year in Japan, Katie Greene has finally unearthed the terrible secret behind her boyfriend Tomohiro's deadly ability to bring drawings to life - not only is he descended from Kami, the ancient Japanese gods, but he is the heir to a tragedy that occurred long ago, a tragedy...
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The Dark Days Pact

Alison Goodman · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 490
Format: Hardcover

Sequel to New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman's acclaimed The Dark Days Club - a smashing combination of Buffy and Jane Austen! Summer, 1812. After the scandalous events at her presentation ball in London, Lady Helen has taken refuge at the fashionable seaside resort of Brighton,...
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Nest

Esther Ehrlich · Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Book

For fans of Jennifer Holm Penny from Heaven, Turtle in Paradise, a heartfelt and unforgettable middle-grade novel about an irresistible girl and her family, tragic change, and the healing power of love and friendship. In 1972 home is a cozy nest on Cape Cod for eleven-year-old Naomi Chirp...
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Exile for Dreamers: A Stranje House Novel

Kathleen Baldwin · Tor Teen
Pages: 379
Format: Print book

Exile for Dreamers is the second captivating installment in the Stranje House series for young adults by award-winning author Kathleen Baldwin. #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot calls this romantic Regency adventure "completely original and totally engrossing."Tess...
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Madame Grand Doigt

Yvette Landry · U Louisiana Lafayette Pr
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

Grandmother Viola always told Marie stories. Her favorite was of a strange old woman named Madame Grand Doigt (Ma-dahm Grahn Dwah) . Legend is, she drifted in the attics of families with children. At night, her long, bony fingers would slink down through the rafters and snatch up any kid who was not doing...
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Midnight Jewel

Richelle Mead · Razorbill
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The Selection meets Reign in this dazzling trilogy of interwoven novels about three girls on a quest for freedom and true love from #1 internationally bestselling author Richelle Mead.Mira is not like the other Glittering Court girls. She is a war refugee, cast out of her home country and thrust...
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Edge of ready

L B Tillit · Saddleback Educational
Pages: 192
Format: Book

Often helping her mother pay the bills and taking care of her younger brother, Dani Garcia is no stranger to adversity, but after she is raped she is forced to face her most challenging personal struggle yet.
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Firstborn: A Novel

Lorie Ann Grover · Zonderkidz
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover

Where does a firstborn girl fit in a world dominated by men? When Tiadone was born, her parents had two choices: leave their daughter outside the community to die in the wilds, or raise her as male and force her to suppress all feminine traits. Now, as the first female living as male in her village,...
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Rookie Yearbook Two

Tavi Gevinson · Razorbill
Format: Print book

Rookiemag.com is a website created by and for young women to make the best of the beauty, pain and awkwardness of being a teenager. When it becomes tough to appreciate such things, we have good plain fun and visual pleasure. When you're sick of having to be happy all the time, we have...
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Alien: Echo: An Original Young Adult Novel of the Alien Universe

Mira Grant · Imprint
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An original young adult novel of the Alien universeOlivia and her twin sister Viola have been dragged around the universe for as long as they can remember. Their parents, both xenobiologists, are always in high demand for their research into obscure alien biology.Just settled on a new colony...
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What to Expect the First Year

Heidi Murkoff · Workman Publishing Company; Third Edition edition
Format: Book

Some things about babies, happily, will never change. They still arrive warm, cuddly, soft, and smelling impossibly sweet. But how moms and dads care for their brand-new bundles of baby joy has changed -- and now, so has the new-baby bible. Announcing the completely revised third edition...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis

Gary Jeffrey · Crabtree Publishing Company
Pages: 48
Format: Library Binding

From School Library Journal Gr 5-8 - Each action-packed volume contains three short, graphic-novel-style tales, all colorfully rendered, that portray real events, such as Major Willard Bennett's courageous medevac flight in Vietnam, President Kennedy's meetings...
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Reporting Under Fire: 16 Daring Women War Correspondents and Photojournalists

Kerrie Logan Hollihan · Independent Pub Group
Pages: 249
Format: Print book

An NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2015 Martha Gellhorn jumped at the chance to fly from Hong Kong to Lashio to report firsthand for Collier's Weekly on the conflict between China and Japan. When she boarded the "small tatty plane" she was handed "a...
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How Harmful Are Performance-Enhancing Drugs?

John Allen · ReferencePoint Press
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

Despite their health dangers, performance-enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids are in common use not only by professional athletes but by amateurs and teenagers. Issues are discussed clearly and objectively, with added insight from experts and others, in these chapters: What Are the Facts?...
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