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Lost in Love

Susane Colasanti · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

In this second book of the City Love trilogy by bestselling author Susane Colasanti, three girls share a Manhattan apartment the summer before college begins. Lost in Love captures the essence of summer love, self-discovery, and sisterhood, a perfect fit for fans of Sarah Dessen, Jenny...
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Brothers in Arms

Paul Langan · Scholastic Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Welcome to Bluford High. This widely acclaimed teen series set in an urban high school features engaging, accessible writing and appealing, contemporary storylines.Martin Luna is in deep trouble. Just months ago, a horrible tragedy took his little brother, and now it threatens to take him too....
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Spilling Clarence: A Novel

Anne Ursu · Theia; 1st edition
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

What if you could suddenly remember everything that ever happened in your life? Would it be a blessing -- or a curse? The answer is found in Spilling Clarence, a satisfying, witty, romantic, and tender novel. In the fictional town of Clarence, Minnesota, a breakroom microwave sparks a smoky...
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Teens and Gender Dysphoria

Don Nardo · Referencepoint Press
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

Gender dysphoria negatively affects the lives of many transgender individuals, who can experience serious emotional difficulties when dealing with family, friends, and society as a whole. Teens and Gender Dysphoria explains the nature of the disorder, its causes, what living with it is like,...
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Judy Blume · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 171
Format: Paperback

Margaret shares her secrets and her spirituality in this iconic Judy Blume novel, beloved by millions, that now has a fresh new look.Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She's just moved from New York City to Farbook,...
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Judy Blume · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 153
Format: Paperback

Margaret shares her secrets and her spirituality in this iconic Judy Blume novel, beloved by millions, that now has a fresh new look.Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She's just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey,...
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Instructions for a Secondhand Heart

Tamsyn Murray · Poppy
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A moving novel about grief, guilt, and the unpredictability of love, for fans of Everything, Everything and All the Bright Places. Jonny knows better than anyone that life is full of cruel ironies. He's spent every day in a hospital hooked up to machines to keep his heart ticking. Then...
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Dove Arising

Karen Bao · Viking
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Ender's Game and The Maze Runner will love this smart sci-fi debut and its sequel, Dove Exiled!Phaet Theta has lived her whole life in a colony on the Moon. She's barely spoken since her father died in an accident nine years ago. She cultivates the plants in Greenhouse 22, lets...
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Torrent: A Novel

Lisa T. Bergren · David C. Cook; New edition
Format: Paperback

When Gabi and Lia finally learn to surf the river of time, they realize they must make hard choices about life and love in Torrent, the third and final book in the River of Time series.
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The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Revised and Updated for the 21st Century)

Holly George-Warren · Touchstone; Original edition
Pages: 1136
Format: Paperback

Completely updated with new entries and extensive revisions of the previous 1,800, The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia Of Rock & Roll is the authoritative volume on the world's music makers -- from the one-hit wonders to the megastars. In 1983, Rolling Stone Press introduced its first Rock...
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Sports: The Ultimate Teen Guide

Gail Fay · Scarecrow Press
Format: Hardcover

Whether playing baseball, basketball, field hockey, football, lacrosse, tennis, soccer, softball, volleyball, or wrestling, millions of teens all over the country participate in some sporting activity. Despite widespread enthusiasm for such activities, not all teens know how to make the most...
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Looking for Alaska

John Green · Speak
Pages: 11
Format: Print book

Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave "the Great Perhaps" even more (François Rabelais, poet) . He heads off to the sometimes...
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Scythe

Neal Shusterman · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in this Printz Honor-winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those...
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Running Full Tilt

Michael Currinder · Charlesbridge Teen
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A debut novel that sensitively and memorably depicts a teen runner's relationship with his autistic older brother.Like most siblings, Leo and Caleb have a complicated relationship. But Caleb's violent outbursts literally send Leo running. When the family is forced to relocate due to Caleb's...
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Rebel: A Tibetan Odyssey

Cheryl Aylward Whitesel · HarperCollins; 1st edition
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

In the closed society of turn-of-the-century Tibet, the outside world is a threatening place. But not to Thunder. Ever rebellious, he longs to become a trader and visit faraway places. But when he has forbidden contact with a foreign explorer, Thunder is banished from his village. He is forced...
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