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The Red Fox Clan

JOHN FLANAGAN · Philomel Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Flanagan returns to the world of Ranger's Apprentice, beginning a new story arc starring fan favorites, Will and Maddie (Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger) .Picking up where Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger left off, this next installment...
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Julia Defiant

Catherine Egan · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Fans of The Rose Society, Graceling, and Six of Crows will thrill to the masterful world-building and fiercely flawed heroine in this heart-pounding follow-up to Julia Vanishes, book two in the Witch's Child trilogy. "Adventure, murder, romance, intrigue, and betrayal with a 16-year-old...
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Love, Hate and Other Filters

Samira Ahmed · Soho Teen
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In this unforgettable debut, a Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape. American-born seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. There's the proper one her parents expect for their good Indian...
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Rebel with a Cupcake

Anna Mainwaring · Kids Can Press
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

Jesobel Jones is bold and brash, the daughter of a hand model and a washed-up rock star. Jess sees no need to apologize for her rambling house, her imperfect family, her single status ... or her weight. Jess is who she is. She makes her own cupcakes and she eats them, too. No regrets.That...
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The Cracks in the Kingdom: Book 2 of The Colors of Madeleine

Jaclyn Moriarty · Scholastic, Incorporated
Pages: 468
Format: Hardcover

The second in Jaclyn Moriarty's brilliant, acclaimed fantasy trilogy, THE COLORS OF MADELEINE!Princess Ko's been bluffing about the mysterious absence of her father, desperately trying to keep the government running on her own. But if she can't get him back in a matter of weeks,...
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To the Moon!: The True Story of the American Heroes on the Apollo 8 Spaceship

Jeffrey Kluger · Philomel Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The exciting and inspiring true story of Apollo 8, the first crewed spaceship to break free of the Earth's orbit and reach the moon, by the best-selling author of Apollo 13.What's more exciting that spaceships and astronauts? How about a spaceship carrying the first astronauts ever...
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Because I Was a Girl: True Stories for Girls of All Ages

MELISSA DE LA CRUZ · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Because I Was a Girl is an inspiring collection of true stories by women and girls about the obstacles, challenges, and opportunities they've faced ... because of their gender. Edited by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz, the book is the perfect gift for girls of all ages.The...
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The Price Guide to the Occult

LESLYE WALTON · Candlewick
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender comes a haunting maelstrom of magic and murder in the lush, moody Pacific Northwest.When Rona Blackburn landed on Anathema Island more than a century ago, her otherworldly skills might have benefited friendlier neighbors....
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Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index

JULIE ISRAEL · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Funny, warm, and moving, Juniper Lemon's Happiness Index is a contemporary YA novel about loss, how deeply we can know others, and making our own happiness; perfect for fans of Sara Zarr and Jandy Nelson's The Sky Is Everywhere.Sixty-five days after the death of her older sister, sixteen-year-old...
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Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of Nasa

SUE BRADFORD EDWARDS · ESSENTIAL LIBRARY
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

Hidden Human Computersdiscusses how in the 1950s, black women made critical contributions to NASA by performing calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards....
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The Raging Ones

Krista Ritchie · Wednesday Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

An edge of your seat sci-fi romance with twists and turns that you will never see coming!In a freezing world, where everyone knows the day they will die, three teens break all odds. Franny Bluecastle, a tough city teen, dreams of dying in opulence, to see wealth she's never known. Like...
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Love & Gelato

Jenna Evans Welch · Simon Pulse, 2016.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping debut novel filled with romance, mystery, and adventure.Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn't in the mood for Italy's famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She's only there because it was her mother's...
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Faking Normal

Courtney C. Stevens · Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pages: 321
Format: Print book

An edgy, realistic debut novel praised by the New York Times bestselling author of Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys, as "a beautiful reminder that amid our broken pieces we can truly find ourselves."Alexi Littrell hasn't told anyone what happened to her over the summer by her backyard...
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The Pearl Thief

Elizabeth Wein · Bolinda Audio
Format: Audio CD

Sixteen-year-old Julie Beaufort-Stuart is returning to her family's ancestral home in Perthshire for one last summer. It is not an idyllic return to childhood. Her grandfather's death has forced the sale of the house and estate and this will be a summer of goodbyes. Not least to the McEwen...
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Master Math for the SAT

Peterson's · Arco; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

Master Math for the SAT is designed as a self-teaching text to prepare for the mathematics sections of the SAT. At the beginning of each chapter, there is a ten-question diagnostic test to guide the student’s preparation throughout the book. At the end of each chapter is a retest...
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