Back Teens | January Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Teens  
Quilt of States: Piecing Together America

Adrienne Yorinks · National Geographic Children's Books
Pages: 128
Format: Library Binding

There is no book quite like Quilt of States—the unique combination of handmade quilts with the voice of each state heard through the writing of one of the state's librarians to illustrate the coming together of the United States of America.Using one of the only two original American...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery

Mary Amato · Carolrhoda Lab
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

When Lacy wakes up dead in Westminster Cemetery, final resting place of Edgar Allan Poe, she's confused. It's the job of Sam, a young soldier who died in 1865, to teach her the rules of the afterlife and to warn her about Suppression?a punishment worse than death.Lacy desperately...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Caraval

Stephanie Garber · Flatiron Books
Pages: 407
Format: Hardcover

The Instant New York Times bestseller from Stephanie Garber! #1 IndieNext Pick! Entertainment Weekly Must List!Whatever you've heard about Caraval, it doesn't compare to the reality. It's more than just a game or a performance. It's the closest you'll ever find to magic in this world...Scarlett...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Cloud and Wallfish

Anne Nesbet · Candlewick Press
Pages: 385
Format: Print book

Slip behind the Iron Curtain into a world of smoke, secrets, and lies in this stunning novel where someone is always listening and nothing is as it seems.Noah Keller has a pretty normal life, until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Tempests and Slaughter

Tamora Pierce · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 480
Format: Library Binding

The highly anticipated NEW Tortall Legend from TAMORA PIERCE, the #1 New York Times bestselling author who is legend herself, is a must-read for any fantasy lover!Arram. Varice. Ozorne. In the first book in the Numair Chronicles, three student mages are bound by fate . . . fated for danger.Act...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Beastly Brains: Exploring How Animals Think, Talk, and Feel

Nancy F Castaldo · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover

In Beastly Brains, Castaldo delves into the minds of animals and explores animal empathy, communication, tool use, and social societies through interviews and historical anecdotes. Researchers from Charles Darwin to Jane Goodall have spent years analyzing the minds of animals, and today's...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Batman: Nightwalker

Marie Lu · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The new, eagerly anticipated BATMAN YA novel is an action-packed thrill ride that could only be penned by #1 New York Times bestselling author MARIE LU.Before he was Batman, he was Bruce Wayne. A reckless boy willing to break the rules for a girl who may be his worst enemy.The Nightwalkers...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Blood Water Paint

Joy McCullough · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A stunning debut novel based on the true story of the iconic painter, Artemisia Gentileschi.Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint.She chose paint.By the time...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Google It: A History of Google

Anna Crowley Redding · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Think. Invent. Organize. Share. Don't be evil. And change the world.Larry Page and Sergey Brin started out as two Stanford college students with a wild idea: They were going to organize the world's information. From that one deceptively simple goal, they created one of the most influential...
Read More check catalog
 
 
You Don't Know Me but I Know You

REBECCA BARROW · HarperTeen
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Rebecca Barrow's bright, honest debut novel about chance, choice, and unconditional love is a heartfelt testament to creating the future you truly want, one puzzle piece at a time.There's a box in the back of Audrey's closet that she rarely thinks about.Inside is a letter, seventeen years...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Sun Is Also a Star

Nicola Yoon · Delacorte Press
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist from the bestselling author of Everything, Everything (streaming now!) will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with each other!Natasha: I'm a girl who believes in science and facts....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Children of Blood and Bone: The OrÏsha Legacy

Tomi Adeyemi · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Sabaa Tahir.They killed my mother.They took our magic.They tried to bury us. Now we rise.Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Venturess

Betsy Cornwell · Clarion Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The young inventor Nicolette Lampton is living her own fairy-tale happy ending. She's free of her horrible stepfamily, running a successful business, and is uninterested in marrying the handsome prince, Fin. Instead, she, Fin, and their friend Caro venture to the lush land of Faerie, where...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Between the Blade and the Heart

AMANDA HOCKING · Wednesday Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

When the fate of the world is at stakeLoyalties will be testedGame of Thrones meets Blade Runner in this commanding new YA fantasy inspired by Norse Mythology from New York Times bestselling author Amanda Hocking.As one of Odin's Valkyries, Malin's greatest responsibility is to slay immortals...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Novice: Summoner: Book One

Taran Matharu · Square Fish
Format: Print book

Fletcher was nothing more than a humble blacksmiths apprentice, when a chance encounter leads to the discovery that he has the ability to summon demons from another world. Chased from his village for a crime he did not commit, he must travel with his demon to the Vocans Academy, where the gifted...
Read More check catalog