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The Dark Days Pact

Alison Goodman · Viking Children'S Books
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

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...
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These Ruthless Deeds

Tarun Shanker · Swoon Reads
Pages: 320
Format: Print book


England, 1883. Still recovering from the loss of her beloved sister, Evelyn is determined to use her powers to save other gifted people from those who would harm them. But when her rescue of a young telekinetic girl goes terribly wrong, Evelyn finds herself indebted to a secret society...
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The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

Chelsea Sedoti · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Hawthorn wasn't trying to insert herself into a missing person's investigation. Or maybe she was. But that's only because Lizzie Lovett's disappearance is the one fascinating mystery their sleepy town has ever had. Bad things don't happen to popular girls like Lizzie Lovett, and Hawthorn...

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Hunted

Meagan Spooner · Harper Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner spins a thoroughly thrilling Beautyand the Beast story for the modern age, expertly woven with spellbinding romance, intrigue, and suspense that readers won t soon be able to forget. Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones and in her blood....
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Let the Wind Rise

Shannon Messenger · Simon Pulse
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The breathtaking action and whirlwind adventure build to a climax in this thrilling conclusion to the "remarkably unpredictable" (BCCB) Sky Fall trilogy from the bestselling author of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series.

Vane Weston is ready for battle. Against...
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Guardian of Secrets (Library Jumpers Series #2)

Brenda Drake · Entangled Teen
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The follow up to the New York Times bestselling novel, THIEF OF LIES!Being a Sentinel isn't all fairytales and secret gardens.Sure, jumping through books into the world's most beautiful libraries to protect humans from mystical creatures is awesome. No one knows that better than...
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Zenn Diagram

Wendy Brant · KCP Loft
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

Eva Walker is a seventeen-year-old math genius. And if that doesn't do wonders for her popularity, there s another thing that makes it even worse: when she touches another person or anything that belongs to them from clothes to textbooks to cell phones she sees a vision of their emotions....
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Perfect

Cecelia Ahern · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this thrilling sequel to Flawed, Celestine must make a choice: save just herself or risk her own life to save all Flawed people.

Celestine North lives in a society that demands perfection. After she was branded Flawed by a morality court, Celestine's life has completely...

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Strange the Dreamer

Laini Taylor · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 536
Format: Hardcover

A new epic fantasy by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.
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Geekerella

Ashley Poston · Quirk Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Cinderella goes to the con in this fandom-fueled twist on the classic fairy tale.

Geek girl Elle Wittimer lives and breathes Starfield, the classic sci-fi series she grew up watching with her late father. So when she sees a cosplay contest for a new Starfield...
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Royce Rolls

Margaret Stohl · Freeform
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Sixteen-year-old Bentley Royce seems to have it all: an actual Bentley, tuition to a fancy private school, lavish vacations, and everything else that comes along with being an LA starlet. But after five seasons on her family's reality show, Rolling with the Royces, and a lifetime of dealing...
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Defy the Stars

Claudia Gray · Little
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

She's a soldier.

Noemi Vidal is seventeen years old and sworn to protect her planet, Genesis. She's willing to risk anything--including her own life. To their enemies on Earth, she's a rebel.

He's a machine.

Abandoned in space for years, utterly alone,...
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Sophie Someone

Hayley Long · Candlewick
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

What if you found out your life has been threaded with secrets - ones that rocked you to your core? An affecting page-turner written in a brave, memorable language all its own.

Some words are hard to get out of your mouth. Because they spell out secrets that are too huge...
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But Then I Came Back

Estelle Laure · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Gayle Forman meets Francesca Lia Block in this dazzling story about two coma girls and the boy who connects their lives. From the author of This Raging Light, a debut that New York Times bestselling author Morgan Matson calls "remarkable."

"Something...
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Letters to the Lost

Brigid Kemmerer · Bloomsbury
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

Juliet Young always writes letters to her mother, a world-traveling photojournalist. Even after her mother's death, she leaves letters at her grave. It's the only way Juliet can cope.

Declan Murphy isn't the sort of guy you want to cross. In the midst of his court-ordered community...

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The Last Thing You Said

Sara Biren · Amulet Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Last summer, Lucy's and Ben's lives changed in an instant. One moment, they were shyly flirting on a lake raft, finally about to admit their feelings to each other after years of yearning. In the next, Trixie - Lucy's best friend and Ben's sister - was gone, her heart giving out during...
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Definitions of Indefinable Things

Whitney Taylor · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Reggie isn't really a romantic: she's been hurt too often, and doesn't let people in as a rule. Plus, when you're dealing with the Three Stages of Depression, it's hard to feel warm and fuzzy. When Reggie meets Snake, though, he doesn't give her much of a choice. Snake has a neck tattoo,...
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Overturned

L R Giles · Scholastic Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Nikki Tate is infamous, even by Las Vegas standards. Her dad is sitting on death row, convicted of killing his best friend in a gambling dispute turned ugly. And for five years, he's maintained his innocence. But Nikki wants no part of that. She's been working on Operation Escape Vegas:...
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Shadowcaster

Cinda Williams Chima · HarperTeen
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima, this is a thrilling story of the unfathomable costs of war, the allure of dark magic, and two principled and conflicted characters drawn together despite everything they stand to lose.

Alyssa ana'Raisa, the reluctant...

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Alex and Eliza: A Love Story

Melissa de la Cruz · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Witches of East End and The Descendants comes the love story of young Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler.

1777. Albany, New York.

As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance,...
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Gem & Dixie

Sara Zarr · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"A story that broke my heart and put it back together again. You won't want to let Gem and Dixie go." - Sarah Dessen, New York Times bestselling author of Saint Anything

From renowned author and National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr comes a deep, nuanced, and gorgeously...

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Sage Alexander and the Hall of Nightmares

STEVE COPLING · Brown Books Publishing Group
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The world is darker than it seems. Demons, vicious half-humans and evil creatures of myth and legend prowl the earth, unseen to human eyes but not to the eyes of 14-year-old Sage Alexander. Descended from humans and angels, Sage has the power to see and fight all these creatures, and in fact...
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The Great American Foot Race: Ballyhoo for the Bunion Derby!

Andrew Speno · Calkins Creek Books
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

This accessible and thoroughly researched nonfiction debut introduces young readers to a fascinating, little-known event - the Transcontinental Foot Race, which came to be known as the Bunion Derby. It is set in 1928, the height of the Roaring Twenties - a time of optimism, a time of excess,...
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Traitor to the Throne

Alwyn Hamilton · Viking Children'S Books
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

The sizzling, un-put-downable sequel to the bestselling Rebel of the Sands!

Mere months ago, gunslinger Amani al'Hiza fled her dead-end hometown on the back of a mythical horse with the mysterious foreigner Jin, seeking only her own freedom. Now she's fighting to liberate...
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