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Kenzie's Rules for Life: How to Be Happy, Healthy, and Dance to Your Own Beat

MACKENZIE ZIEGLER · Gallery Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

An inspirational, upbeat collection of relatable lessons from the teen sensation, Mackenzie Ziegler - an award-winning dancer, singer/songwriter, and actress.Growing up is hard, but growing up in the spotlight is even harder. However, Mackenzie Ziegler is taking it all in stride, thanks...
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The Smoke Thieves

SALLY GREEN · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

Unforgiveable betrayals, devious motives, and forbidden love collide in the first installment of internationally bestselling author Sally Green's epic new fantasy series, perfect for Game of Thrones fans. In a land tinged with magic and a bustling trade in an illicit supernatural...
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Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles

Jessica Burkhart · Simon Pulse
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Your favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson, and more recount their own experiences with mental illness in this raw, real, and powerful collection of essays that explores everything from ADD to PTSD.Have you ever felt like you just couldn't get out of bed? Not the occasional...
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Royals

Rachel Hawkins · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins serves up a deliciously royal romance, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Huntley Fitzpatrick. Meet Daisy Winters. She's an offbeat sixteen-year-old Floridian with mermaid-red hair; a part time job at a bootleg Walmart, and a perfect older...
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The Outcast: Prequel to the Summoner Trilogy

Taran Matharu · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling prequel to the New York Times-bestselling Summoner series!When stable boy Arcturus accidentally summons a demon and becomes Hominum's first common summoner, he becomes the key to a secret that the powerful overlords would do anything to keep hidden. Whisked away to Vocans...
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The Way You Make Me Feel

MAURENE GOO · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the author of I Believe in a Thing Called Love, a laugh-out-loud story of love, new friendships, and one unique food truck.Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside...
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Ascent

ROLAND SMITH · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Peak Marcello goes to Mayanmar to climb one of the most isolated mountains in the world in this thrilling new novel from bestselling author Roland Smith.After conquering the mountains in Afghanistan, Peak Marcello goes to Myanmar, a country that has been in the grips of a brutal military...
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Whisper

Lynette Noni Strudwick · Kids Can Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

For two and a half years, Subject 684 "Jane Doe" has been locked underground in a secret government facility, enduring tests and torture. In that time, she hasn't uttered a single word. Not even her real name. Jane chooses to remain silent rather than risk losing control over...
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Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All: by M. T. Anderson, Candace Fleming, Stephanie Hemphill, Lisa Ann Sandell, Jennifer Donnelly, Linda Sue Park, Deborah Hopkinson

M T Anderson · Schwartz & Wade
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The tragic lives of Henry VIII and his six wives are reimagined by seven acclaimed and bestselling authors in this riveting novel, perfect for fans of Wolf Hall and Netflix's The Crown. He was King Henry VIII, a charismatic and extravagant ruler obsessed with both his power as king...
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More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War

KENNETH C DAVIS · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes a fascinating account of the Spanish influenza pandemic 100 years after it first swept the world in 1918."Davis deftly juggles compelling storytelling, gruesome details, and historical context. More Deadly Than War reads like a terrifying...
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War Storm

VICTORIA AVEYARD · HarperTeen
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen series comes to a stunning conclusion in which the final battle lines are drawn and the stakes have never been higher.VICTORY COMES AT A PRICE.Mare Barrow learned this all too well when Cal's betrayal nearly destroyed her. Now determined to protect...
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Puddin'

JULIE MURPHY · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The irresistible companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller Dumplin', soon to be a major motion picture starring Danielle Macdonald and Jennifer Aniston!Millie Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every year since she was a little girl. Not this year. This year she has new plans to chase...
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Furyborn

Claire Legrand · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it.When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied...
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Legendary: A Caraval Novel

STEPHANIE GARBER · Flatiron Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Stephanie Garber's limitless imagination takes flight once more in the colorful, mesmerizing, and immersive sequel to the bestselling breakout debut Caraval, following Scarlett's younger sister, Tella, on a journey to the empire's capital to fulfill a mysterious bargain.Praise...
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Listen to Your Heart

Kasie West · Point
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Talking to other people isn't Kate Bailey's favorite activity. She'd much rather be out on the lake, soaking up the solitude and sunshine. So when her best friend, Alana, convinces Kate to join their high school's podcast, Kate is not expecting to be chosen as the host....
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Star Wars Most Wanted

RAE CARSON · Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Set before the events of Solo: A Star Wars Story! Han and Qi'ra don't have a lot in common other than not having a lot. They're street kids on the industrial planet Corellia, doing whatever it takes to get by, dreaming of something more. They each jump at a chance to prove themselves...
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LIFEL1K3

Jay Kristoff · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Illuminae Files comes the first book in a new series that's part Romeo and Juliet, part Terminator, and all adrenaline.On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. Seventeen-year-old...
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Aftermath

Kelley Armstrong · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Secrets don't remain hidden for long in this thrilling read from a #1 New York Times bestselling author that's perfect for fans of Kara Thomas's The Darkest Corners and Lynn Weingarten's Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls.Three years after losing her brother Luka in a school shooting, Skye...
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Lies You Never Told Me

JENNIFER DONALDSON · Razorbill
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"A compulsive page-turner with a shocking twist--get ready to stay up all night!" --Sara Shepard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little LiarsGabe and Elyse have never met. But they both have something to hide.Quiet, shy Elyse can't believe it when she's...
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The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

David Arnold · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

"An epic wonder"* from the bestselling author of Mosquitoland This is Noah Oakman → sixteen, Bowie believer, concise historian, disillusioned swimmer, son, brother, friend. Then Noah → gets hypnotized. Now Noah → sees changes: his mother has a scar on her face...
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The Universe Is Expanding and So Am I

Carolyn Mackler · Bloomsbury YA
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From Printz Honoree Carolyn Mackler comes a story of what happens when the "happy ending" turns out to be less than perfect.It's been five months since sixteen-year-old Virginia Shreves thought her life was finally back on course: she has come to terms with who she is both...
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