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The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future

Veronica Roth · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling Divergent and Carve the Mark author Veronica Roth delivers a stunning collection of novella-length stories set in the future, illustrated with startling black-and-white artwork.

No world is like the other. Within this masterful collection, each setting is more strange...

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Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

Laura Ruby · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award 2019 Finalist!

From the author of Printz Medal winner Bone Gap comes the unforgettable story of two young women - one living, one dead - dealing with loss, desire, and the fragility of the American dream during WWII.

When Frankie's mother died and her father...

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The Burning Shadow

Jennifer L. Armentrout · Tor Teen
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout returns to the world of the Lux with The Burning Shadow, the steamy, shocking second installment of the Origin series that will leave readers reeling.

When Evelyn Dasher crossed...

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The Grace Year

Kim Liggett · Wednesday Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The Instant New York Times Bestseller!

A speculative thriller in the vein of The Handmaid's Tale and The Power. Optioned by Universal and Elizabeth Banks to be a major motion picture!

"A visceral, darkly haunting fever dream of a novel and an absolute...

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In the Hall with the Knife: A Clue Mystery, Book One

Diana Peterfreund · Amulet Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A murderer could be around every corner in this thrilling YA trilogy based on the board game CLUE!

When a storm strikes at Blackbrook Academy, an elite prep school nestled in the woods of Maine, a motley crew of students - including Beth "Peacock" Picach, Orchid McKee,...
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Into the Crooked Place (Into the Crooked Place Series #1)

Alexandra Christo
Format: Book

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Angel Mage

Garth Nix · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

A new fantasy masterpiece from Garth Nix, bestselling author of the Old Kingdom series.

More than a century has passed since Liliath crept into the empty sarcophagus of Saint Marguerite, fleeing the Fall of Ystara. But she emerges from her magical sleep still beautiful, looking...

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Last Pick: Born to Run

Jason Walz · First Second
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In Last Pick: Born to Run, the second volume of his graphic novel series, Jason Walz pairs vivid world-building and fast-paced adventure in a beautiful story of bravery, sacrifice, and sibling devotion.Four years ago, aliens kidnapped most of mankind, leaving behind those they deemed unworthy...
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Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir

Nikki Grimes · Wordsong
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"This powerful story, told with the music of poetry and the blade of truth, will help your heart grow."--Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and Shout

"[A] testimony and a triumph."--Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down

In her own voice,...
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A Kingdom for a Stage

Heidi Heilig · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Caught in a war between the rebels and the invading colonizers, Jetta must make an impossible choice - save her people or protect her sanity.The second book in Heidi Heilig's acclaimed Shadow Players trilogy blends traditional storytelling with ephemera to weave an enthralling fantasy...
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The Beautiful

Renée Ahdieh · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Renée Ahdieh returns with a sumptuous, sultry and romantic new series set in 19th century New Orleans where vampires hide in plain sight.

In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans...
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Our Year in Love and Parties

Karen Hattrup
Format: Book

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Fireborne

Rosaria Munda · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

"Fireborne is everything I want in fantasy."--Rachel Hartman, New York Times bestselling author of Seraphina

Game of Thrones meets Red Rising in a debut young adult fantasy that's full of rivalry, romance . . . and dragons.

Annie and Lee were...
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Find Me

Tahereh Mafi · HarperCollins
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Calling all fans of Tahereh Mafi's New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series! This gorgeous paperback bind-up includes Shadow Me and Reveal Me, the third and fourth novellas in the series, both in print for the first time ever.

In Shadow Me, Juliette is still reeling from Warner's...

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WAR GIRLS

Tochi Onyebuchi · Razorbill
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Two sisters are torn apart by war and must fight their way back to each other in a futuristic, Black Panther-inspired Nigeria.The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky. In a war-torn...
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The Never Tilting World

Rin Chupeco · HarperTeen
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

A world split between day and night. Two sisters who must unite it. The author of The Bone Witch kicks off an epic YA fantasy duology perfect for fans of Furyborn.Generations of twin goddesses have long ruled Aeon - until one sister's betrayal split their world in two. A Great Abyss...
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Follow Your Stuff: Who Makes It, Where Does It Come From, How Does It Get to You?

Kevin Sylvester · Annick Press
Pages: 100
Format: Hardcover

Our cellphones, our clothes, our food: All are everyday things we consider essential, but we seldom think of what and who is involved in making them and getting them into our hands. In Follow Your Stuff, award-winning children's author Kevin Sylvester and business professor Michael...
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Gravemaidens

Kelly Coon · Delacorte Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The start of a fierce fantasy duology about three maidens who are chosen for their land's greatest honor...and one girl determined to save her sister from the grave. In the walled city-state of Alu, Kammani wants nothing more than to become the accomplished healer her father used to be before...
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The Toll

Neal Shusterman · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 448
Format: Book

From New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman comes the thrilling conclusion to the Printz Honor-winning series Arc of a Scythe.It's been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared; since Scythe Goddard came into power; since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone...

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Love, Heather

Laurie Petrou · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning author Laurie Petrou makes her YA debut with this atmospheric thriller exploring the addictive pull of revenge.

What you see isn't always what you get.

Stevie never meant for things to go this far. When she and Dee--defiant, bold, indestructible Dee--started...
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This Might Hurt a Bit

Doogie Horner · Simon Pulse
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"Full of wit and wisdom, and riotously funny to boot. A phenomenal debut!" - Ransom Riggs, New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
"As irreverent as it is gratifying." - David Arnold, New York Times bestselling...
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Something Like Gravity

Amber Smith · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Love, Simon and Eleanor & Park, a romantic and sweet novel about a transgender boy who falls in love for the first time - and how first love changes us all - from New York Times bestselling author Amber Smith.

Chris and Maia aren't off to a great...
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The Undoing of Thistle Tate

Katelyn Detweiler · Margaret Ferguson Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Famous teen author Thistle Tate struggles to keep her biggest secret: the real identity of the author of her bestselling books.

Thistle Tate is a glittering wunderkind--only seventeen, and a bestselling author of the wildly successful Lemonade Skies series, with the highly...
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Winterwood

Shea Ernshaw · Simon Pulse
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Wicked Deep comes a haunting romance perfect for fans of Practical Magic, where dark fairy tales and enchanted folklore collide after a boy, believed to be missing, emerges from the magical woods - and falls in love with the witch determined...
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Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"

Deborah Heiligman · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII.

Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence...

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Poems to Live Your Life By

Chris Riddell · Amulet Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A gorgeously illustrated collection of poems for every walk of life Curated by artist and writer Chris Riddell, Poems to Live Your Life By is a beautifully illustrated collection of poems for readers young and old to carry with them as they grow. The book includes favorites, both old and new - from...
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Supernova

Marissa Meyer · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

All's fair in love and anarchy...

Supernova, the epic conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer's thrilling Renegades Trilogy finds Nova and Adrian struggling to keep their secret identities concealed while the battle rages on between their alter...

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The Storm Crow

Kalyn Josephson · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Eragon meets And I Darken in this thrilling new fantasy debut that follows a fallen princess as she ignites a rebellion to bring back the magical elemental crows that were taken from her people.

In the tropical kingdom of Rhodaire, magical, elemental Crows are part of every aspect...

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War of the Bastards

Andrew Shvarts · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A year has passed since the fall of Lightspire. The Inquisitor Miles Hampstedt rules Noveris with a blood-soaked iron fist. Tilla and her friends have become hardened rebels in the Unbroken, a band of guerilla fighters hiding out on the fringes of the Kingdom protecting the true queen,...
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