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Before Tomorrowland

Jeff Jensen · Blackstone
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook on CD

[Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17) ][Read by Katie Schorr]Based on the spellbinding world of the Walt Disney Studios film Tomorrowland, this original prequel novel unlocks a place of unfathomable science and technology and the famous people behind it.The year is 1939.A secret society of extraordinary...
 
 
Denton Little's Still Not Dead

Lance Rubin · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

"Rubin is really funny, but like John Green, he manages to be poignant. . . . In other words, it's a keeper." - Bustle on Denton Little's Deathdate You only live once - unless you're Denton Little! Denton Little lives in a world exactly like our own except that everyone knows...
 
 
Unfriended

Rachel Vail · Puffin Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

In middle school, nothing is more important than friendship.When Truly is invited to sit at the Popular Table with the group she has dreamed of joining, she can hardly believe her luck. Everyone seems so nice, so kind to one another. But all is not as it seems with her new friends, and soon...
 
 
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 336
Format: eBook

Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival. Includes an afterword by award-winning journalist Viviana...
 
 
The Turncoat's Gambit

Andrea R Cremer · Philomel Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

What if America had lost the Revolutionary War? And now lived in constant fear and oppression? From the bestselling author of Nightshade, this is the action-packed final chapter of The Inventor's Secret trilogyCharlotte has spent her whole life fighting the British Empire, following in the footsteps...
 
 
The Dark Forest: Book 2

Alex Woolf · Scribo
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

The second book in Alex Woolf's pulse-pounding historical trilogy, set in the time of Shakespeare and complete with coded clues for kids to solve! The year is 1603 and, nearly two years after his mysterious disappearance, Alice Fletcher's missing brother, Richard, has returned...
 
 
This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration

Linda Barrett Osborne · Harry N. Abrams
Pages: 166
Format: Hardcover

A 2017 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist! American attitudes toward immigrants are paradoxical. On the one hand, we see our country as a haven for the poor and oppressed; anyone, no matter his or her background, can find freedom here and achieve the "American Dream." On the other...
 
 
Save Me, Kurt Cobain

Jenny Manzer · Delacorte Press
Pages: 263
Format: Print book

What if you discovered that Kurt Cobain was not only alive, but might be your real father? This nuanced and bittersweet YA debut will keep you guessing until the end. Nico Cavan has been adrift since her mother vanished when she was four - maternal abandonment isn't exactly something...
 
 
Beyond the Sixth Extinction: A Post-Apocalyptic Pop-Up

Shawn Sheehy · Candlewick Studio
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Elaborate pop-ups feature some wonderfully creepy creatures that just might dominate the ecosystem and be essential to our planet's survival in an eerily realistic future world.Whether or not we know it, the sixth global extinction is already under way, propelled not by a meteor but by human...
 
 
The Crown's Fate

Evelyn Skye · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 417
Format: Hardcover

The gorgeous and darkly compelling sequel to The Crown's Game - perfect for fans of Red Queen and Shadow and Bone. A New York Times bestseller!Magic is growing, shadows are rising, and the throne is at stake ... Russia is on the brink of great change. Pasha's coronation approaches, and Vika...
 
 
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.The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around--and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream...
 
 
The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza

Shaun David Hutchinson · Simon Pulse
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of We Are the Ants and At the Edge of the Universe comes a mind-bending, riveting novel about a teen who was born to a virgin mother and realizes she has the power to heal - but that power comes at a huge cost.Sixteen-year-old Elena Mendoza is the product...
 
 
Return to paradise

Simone Elkeles; Nicholas Mondelli; Elizabeth Cottle · Dreamscape Media
Format: Audiobook

Caleb Becker left Paradise eight months ago, taking with him the secret he promised to take to his grave. If the truth got out, it would ruin everything. Maggie Armstrong tried to be strong after Caleb broke her heart and disappeared. Somehow, she managed to move on. She's determined...
 
 
Grasshopper Jungle

Andrew Smith · Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) , LLC
Pages: 388
Format: Print book

A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor BookWinner of the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction"Raunchy, bizarre, smart and compelling." --Rolling Stone "Grasshopper Jungle is simultaneously creepy and hilarious. Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's in "Slaughterhouse Five,"...