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Guile

Constance Cooper · Clarion Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Yonie Watereye lives in the bayou. The water there is full of guile, a power that changes people and objects. Yonie, 16, makes a living investigating objects affected by guile, but in fact it's her talking cat, LaRue, who has the power to see guile. Yonie becomes aware that someone...
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Yellow Locust

Justin Joschko · Blackstone Audiobooks
Format: Audio CD

Selena Flood is a fighter of preternatural talent. But not even her quick fists and nimble feet could save her parents from the forces of New Canaan, the most ruthless and powerful of the despotic kingdoms populating America-that-was. Forced to flee the tyrannical state with her younger...
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Stranger Than Fanfiction

Chris Colfer · Little, Brown Young Readers
Format: Audiobook

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Colfer comes a funny, heartbreaking, unforgettable novel about friendship and fame. Cash Carter is the young, world famous lead actor of the hit television Wiz Kids. When four fans jokingly invite him on a cross-country road trip, they are shocked...
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An Enchantment of Ravens

Margaret Rogerson · Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

Parents' Choice Silver Honors Winner A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts - even as she falls in love with a faerie prince - in this gorgeous debut novel.Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal...
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Avalanche

Melinda Braun · Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Two groups of teens - those waiting to be saved and those doing the saving - are in a race against time and a battle against Mother Nature after an avalanche traps them in an isolated cabin in this chilling novel."I promise it'll be a weekend you'll never forget." A trip like...
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Watch You Burn

Amanda Searcy · Delacorte Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Truth Beneath the Lies, which the bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying, Karen M. McManus, called "smart, suspenseful, and unpredictable," comes a psychological thriller about a girl who must keep her arsonist ways hidden--or watch her life go up in flames.Jenny...
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First We Were IV

Alexandra Sirowy · Tantor Audio
Format: Audio CD

Izzie loves nothing more than her three best friends, Viv, Graham, and Harry, and the bond the four of them share. And she's terrified of their friendship falling apart next year when they go off to college. To bind them together, she decides to create something that will belong only to them,...
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Right Where You Left Me

Calla Devlin · Tantor Audio
Format: Audio CD

After Charlotte's father is kidnapped, she and her mother must overcome their differences and find a way to rescue him in this eloquent, moving portrayal of family from the author of the William C. Morris Award finalist Tell Me Something Real. In search of the perfect story to put a human...
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This Is My Brain on Boys

Sarah Strohmeyer · Balzer Bray
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Jane Austen's Emma meets The Rosie Project in this quirky, irresistible, romantic comedy from Sarah Strohmeyer, the author of Smart Girls Get What They Want.Addie Emerson doesn't believe in love. Not for herself anyway. With one year left of high school, she's more interested...
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My Hero Academia, Vol. 9

KOHEI HORIKOSHI · VIZ Media LLC
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Midoriya inherits the superpower of the world's greatest hero, but greatness won't come easy.What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called "Quirks"? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would...
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Change Places with Me

Lois Metzger · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

From Lois Metzger, the acclaimed author of A Trick of the Light, comes a work of speculative fiction set in the near future about a teen girl who gains a new perspective on her life. Perfect for readers who enjoyed Adam Silvera's More Happy than Not.Rose has changed. She still lives in the same...
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Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana's Story

Marissa Meyer · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Mirror, mirror, on the wall.Who is the Fairest of them all? Pure evil has a name, hides behind a mask of deceit, and uses her "glamour" to gain power. But who is Queen Levana? Long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress in The Lunar Chronicles, Levana lived a very...
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Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference

Joanne Oppenheim · Scholastic
Pages: 287
Format: Paperback

A chronicle of the incredible correspondence between California librarian Clara Breed and young Japanese American internees during World War II.In the early 1940's, Clara Breed was the children's librarian at the San Diego Public Library. But she was also friend to dozens of Japanese...
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Sawkill Girls

Claire Legrand · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 464
Format: eBook

"Reader, hang on for dear life. Sawkill Girls is a wild, gorgeous, and rich coming-of-age story about complicity, female camaraderie, and power." - Sarah Gailey, author of River of Teeth"An eerie, atmospheric assertion of female strength." - Mindy McGinnis, author...
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Imagine Us Happy

Jennifer Yu · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Some love stories aren't meant to lastStella lives with depression, and her goals for junior year are pretty much limited to surviving her classes, staying out of her parents' constant fights and staving off unwanted feelings enough to hang out with her friends Lin and Katie.Until...
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