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Velocity

Chris Wooding · Scholastic Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Buckle up for a fast-paced, high-octane thrill ride!Cassica and Shiara are best friends. They couldn't be more different, but their differences work to their advantage -- especially when they're drag racing. Cassica is fearless and determined, making her the perfect driver for daring, photo-finish...
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Dark army, the.

Joseph Delaney · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The second book in a new trilogy from Joseph Delaney, the author of the internationally best-selling Last Apprentice series. Tom Ward is now spook of the county, and with his apprentice, Jenny, he continues the fight against boggarts, witches, and terrifying new creatures of the dark. Together...
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A Story About Cancer With a Happy Ending

India Desjardins · Lincoln Children's Books
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

I think about everything I'll miss if they tell me I'm going to die . . . my mom, my dad, my sister, cookies, TV shows I'll never get to see the end of, walking outside when it's really nice, the smell of fall, the starry sky on a full moon, my grandparents, my grandpa's lasagna, kissing...
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Sawkill Girls

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

"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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The Killer in Me

Margot Harrison · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

Hasn't he lived long enough? Why not? I could take him like a thief in the night.
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Love and First Sight

Josh Sundquist · Little
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In his debut novel, YouTube personality and author of We Should Hang Out Sometime Josh Sundquist explores the nature of love, trust, and romantic attraction. On his first day at a new school, blind sixteen-year-old Will Porter accidentally groped a girl on the stairs, sat on another student...
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Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

Lynn Weingarten · Simon Pulse
Pages: 325
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling "taut, sophisticated thriller" (BCCB, starred review) packed with twists and turns that will leave you breathless.They say Delia burned herself to death in her stepfather's shed. They say it was suicide. But June doesn't believe it. June and Delia...
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No Love Allowed

Kate Evangelista · Swoon Reads
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

It's all fun and parties until someone falls in love in this modern fairy tale from author Kate Evangelista. Caleb desperately needs a new fake girlfriend. Either he attends a series of parties for his father's law firm with a pretty girl on his arm, or he gets shipped off to Yale to start...
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Recipes from Mexico

Dana Meachen Rau · Raintree
Format: Book

Recipes from Mexico includes a variety of recipes for each meal of the day. Information on how to read a recipe, safety in the kitchen, and daily nutritional requirements are also included. Quick tips and variations as well as considerations for dietary restrictions round out each recipe.,
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Endless

Kate Brian · Hyperion Books for Children
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover

Rory Miller didn't just fall in love with Tristan Parrish. She fell in love with the idea of forever. He was the one who told her the truth about her existence in Juniper Landing: that her mortal life is over, and she will now spend eternity on the island, helping others in limbo move on. But like...
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The Steep and Thorny Way

Cat Winters · Amulet Books
Pages: 335
Format: Print book

A thrilling reimagining of Shakespeare s "Hamlet, " "The Steep and Thorny Way "tells the story of a murder most foul and the mighty power of love and acceptance in a state gone terribly rotten. 1920s Oregon is not a welcoming place for Hanalee Denney, the daughter of a white...
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I Believe in a Thing Called Love

Maurene Goo · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A funny young adult novel about a Korean-American girl who uses K-Drama techniques to snag the boyfriend of her dreams.Desi Lee knows how carburetors work. She learned CPR at the age of five. As a high school senior, she has never missed a day of school and never had a B. But in her charmed...
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Soldier Boy

Keely Hutton · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Soldier Boy begins with the story of Ricky Richard Anywar, abducted at age fourteen in 1989 to fight with Joseph Kony's rebel army in Uganda's decades-long civil war. Ricky is trained, armed, and forced to fight government soldiers alongside his brutal kidnappers, but never stops dreaming...
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Apple in the Middle

Dawn Quigley · North Dakota State University Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn t accept her either. And so begins her quirky...
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History vs Women: The Defiant Lives that They Don't Want You to Know

Anita Sarkeesian · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Rebels, rulers, scientists, artists, warriors and villainsWomen are, and have always been, all these things and more. Looking through the ages and across the globe, Anita Sarkeesian, founder of Feminist Frequency, along with Ebony Adams PHD, have reclaimed the stories of twenty-five remarkable...
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