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The Year of Lightning

Ryan Dalton · Jolly Fish Pr, 2015.
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

When 15-year-old twins Malcolm and Valentine Gilbert moved to a new town, they never imagined that the old house across the street could bring them so much trouble. Inside the old house, a secret machine with the power to pierce time has reawakened. Meanwhile, lightning storms are breaking...
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Opposite of Always

Justin A. Reynolds · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

"One of the best love stories I've ever read." - Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give

"Read this one, reread it, and then hug it to your chest." - Becky Albertalli, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo...

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Pier Fishing

Mindy Mozer · Rosen Pub Group
Format: Book

Nothing beats the pleasure of walking out onto the nearest pier, baiting a hook, and dropping your line into the water. This sounds like a deceptively simple pastime, but in fact there are many insider tips and techniques that can make pier fishing both more enjoyable and far more successful....
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Saving Montgomery Sole

Mariko Tamaki · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover

A beautiful and offbeat novel from Mariko Tamaki, co-creator of the bestselling Printz Honor and Caldecott Honor Book This One Summer.

Montgomery Sole is a square peg in a small town, forced to go to a school full of jocks and girls who don't even know what irony is. It would...

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Don't Even Think About It

Sarah Mlynowski · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 319
Format: Hardcover

Contemporary teen fiction with romance, secrets, scandals, and ESP from the author of Bras & Broomsticks!

We weren't always like this. We used to be average New York City high school sophomores. Until our homeroom went for flu shots. We were prepared for some side effects. Maybe...
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Stone Field

Christy Lenzi · Roaring Brook Press, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A stunning debut novel that offers a new look at a classic love story about soul mates torn apart by the circumstances of their time.

Catrina Dickinson is haunted by her past and feels caged in by life in small town Missouri. When she discovers a strange man in Stone Field where...

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Humanoid Robots: Running into the Future

Kathryn Clay · Blazers

From robotic spiders to unmanned planes, robots come in many shapes and sizes. But scientists have long tried to make robots in the most familiar shape of all us! Learn about past and present humanoid robots, and how they might evolve in the future.
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The Last Apprentice: Fury of the Seventh Son

Joseph Delaney · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The thirteenth - and final - book in the internationally bestselling fantasy adventure series that inspired the forthcoming major motion picture Seventh Son. Finally, Tom Ward, the spook's last apprentice, will confront the Fiend for the last time. A stunning conclusion to the acclaimed...
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From Norvelt to Nowhere

Jack Gantos · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 278
Format: Print book

This rocket-paced follow-up to the Newbery Medal-winning novel Dead End in Norvelt opens deep in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis. But instead of Russian warheads, other kinds of trouble are raining down on young Jack Gantos and his utopian town of Norvelt in western Pennsylvania....

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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....

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Stay Sweet

SIOBHAN VIVIAN · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Last Boy and Girl in the World and The List comes a bold and sweet summer read about first love, feminism, and ice cream.Summer in Sand Lake isn't complete without a trip to Meade Creamery - the local ice cream stand founded in 1944 by Molly Meade who started...
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Consider

Kristy Acevedo · Jolly Fish Press
Pages: 283
Format: Print book

As if 17-year-old Alexandra Lucas' anxiety disorder isn't enough, mysterious holograms suddenly appear, heralding the end of the world. They bring an ultimatum: heed the warning and step through a portal-like vertex to safety, or stay and be destroyed by a comet that is on a collision course...
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Blanca & Roja

ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The biggest lie of all is the story you think you already know.


The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they're also rivals, Blanca as obedient and graceful as Roja is vicious and manipulative. They know that, because of a generations-old spell, their family...

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Life Before

Michele Bacon · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Seventeen years is a long time to keep secrets, and Xander Fife has gotten very good at it. Everyone believes he has a normal life and a normal family. If he can just get through this summer, he'll start his real life in college with a clean slate--no risk, no drama, no fear.

Even...
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My Plain Jane

CYNTHIA HAND · HarperTeen
Pages: 450
Format: Hardcover

Move over, Charlotte Bronte. The authors of the New York Times bestselling My Lady Jane are back with an irreverent spin on Jane Eyre - a tale of mischief, romance, and supernatural mayhem perfect for fans of The Princess Bride or A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue.

You may think...

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