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What I Thought Was True

Huntley Fitzpatrick · Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to My Life Next Door is a magnetic, push-me-pull-me summer romance for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han.Gwen Castle's Biggest Mistake Ever, Cassidy Somers, is slumming it as a yard boy on her idyllic Nantucket-esque island this summer. He's a rich...
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Cruel Beauty

Rosamund Hodge · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover

If you're excited about the upcoming Disney film Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson, don't miss Cruel Beauty. The romance of Beauty and the Beast meets the adventure of Graceling in this dazzling fantasy novel about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny.Perfect...
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White and Black Hat Hackers

Jason Porterfield · Rosen Publishing
Pages: 64
Format: Print book

Hackers are those individuals who gain access to computers or networks without official permission. In this intriguing resource, readers learn the differences among white hat, black hat, and gray hat hackers and their ways of working concerning computer networks today. The origins and history...
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They All Fall Down

Roxanne St. Claire · Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

If you canrsquot wait for the premiere of Fox TVrsquos hot new series Scream Queens you will race through the pages of this pulse-pounding thriller ItrsquosPretty Little Liarsmeets Final Destination as this group of high school elites uncover whose plotting to off each and every one of them...
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Fighter

Leslie McGill · Saddleback Educational Publishing
Format: Book

Jair hated being short. Back in middle school, he d figured he hadnt hit his growth spurt. But now he was a junior at Cap Central. To compensate, he d made sure everyone knew how tough he was. And every so often, he d add to his reputation by punching someone. It had been a while since...
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Say What You Will

Cammie McGovern · Harperteen
Pages: 343
Format: Hardcover

John Green's The Fault in Our Stars meets Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park in this beautifully written, incredibly honest, and emotionally poignant novel. Cammie McGovern's insightful young adult debut is a heartfelt and heartbreaking story about how we can all feel lost...
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Prom Ever After: Haute Date\Save the Last Dance\Prom and Circumstance

Dona Sarkar · Kimani Tru,
Pages: 299
Format: Paperback

Prom night is finally here. Three girls will find that the biggest night of high school can also be the most surprising ... . Haute Date by Dona Sarkar Ashmita Montague has fallen for the perfect prom dress - but it's way over her budget. How can she impress the school's star athlete...
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Being Sloane Jacobs

Lauren Morrill · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover

Switching places with someone else has never been more fun than in this novel about following your dreams and finding your heart from the author of Meant to Be that Huntley Fitzpatrick, author of My Life Next Door, calls "unforgettable" and "full of twists and romance."Meet...
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Spending Spree: America Goes Shopping

Cynthia Overbeck Bix · Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Pages: 88
Format: Hardcover

"Ka-ching! Ever stop to think how our modern-day shopping culture came to be? In the early 1800s, stores were few and far between in the United States. General stores supplied everything from fabric and flour to handsaws and clocks. As the country grew, mail-order catalogs arrived...
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Three Bird Summer

Sara St Antoine · Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

An introspective boy and an adventurous girl uncover a poignant family mystery during a summer on the shores of Three Bird Lake.For as long as he can remember, Adam and his parents have spent their summers at his grandmothers rustic cabin on Three Bird Lake. But this year will be different....
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Nearly Gone

Elle Cosimano · Kathy Dawson Books
Pages: 386
Format: Hardcover

Bones meets Fringe in a big, dark, scary, brilliantly-plotted urban thriller that will leave you guessing until the very endNearly Boswell knows how to keep secrets. Living in a DC trailer park, she knows better than to share anything that would make her a target with her classmates. Like...
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Belzhar

Meg Wolitzer · Dutton Books
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover

Entertainment Weekly's Best YA Book of 2014TIME magazine Top YA of 2014"Wolitzer has imagined a world for young readers that celebrates the sacred, transcendent power of reading and writing." - The New York Times Book ReviewThere's a place where the lost go to be found....
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Careers as a Paralegal and Legal Assistant

G. S. Prentzas · Rosen Pub Group
Format: Book

The American Bar Association defines a paralegal, or legal assistant, as "a person . . . who is employed . . . by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible."...
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Crossing Ebenezer Creek

Tonya Bolden · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

When Mariah and her young brother Zeke are suddenly freed from slavery, they join Sherman's march through Georgia. Mariah wants to believe that the brutalities of slavery are behind them, but even as hope glimmers, there are many hardships yet to come. When she meets a free black named...
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Expelled

James Patterson · jimmy patterson
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A secret Twitter accountAn anonymous photoEveryone is a suspect Will Foster's Twitter account used to be anonymous--until someone posted The Photo that got him and three other students expelled, their futures ruined forever. But who took the picture, and why are they being targeted?To uncover...
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