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Ones and Zeroes

Dan Wells · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover

From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, comes the second book in a dark, pulse-pounding sci-fi-noir series set in 2050 Los Angeles.Overworld. It's more than just the world's most popular e-sport - for thousands of VR teams...
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The Twyning

Terence Blacker · Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

In a harsh and dangerous world, a rat and a boy must each choose their way as their fates become inextricably linked.Efren is a young rat, unnoticed and timid among the kingdom of rats living in the London sewers. When the king dies, leaving the kingdom in upheaval, only Efren dares to journey...
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Choices

Jeff Gottesfeld · Saddleback Publishing,
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Themes: Hi-Lo, College life, self-reliance. Ronette Bradley hasn't exactly been an ideal student. Certainly she's no overachiever. But she's caught a lucky break. And she's determined not to screw up. Part romance--part confessional--part college adventures--each novel is approximately...
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Truthwitch: A Witchlands Novel

Susan Dennard · Tom Doherty Associates
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

On a continent ruled by three empires, some are born with a "witchery," a magical skill that sets them apart from others.In the Witchlands, there are almost as many types of magic as there are ways to get in trouble--as two desperate young women know all too well.Safiya is a Truthwitch,...
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Are You Lgbtq?

Jeanne Nagle · Enslow Publishing
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer or Questioning. Each of these terms has an individual meaning and community around them. Through interviews with professionals as well as those in the LGBTQ community, readers can learn not only the definition of each of these words, but also what...
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A Thousand Pieces of You

Claudia Gray · HarperTeen
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

Cloud Atlas meets Orphan Black in this epic dimension-bending trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray about a girl who must chase her father's killer through multiple dimensions. Marguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Their...
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All Those Broken Angels

Peter Adam Salomon · Flux
Format: Book

Richard Harrison was the last person to see his friend Melanie alive. She vanished when they were six, and while the police never found her, a part of her remained - a living shadow that became Richard's closest friend. For ten years, Richard has never questioned the shadow that keeps...
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The Giant

Lex Thomas · Carolrhoda Lab
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

In this fourth book in the Quarantine series, Gonzalo, now released from the high school quarantine, travels across a ravaged America looking for his beloved girlfriend Sasha.
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The Fever Code

SOUTH YORKSHIRE PROBATION SERVICE. · SYPS, 1986.
Format: Print book

Pre-order now! All will be revealed in the fifth book in James Dashner's #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series. This is the story that fans all over the world have been waiting for - the story of how Thomas and WICKED built the Maze. You will not want to miss it. Once...
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Drift

M. K. Hutchins · Tu Books
Format: Hardcover

Tenjat lives on the shores of Hell, an ocean filled with ravenous naga monsters. His island, a massive Turtle, is slowed by the people living on its back. Tenjat is poor as poor gets: poor enough, even, to condescend to the shame of marriage, so his children can help support him one day.But...
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Max

Sarah Cohen-Scali · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Nazi Germany. 1936. In the Lebensborn program, carefully selected German women are recruited by the Nazis to give birth to new members of the Aryan race. Inside one of these women is Max, literally counting the minutes until he is born and he can fulfill his destiny as the perfect...
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Self. Destructed.

Evan Jacobs · Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc.

Michael Ellis...typical American boy. A little on the geeky side. A good student. An athlete. But something is not quite right. ""I like you because you're different."" That's what Ashley had said to him. Different is better than being normal. Michael liked different....
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Lucy and Linh

Alice Pung · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 340
Format: Print book

Gilmore Girls meets Fresh Off the Boat in this witty novel about navigating life in private school while remaining true to yourself. Lucy is a bit of a pushover, but she's ambitious and smart, and she has just received the opportunity of a lifetime: a scholarship to a prestigious school,...
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Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales

Kelly Link · Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Fifteen top voices in speculative fiction explore the intersection of fear and love in a haunting, at times hilarious, darkly imaginative volume.Predatory kraken that sing with — and for — their kin band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic harpies as likely to attract...
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Teen stress and anxiety

Jason Porterfield · Rosen Pub Group
Format: Book

Young adults discover the differences between being stressed and anxious in this informative narrative. They learn about possible triggers of stress and depression--specifically for teens--and how to respond to them. Physical, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive responses to anxiety are outlined...
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