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National Geographic Kids Mission: Lion Rescue: All About Lions and How to Save Them

Ashlee Brown Blewett · National Geographic Children's Books
Format: Paperback

Inspiring young animal lovers to get up close to roaring lions and the real-life challenges they face is what Mission Animal Rescue Lions is all about. With fun and amazing adventure stories, gorgeous photography, hands-on activities, fascinating information, and more, this book taps into...
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In the Shadows

Kiersten White · Scholastic, Incorporated
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the remarkable imagination of acclaimed artist Jim Di Bartolo and the exquisite pen of bestselling author Kiersten White comes a spellbinding story of love, mystery, and dark conspiracy, told in an alternating narrative of words and pictures.Cora and Minnie are sisters living in a small,...
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Dream On

Kerstin Gier · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 317
Format: Print book

Things seem to be going well for Liv Silver: she's adjusting to her new home (and her new family) in London; she has a burgeoning romance with Henry Harper, one of the cutest boys in school; and the girl who's been turning her dreams into nightmares, Anabel, is now locked up. But serenity...
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Falling into Place

Amy Zhang · Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

One cold fall day high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car into a tree This haunting and heartbreaking story is told by a surprising and unexpected narrator and unfolds in nonlinear flashbacks even as Lizs friends foes and family gather at the hospital and Liz clings to life This riveting...
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Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia

Jenny Torres Sanchez · Running Press Kids
Format: Paperback

TAYSHAS 2014 Reading listKirkus Reviews Best Teen Books of 2013It is the summer after Frenchie Garcia's senior year, and she can't come to grips with the death of Andy Cooper. Her friends don't know that she had a secret crush on her classmate, and they especially don't...
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This way home

Wes Moore
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Elijah, seventeen, has always been sure of just one thing--basketball--and believes it will be his way out of West Baltimore, but when gang violence knocks him down, helping a veteran repair his rickety home helps Elijah see what really matters.
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Fearless

Cornelia Funke · Little
Pages: 424
Format: Print book

Jacob Reckless returns once again to the Mirrorworld--filled with profound characters, extraordinary creatures, and epic life-or-death treasure hunts that could only come from the mind of the master storyteller of our generation, Cornelia Funke.
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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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The Twelve Kingdoms: The Tears of the Rose

Jeffe Kennedy · Kensington
Format: Book

Three sisters. Motherless daughters of the high king. The eldest is the warrior-woman heir; the middle child is shy and full of witchy intuition; and the youngest, Princess Amelia, she is as beautiful as the sun and just as generous.Ami met her Prince Charming and went away to his castle...
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Flashfall

Jenny Moyer · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Orion is a Subpar, expected to mine the tunnels of Outpost Five, near the deadly flash curtain. For generations, her people have chased cirium -- the only element that can shield humanity from the curtain's radioactive particles. She and her caving partner Dram work the most treacherous...
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Starbird Murphy and the World Outside

Karen Finneyfrock · Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In her sixteen years of life, Starbird has never touched a dollar bill. Shes never been in a car. Shes never used a cell phone.Thats because Starbird has always lived on the Free Family Farm, a commune in the woods of Washington State.But all that is about to change. When Starbird gets...
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Rush Revere and the First Patriots: Time-Travel Adventures With Exceptional Americans

Rush Limbaugh · Threshold Editions; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

America's #1 radio talk-show host and multi-million-copy #1 New York Times bestselling author presents the second book in a series for young readers with a history teacher who travels back in time to have adventures with exceptional Americans.Rush Revere rides again! Saddle up with...
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North and South Korea

Noah Berlatsky · Greenhaven Press
Pages: 209
Format: Hardcover

Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications. ; This title explores issues related to North...
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The Tragedy Paper

Elizabeth Laban · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why and Looking for Alaska, Jennifer Weiner, #1 New York Times bestselling author, calls Elizabeth LaBan's The Tragedy Paper "a beguiling and beautifully written tale of first love and heartbreak." It follows the story of Tim Macbeth, a seventeen-year-old...
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Daughter of Deep Silence

Carrie Ryan · Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

I'm the daughter of murdered parents. I'm the friend of a dead girl. I'm the lover of my enemy. And I will have my revenge. In the wake of the devastating destruction of the luxury yacht Persephone, just three souls remain to tell its story - and two of them are lying. Only...
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