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Alice Through the Looking Glass

Kari Sutherland · Disney Press
Pages: 299
Format: Print book

When Alice returns to Underland in this sequel to Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, she must go on an action-packed adventure to help save her friends!
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Between Us and the Moon

Rebecca Maizel · Harper Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A luminous YA love story that evokes Judy Blume's Forever for a new generation. Sarah - Bean to her friends and family - is an aspiring astronomer and champion mathlete. She lives behind her beloved telescope, with her head in the stars and her feet planted firmly on the ground. For as long...
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Cure for the Common Universe

Christian McKay Heidicker · Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pages: 314
Format: Print book

Prepare to be cured by this quirky and hilarious debut novel about a sixteen-year-old loner who is sent to rehab for video game addiction perfect for fans of Ned Vizzini and Jesse Andrews. Sixteen-year-old Jaxon is being committed to video game rehab ten minutes after meeting a girl. A living,...
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A Darkly Beating Heart

Lindsay Smith · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

A troubled girl confronts her personal demons in this time-travel thriller alternating between present day and 19th century Japan.No one knows how to handle Reiko. She is full of hatred; all she can think about is how to best hurt herself and those people closest to her. After a failed...
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A Really Awesome Mess

Trish Cook · EgmontUSA
Format: Hardcover

A hint of Recovery Road, a sample of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, and a cut of Juno. A Really Awesome Mess is a laugh-out-loud, gut-wrenching/heart-warming story of two teenagers struggling to find love and themselves. Two teenagers. Two very bumpy roads taken that lead to Heartland...
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Evil Librarian

Michelle Knudsen · Candlewick Press
Pages: 343
Format: Book

He's young. He's hot. He's also evil. He's . . . the librarian.When Cynthia Rothschild's best friend, Annie, falls head over heels for the new high-school librarian, Cyn can totally see why. He's really young and super cute and thinks Annie would make an excellent library monitor. But after...
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Somebody Up There Hates You: A Novel

Hollis Seamon · Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Chemo, radiation, a zillion surgeries, watching my mom age twenty years in twenty months: if that’s part of the Big Dude’s plan, then it’s pretty obvious, isn’t it? Somebody up there hates you.SUTHY has landed me here in this hospice, where we—that’s...
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Demon Derby

Carrie Harris · Delacorte Press
Pages: 298
Format: Print book

She survived cancer, but can she fight demon derby girls? Set in the world of roller derby, the new novel from Carrie Harris, author of "Bad Taste in Boys" and "Bad Hair Day, "is perfect for "Buffy the Vampire" "Slayer "fans andfor anyone facing their...
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Beware That Girl

Teresa Toten · Delacorte Press
Pages: 319
Format: Print book

For fans of "We Were Liars, " "The Girl on the Train, " and "Gone Girl, " this powerful psychological thriller with multiple mysteries is set against the backdrop of the megawealthy elite of New York City. Toten delves into the mesmerizing yet dysfunctional...
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The Homecoming

Stacie Ramey · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A new, emotional novel from Stacie Ramey, the author of The Sister PactThey say you can never go home-and John's about to find out just how true that is.John's mother kicked him out of the house when she couldn't handle his anger, and John's spent the last few years bouncing between relatives....
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Fox Forever: The Jenna Fox Chronicles

Mary Pearson · Holt & Company, Henry
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover

Locke Jenkins has some catching up to do. After spending 260 years as a disembodied mind in a little black box, he has a perfect new body. But before he can move on with his unexpected new life, he'll have to return the Favor he accepted from the shadowy resistance group known as the Network.Locke...
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Keeper of the Black Stones (Stone Ends)

PT McHugh · Glass House Press; 1 edition
Pages: 369
Format: Paperback

Awkward in his own skin, shy around girls and worried about anything and everything, Jason Evans is just like a million other teenage boys in high school, with one very large exception he has been given a gift that allows him to jump through time. A set of stones has fallen into his lap that...
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Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment

Deborah Kops · Calkins Creek Books
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Here is the story of extraordinary leader Alice Paul, from the woman suffrage movement - the long struggle for votes for women - to the "second wave," when women demanded full equality with men. Paul made a significant impact on both. She reignited the sleepy suffrage moment with...
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Paper Hearts

Ali Novak · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

"I'm sorry," he said, slowly untying the ribbon that held his mask in place. "It's just-I didn't want you to think of me any differently." Somehow I kept my mouth from falling open. I knew his face, but my mind couldn't accept that he was the person looking down at me. "My...
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Fool Me Twice: An If Only novel

Mandy Hubbard · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Enjoy Fool Me Twice and the other standalone titles in Bloomsbury's contemporary If Only romance line centered around an impossible problem: you always want what you can't have! Mackenzie and Landon were the perfect couple . . . until he dumped her and broke her heart. Fast-forward...
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