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All We Can Do Is Wait

RICHARD LAWSON · Razorbill
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Debut author and Vanity Fair film critic Richard Lawson makes your heart stop and time stand still in his extraordinary and life-affirming novel that's perfect for fans of If I Stay and We All Looked Up.In the hours after a bridge collapse rocks their city, a group of Boston teenagers meet...
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Burning Nation

Trent Reedy · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

In this wrenching sequel to DIVIDED WE FALL, Danny and friends fight to defend Idaho against a Federal takeover and the ravages of a BURNING NATION.At the end of DIVIDED WE FALL, Danny Wright's beloved Idaho had been invaded by the federal government, their electricity shut off, their...
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Marina

Carlos Ruiz Zafon · Little
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover

"We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine."
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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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Tripping Back Blue

Kara Storti · Carolrhoda Lab
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Finn is a 17-year-old full of paradoxes. He's a drug dealer, but he's scoring money to send his twin sister to Harvard. He's desperate to shoot up even though he's the most popular kid in Dammertown. He's a philosopher and orator who's failing all his classes. The only...
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Copyboy

Vince Vawter · Capstone Editions
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In the sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning novel Paperboy, Victor Vollmer sets off to fulfill a final request of Mr. Spiro, the aging neighbor who became his friend and mentor. Now a few years older and working as a newspaper copyboy, Victor plans to spread Mr. Spiro's ashes at the mouth...
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Buried Heart

Kate Elliott · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The explosive finale to World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott's captivating, New York Times bestselling young adult series
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Complicit

Stephanie Kuehn · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover

A YALSA 2015 Best Fiction for Young Adults PickTwo years ago, fifteen-year-old Jamie Henry breathed a sigh of relief when a judge sentenced his older sister to juvenile detention for burning down their neighbor's fancy horse barn. The whole town did. Because Crazy Cate Henry used to be a nice...
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Hearts Unbroken

CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH · Candlewick
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith turns to realistic fiction with the thoughtful story of a Native teen navigating the complicated, confusing waters of high school - and first love.When Louise Wolfe's first real boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people...
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The Art of Not Breathing

Sarah Alexander · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Since her twin brother, Eddie, drowned five years ago, sixteen-year-old Elsie Main has tried to remember what really happened that fateful day on the beach. One minute Eddie was there, and the next he was gone. Seventeen-year-old Tay McKenzie is a cute and mysterious boy that Elsie meets...
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The Bone Thief

Alyson Noel · Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Tim Burton and Wes Anderson will love this new fantasy novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noel in which a ragtag team of eleven-year olds with otherworldly abilities set out to solve the mystery behind the sudden onset of ordinary events plaguing their very unusual...
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The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily

Laura Creedle · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

When Lily Michaels-Ryan ditches her ADHD meds and lands in detention with Abelard, she's intrigued - he seems thirty seconds behind, while she feels thirty seconds ahead. It doesn't hurt that he's brilliant and beautiful. When Abelard posts a quote from The Letters of Abelard and Heloise...
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Dial Em for Murder

Marni Bates · Merit Pr
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Sixteen-year-old Emmy Danvers was just trying to write a halfway decent romance novel when a senile old man mumbled a cryptic warning, tackled her to the ground in the middle of Starbucks, and...died right on top of her. Unfortunately for Emmy, the incident wasn't quite as random as she thought,...
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Emergency Contact

Mary H. K. Choi · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book." - Rainbow Rowell From debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory - perfect for fans of Eleanor...
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The Haters

Jesse Andrews · Amulet Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From Jesse Andrews, author of the New York Times bestselling Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and screenwriter of the Sundance award-winning motion picture of the same name, comes a groundbreaking young adult novel about music, love, friendship, and freedom as three young musicians follow...
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