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You're Welcome, Universe
Whitney Gardner · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant, edgy, fresh new YA voice for fans of More Happy Than Not and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, packed with interior graffiti. When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit... |
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Defy the Stars
Claudia Gray · Little
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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She's a soldier. Noemi Vidal is seventeen years old and sworn to protect her planet, Genesis. She's willing to risk anything--including her own life. To their enemies on Earth, she's a rebel. He's a machine. Abandoned in space for years, utterly alone, Abel has advanced programming that's... |
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The Blue Parrot and the Little Monkey: A Story of Hope and Compassion
Patricia Wielinski · Archway Publishing
Format: Paperback
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A blue parrot and a little brown spider monkey are among the many animals and birds packed in boxes, crates, and cages. They are floating down the river on a barge on their way to new homes far away from their native rain forest environment. The blue parrot, unhappy about his current captivity,... |
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A Season for Fireflies
Rebecca Maizel · Harpercollins
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A captivating contemporary novel about first love, second chances, and the power of memory, by the author of Between Us and the Moon, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Katie Cotugno.One year ago, Penny Berne was the star of her high school's theater department, surrounded by a group... |
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Quarterbacks
K. C. Kelley · Gareth Stevens Publishing
Format: Book
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Examines the position of defensive back, discussing its history, key skills and tactics, and top players.Title: QuarterbacksAuthor: Kelley, K. C.Publisher: Gareth Stevens PubPublication Date: 2009/07/01Number of Pages: 48Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: 2008055596 |
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Between Two Skies
Joanne O'Sullivan · Candlewick Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Hurricane Katrina sets a teenage girl adrift. But a new life - and the promise of love - emerges in this rich, highly readable debut.Bayou Perdu, a tiny fishing town way, way down in Louisiana, is home to sixteen-year-old Evangeline Riley. She has her best friends, Kendra and Danielle;... |
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The End of Oz
Danielle Paige · HarperCollins
Pages: 12
Format: Hardcover
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In this dark, action-packed fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series, Amy Gumm travels from Oz to the twisted land of Ev, where she fights to free Oz from evil once and for all.My name is Amy Gumm. You might remember me as the other girl from Kansas. When a tornado... |
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Our Chemical Hearts
Krystal Sutherland · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 313
Format: Print book
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John Green meets Rainbow Rowell in this irresistible story of first love, broken hearts, and the golden seams that put them back together again. Henry Page has never been in love. He fancies himself a hopeless romantic, but the slo-mo, heart palpitating, can't-eat-can't-sleep kind of love... |
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The Science Behind Swimming, Diving, and Other Water Sports
Amanda Lanser · Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint, 2016. ©2016
Pages: 32
Format: Print book
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Behind the flips, splashes, and speed of Olympic water sports, science is at work. Gravity and centrifugal force are at work as a diver spins and flips before splashing into the water. Olympic swimmers shave their bodies to reduce drag as they zip through the water. Find out how science... |
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Strong Inside
Andrew Maraniss · Philomel Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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The inspirational true story of the first African American to play college basketball in the deeply segregated Southeastern Conference--a powerful moment in Black history.Perry Wallace was born at an historic crossroads in U.S. history. He entered kindergarten the year that the Brown v. Board... |
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A Week of Mondays
Jessica Brody · Farrar
Pages: 454
Format: eBook
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When I made the wish, I just wanted a do-over. Another chance to make things right. I never, in a million years, thought it might actually come true... Sixteen-year-old Ellison Sparks is having a serious case of the Mondays. She gets a ticket for running a red light, she manages to take... |
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A List of Cages
Robin Roe · Hyperion
Pages: 310
Format: Print book
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When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he's got it made. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn't easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can't complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends.... |
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Extraordinary October
Diana Wagman · Ig Publishing
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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October is an ordinary girl. From her plain looks to her average grades, there seems to be nothing special about her. Then, three days before her eighteenth birthday, she develops a strange itch that won't go away, and her life is turned upside down. Suddenly, she can hear dogs talk,... |
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Winning Team
Dominique Moceanu · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 496
Format: Print book
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Read the first two books in the Go-for-Gold Gymnasts series together in this bind-up edition, along with an introduction from three-time World All-Around champion Simone Biles In WINNING TEAM, twelve-year-old Brittany Lee Morgan is the best. Or, at least she was at her gymnastics training... |
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