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The Wood

Chelsea Bobulski · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An enchanted wood poisoned at the roots. A girl bound by an inherited duty. And the lost traveler from another time who might help her uncover the truth. From debut author Chelsea Bobulski comes The Wood, a YA novel filled with dark mystery and atmospheric fantasy. Winter didn't ask to be the guardian...
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The Nursing Mother's Companion - 7th Edition: The Breastfeeding Book Mothers Trust, from Pregnancy through Weaning

Kathleen Huggins · The Harvard Common Press
Format:  Print book : English : 7th editionView all editions and formats

Breastfeeding is natural, but it is not entirely instinctive for either mothers or babies. The Nursing Mother's Companion has been among the best-selling books on breastfeeding for over 30 years, with over 1 million copies sold. It is respected and recommended by professionals, including...
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You Look Different in Real Life

Jennifer Castle · HarperTeen
Pages: 355
Format: Print book

A 2015-2016 Florida Teens Read selection!Readers of John Green, Sarah Dessen, and Laurie Halse Anderson will be touched by the emotional depth and realistic characters of Jennifer Castle's teen novel You Look Different in Real Life.Justine charmed the nation in a documentary film featuring...
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Shadowcaster

Cinda Williams Chima · HarperCollins
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima, this is a thrilling story of the unfathomable costs of war, the allure of dark magic, and two principled and conflicted characters drawn together despite everything they stand to lose.Alyssa ana'Raisa, the reluctant princess heir...
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Self-discipline

Sara James · Mason Crest Publishers Inc.
Format:  Book : Juvenile audience : English

Explains how martial artists learn and practice self-discipline and how this skill helps with setting goals, studying for tests, and playing sports.
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LIFEL1K3

Jay Kristoff · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Illuminae Files comes the first book in a new series that's part Romeo and Juliet, part Terminator, and all adrenaline.On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. Seventeen-year-old...
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How I Discovered Poetry

Marilyn Nelson · Dial Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America's most celebrated poets. Looking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson tells the story of her development as an artist and young woman through...
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Winter Soldier: The Bitter March

Rick Remender · Marvel
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

1966: S.H.I.E.L.D. sends secret agent Ran Shen to collect two Nazi scientists with the key to winning the Cold War. But the Soviets want the scientists as well, and have unleashed their most dangerous operative: the Winter Soldier, aka the brainwashed and presumed-dead partner of Captain...
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How to Breathe Underwater

VICKY SKINNER · Swoon Reads
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Kate's father has been pressuring her to be perfect for her whole life, pushing her to be the best swimmer she can be. But when Kate finds her dad cheating on her mom, Kate's perfect world comes crashing down, and Kate is forced to leave home and the swim team she's been a part of her whole...
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Grit

Gillian French · Harper Teen
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover

Raw and moving, this contemporary realistic debut novel will leave readers of E. Lockhart and Gayle Forman breathless as it unflinchingly unfolds the tragic secrets being kept in a small, deceptively idyllic Maine town. Seventeen-year-old Darcy Prentiss has long held the title of "town...
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Trial by Internet

Avery Elizabeth Hurt · Greenhaven Publishing
Pages: 135
Format: Library Binding

The relative anonymity the Internet provides allows us to assert our knowledge like a professor, show off our seemingly perfect lives, and judge like were presiding over a court of law. The problem with this relatively new phenomenon is that we often make snap judgments about other peoples...
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Women in engineering

Shaina Carmel Indovino · Mason Crest
Format:  Book : Biography : Juvenile audience : English

Profiles women who have made major contributions in engineering, and includes vocational opportunities for women in the field.
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The Dark Intercept

JULIA KELLER · Tor Teen
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The Dark Intercept is the beginning of a "riveting" (Emmy Laybourne) science fiction adventure that challenges the voluntary surrender of liberties for the perception of safety. When the state controls your emotions, how hard will you fight to feel free?In a radiant world of endless...
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Love Bomb

Jenny McLachlan · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 201
Format: Hardcover

Betty Plum has never been in love. She's never even kissed a boy. But when Toby starts school it's like Betty has been hit with a thousand of Cupid's arrows. A bomb has exploded -- a love bomb.More than ever Betty wishes her mom didn't die when Betty was a baby. She really needs her mom here...
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