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Model Undercover: Paris

Carina Axelsson · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pages: 361
Format: Paperback

From super sleuth to supermodelAxelle Anderson doesn't care about fashion, in spite of her pushy fashionista aunt, Venetia. All Axelle wants to do in life is solve mysteries. But when top fashion designer Belle La Lune goes missing and Aunt Venetia becomes a prime suspect, Axelle must go undercover...
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Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi Leia, Princess of Alderaan

CLAUDIA GRAY · Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A young adult novel, written by New York Times Best-selling author Claudia Gray, about sixteen-year-old Princess Leia, set before A New Hope.
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In Some Other Life: A Novel

Jessica Brody · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Three years ago, Kennedy Rhodes secretly made the most important decision of her life. She declined her acceptance to the prestigious Windsor Academy to attend the local public school with her longtime crush, who had finally asked her out. It seems it was the right choice -- she and Austin...
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A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle · Listening Library
Format: Audio CD

This special edition of A Wrinkle in Time includes a new essay that explores the science behind the fantasy.Rediscover one of the most beloved children's books of all time: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle:Meg Murray, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having...
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The Warrior Princess of Pennyroyal Academy

M A LARSON · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Shannon Hale's Princess Academy and Soman Chainani's The School for Good and Evil, comes the thrilling finale to the "breathtakingly exciting" Pennyroyal Academy trilogy. Evie and Maggie are still enjoying the glow of their victory as they travel into the forest...
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Allegedly

Tiffany D Jackson · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 387
Format: Hardcover

Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myer's Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by Tiffany D. Jackson about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home.Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview...
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Jungle Jitters

Lisa Dalrymple · Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 124
Format: Paperback

Even though he's secretly terrified of deep water, and all the scary things that swim below, Tate wants to shake his boring reputation, and he agrees to travel with his class up the Amazon River to help build a village school. He has his fingers and toes crossed that he won't see any giant...
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The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

Shaun David Hutchinson · Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

A heartbreaking yet uplifting story of grief about a boy who has lost everything, but finds new hope drawing in the shadows of a hospital. Features a thirty-two-page graphic novel.Andrew Brawley was supposed to die that night, just like the rest of his family. Now he lives in the hospital,...
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The After-Room

Maile Meloy · Puffin Books
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

The triumphant finale in the bestselling trilogy is now in paperback!It's 1955, and Benjamin Burrows and Janie Scott are trying to live a safe, normal life in America. It's not easy, when they have the power to prevent nuclear disaster, and sinister forces are circling. Soon the advice...
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Everland

Wendy Spinale · Scholastic Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

London has been destroyed in a blitz of bombs and disease. The only ones who have survived are children, among them Gwen Darling and her siblings, Joanna and Mikey. They spend their nights scavenging and their days avoiding the ruthless Marauders -- the German army led by Captain Hanz Otto...
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Paper Boats

Dee Lestari, e author. · AmazonCrossing
Pages: 388
Format: Paperback

She's a free-spirited dreamer. He's a brilliant painter. But now their shared passion for art has turned into something deeper ... For as long as she can remember, Kugy has loved to write. Whimsical stories are her passion, along with letters full of secret longings that she folds...
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Disappeared

Francisco X Stork · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Four Months AgoSara Zapata's best friend disappeared, kidnapped by the web of criminals who terrorize Juarez.Four Hours AgoSara received a death threat - and with it, a clue to the place where her friend is locked away.Four Weeks AgoEmiliano Zapata fell in love with Perla Rubi, who will...
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The Girl Who Dared to Think 2: The Girl Who Dared to Stand

Bella Forrest · Nightlight Press
Pages: 398
Format: Paperback

Liana Castell's journey continues in the breathtaking second book of the bestselling The Girl Who Dared to Think series.After stumbling upon an ancient, dusty office sealed away from the rest of the Tower, Liana makes a shocking discovery. Her first instinct is to flee - until she realizes...
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The Last Days of Jesus: His Life and Times

Bill O'Reilly · Faber And Faber
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Two thousand years ago, Jesus walked across Galilee; everywhere he traveled he gained followers. His contemporaries are familiar historical figures: Julius Caesar, Caesar Augustus, Herod the Great, Pontius Pilate. It was an era of oppression, when every man, woman, and child answered to the brutal...
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Chalk on the Wild Side

Lorie King Kaehler · Walter Foster Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Filled with a variety of unique chalk recipes, such as glow-in-the-dark chalk, fizzing chalk, scented chalk, and ice chalk, Chalk on the Wild Side introduces young artists to a variety of art methods and techniques through a fun and fresh medium.
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