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Dreamland Burning

Jennifer Latham · Little
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Some bodies won't stay buried.Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past... and the present.Nearly...
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The Leaving

Tara Altebrando · Bloomsbury
Pages: 421
Format: Print book

Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to. Until today. Today five of those kids return. They're sixteen, and they are . . . fine. Scarlett comes home and finds a mom she barely recognizes, and doesn't...
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Glitter

Aprilynne Pike · Random House
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Aprilynne Pike comes a truly original new novel - Breaking Bad meets Marie Antoinette in a near-future world where the residents of Versailles live like it's the eighteenth century and an almost-queen turns to drug dealing to save her own life....
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The Border

STEVE SCHAFER · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

One moment changed their lives forever.A band plays, glasses clink, and four teens sneak into the Mexican desert, the hum of celebration receding behind them. Crack. Crack. Crack.Not fireworks -- gunshots. The music stops. And Pato, Arbo, Marcos, and Gladys are powerless as the lives they...
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The Lovely Reckless

Kami Garcia · Imprint
Pages: 374
Format: eBook

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Kami Garcia, a contemporary romance full of loss, love and redemption ... Seventeen year-old Frankie Devereux would do anything to forget the past. Haunted by the memory of her boyfriend's death, she lives her life by one dangerous rule: nothing...
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The Mindful Teen: Powerful Skills to Help You Handle Stress One Moment at a Time

Dzung X. Vo MD FAAP · Instant Help; 1 edition
Format: Book

In this powerful book, a pediatrician specializing in teen and adolescent medicine offers a breakthrough mindfulness program to help you deal with stress in healthy ways, improve communication, and reduce conflicts with family and friends. Being a teen is stressful! Whether it's school,...
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The Ice Dragon

George R. R. Martin · Macmillan Audio
Format: Audio CD

The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land. But Adara was not afraid. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone, even the Old Ones, could remember....
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The Black Key

Amy Ewing · Harpercollins
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Lone City trilogy, which began with The Jewel, a book BCCB said "will have fans of Oliver's Delirium, Cass's The Selection, and DeStefano's Wither breathless."For too long, Violet and the people of the outer circles of the Lone...
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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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Illusive

Emily Lloyd-Jones · Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Pages: 406
Format: Hardcover

The X-Men meets Ocean's Eleven in this edge-of-your-seat sci-fi adventure about a band of "super" criminals.
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This Is Where It Ends

Marieke Nijkamp · Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

10:00 a.m.The principal of Opportunity, Alabama's high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve.10:02 a.m.The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class.10:03The auditorium doors won't...
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Caraval

Stephanie Garber · Flatiron Books
Pages: 407
Format: Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller!Whatever you've heard about Caraval, it doesn't compare to the reality. It's more than just a game or a performance. It's the closest you'll ever find to magic in this world . . . Welcome, welcome to Caraval -- Stephanie Garber's sweeping tale of two sisters...
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Watch Out for Flying Kids! How Two Circuses, Two Countries, and Nine Kids Confront Conflict and Build Community

Cynthia Levinson · Peachtree
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

The author of We've Got a Job explores the world of social circus-a movement that brings kids from different worlds together to perform remarkable acts on a professional level. Levinson follows the participants of two specific circuses that also work together periodically: Circus Harmony,...
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Monument 14: Savage Drift

Emmy Laybourne · Feiwel and Friends, 2014.
Pages: 309
Format: Print book

In Monument 14: Savage Drift, the stunningly fierce conclusion to the Monument 14 trilogy, author Emmy Laybourne ups the stakes even higher for a group of kids who have continually survived the unthinkable. Can they do so one last time?
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Soldier Boy

Keely Hutton · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Soldier Boy begins with the story of Ricky Richard Anywar, abducted at age fourteen in 1989 to fight with Joseph Kony's rebel army in Uganda's decades-long civil war. Ricky is trained, armed, and forced to fight government soldiers alongside his brutal kidnappers, but never stops dreaming...
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