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True Letters from a Fictional Life

Kenneth Logan · HarperTeen
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

If you asked anyone in his small Vermont town, they'd tell you the facts: James Liddell, star athlete, decent student, and sort-of boyfriend to cute, peppy Theresa, is a happy, funny, carefree guy.But whenever James sits down at his desk to write, he tells a different story. As he fills...
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The Diabolic

S J Kincaid · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 407
Format: Print book

Red Queen meets The Hunger Games in this epic novel about what happens when the galaxy's most deadly weapon masquerades as a senator's daughter and a hostage of the galactic court.A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful. A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect the person...
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Quicksand Pond

Janet Taylor Lisle · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Newbery Honor winner Janet Taylor Lisle's gorgeous and profound new novel about a pivotal summer in two girls' lives explores the convictions we form, the judgments we make, and the values we hold.The pond is called Quicksand Pond. It's a shadowy, hidden place, full of chirping, shrieking,...
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Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition

Jay Asher · Razorbill
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times bestseller and modern classic that's been changing lives for a decade gets a gorgeous revamped cover and never-before-seen additional content, including: · An introduction from its award-winning author, Jay Asher; · The until-now-secret alternate...
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Put Your Diamonds Up! (Hollywood High)

Goddess Love · Kensington Books
Format: Kindle Edition

Explosive rumors and a mega-media frenzy almost ended the Pampered Princesses' reign as Hollywood High royalty. Now only one diva can win the ultimate fame of thrones. . . London Phillips is keeping her billionaire boyfriend close, and her secrets closer, by pretending to play her mother's...
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Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary

Martha Brockenbrough · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Complex, passionate, brilliant, flawed -- Alexander Hamilton comes alive in this exciting biography.He was born out of wedlock on a small island in the West Indies and orphaned as a teenager. From those inauspicious circumstances, he rose to a position of power and influence in colonial...
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Wicked Like a Wildfire

LANA POPOVIC · Katherine Tegen Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

"Lush. Delicious. Bewildering. And darkly magical. Popovic has created a world that you tumble into from the very first words and wish you could stay in forever." - Evelyn Skye, author of The Crown's Game"Wicked Like a Wildfire was like devouring a succulent fairy fruit...
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Take Me On (Pushing the Limits Book 4)

Katie McGarry · Harlequin Teen
Format: Kindle Edition

School Library Journal06/01/2014 Gr 8 Up—Bottling up her emotions has become Haley's way to deal with her problems from her dad losing his job, to the family living under authoritarian rule at her Uncle's house, and her violent act of hitting back after her ex-boyfriend hits her first....
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Legion

Julie Kagawa · Harlequin Teen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the limitless imagination of Julie Kagawa comes the next thrilling novel in The Talon Saga. The legions will be unleashed, and no human, rogue dragon or former dragonslayer can stand against the coming horde. Dragon hatchling Ember Hill was never prepared to find love at all - dragons...
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The Girl Who Wouldn't Die

Randall Platt · Sky Pony Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

It's 1939 in Poland, and Arab knows that standing up for anyone -- especially her Jewish family -- only paints a target on her back. So she plans to survive the Nazi occupation the way she always has: disguise herself as an Aryan boy, lead her street gang, and sell whatever she can steal....
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Stars and Galaxies

Giles Sparrow · Cavendish Square
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

Stars and Galaxies examines how galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda work and the stars and planets within them. Detailed illustrations and clear charts help explain these complicated topics.
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Freed by Flame and Storm

Becky Allen · Delacorte Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Tamora Pierce and Kristin Cashore comes the exciting and thoughtful social-justice fantasy sequel to Bound by Blood and Sand. Revolution is nigh, and one seventeen-year-old girl stands at the head of it all. Jae used to be a slave, laboring with the rest of her people under...
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The Odds of Lightning

Jocelyn Davies · Simon Pulse
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A bolt of lightning inspires an incredible journey in this charming, magical realism adventure that takes four teens on an all-night journey through the streets of New York City.Extraordinary things happen when we least expect them. Tiny, Lu, Will and Nathaniel used to be best friends....
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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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But Then I Came Back

Estelle Laure · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Gayle Forman meets Francesca Lia Block in this dazzling story about two coma girls and the boy who connects their lives. From the author of This Raging Light, a debut that New York Times bestselling author Morgan Matson calls "remarkable.""Something does exist. I saw. It's...
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