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The Football Girl
Thatcher Heldring · Delacorte Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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For every athlete or sports fanatic who knows she's just as good as the guys. This is for fans of The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Grace, Gold, and Glory by Gabrielle Douglass and Breakaway: Beyond the Goal by Alex Morgan. The summer before Caleb and Tessa enter high school,... |
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The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia
Clive Gifford · Kingfisher
Pages: 488
Format: Hardcover
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Science is vital for every inhabitant of today's world, and being scientifically informed and literate is a crucial part of any child's education. Science can seem daunting -- especially as scientific knowledge advances so quickly -- and this volume is the perfect purchase for any family.... |
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Vietnam war.
Earle Jr Rice · Mason Crest
Pages: 64
Format: Print book : English
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"In 1946, the Vietnamese people began fighting for independence from the French colonial rulers of their land, which at the time was known as Indochina. By the mid-1950s, the French had been defeated, and separate governments were set up in North Vietnam and South Vietnam pending elections... |
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Invision
Sherrilyn Kenyon · Griffin
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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Think you have a lot of pressure on your shoulders? Nick Gautier was born to bring about the end of the world . . . it's not easy being the heir of a demon overlord. But Nick is determined to thwart his destiny and get into a good college. To be more than his genetics and prophecy foretell.... |
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Croak
Gina Damico · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 311
Format: Paperback
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Fed up with her wild behavior, sixteen-year-old Lex's parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape. But Uncle Mort's true occupation is much dirtier than shoveling manure.... |
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Beck
Mal Peet · Candlewick
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet comes a sweeping coming-of-age adventure, both harrowing and life-affirming.Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the Catholic Brothers... |
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Mechanica
Betsy Cornwell · Clarion Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Nicolette's awful stepsisters call her "Mechanica" to demean her, but the nickname fits: she learned to be an inventor at her mother's knee. Her mom is gone now, though, and the Steps have pushed her into a life of dreary servitude. When she discovers a secret workshop... |
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The Serpent King
Jeff Zentner · Crown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover
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Named to ten BEST OF THE YEAR lists and selected as a William C. Morris Award Winner,The Serpent King is the critically acclaimed, much-beloved story of three teens who find themselves--and each other--while on the cusp of graduating from high school with hopes of leaving their small-town... |
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This Is the Story of You
Beth Kephart · Chronicle Books
Pages: 258
Format: Print book
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On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and stranding Mira's mother and brother on the mainland.... |
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The 5th Wave
Richard Yancey · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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"Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances." - Entertainment Weekly (Grade A) The Passage meets Ender's Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey.After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd,... |
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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 1: The Sword of Summer
Rick Riordan · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since his mother's mysterious death, he's lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, keeping one step ahead of the police and the truant officers.One day, he's tracked down by an uncle he barely knows-a man his mother claimed... |
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Flowers in the Attic / Petals on the Wind
V.C. Andrews · Simon Pulse
Pages: 848
Format: Paperback
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A value-priced bindup of the first two books ever published by V. C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind. |
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The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo: An Ecological Mystery
Jean Craighead George · Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pages: 148
Format: Hardcover
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Sixth-grader Liza K., one of five homeless people living in an unspoiled forest in southern Florida, searches for a missing alligator destined for official extermination and studies the delicate ecological balance keeping her outdoor home beautiful. |
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The Riverman
Aaron Starmer · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 310
Format: Print book
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Alistair Cleary is the kid who everyone trusts. Fiona Loomis is not the typical girl next door. Alistair hasn't really thought of her since they were little kids until she shows up at his doorstep with a proposition: she wants him to write her biography. What begins as an odd vanity project... |
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A Wind in the Night: A Novel of the Noble Dead
Barb Hendee · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 422
Format: Hardcover
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In her quest to find the Orb of Spirit, Wynn Hygeorht is torn between two men who hate each other - her vampire protector, Chane Andraso, and the elf Osha, who has tender feelings for her. Now a strange series of clues leads them to a remote keep built on the dark cliffs of the coast of Witeny.... |
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