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Words in Deep Blue

Cath Crowley · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"One of the loveliest, most exquisitely beautiful books I've read in a very long time. . . . I didn't just read the pages, I lived in them." - Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places A beautiful love story for fans of Jandy Nelson and Nicola...
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Hit Count

Chris Lynch · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Arlo Brodie loves being at the heart of the action on the football field, and while his dad cheers him on, his mother quotes head injury statistics and refuses to watch, but Arlo's winning plays, the cheering crowds, and the adrenaline rush are enough to convince him that everything...
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Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel--Why Everything You Know Is Wrong

John Stossel · Hyperion; First Edition edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A mericas favorite investigative reporter John Stossel tackles our favorite myths in his characteristic style and challenges us to look at life differently Myths and Misconceptions covered in the book include lIs the media unbiased lAre our schools helping or hurting our kids lDo singles...
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Delirium

Lauren Oliver · Harper
Pages: 29
Format: Paperback

Lauren Oliver's powerful New York Times bestselling novel Delirium - the first in a dystopian trilogy - presents a world as terrifying as George Orwell's 1984 and a romance as true as Romeo & Juliet.In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government...
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Cloudwish

Fiona Wood · Little
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Award-winning author Fiona Wood delivers a thought-provoking story of self-discovery and first love-one that will resonate with anyone who has ever realized that the things that make you different are the things that make you...you. For Vn Uoc, fantasies fall into two categories: nourishing...
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Trailblazers: 33 Women in Science Who Changed the World

Rachel Swaby · Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Florence Nightingale. Sally Ride. Ada Lovelace. These names and others are etched in history and included here as part of an awe-inspiring collection of profiles of thirty-three of the most influential women in science - women whose vision, creativity, passion, and dedication have changed...
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City of Saints & Thieves

Natalie Anderson · Putnam Pub Group
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Gone Girl in this enthralling murder mystery set in Kenya. In the shadows of Sangui City, there lives a girl who doesn't exist. After fleeing the Congo as refugees, Tina and her mother arrived in Kenya looking for the chance to build a new life and home....
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Street Luge and Dirtboarding

Suzanne J Murdico · Rosen
Pages: 47
Format: Book

Essential Information for Current and Future Skateboarders Skateboarding is back on top of the teen sport scene, and this new series has all the information teens need to learn about this extreme sport. Packed with full-color photographs capturing skateboarding's exciting action, these...
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Fear of Missing Out

Kate McGovern · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Everyone has a fear of missing out on something -- a party, a basketball game, a hangout after school. But what if it's life that you'll be missing out on? When Astrid learns that her cancer has returned, she hears about a radical technology called cryopreservation that may allow her to have...
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Tumbling

Caela Carter · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Make It Or Break It, a novel about the road to Olympics for the world's most elite gymnasts.Work harder than anyone. Be the most talented. Sacrifice everything. And if you're lucky, maybe you will go to the Olympics. Grace lives and breathes gymnastics - but no matter how hard...
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Paper Butterflies

Lisa Heathfield · Carolrhoda Lab TM
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

June's life at home with her stepmother and stepsister is a dark one - and a secret one. Not even her dad knows the truth, and she can't find the words to tell anyone else. She's trapped like a butterfly in a net. Then June meets Blister, a boy from a large, loving, chaotic family. In him,...
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Hidden

Miriam Halahmy · Holiday House
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

An exciting as well as thought-provoking novel about a teen who finds an injured illegal immigrant and must make a complex moral decision about his fate. For fourteen-year-old Alix, life on Hayling Island off the coast of England seems insulated from problems such as war, terrorism and refugees....
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The Dysasters

NOT AVAILABLE. · Wednesday Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

P.C. and Kristin Cast, the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of the House of Night phenomenon, return to the scene with The Dysasters -- the first action-packed novel in a new paranormal fantasy series.Adoptive daughter of a gifted scientist, Foster Stewart doesn't live a "normal"...
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Make: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery

Charles Platt · Maker Media, Inc
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"This is teaching at its best!"--Hans Camenzind, inventor of the 555 timer (the world's most successful integrated circuit) , and author of Much Ado About Almost Nothing: Man's Encounter with the Electron (Booklocker.com) "A fabulous book: well written, well paced,...
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Ramona Blue

Julie Murphy · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 420
Format: Print book

From Julie Murphy, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin' and Side Effects May Vary, comes another fearless heroine, Ramona Blue, in a gorgeously evocative novel about family, friendship, and how sometimes love can be more fluid than you first think. Perfect for fans of Rainbow...
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