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Anatomy of a Misfit
Andrea Portes · HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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In this Mean Girls meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower tale, narrator Anika Dragomir is the third most popular girl at Pound High School. But inside, she knows shes a freak she cant stop thinking about former loner Logan McDonough, who showed up on the first day of tenth grade hotter,... |
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Who Traveled the Underground Railroad?
Cath Senker · Heinemann
Format: Print book
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How do we know about the slaves who escaped using what is known as the Underground Railroad, and about the people that organized it? What were they escaping from, and what happened to them? This book shows how we know about the fugitives and their experiences from primary and other sources.... |
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MindWar: A Novel
Andrew Klavan · Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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When Rick lost the ability to run, he came one step closer to becoming a hero. New High Score! New Record Time! Rick nodded with grim satisfaction. He laid the game controller aside on the sofa and reached for his crutches. Rick Dial was the best quarterback Putnam Hills High School had ever... |
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Getting a Job in Law Enforcement, Security, and Corrections
Mary-Lane Kamberg · Rosen Pub Group
Format: Book
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Provides an overview of careers in the field of law enforcement, discusses the educational requirements and job requirements, and offers job search tips and advice on advancing in the profession. |
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Going Vintage
Lindsey Leavitt · Bloomsbury
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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When Mallory discovers that her boyfriend, Jeremy, is cheating on her with an online girlfriend, she swears off boys. She also swears off modern technology. Inspired by a list of goals her grandmother made in 1962, Mallory decides to "go vintage" and return to a simpler time (when... |
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Night Sky
Suzanne Brockmann · Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping page-turner from first to last...The start of something that can only be described as greater-than. -Kirkus Starred ReviewThey could be hunting you.Hunted. Kidnapped. Bled. Someone is snatching girls and draining them for a secret thats in their blood. A hormone that makes them... |
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Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II
Martin W. Sandler · Walker Books For Young Readers
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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While Americans fought for freedom and democracy abroad, fear and suspicion towards Japanese Americans swept the country after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Culling information from extensive, previously unpublished interviews and oral histories with Japanese American survivors... |
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
Susan Campbell Bartoletti · Harcourt Brace and Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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"What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's... |
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Food and Farming
Jen Green · Heinemann
Format: Library Binding
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We are all aware of the importance of the environment - it's in the news, it affects our behavior and the decisions we make every day. But what actual impact has environmental thinking had on the world around us? This thought-provoking book looks at the way changing ideas about the environment... |
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Alice and the Fly
James Rice · Quercus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Greg is cripplingly shy, afraid of spiders, and obsessed with Breakfast at Tiffany's. He's not exactly the most popular kid at his high school. In fact, he pretty much goes out of his way to avoid talking to anybody he doesn't have to. And it doesn't help that he has a severe... |
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The Cask of Amontillado
Joeming W. Dunn · Magic Wagon
Format: Book
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Retold in graphic novel form, Montresor plots and executes his perfect revenge, which involves a cask of rare wine. |
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Malala Yousafzai and the Girls of Pakistan
David Aretha · Morgan Reynolds Pub
Pages: 64
Format: Library Binding
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In 2012, a Taliban gunman shot a bullet into the head of Malala Yousafzai. The fifteen-year-old Pakistani girl needed to die, Taliban leaders reasoned, because she spoke out against the group's policies, which had included the suppression of girls' education in Malala's home region of Swat... |
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Age of Ultron
Brian Michael Bendis · Marvel Enterprises
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Humanity's time is over. Submit or perish, because the Age of Ultron has arrived! The artificial intelligence known as Ultron has fought for years to eradicate mankind...and now, it has all but succeeded. The few remaining heroes are battered, broken, almost beaten and left considering... |
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Homeland
Cory Doctorow · Tor Teen; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco--an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers,... |
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