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Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win

Rachel Ignotofsky · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Illustrated profiles of fifty pioneering female athletes, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science. Women for the win!A richly illustrated and inspiring book, Women in Sports highlightsthe achievements and stories of fifty notable women athletes from the1800s to today,...
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Genuine Fraud

E LOCKHART · Delacorte Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!From the author of We Were Liars, which John Green called "utterly unforgettable," comes a masterful new psychological suspense novel - the story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many times can someone...
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Optimists Die First

Susin Nielsen-Fernlund · Wendy Lamb Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Award-winning author Susin Nielsen has written a laugh-out-loud and heartrending novel for fans of Robyn Schneider's Extraordinary Means and Cammie McGovern's Say What You Will. Beware: Life ahead. Sixteen-year-old Petula de Wilde is anything but wild. A former crafting fiend with a happy...
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Watchdog

Will McIntosh · Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Thirteen-year-old twins Vick and Tara have built an incredible machine - a loyal robotic watchdog named Daisy. But, when local crime boss Ms. Alba schemes to add Daisy to her robot army, Vick and Tara must go to great lengths to protect their prized pet. Because Daisy is more than just...
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Intensity: Illustrated

Sherrilyn Kenyon · Mighty Barmacle, LLC
Pages: 362
Format: Paperback

It's a demon-eat-demon world for Nick Gautier. Just when he thinks he's finally gotten a handle on how not to take over the world and destroy it, Death returns with an all-star cast that is determined to end the Malachai reign and lineage forever. Worse? Death and War have found...
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Release

Patrick Ness · HarperTeen
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by Judy Blume's Forever and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, this novel that Andrew Smith calls "beautiful, enchanting, [and] exquisitely written" is a new classic about teenage relationships, self-acceptance - and what happens when the walls we build start coming down....
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The Last Harvest: A Novel

Kim Liggett · Tor Teen
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Kim Liggett draws on her childhood during the Satanic Panic for a chilling tale of magic in The Last Harvest."I plead the blood."Those were the last words seventeen-year-old golden boy quarterback Clay Tate heard rattling from his dad's throat when he discovered him dying on the barn...
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Lessons in Falling

Diana Gallagher · Spencer Hill Press
Pages: 250
Format: Print book

When Savannah Gregory blows out her knee - and her shot at a gymnastics scholarship - she decides she's done with the sport forever. Without gymnastics, she has more time for her best friend, Cassie. She's content to let her fun, impulsive best friend plan a memorable senior year....
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Content Ownership and Copyright

Carolee Laine · Essential Library
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

This item is Non-Returnable.
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Ahgottahandleonit

Donovan Mixon · Cinco Puntos Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Tim's a dyslexic black kid on the mean streets of Newark. How far can he run? Where can he hide? What is innocence? Where does it go? Tim is an undiagnosed dyslexic in an inner-city Newark high school. He's got good street creds, riffing strange rap-rhymes and running like the wind. He's...
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What I Lost

Alexandra Ballard · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

What sixteen-year-old Elizabeth has lost so far: forty pounds, four jean sizes, a boyfriend, and her peace of mind. As a result, she's finally a size zero. She's also the newest resident at Wallingfield, a treatment center for girls like her -- girls with eating disorders. Elizabeth is determined...
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Crossing Ebenezer Creek

Tonya Bolden · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

When Mariah and her young brother Zeke are suddenly freed from slavery, they join Sherman's march through Georgia. Mariah wants to believe that the brutalities of slavery are behind them, but even as hope glimmers, there are many hardships yet to come. When she meets a free black named...
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Privacy and Security in the Digital Age

Anne C Cunningham · Greenhaven Publishing
Pages: 174
Format: Print book

The digital age has enhanced our lives in such profound ways that its difficult to imagine how we ever coped without computers, the internet, and smartphone cameras. But along with the obvious improvements that technology offers come threats to our personal freedoms. Readers of this enlightening...
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Rough Patch

NICOLE MARKOTIC · Arsenal Pulp Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

When fifteen-year-old Keira starts high school, she almost wishes she could write "Hi, my name is Keira, and I'm bisexual!" on her nametag. Needless to say, she's actually terrified to announce - let alone fully explore - her sexuality. Quirky but shy, loyal yet a bit zany, Keira...
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Day of Ice

ANDREW LANE · Adaptive Books
Format: Hardcover

Months after their rescue by the government agency Segment W, Robinson Crusoe and his friend Friday have proven their skills as secret agents. They're now climbing the ranks of this exclusive group of spies who reports directly to the Crown. Suddenly, in the dead of winter, Friday...
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