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My Real Name is Hanna

TARA LYNN MASIH · Mandel Vilar Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Inspired by real Holocaust events, this poignant debut novel is a powerful coming-of-age story that will resonate with fans of The Book Thief and Between Shades of Gray.--A 2018 Skipping Stones Honor Award BookHanna Slivka is on the cusp of fourteen when Hitler's army crosses the border...
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All the Crooked Saints

Maggie Stiefvater · Scholastic Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Here is a thing everyone wants: A miracle.Here is a thing everyone fears:What it takes to get one.Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado, is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full...
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Murder, Magic, and What We Wore

KELLY JONES · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Patrice Kindl's Keeping the Castle or Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer's Sorcery and Cecelia will adore this funny Regency-era mystery about a determined young woman with a magical trick up her sleeve . . . The year is 1818, the city is London, and 16-year-old Annis Whitworth...
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Roots of Racism

Kelly Bakshi · Essential Library
Pages: 112
Format: Library Binding

Everyone's daily lives are affected by race and racism in America. Roots of Racismexamines the long history of the concept of race, the ways in which race has been used to divide people, and its continuing relevance in modern times. Features include essential facts, a glossary, references,...
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The Football Girl

Thatcher Heldring · Delacorte Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

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 Book that Made Me: A Collection of 32 Personal Stories.

Judith Ridge · Candlewick Press
Pages: 242
Format: Print book

Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.
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You May Now Kill the Bride

R. L. Stine · HarperTeen
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

NEW Fear Street stories with a retro look, perfect for fans of Stranger Things!Two sisters, divided by time. Each with a terrible resentment she can barely contain.Two Fear family weddings, decades apart... Each bride will find that the ancient curse that haunts the Fears LIVES ON. It feeds...
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Drawn Away

Holly Bennett · Orca Book Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

One minute Jack's in math class. The next, he's on a dark, cobblestoned, empty street. Empty, that is, except for a skinny girl wrapped in a threadbare shawl. "Matches, mister?" she asks, and just like that, Jack's life collides with one of Hans Christian Andersen's...
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That's Not What Happened

Kody Keplinger · Scholastic Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

It's been three years since the Virgil County High School Massacre. Three years since my best friend, Sarah, was killed in a bathroom stall during the mass shooting. Everyone knows Sarah's story--that she died proclaiming her faith.But it's not true.I know because I was with her when she died....
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Radio Silence

Alice Oseman · Harper Teen
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

From critically acclaimed author Alice Oseman comes a smartly crafted contemporary YA novel, perfect for readers who love Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl. This is an utterly captivating and authentic new teen novel from the author of Solitaire, which VOYA said "could put her among the great...
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Dreadnought: Nemesis - Book One

April Daniels · Diversion Distribution Se
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

An action-packed series-starter perfect for fans of The Heroine Complex and Not Your Sidekick. "I didn't know how much I needed this brave, thrilling book until it rocked my world. Dreadnought is the superhero adventure we all need right now." -- Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds...
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Everything Must Go: A Novel

Jenny Fran Davis · Wednesday Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Flora Goldwasser has fallen in love. She won't admit it to anyone, but something about Elijah Huck has pulled her under. When he tells her about the hippie Quaker school he attended in the Hudson Valley called Quare Academy, where he'll be teaching next year, Flora gives up her tony upper...
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R Is for Rebel

J Anderson Coats · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Princess Academy meets Megan Whalen Turner in this stunning novel about a girl who won't let anything tame her spirit - not the government that conquered her people, and definitely not reform school!Malley has led the constables on a merry chase across her once-peaceful country. With...
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Seafire

NATALIE C PARKER · Razorbill
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The first in a heart-stopping trilogy that recalls the undeniable feminine power of Wonder Woman and the powder-keg action of Mad Max: Fury Road, Seafire follows the captain of an all-female ship intent on taking down a vicious warlord's powerful fleet. After her family is killed by corrupt...
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The Adjustment

Suzanne Young · Simon Pulse
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover

How do you go back to a life you can't remember? Find out in this follow up to the New York Times bestselling The Program and The Treatment.Tatum Masterson never went through The Program. She never had her memory stripped, never had to fight to remain herself. But when Weston, her longtime...
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