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The Geography of You and Me

Jennifer E Smith · Poppy, Little, Brown and Company, 2015 Â2014.
Pages: 337
Format: Print book

Lucy lives on the twenty-fourth floor. Owen lives in the basement. It's fitting, then, that they meet in the middle -- stuck between two floors of a New York City apartment building, on an elevator rendered useless by a citywide blackout. After they're rescued, Lucy and Owen spend the night...
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A Shadow Bright and Burning

Jessica Cluess · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 407
Format: Hardcover

"Vivid characters, terrifying monsters, and world building as deep and dark as the ocean."--Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen I am Henrietta Howel.The first female sorcerer in hundreds of years.The prophesied one.Or am I?Henrietta Howel can burst...
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Heroes of Olympus, Book One The Lost Hero: The Graphic Novel

Robert Venditti · Disney-Hyperion; Gift edition
Format: Print book

Jason has a problem. He doesnt remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently shes his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and theyre all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for bad kids. What he did to end up here,...
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Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team

Steve Sheinkin · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

"Sheinkin has made a career of finding extraordinary stories in American history, researching them exhaustively and recounting them at a nimble pace for readers aged 10 and up . . . Thorpe's greatness may be aspirational, but Sheinkin's brisk and forthright delivery makes it seem entirely...
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Before the Devil Breaks You

LIBBA BRAY · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 552
Format: Hardcover

The Diviners are back in this thrilling and eerie third installment by #1 New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray.New York City.1927.Lights are bright.Jazz is king.Parties are wild.And the dead are coming... After battling a supernatural sleeping sickness that early claimed two of their...
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An Insider's Guide to Soccer

Jeremy Cooperson · Rosen Classroom
Format: Paperback

Whatever you know the sport assoccer, ftbol, football, or association footballit is the worlds most popular team sport. And the World Cup, played every four years, is the worlds most popular sporting event. But thats on the global stage. As everyone who plays or watches soccer knows, sometimes...
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The Lifeboat Clique

Kathy Parks · HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audio CD

[Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17) ]Some people might say Denver has a death wish. Why else would she sneak into a Malibu beach party where she'd be surrounded by enemies? Oh yeah. Croix. Denver never thought in a million years he'd ask her out, but why question a miracle of fate? Well,...
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Redeemed

P. C. Cast · St Martins Pr; Int edition

In the final electrifying novel in the HoN series, Neferet has finally made herself known to mortals. A Dark Goddess is loose on Tulsa and the world. No single vampyre is strong enough to vanquish her - unless that creature has the power to summon the elements as well as the ability to wield...
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Nancy Drew Mystery Stories The Ghost of Blackwood Hall by Carolyn Keene

Carolyn Keene · Grosset & Dunlap
Pages: 178
Format: Print book

When Mrs. Putney seeks Nancy Drew's help in recovering her stolen jewelry, the search for the thieves takes the teen-age detective and her friends Bess and George to the colorful French Quarter of New Orleans. But the quest is hampered by the strange behavior of Mrs. Putney, and two young...
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Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosenwald Helped Change African American Education

Norman H Finkelstein · Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights,
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

When Booker T. Washington, the famed African American educator, asked Julius Rosenwald, the wealthy president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and noted philanthropist, to help him build well-designed and fully equipped schools for black children, the face of education in the South changed...
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Vengeance is Mine: A Red River Mystery

Reavis Wortham · Poisoned Pen Press; 1 edition
Format: Large print book

By October, 1967, The Summer of Love is history, rock and roll is dark and revolutionary, and people in the small East Texas community of Center Springs want only a quiet life. Unluckily, two years earlier, Anthony Agrioli met newlyweds Cody and Norma Faye Parker in a Vegas casino and heard...
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Food and Drink

Mike Hobbs · Smart Apple Media
Format: Print book

Find out what it takes to become a successful food and drink entrepreneur, from coming up with an idea all the way to launching the next big thing. Get tips from those who have succeeded and follow our challenges to join the Young Entrepreneurs Club! --This text refers to the Paperback...
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Tomb of the Khan

Matthew J Kirby · Scholastic Inc.
Pages: 343
Format: Paperback

As the second book in the Last Descendants trilogy begins, Owen and his friends have lost. When they located the first piece of an ancient and powerful relic long considered a legend - the Trident of Eden - it seemed little could stop them. This piece was sought by the Brotherhood of Assassins...
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Five Children on the Western Front

Kate Saunders · Delacorte Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In this incredible, heart-wrenching story reminiscent of E. Nesbit's Five Children and It, Kate Saunders illustrates the power of war but the even greater power of family, and the love that carries us out of the darkness of despair into the light of hope. The sand fairy, also known...
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