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A Dog in the Cave: The Wolves Who Made Us Human

Kay Frydenborg · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

We know dogs are our best animal friends, but have you ever thought about what that might mean? Fossils show we've shared our work and homes with dogs for tens of thousands of years. Now there's growing evidence that we influenced dogs' evolution - and they, in turn, changed ours. Even...
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We Are Still Tornadoes: A Novel

Michael Kun · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Growing up across the street from each other, Scott and Cath have been best friends for most of their lives. Now they've graduated high school and Cath is off to college while Scott stays at home trying to get his band off the ground. Neither of them realized that their first year after...
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Black Moon

Romina Russell · Razorbill
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Book 3 in the breathtaking sci-fi space saga inspired by astrology that will stun fans of the Illuminae Files and Starbound series. One final secret stands between Rho and the enemy. But will the devastating truth be enough to destroy her first?Rho, the courageous visionary from House Cancer,...
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Untitled Chaol Novel

SARAH J MAAS · Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover

In the next installment of the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series, follow Chaol on his sweeping journey to a distant empire.Chaol Westfall has always defined himself by his unwavering loyalty, his strength, and his position as the Captain of the Guard. But all of that has changed...
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Mad Scientists: The Not-So-Crazy Work of Amazing Scientists

Sally Lee · Fact Finders
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Drinking vomit. Breathing poisonous gasses. Creating two headed dogs. These mad acts arent just the stuff gross out stories and horror movies. They are real things that real scientists have done in the search for scientific answers.
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Marvelous Money Tricks

Norm Barnhart · Capstone Press
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

People will marvel at these fantastic money tricks! With some practice, you'll soon be leaving audiences puzzled and amused. Simple step by step instructions and photos will teach you how to make money appear out of thin air, transform coupons into cash, and more!
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Bridge of Clay

RANDOM HOUSE. · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable and sweeping family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be lifechanging." The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world...
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North Dakota

Darlene R. Stille · Childrens Pr; Revised edition
Format: Book

The third series of America the Beautiful is back in a revised edition. The books in this series are bursting with fascinating facts, updated statistics, and brand-new full-color photographs. America the Beautiful's dynamic design and editorial approach to the geography, history, people,...
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Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom: Life in the Dead Zone

Rebecca L. Johnson · Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Pages: 64
Format: Library Binding

After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, scientists believed radiation had created a vast and barren wasteland in which life could never resurface. But the Dead Zone, as the contaminated area is known, doesn't look dead at all. In fact, wildlife seems to be thriving there....
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The Lying Woods

Ashley Elston · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Owen Foster has never wanted for anything. Then his mother shows up at his elite New Orleans boarding school cradling a bombshell: his privileged life has been funded by stolen money. After using the family business, the single largest employer in his small Louisiana town, to embezzle millions...
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The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

Catherynne M. Valente · Square Fish
Format: Paperback

One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century.-Time magazine, on the Fairyland When a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Red Wind, he becomes a changeling-a human boy-in the strange city of Chicago, a place...
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In the Forbidden City

Chiu Kwong-chiu · China Inst In Amer
Pages: 52
Format: Hardcover

"Readers become tourists as each page turn provides views into labyrinthine courtyards and palaces once reserved for imperial China's emperors ( ... ) An impressive introduction to the Forbidden City." - KirkusServing as the seat of imperial power for six centuries, the Forbidden...
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Say What You Will

Cammie McGovern · Harperteen
Pages: 343
Format: Hardcover

John Green's The Fault in Our Stars meets Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park in this beautifully written, incredibly honest, and emotionally poignant novel. Cammie McGovern's insightful young adult debut is a heartfelt and heartbreaking story about how we can all feel lost...
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Skateboarding Skills: Everything a New Rider Needs to Know

Ryan Stutt · Firefly Books, 2014. Â2014
Pages: 95
Format: Paperback

All the moves to become a serious skateboarder. Praise for The Skateboarding Field Manual, also by Ryan Stutt: "Stutt's appealing title is rife with the glossy glamour that should win nods of approval from even proficient shredders." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's...
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