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March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine
MELBA PATTILLO BEALS · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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From the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy selling Warriors Don't Cry comes an ardent and profound childhood memoir of growing up while facing adversity in the Jim Crow South. Long before she was one of the Little Rock Nine, Melba Pattillo Beals was a warrior.... |
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Permanent Record
Leslie Stella · Skyscape
Format: Hardcover
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Being yourself can be such a bad idea. For sixteen-year-old Badi Hessamizadeh, life is a series of humiliations. After withdrawing from public school under mysterious circumstances, Badi enters Magnificat Academy. To make things “easier,” his dad has even given him a new name:... |
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If You're Out There
Katy Loutzenhiser · Balzer + Bray
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"Funny, engrossing, and one-of-a-kind. If You're Out There completely swept me away." - Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Leah on the Offbeat Part whip-smart suspense tale, part touching story of friendship, this is an extraordinary debut about a determined... |
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Chasing Stars
Helen Douglas · Bloomsbury Usa
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Hunted down by a ruthless "cleaner" from the future, star-crossed lovers Eden and Ryan have been forced to travel a hundred years forward to 2123. Ryan has broken fundamental laws of time for them to be together, and now they face his trial and permanent imprisonment . . . and a life... |
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The Storm
Virginia Bergin · Sourcebooks Fire
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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DEADLY TO THE LAST DROP .Ninety-seven percent of the population is dead. And the killer rain keeps falling. Ruby's not sure she can make it on her own much longer. So when a chance encounter leads her to a camp with the last boy she may ever kiss (it's not easy to date during an apocalypse),... |
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Understanding Suicide: A National Epidemic
Connie Goldsmith · Twenty-First Century Books
Pages: 112
Format: Print book
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What causes people to take their lives? How can suicides be prevented? Looking beyond common myths and misconceptions, Understanding Suicide examines common risk factorsincluding mental illness, substance abuse, domestic abuse, and bullying. |
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The Truth and Lies of Ella Black
Emily Barr · Philomel Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the "unputdownable" international hit The One Memory of Flora Banks comes a fast-paced cross-continental journey of identity, family, darkness and light, and the ways in which we define ourselves.Ella Black has always had dark inclinations. She's successfully... |
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Beck
Mal Peet · Candlewick
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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From Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet comes a sweeping coming-of-age adventure, both harrowing and life-affirming.
Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the Catholic... |
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Randoms
David Liss · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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A science fiction superfan finds himself on his very own space adventure when he's randomly selected to join an alien confederacy in this hilarious middle grade debut novel.
Zeke Reynolds comes from a long line of proud science fiction geeks. He knows his games, comics, movies, and TV shows... |
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Prisoner 88
Leah Pileggi · Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover
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What if you were ten years old and thrown into prison with hardened criminals? That's just what happens to Jake Oliver Evans. Inspired by a true account of a prisoner in the Idaho Territorial Penitentiary in 1885, Jake's story is as affecting as it is shocking.Convicted of manslaughter... |
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