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Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries)

Sheila Turnage - Puffin Books
Format: Hardcover

A Newbery Honor Book. "An irresistible Southern narrator - a literary descendant of Scout Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird." - Newsday. Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyones business is fair game and no secret is sacred....
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Going Over

Kephart, Beth
Format: electronic resource

Teenagers in love are separated by the Berlin Wall in this “compelling [and] gripping” novel by the National Book Award finalist (Kirkus Reviews).
 
It is February 1983, and Berlin is a divided city with a miles-long barricade separating east from west. But the city...
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A Little Bit of Spectacular

Gin Phillips - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

An authentic coming-of-age story about finding magic in the every day - perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead, Joan Bauer, and Wendy Mass.Olivia and her mom have just moved in with her grandmother, and Olivia has exactly zero friends at her new school. But after a strange message on the bathroom...
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Between Worlds

Skip Brittenham - Putnam Pub Group
Format: Print book

The town of Eden Grove has a legend: In the center of a pine forest there is an aspen grove, and in the center of the aspen grove is an ancient, magnificent tree. A tree that grants wishes. Mayberry and Marshall have heard the stories about the Wishing Tree, but they know nothing like that...
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Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

Lynn Weingarten - Simon Pulse
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling "taut, sophisticated thriller" (BCCB, starred review) packed with twists and turns that will leave you breathless.They say Delia burned herself to death in her stepfather's shed. They say it was suicide. But June doesn't believe...
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And the Trees Crept In

Dawn Kurtagich - Little
Format: Print book

When Silla and Nori arrive at their aunt's home, it's immediately clear that the "blood manor" is cursed. The creaking of the house and the stillness of the woods surrounding them would be enough of a sign, but there are secrets too--the questions that Silla can't ignore: Who is the beautiful...
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RoseBlood

Anita G Howard - Abrams Amulet
Format: Print book

This YA novel from New York Times bestselling author A. G. Howard marks the beginning of a new era for fans of the Splintered series. Rune Germain moves to a boarding school outside of Paris, only to discover that at this opera-house-turned-music-conservatory, phantoms really do exist....
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Love Charms and Other Catastrophes

Kimberly Karalius - Swoon Reads
Format: Print book

Aspiring love charm maker Hijiri Kitamura was excited to come back to Grimbaud for her sophomore year-until she learns about the upcoming charm making competition. Grimbaud has just started to recover from the tyranny of Zita's love fortunes and it would be too easy for the winning...
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Pax

Sara Pennypacker - Harper Audio
Format: Audiobook on CD

Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. One day, the unimaginable happens, Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house, three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where...
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Peak

Roland Smith - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. - Peak Marcello After fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he's left with two choices: wither away in Juvenile...
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Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family's Journey

Margriet Ruurs - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Print book

This unique picture book was inspired by the stone artwork of Syrian artist Nizar Ali Badr, discovered by chance by Canadian children's writer Margriet Ruurs. The author was immediately impressed by the strong narrative quality of Mr. Badr's work, and, using many of Mr. Badr's...
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Four-Four-Two

Dean Hughes - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

From the author of Soldier Boys and Search and Destroy comes a thought-provoking, action-packed page-turner based on the little-known history of the Japanese Americans who fought with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II.Yuki Nakahara is an American. But it's...
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Wrecked

Maria Padian - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Print book

Everyone has heard a different version of what happened that night at MacCallum College. Haley was already in bed when her roommate, Jenny, arrived home shell-shocked from the wild Conundrum House party. Richard heard his housemate Jordan brag about the cute freshman he hooked up with....
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Star Wars: Ahsoka

E. K. Johnston - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

Fans have long wondered what happened to Ahsoka after she left the Jedi Order near the end of the Clone Wars and before she reappeared as the mysterious Rebel operative Fulcrum in Rebels. Finally her story will begin to be told. Following her experiences with the Jedi and the devastation...
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Night Speed

Chris Howard - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

An addictive new drug fuels superhuman strength and speed in this action-packed sci-fi thriller that will have fans of Scott Westerfeld and Marie Lu on the edge of their seats.Only those young enough can survive tetra, a dangerous drug that creates a pulse-pounding rush of enormous strength...
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Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee

Mary G Thompson - G.P. Putnam's
Format: Print book

A bittersweet homecoming holds dark secrets in this heart-wrenching story of loss, love, and survival for readers of Room When sixteen-year-old Amy returns home, she can't tell her family what's happened to her. She can't tell them where she's been since she and her best friend,...
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Rites of Passage

Joy N. Hensley - HarperTeen
Format: Print book

In this fast-paced, high-stakes debut novel, sixteen-year-old Sam McKenna discovers that becoming one of the first girls to attend a revered military academy means living with a target on her back. As Sam struggles to prove herself, she learns that a decades-old secret society is alive...
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The Farmerettes

Gisela Sherman - Second Story Press
Format: Paperback

Six girls just out of high school live together during the summer of 1943 on a farm as part of the Farm Service Force, doing the work of the men who are off fighting the war in Europe. We follow the stories of Helene, who sends her wages home to support her single mother; Peggy, a flirt...
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Dreamland Burning

Jennifer Latham - Little
Format: Print book

Some bodies won't stay buried.Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past... and the present.Nearly...
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Labyrinth Lost

Zoraida Córdova - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Print book

"Enchanting and complex. Every page is filled with magic." -- Danielle Paige, New York Times best-selling author of Dorothy Must DieNothing says Happy Birthday like summoning the spirits of your dead relatives. Alex is a bruja, the most powerful witch in a generation...and she hates...
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Wild Lily

K M Peyton - David Fickling Books
Format: Print book

It's the 1920s -- cars and planes are new. Lily Gabriel is scruffy and confident and takes no nonsense from anyone. Antony is rich, spoiled, and arrogant, and Lily is completely and utterly -- no nonsense! -- in love with him.So join Lily as she falls... Falls in love... Falls out of the sky......
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Hunted

Meagan Spooner - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner spins a thoroughly thrilling Beauty and the Beast story for the modern age, expertly woven with spellbinding romance, intrigue, and suspense that readers won't soon be able to forget. Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones--and in her blood....
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Mickey Price: Journey to Oblivion

John P. Stanley - Tanglewood Press
Format: Hardcover

The moon is under threat of a nuclear meltdown due to a space station malfunction. Complicating things is the presence of pleurinium, a magnetic material that makes humans instantly, seriously ill - well, all humans who are 14 years old and up.Mickey Price is an orphan in Orlando; Trace...
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Spark

Holly Schindler - HarperTeen
Format: Print book

Acclaimed author Holly Schindler writes a compelling contemporary tale with a dash of magic. The theater comes to life in this story of family ties, fate, love, and one girl's quest to rewrite history.The local Avery Theater was just a run-down building to Quin - until her mother told...
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Hidden

Miriam Halahmy - Holiday House
Format: Print book

An exciting as well as thought-provoking novel about a teen who finds an injured illegal immigrant and must make a complex moral decision about his fate. For fourteen-year-old Alix, life on Hayling Island off the coast of England seems insulated from problems such as war, terrorism and refugees....
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Barron's AP Spanish Language and Culture with MP3 CD, 9th Edition

Daniel Paolicchi M.A. - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Paperback

Updated to reflect the most recent AP Spanish Language and Culture exam, this manual includes:Two full-length practice examsEnclosed MP3 CD includes audio for all listening comprehension practice and both practice examsSeparate practice and review units that provide strategies for improvement...
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Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story

Caren Barzelay Stelson - Carolrhoda Books
Format: Hardcover

A Minnesota Book Award FinalistA Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature "[A] book that is both personal and universal, both thoroughly researched and real."--The New York Times Book Review This striking...
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Beneath Wandering Stars

Ashlee Cowles - Merit Press
Format: Print book

After her soldier brother is horribly wounded in Afghanistan, Gabriela must honor the vow she made: If anything ever happened to him, she would walk the Camino de Santiago through Spain, making a pilgrimage in his name. The worst part is that the promise stipulates that she must travel...
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A Mad, Wicked Folly

Sharon Biggs Waller - Viking
Format: Print book

Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this world comes seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling, who wants only to be an artist...
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Draw the Line

Laurent Linn - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Paperback

After a hate crime occurs in his small Texas town, Adrian Piper must discover his own power, decide how to use it, and know where to draw the line in this "powerful debut" novel (Publishers Weekly, starred review) exquisitely illustrated by the author.Adrian Piper is used to blending...
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The Secret Horses of Briar Hill

Megan Shepherd - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

"Deserves a spot on the shelf next to the most beloved children's classics - yes, even The Secret Garden." - Shelf Awareness, Starred ReviewDescribed as "reminiscent of the Chronicles of Narnia" in a starred review, The Secret Horses of Briar...
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Ninja Science: Camouflage, Weapons, and Stealthy Attacks

Marcia Amidon Lüsted - Capstone Press
Format: Print book

Ninja warriors were masters of stealth and disguise. They could quickly defeat their enemies without raising the alarm. They may not have realized it, but they owed their success to science. Engaging text, fascinating photos, and useful illustrations will help young readers understand how science...
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Handbook to Bigfoot, Nessie, and Other Unexplained Creatures

Tyler Omoth - Capstone Press
Format: Print book

Legendary creatures abound. From Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster to Mothman and the Chupacabra, sightings of mystifying beings have spanned the globe throughout the ages. Paranormal Handbooks presents the details in all their spellbinding mystery.
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Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare - Washington Square Press Published by Pocket Books
Format: Print book

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud. In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers'...
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The Rains: A Novel

Gregg Hurwitz - Tor Teen
Format: Print book

In the tradition of Rick Yancey's "The 5th Wave, " the first YA page-turner from "New York Times "bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz. In one terrifying night, the peaceful community of Creek's Cause turns into a war zone. No one under the age of eighteen is safe. Chance...
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The Season

Jonah Lisa Dyer - Viking Children'S Books
Format: Print book

She can score a goal, do sixty box jumps in a row, bench press a hundred and fifty pounds ... but can she learn to curtsey? Megan McKnight is a soccer star with Olympic dreams, a history major, an expert at the three Rs of Texas (readin', ridin', and ropin') , but she's not a girly girl....
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Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World

Laura Barcella - Zest Books
Format: Print book

Nearly every day there's another news story, think piece, or pop cultural anecdote related to feminism and women's rights. Conversations around consent, equal pay, access to contraception, and a host of other issues are foremost topics of conversation in American media. And today's teens...
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Ticket to Childhood: A Novel

Nguyen Nhat Anh - Overlook Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

The best selling book in the history of modern Vietnam, Ticket to Childhood has been nothing short of a sensation in its home country: it has sold over 350,000 copies and has gone through thirty-five printings. This, the novel’s first appearance outside Vietnam, marks the arrival,...
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Lucy and Linh

Alice Pung - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

Gilmore Girls meets Fresh Off the Boat in this witty novel about navigating life in private school while remaining true to yourself. Lucy is a bit of a pushover, but she's ambitious and smart, and she has just received the opportunity of a lifetime: a scholarship to a prestigious...
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We Are Okay

Nina Lacour - Dutton
Format: Print book

From the award-winning author of Hold Still comes an achingly beautiful novel about grief and the enduring power of friendship. "Exquisite." - Kirkus, starred review "LaCour paints a captivating depiction of loss, bewilderment, and emotional paralysis . . . raw and beautiful."...
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How It Feels to Fly

Kathryn Holmes - Harper Teen
Format: Print book

A struggle with body dysmorphia forces one girl to decide if letting go of her insecurity also means turning her back on her dreams.Sam has always known she'd be a professional dancer - but that was before her body betrayed her, developing unmanageable curves in all the wrong places. Lately,...
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Once and for All

SARAH DESSEN - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From Sarah Dessen, the beloved New York Times bestselling author of SAINT ANYTHING and JUST LISTEN, comes a new novel set in the world of wedding planning!Is it really better to have loved and lost? Louna's summer job is to help brides plan their perfect day, even...
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Rose & Thorn

Sarah Prineas - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

This beauty isnt sleeping! Discover the true story of Sleeping Beauty in Sarah Prineass bold YA fairy-tale retelling filled with thrilling adventure and romance, perfect for fans of the Lunar Chronicles and the Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy.After the spell protecting her is destroyed,...
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Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens: The Secrets about Money--That You Don't Learn in School!

Robert T. Kiyosaki - Plata Publishing; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback

Personal finance author and lecturer Robert T. Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective from two very different influences - his two fathers. This text lays out Kiyosaki's philosophy and his relationship with money.
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This Is My Brain on Boys

Sarah Strohmeyer - Balzer Bray
Format: Print book

Jane Austen's Emma meets The Rosie Project in this quirky, irresistible, romantic comedy from Sarah Strohmeyer, the author of Smart Girls Get What They Want.Addie Emerson doesn't believe in love. Not for herself anyway. With one year left of high school, she's more interested...
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Girl Against the Universe.

Stokes Paula. - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Art of Lainey and Liars, Inc. comes a fresh, contemporary story about a girl coping with PTSD and the boy who wants to help her move on from the past. Perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen or Jenny Han.Sixteen-year-old Maguire knows the universe is against...
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Rocks Fall Everyone Dies

Lindsay Ribar - Kathy Dawson Books
Format: Print book

A paranormal suspense novel about a boy who can reach inside people and steal their innermost things - fears, memories, scars, even love - and his family's secret ritual that for centuries has kept the cliff above their small town from collapsing.Aspen Quick has never really worried about...
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City of Halves

Lucy Inglis - Chicken House
Format: Hardcover

Ancient myth collides with modern technology in this gripping urban fantasy. London. Present day. Girls are disappearing. And strange things are roaming the streets. When sixteen-year-old Lily is attacked by a two-headed dog, she's saved by hot, tattooed, and not-quite-human Regan....
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A Week of Mondays

Jessica Brody - Farrar
Format: eBook

When I made the wish, I just wanted a do-over. Another chance to make things right. I never, in a million years, thought it might actually come true... Sixteen-year-old Ellison Sparks is having a serious case of the Mondays. She gets a ticket for running a red light, she manages...
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Gang Tackle

Eric Howling - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Print book

After budget cuts force the Southside Saints football team to disband, Jamal and his friends have to settle for playing pickup on the hardscrabble field behind their high school. Then the president of a sporting-goods company offers to donate $20,000 worth of equipment to the team. There's...
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The Leaving

Tara Altebrando - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to. Until today. Today five of those kids return. They're sixteen, and they are . . . fine. Scarlett comes home and finds a mom she barely recognizes,...
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The Raven King

Maggie Stiefvater - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Audio CD

True love must die. The fourth and final installment in this spellbinding series is here. All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true loves death. She doesnt believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange...
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The Ninja Librarians: Sword in the Stacks

Jen Swann Downey - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Print book

As the newest apprentices to Petrarch's Library, Dorrie and her brother are determined to help search for the missing key that could destroy their beloved Library. On a training mission to England 1912, Dorrie sees her chance to help. All she needs to do is get close to a lord with...
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King Dork Approximately

Frank Portman - Delacorte Press; Advance Reader's Copy edition
Format: Hardcover

From Frank Portman comes the long-awaited sequel to the beloved cult classic King Dork, of which John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, said, Basically, if you are a human being with even a vague grasp of the English language, King Dork will rock your world. Aside from the stitches...
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Beck

Mal Peet - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

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 Brothers...
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The Reader

Traci Chee - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times BestsellerA stunning debut set in a world where reading is unheard-of, perfect for fans of Inkheart and Shadow and BoneSefia knows what it means to survive. After her father is brutally murdered, she flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin,...
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Replica

Lauren Oliver - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

Two girls, two stories, one epic novel.From Lauren Oliver, New York Times best-selling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy, comes an epic, masterful novel that explores issues of individuality, identity, and humanity. Replica contains two narratives in one: Lyras story and Gemmas...
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Lily and Dunkin

Donna Gephart - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

"Lily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl. But being a girl is not so easy when you look like a boy. Especially when you're in the eighth-grade. Norbert Dorfman, nicknamed Dunkin Dorfman, is bipolar and has just moved from the New Jersey town he's called home for the past...
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Living Proud! Confronting Stereotypes

Robert Rodi - Mason Crest Publishers
Format: Print book

Thats so gay! is a put down sadly still heard in the hallways of many schools. Words have power and can be used to hurt people or make them feel good about themselves. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people know this all too well. If you let them, stereotypes...
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Don't Tell, Don't Tell, Don't Tell

Liane Shaw - Second Story Press
Format: Print book

Frederick has a lot of rules for himself - like if someone calls him Freddy, he doesn't have to answer them, and he only wears shirts with buttons. But when his friend Angel - his only friend - goes missing and he is questioned by the police, he doesn't have a rule for that. Friendship...
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Sean Covey - Touchstone
Format: Paperback

With more than five million copies in print all around the world, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is the ultimate teenage success guide - now updated for the digital age.Imagine you had a roadmap - a step-by-step guide to help you get from where you are now, to where you want...
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The Human Genome

Megan Mitchell - Cavendish Square Publishing
Format: Print book

The Human Genome explores the science and the history behind the specific sequences in our DNA that make us human. Reaching all the way back to the 1850s when Gregor Mendel used his pea plant experiments to solve the mystery of trait inheritance, this book maps out each theory that laid...
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Mirror in the Sky

Aditi Khorana - Razorbill
Format: Print book

Another Earth meets Perks of Being a Wallflower in this thoughtful, mesemerizing debut and subject of a TedX talk about the discovery of a mirror planet to Earth and how it dramatically changes the course of one Indian-American girl's junior year."[O]ne of the most powerful...
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Bloodline

Joe Jiménez - Pin'ata Books
Format: Print book

In his junior year, seventeen-year-old Abraham learns how to drive a stick shift. He falls in love for the first time. And he has been in three fights and suspended twice, all before Thanksgiving. His grandmother and her girlfriend, the ones who have raised him, fear for his life and the hard...
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Being Jazz: My Life as a

Jazz Jennings - Random House/Listening Library
Format: Audiobook on CD

"Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest champions of transgender equality." - O, The Oprah Magazine "A role model for teens everywhere." - Seventeen.com on Jazz Jennings Teen activist and trailblazer Jazz Jennings - named one of "The 25 Most Influential Teens"...
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The Rithmatist

Brandon Sanderson - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover

From Barnes & NobleThere is a reason why you have never before heard the word "rithmatist." These elite paranormal practitioners work in a magical realm where none of us have ever gone before: Rithmatists possess the power to give life to two-dimensional figures called the Chalklings....
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Dead Girls Society

Michelle Krys - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

A girl accepts a mysterious invitation to play a deadly game in this suspense-filled thriller from the author of HEXED--perfect for fans of NERVE by Jeanne Ryan and Lauren Oliver's PANIC.You are cordially invited to participate in a game of thrills and dares. Tell...
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Summer of Sloane

Erin L Schneider - Hyperion
Format: Print book

Warm Hawaiian sun. Lazy beach days. Flirty texts with her boyfriend back in Seattle.These are the things seventeen-year-old Sloane McIntyre pictured when she imagined the summer she'd be spending at her mom's home in Hawaii with her twin brother, Penn. Instead, after learning an unthinkable...
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The Great Greene Heist

Varian Johnson - Scholastic
Format: Hardcover

Jackson Greene swears he's given up scheming. Then school bully Keith Sinclair announces he's running for Student Council president, against Jackson's former friend Gaby de la Cruz. Gaby wants Jackson to stay out of it -- but he knows Keith has "connections" to the principal,...
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My Life Before Me

Norah McClintock - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Paperback

Cady has always wanted to be a reporter, like her hero Nellie Bly, so after a fire burns down the orphanage she lives in, she's ready to leave small-town Ontario and make her mark as a newspaperwoman. A crumbling newspaper clipping leads her to Orrenstown, Indiana, where her investigation...
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Don't you trust me

Patrice Kindl - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

Fifteen-year-old Morgan, an emotionless schemer, moves in with a family after impersonating their niece and will continue the deception no matter the cost.
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Shame the Stars

Guadalupe Garcia Mccall - Tu Books
Format: Hardcover

Eighteen-year-old Joaquin del Toro's future looks bright. With his older brother in the priesthood, he s set to inherit his family s Texas ranch. He s in love with Dulcena and she s in love with him. But it s 1915, and trouble has been brewing along the US-Mexico border. On one side, the Mexican...
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Cracking the AP Spanish Language & Culture Exam with Audio CD, 2017 Edition

Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Print book

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5. Equip yourself to ace the AP Spanish Language & Culture Exam with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide - including thorough content reviews & strategies, 2 full-length practice tests with complete answer explanations,...
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Scythe

Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in this Printz Honor-winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered...
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The Almost King

Lucy Saxon - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

Aleks Vasin doesn't want any part of the boring village life mapped out for himhe wants excitement and the chance to travel. So Aleks heads South to the great city of Rensav and enlists in the army, but after a brutal few days, he realizes that he's signed himself away to a life far worse...
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Cloudwish

Fiona Wood - Little
Format: Print book

Award-winning author Fiona Wood delivers a thought-provoking story of self-discovery and first love-one that will resonate with anyone who has ever realized that the things that make you different are the things that make you...you. For Vn Uoc, fantasies fall into two categories:...
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Marked

Jenny Martin - Dial Books
Format: Print book

Mad Max meets Firefly in the exhilarating sequel to the sci-fi novel Tracked Cash, the prince of Bisera and leader of the rebellion, is missing. Phee's uncle James is dead. And Charles Benroyal, once again, is behind it all. Caught between grief, thoughts of revenge, and traumatizing...
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Frost

M P Kozlowsky - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

16-year-old Frost understands why she's spent her entire life in an abandoned apartment building. The ruined streets below are hunting grounds for rogue robots and Eaters.She understands why she's never met a human besides her father. She even understands why he forbids her to look for medicine...
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Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy

Susan Vaught - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover

Footer Davis is on the case when two kids go missing after a fire in this humorously honest novel that is full of Southern style."Bless your heart" is a saying in the South that sounds nice but really isn't. It means, "You're beyond help." That's what folks...
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Bound by Blood and Sand

Becky Allen - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

Jae is a slave in a dying desert world. Once verdant with water from a magical Well, the land is drying up, and no one remembers the magic needed to keep the water flowing. If a new source isn't found soon, the people will perish. Jae doesn't mind, in a way. By law, she is bound by a curse...
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The General's Daughter

Nelson DeMille - Warner Books
Format: Hardcover

Here is an intriguing and sophisticated murder mystery of an upstanding military officer - the base commander's daughter - who's been leading an unsavory double life.When a professional military woman with a pristine reputation is found raped and murdered, a preliminary search turns up certain...
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Kyle Finds Her Way

Susie Salom - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover

On the first day of sixth grade, Kyle Constantini lands in the principals office after standing up against (that is, punching) Ino Nevarez, who was teasing a deaf girl at school. Her punishment? Join the NAVS program, which teaches constructive problem-solving (that is, not punching) .. Kyle...
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Pop Girl

Tallia Storm - Scholastic
Format: Print book

Fourteen-year-old Storm Hall lives to sing. Forget school. Forget boys. All Storm wants is to sing. So when she's forced to miss a national competition to go on a once-in-a-lifetime family vacation to Hawaii, her life is over! What could be worse than missing a big break to visit an island...
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The Passion of Dolssa

Julie Berry - Listening Library
Format: Audiobook

I must write this account, and when I have finished, I will burn it. Buried deep within the archives of a convent in medieval France is an untold story of love, loss, and wonder and the two girls at the heart of it all. Dolssa is an upper-crust city girl with a secret lover and an uncanny...
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The Monster on the Road Is Me

J P Romney - Farrar
Format: Print book

It starts with the crows. When you see them, you know he's found you.Koda Okita is a high school student in modern-day Japan who isn't very popular. He suffers from narcolepsy and has to wear a watermelon-sized helmet to protect his head in case he falls. But Koda couldn't care less about...
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The Scorpion Rules

Erin Bow - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Print book

The children of world leaders are held hostage in an attempt to keep the peace in this "slyly humorous, starkly thought-provoking" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) novel.Greta is a Duchess and a Crown Princess. She is also a Child of Peace, a hostage held by the de facto...
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Snapshot

Angie Stanton - HarperTeen
Format: Paperback

Perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen, Jenny Han, and Susane Colasanti, this companion novel to the swoon-worthy Rock and a Hard Place has Marti discovering that one kiss from a Jamieson brother can change her summer . . . forever.Marti Hunter just wants a normal life. After dealing with her cool-but-clueless...
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The Marked Girl

Lindsey Klingele - Harper Teen
Format: Print book

Worlds collide in Lindsey Klingele's debut young adult novel, The Marked Girl, an exciting fantasy tale turned upside down. Elissa Sussman, author of Stray, calls The Marked Girl "a magical debut with a big heart."When Cedric, crowned prince of Caelum, and his fellow royal friends...
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The Midnight Star

Marie Lu - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

The thrilling finale to the New York Times bestselling Young Elites series from "hit factory" Marie LuThere was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.Adelina Amouteru is done suffering. She's turned her back on those who have...
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Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words

Margarita Engle - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

In a haunting yet hopeful novel in verse, award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the story of Antonio Chuffat, a young man of African, Chinese, and Cuban descent who became a champion of civil rights.Asia, Africa, Europe - Antonio Chuffat's ancestors clashed and blended on the beautiful...
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The Book of Storms

Ruth Hatfield - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Danny O'Neill has never been what you'd call adventurous. But when he wakes the morning after a storm to find his house empty, his parents gone, and himself able to hear the thoughts of a dying tree, he has no choice but to set out to find answers. He soon learns that the enigmatic...
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Pushing Perfect

Michelle Falkoff - Harpercollins
Format: Print book

A girl's quest for perfection results in dangerous consequences in this smart, suspenseful YA novel by the author of Playlist for the Dead. Fans of We Were Liars and The Secret History will devour this layered, ensemble-cast novel, which will keep readers thinking - and guessing - until...
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Snowbirds

CRISSA-JEAN CHAPPELL - MERIT PR
Format: Print book

"Snowbirds will turn your image of the Amish upside down. Lucy will grab your heart and run away with it." --Robin MacCready, winner of the Edgar award for Buried Every year, Lucy waits eagerly for the arrival of the "snowbirds," the Old Order Amish who come trundling...
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Gem & Dixie

Sara Zarr - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

"A story that broke my heart and put it back together again. You wont want to let Gem and Dixie go." - Sarah Dessen, New York Times bestselling author of Saint AnythingFrom renowned author and National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr comes a deep, nuanced, and gorgeously written...
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Metaltown

Kristen Simmons - Recorded Books
Format: Hardcover

Newsies meets The Jungle in an all-new stand-alone novel from the author of Article 5 and The Glass Arrow. Best friends Colin and Ty live one day at a time - the only way its possible to survive in Metaltown, where money is in short supply, illness runs rampant, and street rules are the highest...
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Keep Me in Mind

Jaime Reed - Point
Format: Print book

Ellia Dawson doesn't recognize the handsome boy who sits in tears by her hospital bed. He claims he's her boyfriend, Liam. But to Ellia, he's a stranger. She remembers her name. Her parents. Her best friend, Stacey. But Liam is a total blank in her life. Liam McPherson is devastated....
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Surviving Middle School: Navigating the Halls, Riding the Social Roller Coaster, and Unmasking the Real You

Luke Reynolds - Aladdin ; Hillsboro
Format: Print book

In this hilarious guide full of honest, real-life experiences, veteran teacher Luke Reynolds skillfully and humorously shows kids how to not only survive, but thrive and even enjoy the wild adventure that is middle school.Middle grade series like The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries...
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Blood for Blood

Ryan Graudin - Little
Format: Print book

"Wild and gorgeous, vivid and consuming. I loved it I can't wait for the sequel. "--Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, on Wolf by WolfThe action-packed, thrilling sequel to Ryan Graudin's Wolf by Wolf. There would be blood....
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How to Disappear

Ann Redisch Stampler - Simon Pulse
Format: Print book

This electric cross-country thriller follows the game of cat and mouse between a girl on the run from a murder she witnessed - or committed? - and the boy who's sent to kill her.Nicolette Holland is the girl everyone likes. Up for adventure. Loyal to a fault. And she's pretty sure she can get away...
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Vassa in the night

Sarah Porter - Tor Teen
Format: Print book

"A dark, thoroughly modern fairy tale crackling with wit and magical mayhem." -- Leigh Bardugo, New York Times bestselling author of Shadow and Bone "An enchantingly twisted modern fairy tale, perfect for those who prefer Grimm to Disney. Inventive, darkly...
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Grendel's Guide to Love and War

A E Kaplan - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The Perks of Being a Wallflower meets Revenge of the Nerds in this tale of a teen misfit who seeks to take down the bro next door, but ends up falling for his enemy's sister and uncovering difficult truths about his family in the process. Tom Grendel lives a quiet life - writing...
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The Diabolic

S J Kincaid - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

Red Queen meets The Hunger Games in this epic novel about what happens when the galaxy's most deadly weapon masquerades as a senator's daughter and a hostage of the galactic court.A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful. A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order...
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And Then the Sky Exploded

David A Poulsen - Dundurn
Format: Print book

When Christian learns his great-grandfather helped build the A-bombs dropped on Japan, he wants to make amends ... somehow. While attending the funeral of his great-grandfather, ninth-grader Christian Larkin learns that the man he loved and respected was a member of the Manhattan Project,...
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Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal

Margarita Engle - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Format: Print book

One hundred years ago, the world celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, which connected the world's two largest oceans and signaled America's emergence as a global superpower. It was a miracle, this path of water where a mountain had stood - and creating a miracle is no easy...
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Something in Between

Melissa de la Cruz - Harlequin Teen
Format: Print book

Be the first to read the thought-provoking new novel from Melissa de la Cruz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Isle of the Lost and Return to the Isle of the Lost. She had her whole life planned.She knew who she was and where she was going. Until the truth...
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Kelly Regan Barnhill - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2017 Newbery Award The New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of 2016 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016 A Publishers Weekly Best Book...
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Vietnam: A History of the War

Russell Freedman - Holiday House
Format: Print book

Was the Vietnam War a tragic mistake? Or was it, as President Ronald Reagan would claim, "a noble cause"? In an enthralling book, Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman provides a succinct account of perhaps the most puzzling and contentious of America s wars. Describing how a superpower...
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The Island

Olivia Levez - Rock the Boat
Format: Print book

"With a huge debt to Robinson Crusoe and the film Cast Away, this ambitious story stars troubled teenager Frances, whose nurturing love for her younger brother drives her to imagine escaping their abusive, dysfunctional home." - The Daily Mail As part of an "Outward...
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Close to the Wind

Jon Walter - David Fickling Books
Format: Hardcover

A simple, resonant, and utterly heart-shattering debut about greed, love, trust and what matters most when your world falls apart. A war-torn country . . . only one way out. Ten-year-old Malik's world is falling apart. Soldiers have invaded town, and his mother is missing, leaving Malik...
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Raiders of the lost ark (Motion picture)
Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost ark
Aventuriers de l'arche perdue

Steven Spielberg - Paramount
Format: DVD video

"Indy ... and his feisty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood ... dodge booby-traps, fight Nazis and stare down snakes in their incredible worldwide quest for the mystical Ark of the Covenant"--Container.
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The Dog, Ray

Linda Coggin - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

By turns humorous, poignant, and moving, this tale of a girl who comes back to Earth as a dog is a nuanced portrait of death, love, grief, and hope.When my death came it was swift. Swift as a running horse. It wasted no time.Daisy, age twelve, has died in a car accident. She finds...
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Unscripted Joss Byrd: A Novel

Lygia Day Peaflor - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Print book

Hollywood critics agree. Joss Byrd is "fiercely emotional," a young actress with "complete conviction," and a "powerhouse." Joss Byrd is America's most celebrated young actress, but on the set of her latest project, a gritty indie film called The Locals, Joss's...
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The Holocaust: The Origins, Events, and Remarkable Tales of Survival

Philip Steele - Scholastic
Format: Print book

During World War II, six million Jewish men, women, and children lost their lives under the Nazis, in one of the darkest events of modern history. THE HOLOCAUST: The Origins, Events, and Remarkable Tales of Survival is a thought-provoking new book that explores the circumstances that led to the Holocaust,...
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The Sea of Monsters: The Graphic Novel

Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Seventh grade has been surprisingly quiet for Percy Jackson. Not a single monster has set foot on his New York prep-school campus. But when an innocent game of dodgeball among Percy and his classmates turns into a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants, things get...well, ugly....
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Justin #1

L J Alonge - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Print book

A street smart, action-packed basketball series from debut author LJ Alonge.Justin has a list of goals stashed under his mattress. Number 1 is "figure out life plans." Number 5 is "earn Zen Master rating in WoW." Nowhere on that list is "play the crew from Ghosttown,"...
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Fire Color One

Jenny Valentine - Philomel Books
Format: Print book

Nominated for the prestigious Carnegie Medal, this novel is a stunning tribute to fathers and daughters, and to the unique power of art to connect and change us.Sixteen-year-old Iris itches constantly for the strike of a match. But when she's caught setting one too many fires, she's dragged...
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Optimists Die First

Susin Nielsen-Fernlund - Wendy Lamb Books
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...
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The Day the Goose Got Loose

Reeve Lindbergh - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

Just how much havoc can one goose cause? The whole farm's awash in comic chaos when a long-neckted mischief-maker flies the coop. Soon after, the entire barnyard is escaping, and the stampede will go on till dawn, with laughter lasting even longer. Amid the merry mayhem, the goose's...
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A World Without You

Beth Revis - Razorbill
Format: Print book

What would you do to bring back someone you love? After the unexpected loss of his girlfriend, a boy suffering from delusions believes he can travel through time to save her in this gripping new novel from New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis."A story that's both heartbreaking...
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The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas - Balzer & Bray
Format: Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police...
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The Marauders' Island

Tristan J Tarwater - Back That Elf Up
Format: Paperback

Azria is a mage of Miz, trained to wield the magic her country is famous for. When her estranged mother, alleged pirate Captain Apzana of the Hen & Chick, shows up on her 16th birthday offering her adventure, Azria leaves the life she knows for the promise of riches, renown and danger...
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The New Way Things Work

David Macaulay
Format: Book

The information age is upon us, baffling us with thousands of complicated state-of-the-art technologies. To help make sense of the computer age, David Macaulay brings us The New Way Things Work. This completely updated and expanded edition describes twelve new machines and includes more...
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The Valiant

Lesley Livingston - Razorbill
Format: Print book

Princess. Captive. Gladiator. Always a Warrior. Fallon is the daughter of a proud Celtic king and the younger sister of the legendary fighter Sorcha. When Fallon was just a child, Sorcha was killed by the armies of Julius Caesar. On the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Fallon...
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Denton Little's Still Not Dead

Lance Rubin - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book

"Rubin is really funny, but like John Green, he manages to be poignant. . . . In other words, it's a keeper." - Bustle on Denton Little's Deathdate You only live once - unless you're Denton Little! Denton Little lives in a world exactly like our own except that...
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The Cruelty Sneak Peek

Scott Bergstrom - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Read the first five chapters of THE CRUELTY for free!Daughter. Hunter. Killer. High school student Gwendolyn Bloom doesnt believe in heroes - until her father vanishes and she must become one. Under a new identity, and battling her way through Europes criminal underworld, Gwen is determined...
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Scorch

Gina Damico - HMH Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Lex Bartleby is a teenage grim reaper with the bizarre ability to Damn souls. That makes her pretty scary, even to fellow Grims. But after inadvertently transferring her ability to Zara, a murderous outlaw, Lex is a pariah in Croak, the little town she calls home. To escape...
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Nemesis

Anna Banks - Feiwel and Friends
Format: Print book

The princess didn't expect to fall in love--with her nemesis.Princess Sepora of Serubel is the last Forger in all the five kingdoms. The spectorium she creates provides energy for all, but now her father has found a way to weaponize it, and his intentions to incite war force her to flee...
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10 Things I Can See From Here

Carrie Mac - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

Perfect for fans of Finding Audrey and Everything, Everything, this is the poignant and uplifting story of Maeve, who is dealing with anxiety while falling in love with a girl who is not afraid of anything. Think positive. Don't worry; be happy. Keep calm...
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Be Good Be Real Be Crazy

Chelsey Philpot - HarperTeen
Format: Print book

Three teenagers. One road trip. Countless detours. From the author of Even in Paradise comes a story about love, friendship, and finding yourself that is perfect for fans of Paper Towns and Mosquitoland.When Mia first waltzed into Homer's small corner of Florida, she changed Homer's entire...
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Throne of Glass 5

Sarah J Maas - Bloomsbury Usa
Format: Print book

The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those who don't.With her heart sworn to the warrior-prince by her side, and her fealty...
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I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Gretchen Mcneil - Balzer + Bray
Format: Print book

From acclaimed author Gretchen McNeil comes her first realistic contemporary romance - perfect for fans of Kody Keplinger's The Duff and Morgan Matson's Since You've Been Gone.Beatrice Maria Estrella Giovannini has life all figured out. She's starting senior year at the top of her class,...
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Windy City Magic, Book 1 The Best Kind of Magic

Crystal Cestari - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Amber Sand is not a witch. The Sand family Wicca gene somehow leapfrogged over her. But she did get one highly specific magical talent: she can see true love. As a matchmaker, Amber's pretty far down the sorcery food chain (even birthday party magicians rank higher) , but after five seconds...
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A Single Stone

Megan McKinlay - Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

In an isolated society, one girl makes a discovery that will change everything - and learns that a single stone, once set in motion, can bring down a mountain.Jena - strong, respected, reliable - is the leader of the line, a job every girl in the village dreams of. Watched over by the Mothers...
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Life Before

Michele Bacon - Sky Pony Press
Format: Print book

Seventeen years is a long time to keep secrets, and Xander Fife has gotten very good at it. Everyone believes he has a normal life and a normal family. If he can just get through this summer, he'll start his real life in college with a clean slate--no risk, no drama, no fear.Even better,...
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Florence Nightingale: The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse

Catherine Reef - Clarion Books
Format: Print book

Most people know Florence Nightingale was a compassionate and legendary nurse, but they don't know her full story. This riveting biography explores the exceptional life of a woman who defied the stifling conventions of Victorian society to pursue what was considered an undesirable vocation....
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Exile for Dreamers: A Stranje House Novel

Kathleen Baldwin - Tor Teen
Format: Print book

Exile for Dreamers is the second captivating installment in the Stranje House series for young adults by award-winning author Kathleen Baldwin. #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot calls this romantic Regency adventure "completely original and totally engrossing."Tess...
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Thick as Thieves

NOT AVAILABLE. - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

Discover the world of the Queen's ThiefThick as Thieves is the eagerly anticipated new stand-alone novel set in the world of the Queen's Thief. New York Times-bestselling author Megan Whalen Turner's entrancing and award-winning Queen's Thief novels bring to life the world of the epics...
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The Color of Darkness

Ruth Hatfield - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

After rescuing his parents, Danny returns to his old life, burying the taro that allowed him to speak to animals, trees, and the very storms that led to his adventure. Danny thinks he's left magic and mystery behind, but Sammael, a creature of terrible imagination, refuses to let him go. A strange...
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A Season of Daring Greatly

Ellen Emerson White - Greenwillow Books
Format: Print book

Eighteen-year-old Jill Cafferty just made history. Her high school's star pitcher, she is now the first woman drafted by a major league baseball team. Only days after her high school graduation, she'll join the Pittsburgh Pirates' Class A Short Season team . . . but not everyone is happy...
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Wild Swans

Jessica Spotswood - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Print book

The summer before Ivy's senior year is going to be golden-all bonfires, barbeques, and spending time with her best friends. For once, she will just get to be. No summer classes, none of Granddad's intense expectations to live up to the family name. For generations, the Milbourn women have...
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Radio Silence

Alice Oseman - Harper Teen
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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Paper and Fire: The Great Library

Rachel Caine - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Ink and Bone, author Rachel Caine introduced a world where knowledge is power, and power corrupts absolutely. Now, she continues the story of those who dare to defy the Great Library - and rewrite history... With an iron fist, The Great Library...
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Soldier Sister, Fly Home

Bo Flood - Charlesbridge
Format: Print book

A tender and gripping novel about family, identity, and loss. Thirteen-year-old Tess is having a hard enough time understanding what it means to be part white and part Navajo, but now she's coping with her sister Gaby's announcement that she's going to enlist and fight in the Iraq...
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