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A Visual Guide to Weather and Climate

Diana Malizia - Rosen Young Adult
Format: Paperback

What changes can we expect with global warming? Could the ice caps melt and raise sea levels? Could farmland become desert? Why was it chilly and rainy today when the forecast called for mild sunshine? The atmosphere is an extremely complicated system. Any weather forecast can rapidly change...
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Beyond the Gender Binary

Alok Vaid-Menon - Penguin Workshop
Format: Paperback

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. In Beyond the Gender Binary, poet, artist, and LGBTQIA rights advocate Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender...
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Take Me Home Tonight

Morgan Matson - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Two girls. One night. Zero phones. Kat and Stevie - best friends, theater kids, polar opposites - have snuck away from the suburbs to spend a night in New York City. They have it all planned out. They'll see a play, eat at the city's hottest restaurant, and have the best. Night....
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Edie in Between

Laura Sibson - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

It's been one year since Edie's mother died. But her ghost has never left.According to her GG, it's tradition that the dead of the Mitchell family linger with the living. It's just as much a part of a Mitchell's life as brewing healing remedies or talking to plants....
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Scars Like Wings

Erin Stewart - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Relatable, heartbreaking, and real, this is a story of resilience--the perfect novel for readers of powerful contemporary fiction like Girl in Pieces and Every Last Word.Before, I was a million things. Now I'm only one. The Burned Girl.Ava Lee has lost everything there is to lose: Her parents....
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My So-Called Bollywood Life

NISHA SHARMA - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The romance of Stephanie Perkins meets the quirk of Maureen Johnson, then gets a Bollywood twist in this fate-filled debut that takes the future into its own hands.Winnie Mehta was never really convinced that Raj was her soul mate, but their love was written in the stars. Literally, a pandit...
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Always Never Yours

Austin Siegemund-Broka - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

"Every page bursts with humor, squee-inducing romance, and an abiding sense of the deep love and joy of its two writers . . . Always Never Yours is a necessary, feel-good addition to the YA canon." - Entertainment WeeklyMegan Harper is the girl before. All her exes...
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This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration

Linda Barrett Osborne - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

A 2017 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist! American attitudes toward immigrants are paradoxical. On the one hand, we see our country as a haven for the poor and oppressed; anyone, no matter his or her background, can find freedom here and achieve the "American Dream." On the other...
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The Fell of Dark

Roehrig, Caleb - FEIWEL & FRIENDS

What's a boy to do--in Caleb Roehrig's YA paranormal romance The Fell of Dark--when his crush is a hot vampire with a mystery to solve?The only thing August Pfeiffer hates more than algebra is living in a vampire town. Located at a nexus of mystical energy fields, Fulton Heights...
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Undying

AMIE KAUFMAN - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Trapped aboard the Undying's ancient spaceship and reeling from what they've learned there, scavenger Mia and academic Jules are plunged into a desperate race to warn their home planet of the danger humanity's greed has unleashed. From the mountains of Spain to the streets of Prague, the sequel...
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