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The Dark Tide

Alicia Jasinska - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

The Wicked Deep meets A Curse So Dark and Lonely in this gripping, dark fairy-tale fantasy about two girls who must choose between saving themselves, each other, or their sinking island city.Every year on St. Walpurga's Eve, Caldella's Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace....
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Run

Kody Keplinger - Scholastic Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The DUFF Kody Keplinger is back with a stunning new YA novel about the risks well take to save our friends ... and ourselves.Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and a mama whos not exactly sober most of the time....
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Code Red

Janie Chodosh - Poisoned Pencil
Format: Print book

After nailing the murderer of her addict mom and proving that her detractors are full of it, seventeen-year-old Faith Flores is back for another kick-ass science mystery. She's proud to be chosen for a summer internship at a research lab in Santa Fe, New Mexico, but once she arrives,...
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Start Here

Trish Doller - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

Two teens go on a life-changing sailing trip as they deal with the grief of losing their best friend in this heartwrenching, hopeful novel from the author of Something Like Normal and In a Perfect World.Willa and Taylor were supposed to spend the summer after high school sailing...
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The Human Genome: Mapping the Blueprint of Human Life

Carla Mooney - Nomad Press
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating tour of the human genome and the role of genetics in our lives! Hands-on science investigations and STEM research projects help readers ages 12 to 15 discover a mysterious part of their own bodies -- their genes! Have you ever wondered why you look the way you do? The answer...
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Apprentice Needed

Obert Skye - Shadow Mountain
Format: Hardcover

In book one of the series, Ozzy saw the classified ad in his local paper for a Wizard for Hire and discovered there was a wizard right in Portland, Oregon. Ozzy was relieved when the wizard, Rin, agreed to help him find his kidnapped scientist parents, though the search was a wild series...
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As the Shadow Rises

Katy Rose Pool - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The Last Prophet has been found, yet he sees destruction ahead.In this sequel to the critically-acclaimed There Will Come a Darkness, kingdoms have begun to fall to a doomsday cult, the magical Graced are being persecuted, and an ancient power threatens to break free. But with the world...
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Wicked Like a Wildfire

LANA POPOVIC - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

"Lush. Delicious. Bewildering. And darkly magical. Popovic has created a world that you tumble into from the very first words and wish you could stay in forever." - Evelyn Skye, author of The Crown's Game"Wicked Like a Wildfire was like devouring a succulent fairy fruit...
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A Venom Dark and Sweet

JUDY I LIN - ?Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

The enthralling conclusion to Judy I. Lin's Book of Tea duology -- #1 New York Times bestseller A Magic Steeped in Poison and A Venom Dark and Sweet -- is sure to enchant fans of Adrienne Young and Leigh Bardugo.A great evil has come to the kingdom of Dàxi. The Banished Prince has returned...
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Blackhearts

Nicole Castroman - Simon Pulse
Format: Hardcover

In this stunningly creative debut, Nicole Castroman reimagines the origins of history's most infamous pirate--Blackbeard--and tells the story of the girl who captured his heart and ultimately set him on his path of destruction.When Edward "Teach" Drummond, son of one of Bristol's...
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