• And She Was
  • Author: Jessica Verdi
  • Publisher: Scholastic Press
  • Dara's lived a sheltered life with her single mom, Mellie. Now, at eighteen, she's dreaming of more. When Dara digs up her never-before-seen birth certificate, her world implodes. Why are two strangers listed as her parents? Dara confronts her mother, and is stunned by what she learns: Mellie is transgender. The unfamiliar...
  • Violet Grenade
  • Author: VICTORIA SCOTT
  • Publisher: Entangled

  • DOMINO: A runaway with blood on her hands.

    CAIN: A silent boy about to explode.

    MADAM KARINA: A woman who demands obedience.

    WILSON: The one who will destroy them all.

    When Madam Karina discovers Domino in an alleyway, she offers her a position at her girls' home in secluded West Texas. With...

  • The Women of Hip-Hop
  • Author: Sheila Llanas
  • Publisher: Essential Library
  • Since its introduction in the 1970s, hip-hop has become a way of life. This title takes an inside look at the women of hip-hop. The Women of Hip-Hop Groupsfollows the careers of hip-hop's top female acts, examining their contributions to the genre as it burst into the mainstream and went global. Features include a timeline,...
  • Hidden Girl: The True Story of a Modern-Day...
  • Author: Shyima Hall
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books...
  • An inspiring and compelling memoir from a young woman who lost her childhood to slavery - and built a new life grounded in determination and justice.Shyima Hall was born in Egypt on September 29, 1989, the seventh child of desperately poor parents. When she was eight, her parents sold her into slavery. Shyima then moved...
  • The V-Word: True Stories about...
  • Author: Amber Keyser
  • Publisher: Simon Pulse ; Hillsboro
  • An honest and poignant collection of essays by women about losing their virginity in their teens. The V-Word captures the complexity of this important life-decision and reflects diverse real-world experiences. Includes helpful resources for parents and teens.

    Losing it. Popping your cherry. Handing in your...
  • The Other Way Around
  • Author: Sashi Kaufman
  • Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
  • Andrew has seen a flash of his future Dad unfinished PhD Mom unfulfilling career Their marriage unsuccessful Based on what hes seen hes uninspired to put a foot on the well-worn path to the adulthood everyone expects of him There must be another way around After a particularly disastrous Thanksgiving his cousin wets Andrews...
  • Gena/Finn
  • Author: Hannah Moskowitz
  • Publisher: Chronicle Books
  • Gena and Finn would have never met but for their mutual love for the popular show Up Below. Regardless of their differences - Gena is a recent high school graduate whose social life largely takes place online, while Finn is in her early twenties, job hunting and contemplating marriage with her longtime boyfriend - the two girls...
  • Maybe a Fox
  • Author: Alison McGhee
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Worlds collide in a spectacular way when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking, and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub, and what happens when one of the sisters disappears...
  • Rescued
  • Author: Eliot Schrefer
  • Publisher: Scholastic Press
  • The third entry in the taut, heart-wrenching quartet that made Eliot Schrefer a two-time National Book Award finalist introduces us to an orangutan held captive in suburban America.
  • Hunting Zombies
  • Author: Joseph A McCullough
  • Publisher: Rosen Young Adult
  • This dynamic and captivating book contains all of the information necessary to recognize and combat this growing threat. Beginning with an explanation of the historical origins of zombies, it follows their history straight through to the threat they pose to the world today. All varieties of zombie are cataloged and examined,...
  • A History of Ambition in 50 Hoaxes
  • Author: Gale Eaton
  • Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
  • Short:
    What do the Trojan Horse, Piltdown Man, Keely Motor Company, and Ponzi Scheme have in common? They were all famous hoaxes, carefully designed and bolstered with false evidence.

    Main:
    The con artists in this book pursued a variety of ambitions - making money, winning wars, mocking authority, finding...
  • Two Roads from Here
  • Author: Teddy Steinkellner
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books...
  • Five high school seniors. Two different roads. One life-changing decision. For fans of Tommy Wallach and Patrick Ness comes a thoughtful, funny novel that explores what happens to five teens when they choose the road ... and the road not taken.

    Should Brian play in Friday's football game, even though his head...
  • The Art of Secrets
  • Author: James Klise
  • Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers;...
  • An Edgar Award Winner, Best YA Novel 2015Where there's smoke . . . When Saba Khan’s apartment burns in a mysterious fire, possibly a hate crime, her high school rallies around her. Her family moves into a rent-free luxury apartment, her Facebook page explodes, and she begins (secretly) dating a popular boy. Then...
  • The Dirt Diary By Anna Staniszewski
  • Author: Anna Staniszewski
  • Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
  • Eighth grade never smelled so bad.

    Rachel Lee didn't think anything could be worse than her parents splitting up. She was wrong. Working for her mom's new house-cleaning business puts Rachel in the dirty bathrooms of the most popular kids in the eighth grade. Which does not help her already loser-ish reputation....
  • The Promise of Amazing
  • Author: Robin Constantine
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Robin Constantine's New Jersey romance The Promise of Amazing is a sexy, poignant, funny, and authentic debut novel that will appeal to fans of books by Stephanie Perkins, Sarah Mlynowski, and Jennifer E. Smith.Wren Caswell is average. Ranked in the middle of her class at Sacred Heart, she's not popular, not a social...