• What We Left Behind
  • Author: Robin Talley
  • Publisher: Harlequin Teen
  • From the critically acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselves comes an emotional, empowering story of what happens when love may not be enough to conquer all Toni and Gretchen are the couple everyone envied in high school. They've been together forever. They never fight. They're deeply, hopelessly in love. When...
  • Grover Cleveland, Again!: A Treasury...
  • Author: Ken Burns
  • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
  • The instant New York Times bestseller!

    A gorgeous collection of American presidents filled with fun facts and sparkling with personality, from nonfiction master Ken Burns.

    This special treasury from America's beloved documentarian Ken Burns brings the presidents to life for our nation's children....
  • The Eternal Flame
  • Author: T A Barron
  • Publisher: Philomel Books
  • Avalon, the great tree world connecting the earth and the heavens, is about to be destroyed. The warlord Rhita Gawr is bent on conquest - and using an army of deathless warriors, a corrupted crystal, and a plague of arrogance and greed to succeed. Three unlikely heroes are Avalon's only hope. Tamwyn, the wilderness...
  • Spontaneous
  • Author: Aaron Starmer
  • Publisher: Dutton Books for Young...
  • "Aaron Starmer skillfully welds sharp humor, deep loss, and roaring escapades. Truly the smartest and funniest book about spontaneous combustion you will ever read." - John Green, #1 bestselling author of The Fault In Our Stars

    A TIME magazine Top 10 YA & Children's Book of 2016!
    An...
  • Mumbo Jumbo
  • Author: Ishmael Reed
  • Publisher: Scribner

  • Everything You Need to Ace American...
  • Author: Lily Rothman
  • Publisher: Workman Publishing
  • It's the revolutionary American history study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest. Everything You Need to Ace American History . . . covers Native Americans to the war in Iraq. There are units on Colonial America; the Revolutionary War and the founding of a new nation; Jefferson...
  • Beck
  • Author: Mal Peet
  • Publisher: Candlewick
  • 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 in Canada. At age fifteen...
  • King of Scars
  • Author: Dorothea Salo
  • Publisher: Imprint

  • Face your demons...or feed them.

    Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war -- and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances,...

  • Chains
  • Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young...
  • If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?

    As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple,...
  • Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
  • Author: Nic Sheff
  • Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young...
  • This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man's addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery and complements his father's parallel memoir, Beautiful Boy.Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed,...
  • Find Your Style: Boost Your Body...
  • Author: Sally McGraw
  • Publisher: Twenty-First Century...
  • Style can be a flag we wave, a declaration of who we are. Discover awesome tips about understanding your body type so you can build flattering outfits, using colors, shapes, patterns, and accessories to your advantage. Learn how to build self-esteem by busting media myths about beauty standards and create your own fashion...
  • Elites of Eden: A Novel
  • Author: Joey Graceffa
  • Publisher: Atria/Keywords Press
  • The highly anticipated sequel to the instant #1 New York Times bestseller Children of Eden.Two girls, one destiny. Yarrow is an elite: rich, regal, destined for greatness. She's the daughter of one of the most powerful women in Eden. At the exclusive Oaks boarding school, she makes life miserable for anyone foolish...
  • Racial Profiling: Everyday Inequality
  • Author: Alison Behnke
  • Publisher: Twenty-First Century...
  • In the United States, racial profiling affects thousands of Americans every day. Both individuals and institutions such as law enforcement agencies, government bodies, and schools routinely use race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of an offense.



    The high-profile deaths of unarmed people of color...
  • Bad Girls of Fashion: Style Rebels...
  • Author: Jennifer Croll
  • Publisher: Annick Press
  • The title says it all: Bad Girls of Fashion explores the lives of ten famous women who have used clothing to make a statement, change perceptions, break rules, attract power, or express their individuality. Included are Cleopatra, Marie Antoinette, Coco Chanel, Marlene Dietrich, Madonna, and Lady Gaga. Sidebar...
  • Rani Patel In Full Effect
  • Author: Sonia Patel
  • Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press

  • Almost seventeen, Rani Patel appears to be a kick-ass Indian girl breaking cultural norms as a hip-hop performer in full effect. But in truth, she's a nerdy flat-chested nobody who lives with her Gujarati immigrant parents on the remote Hawaiian island of Moloka'i, isolated from her high school peers by the unsettling...