Summer on the New Jersey shore offers Quinn a new start at life and love, but only if she can come to terms with her past.
Two hundred years after a supervolcano causes an ice age on Earth,
making the planet uninhabitable, seventeen-year-old mechanic Stella
Ainsley accepts a position as governess on the Rochester, a private
space ship orbiting the moon, falls in love with the ship's reclusive
captain, befriends the secretive crew, and uncovers a plot that
threatens the most vulnerable populations of the fleet.
When Daisy's older sister gets engaged to the Crown Prince of Scotland, Daisy makes the royal rule-book all her own.
After losing her mom to cancer, sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly has to leave her hometown to live with the biological father and sisters she's never known. The
only thing that makes her new life bearable is the boy across the street, Marcus McKinney, who has had his own experiences with death.
"I want to be in the Air Force someday."
These
are the words Polo Tate engraves on her junior dog tags at age eleven.
An unpopular dream for most young girls, but her hard work pays off and
at age eighteen, Polo finds herself in Basic Training at the United
States Air Force Academy.
She does everything right, except fly
under the radar. No one prepares her for what comes next. Physical,
sexual, and emotional abuse at the hands of her superior. Betrayal at
the highest levels of authority. Harassment from her peers, who refuse
to believe her story.
Now,
more than ever, young people are motivated to make a difference in a
world they're bound to inherit. They're ready to stand up and be heard -
but with much to shout about, where they do they begin? What can I do?
How can I help?
How I Resist is the response, and a way
to start the conversation. To show readers that they are not helpless,
and that anyone can be the change. A collection of essays, songs,
illustrations, and interviews about activism and hope, How I Resist features an all-star group of contributors. Readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns
personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive.
Seventeen-year-old Mira, a jazz music prodigy, falls in love with Derek
and sets aside trumpet practice, old friendships, and even attempts to
bond with her sister when he promises fame as a D.J.
As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, she finds
that those dearest to her have more wounds than she anticipated--scars
that will have far-reaching impact on the future of their Court.
Millie
Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every year since she was a girl. Not
this year. This year she has new plans to chase her secret dream—and to
kiss her crush. Callie Reyes is the pretty girl who is next in line for
dance team captain and has the popular boyfriend. But when it comes to
other girls, she’s more frenemy than friend. When circumstances bring
the girls together over the course of a semester, they will surprise
everyone (especially themselves) by realizing they might have more in
common than they ever imagined.
Dahlia thinks all of her clones have been destroyed, but then discovers
that one still exists--Waverly Whitmore, who is teenage royalty, a media
sensation with millions of fans--who has no idea that she is a clone.
Run, Hide, Fight Back by April Henry
When
a deadly shooting breaks out in a Portland shopping mall, a diverse
group of teens ends up trapped behind a store’s security shutter. To her
own surprise, seventeen-year-old Miranda finds the others looking to
her as their leader. But she’s hiding a big secret—and she’s not the
only one. The group has only three choices—run, hide, or fight back. The
wrong decision will have fatal consequences.
Clara Shin lives for
pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad
sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra,
alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer
Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named
Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara
actually feels invested in her dad’s business. What if taking this
summer seriously means that Clara has to leave her old self behind?
Mackenzie Ziegler, dance prodigy, singer/songwriter, actress, and model offers her advice
on friendship, family, fitness, style, and positivity. She shares
lessons drawn from her own experiences for those navigating through
their tween years on how to be happy, healthy, and confident in all
aspects of their lives.
Betrayed by Raj, who she thought she was fated to marry,
seventeen-year-old Winnie Mehta teams with fellow film fan Dev to get
her life back on track and find her true soul mate.
Victory comes at a price.
Mare Barrow learned this all too well when Cal's betrayal nearly destroyed her. Determined to protect her heart - and secure freedom for Reds and
newbloods like her - Mare resolves to overthrow the kingdom of Norta once
and for all... starting with the crown on Maven's head.
Cast out of the nobility after her father's attempt to assassinate the
high king, Kate's job as a royal courier brings her to the scene of a
drake massacre where she finds Corvin, the king's son and her first
love.
When Mara's twin brother Owen is accused of rape by her friend Hannah,
Mara is forced to confront her feelings about her family, her sense of
right and wrong, a trauma from her past, and the future with her
girlfriend, Charlie.
A stunning debut novel about grief, loss, and what it means to fall in love when angels are falling from the sky.
When Long Island teens Miri, Soleil, Penny, and Jonah befriend a
bestselling YA novelist, they find their deepest, darkest secrets in the
pages of her next novel, with devastating consequences. Told from
different perspectives as interviews, journal entries, and book
excerpts.
When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything
to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a
queen of light, and a queen of blood. To prove she is the Sun Queen,
Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. If she fails, she will
be executed...unless the trials kill her first.
This is Noah Oakman → sixteen, Bowie believer, concise historian, disillusioned swimmer, son, brother, friend.
Then Noah → gets hypnotized.
Now
Noah → sees changes—inexplicable scars, odd behaviors, rewritten
histories—in all those around him. All except his Strange Fascinations .
. .
Three years after losing her brother Luka in a school shooting, Skye
Gilchrist is moving home. But there's no sympathy for Skye and her
family because Luka wasn't a victim; he was a shooter. Jesse Mandal
knows all too well that the scars of the past don't heal easily. The
shooting cost Jesse his brother and also his best friend - Skye. Jesse
and Skye are haunted by the unanswered questions of that terrible day.
But
the more they hunt for the truth of what really happened, the closer they get to a new killer.
Stephanie Garber's limitless imagination takes flight once more in the
colorful, mesmerizing, and immersive sequel to the bestselling breakout
debut Caraval, following Scarlett's younger sister, Tella, on a journey
to the empire's capital to fulfill a mysterious bargain.
When Kate Bailey lets her best friend, Alana, talk her into joining
their high school's podcast she did not expect to find herself as the
host, or to enjoy answering calls and giving advice on the air, but she
is actually pretty good at it--but when she gets an anonymous call from a
boy (possibly Diego Martinez) about his secret feelings for a girl
(probably Alana) she is faced with a problem, because she is
developing feelings for Diego herself.
On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly
secret lies buried in the scrap. Seventeen-year-old Eve isn't looking
for trouble--she's too busy looking over her shoulder. The robot
gladiator she spent months building has been reduced to a smoking wreck,
she's on the local gangster's wanted list, and the only thing keeping
her grandpa alive is the money she just lost to the bookies. Worst of
all, she's discovered she can somehow destroy machines with the power
of her mind, and a bunch of puritanical fanatics are building a coffin
her size because of it. Her discovery of a handsome android named Ezekiel--called a
"Lifelike" because it resemble humans--will bring her world crashing
down, and make her question whether her entire life is a lie.
Two stories: One of a set of triplet sisters destined to
fight to the death to win the crown, the other is the story
of the last queen born with the gift of sight.
A fantastic blend of science fiction and fantasy,
Markswoman is the
first in a duology about a female order of magical-knife wielding
assassins who bring both peace and chaos to Asiana, a post-apocalyptic
version of Asia.
Hildy and Paul come together to answer thirty-six questions on a
university psychology questionnaire, one that is asking if love can be
engineered.
Steffi doesn't talk. Rhys can't hear. They understand each other
perfectly. Love isn't always a lightning strike. Sometimes it's the
rumbling roll of thunder ... Steffi has been a selective mute for most
of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely
invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her
knowledge of basic sign language means that she's assigned to look
after him. To Rhys it doesn't matter that Steffi doesn't talk and, as
they find ways to communicate, Steffi finds that she does have a voice,
and that she's falling in love with the one person who makes her feel
brave enough to use it.
Same-sex marriage, #BlackLivesMatter, the Dream Act, the People's
Climate March, End the New Jim Crow, Occupy Wall Street-these are just a
few of the initiatives that have taken flight in the past decade, the
most fertile and productive era of activism and reform this country has
seen since the 1960s. Now, in a visually rich and deeply inspiring book,
movement leaders and activists distill their wisdom, sharing
lessons of what works and what hinders transformative social change.
Tyson looks at the most
confounding mysteries of Earth, space, and what it means to be human. He
attempts to answer all of your most pressing questions, from how the
brain works to the physics of comic book superheroes.
Tara, an Indian-American junior at Brierly prep school, feels her world
dramatically change when a mirror planet to Earth is discovered and she,
in this new era of scientific history, reconsiders her self and
possible selves.
Not long after Hank, Ana, and Milo Vasquez's father leaves, an alien
named Luz arrives and uses them to satisfy his curiosity, then leaves
them forever changed.
The story follows a group of girls named Mal, Ripley, Molly, April, and
Jo spending summer at a scout camp, and the strange creatures and
supernatural phenomena they encounter there. Trying to take advantage of
the first quiet day at camp in a while, Mal and Molly's date takes a
bizarre turn with the appearance of the bear woman! Back at camp Jo,
April, and Ripley must stay on their toes as they try and earn every
badge possible which ends up being a lot harder than any of them ever planned.
Jen's attempt to teach the girls basic survival skills without
supernatural intervention goes wrong when a blizzard hits the camp,
separating Jen from the group and putting her in danger until a
taxidermist with mysterious connections to Rosie swoops in.
The Merc with a Mouth is back, even deadlier and more deranged than
before The planet has been invaded by Skrulls, everything's gone
topsy-turvy but, in Deadpool's world, that just means it's Monday Like
it or not, Deadpool may be the only person on the planet who can save us
but who's to say he wants to?
Remember when Deadpool saved the Earth from those pesky Skrulls? Well,
the guy who stole the intel Deadpool worked so hard to acquire - and
positioned himself as Earth's Number One War Hero - wants to make sure
you don't. The last thing this guy needs is a certain "Merc with a
Mouth" letting everyone know the truth of how he saved the day, and he's
hired a certain maniacal man-eater to make sure Deadpool never does. Here comes Tiger-Shark!
Deadpool has ceased to exist, he's said his good-byes, he's driven his
car into the ocean. They'll think he's dead, but he'll sail away. Then,
he'll become a pirate.
Young Robot boy TIM-21
and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all
androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet.
Written by award-winning creator, Jeff Lemire, Descender is a
rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey. Lemire pits humanity against
machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling epic.
Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon by Jeff Lemire
Young robot boy TIM-21
and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all
androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. L
This third collection of
the bestselling series dives deep into the secret histories of each
cast member with revelations that will propel young robot, TIM-21's
sci-fi adventure into dangerous and exciting new territory.
Tim-21, Telsa and Quon
finally escape the Machine Moon and head out on a quest to find the
ancient robot who may hold the key to the Harvesters. Meanwhile Andy and
his rag-tag team close in on Tim, but their fragile alliance is
shattered by Driller's revelations.
Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow
journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss. These chilling tales spring
from the macabre imagination of acclaimed and award-winning comic creator Emily Carroll. Come take a walk in the woods and see what awaits you there...
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