NEW YA FICTION
The more Hailey struggles to understand her boyfriend's apparent
suicide, despite the discouragement of his stepbrother, her best friend,
Kane, the more she remembers and the more secrets are revealed.
If
Lupe Dávila and Javier Utierre can survive each other's company,
together they can solve a series of grisly murders sweeping though
Puerto Rico. But the clues lead them out of the real world and into the
realm of myths and legends, namely El Cuco. And if they want to catch the killer,
they'll have to step into the shadows to see what's lurking
there--murderer,
or monster?
A big-hearted novel about a girl who reconnects with a part of her
family she hasn't seen since she was a little girl - and falls in love,
all over the course of a magical summer.
As the youngest of eight, painfully average Pup Flanagan is used to
flying under the radar. He's barely passing his classes, he lets his
longtime crush walk all over him, and he's in no hurry to decide on a
college path. The only person who ever made him think he could be more
was his older brother Patrick. But that was before Patrick died
suddenly, leaving Pup with a family who won't talk about it and
acquaintances who just keep saying, "sorry for your loss." When Pup
excels at a photography assignment he thought he'd bomb, things start to
come into focus. His dream girl shows her true colors. An unexpected
friend exposes Pup to a whole new world, right under his nose. And the
photograph that was supposed to show Pup a way out of his grief
ultimately reveals someone else who is still stuck in their own. Someone
with a secret regret Pup never could have imagined.
In alternate chapters, Amanda faces family pressure to marry Carter,
knowing he cheats, and Paulina pretends to date Carter to alleviate
family and church pressure about being a lesbian.
When Winnie is crowned Summer Queen in the small town of Misty Haven,
she has to balance her new responsibilities with her friendships, a new
romance, and her job at her granny's diner..."
It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing.
Reza is an Iranian boy who knows he's gay and is terrified that someone
will guess the truth. Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who has never
imagined finding romance, until she falls for Reza and they start
dating. Art is Judy's best friend, their school's only out and proud
teen. As Reza and Art grow closer, Reza struggles to find a way out
of his deception that won't break Judy's heart and destroy the most meaningful friendship he's ever known.
When apprentice librarian Elisabeth is implicated in sabotage that
released the library's most dangerous grimoire, she becomes entangled in
a centuries-old conspiracy that could mean the end of everything.
Fifteen-year-old Plum and her older sister Ginny find their
relationship tested by family finances, personality differences, and the
secrets they are keeping from each other.
Lucy Katz, Maddie Li, and Delia Meyer team up to compete in
ValleyStart, a prestigious high school tech incubator competition for a
dream internship in the male-dominated world of tech.
Inspired by the legend of Faust and told in alternating timelines,
sixteen-year-old Roan arrives at Mill House as a ward and discovers she
is connected to an ancient evil secret, while, centuries later,
seventeen-year-old Zoey explores the dwelling's ruins and soon realizes
she is not alone.
After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border,
seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment
hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to
El Salvador.
When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and
former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war
on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.
Skye
has her sights set on one thing: getting the heck out of Dodge. Art
school is her ticket out and she’s already been accepted to her first
choice. All she has to do is survive her senior year. She has
everything under control. Until he returns.
When her mom’s
ex-boyfriend slithers his way back into her family, it’s all Skye can do
to keep the walls of her world from crumbling. Her family has no idea
Skye has been guarding a dark secret about her past–about him–and she
never thought she would have to face him again.
After coming out as transgender, Chris is still processing a frightening
assault he survived the year before, while Maia, grieving the loss of
her older sister, is trying to find her place in the world, which makes
falling in love the furthest thing on their minds--until it is not.
Miriam, sixteen, is chosen for marriage by someone other than the boy
she loves and begins to question her entire life in New Jerusalem, a
desert compound safe from the world's evils.
After moving to a new town for her father's job, Clara learns that kids
go missing from Pender every October and that a monster named the
Mumbler may be responsible.
After the government collapses and fires burn the wilderness, Travis and
his younger sister, Jess, must travel hundreds of miles searching for
some type of civilization.
The ghost of a girl who recently died in an accident makes contact
with her grieving father to help solve a mystery in a remote Australian
town, where a girl who speaks entirely in riddles is the only witness to
a fatal fire.
High school senior Ella Cleary, whose synesthesia causes her to see
colors with each interaction, must question everything she knows about
her life when journalism student Alec investigates her parents' death.
Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their
individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life
for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter.
Rory likes Toby, but Toby likes Rory's sister Merrilee, even though
Merrilee is already dating Toby's friend Fielding--and it's all about to
get even more complicated at Reginald R. Hero High.
YA GRAPHIC NOVELS
Twelve-year-old, Maude,
has a case of puberty-induced pantherism, a missing friend, a detective
dad who thinks she may be a killer, a mom with a big secret, a unicorn
hiding in her bedroom, and a plan to overthrow the patriarchy.
Ben and his friends are determined to find out where the paper lanterns
of the annual Autumn Equinox Festival go, so they follow the river as
far as they can until the only followers left are Ben and Nathaniel.
.
Olive and her adopted siblings, Darwin and Charlotte, are spending the
summer with their estranged grandma at her creepy hotel and it's all
work and no play. They soon
stumble upon an incredible secret... The simple turn of a knob
transports them to a distant magical world filled with space pirates.
Behind the next door are bearded wizards. Down the hall is a doorway to
a cotton-candied kingdom. But once the doors are opened, worlds start
colliding, and only one family can save them before they tear themselves
apart.
YA NON-FICTION / BIOGRAPHY
The life and career of the fiercely principled Supreme Court Justice,
now a popular icon, with dramatic accounts of her landmark cases that
moved the needle on legal protection of human rights.
July 20, 1969. It's a day that has earned a spot in history. It's the
day that America was the first nation to succeed in sending two
astronauts--Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong--to the moon. But what led to
this unforgettable event? What were the stakes riding on the Apollo
11's safe landing? In acclaimed author Douglas Brinkley's first young
readers' edition, space fans will get the riveting and factual backstory
of arguably the most significant achievement of the 20th century.
A groundbreaking compendium honoring the amazing true stories of fifty
inspirational women who helped fuel some of the greatest achievements in
space exploration from the nineteenth century to today--including
Hidden Figure's Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson as well as former
NASA Chief Astronaut Peggy Whitson, the record-holding American
biochemistry researcher who
has spent the most cumulative time in space.
Astronaut Scott Kelly takes readers on a
journey through his year aboard the International Space Station and his
life prior to becoming a true American hero.
Slaying autism stereotypes with stand-up, one joke at a time. Like many others on the autism spectrum, stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn't look autistic. Diagnosed with ASD at age five, McCreary scored his first stand-up gig at age 14, and hasn't looked back. This unique and hilarious #OwnVoices memoir breaks down what it's like to live with autism for readers on and off the spectrum.
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