FICTION
Once-popular Rob and overachiever Maegan, both dealing with serious
family issues, quickly form a bond that is threatened when Rob confides
plans to repair damage his father caused.
Teens Thea, Coen, and Nova are rescued from a deadly planet, only to be
taken prisoner on board a government ship and used as weapons in a
sinister political plot.
Seventeen-year-old Victoria escapes an abusive father by joining the
VanDrexel Family Circus in 1965, and fifty years later her writings
guide her granddaughter, sixteen-year-old Callie, in facing the
uncharted waters of public high school.
Teen Titans: Raven by Kami Garcia
When a tragic accident takes the life of the only family she's ever
known, 16-year-old Raven is sent to New Orleans to start over. She soon
discovers that she can hear the thoughts of others around her ... and
another, more disturbing, voice in her head.
Season of the Witch by Sarah Rees Brennan
It's the summer before her sixteenth birthday, and Sabrina Spellman
knows her world is about to change. She's always studied magic and
spells with her aunts, Hilda and Zelda. But she's also lived a normal
mortal life, attending Baxter High, hanging out with her friends Susie
and Roz, and going to the movies with her boyfriend, Harvey Kinkle. Now
time is running out on her every day, normal world, and leaving behind
Roz and Susie and Harvey is a lot harder than she thought it would be.
Especially because Sabrina isn't sure how Harvey feels about her. Her
cousin Ambrose suggests performing a spell to discover Harvey's true
feelings. But when a mysterious wood spirit interferes, the spell
backfires in a big way.
Project runway meets Mulan in this sweeping YA fantasy about a young
girl who poses as a boy to compete for the role of imperial tailor and
embarks on an impossible journey to sew three magic dresses, from the
sun, the moon, and the stars.
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the
dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at
their boarding school on a Maine island.
Sophie works for the local florist and party planner in her
small town, so she attends all of the big "events," all the
time sketching and dreaming of applying to design school; but this year
there is a fly-in-the-ointment of her life--Andrew Hart, son of the
fancy new chef in town, who is also at all the local events, and keeps
getting in her way, making her life more complicated.
Chrystal's plans for summer in Manhattan are
abruptly upended when her dad reads tabloid coverage of some kind of
grisly incident in Oklahoma. When they arrive to investigate, they find a
witness: a surprisingly good-looking farm boy. As townsfolk start
disappearing and the attacks get ever closer, Logan and Chrystal will
have to find out the truth about whatever's hiding in the woods.
Seventeen-year-olds Revna, the daughter of a traitor, and Linne, the
daughter of a general, must use forbidden magic to fly planes in wartime
despite their deep dislike of each other.
Annie Mathers is America's sweetheart and heir to a country music
legacy full of all the things her Gran warned her about. Superstar Clay
Coolidge is most definitely going to end up one of those things. But
unfortunately for Clay, if he can't convince Annie to join his summer
tour, his music label is going to drop him. That's what happens when
your bad boy image turns into bad boy reality.
Clay's label wants to land Annie, and Clay
has to make it happen. Swayed by Clay's undeniable charm and good
looks, Annie and her band agree to join the tour. From the start fans
want them to be more than just tour mates, and Annie and Clay can't help
but wonder if the fans are right. Can the right
song and the perfect summer on the road make two broken hearts whole?
At the mysterious Academy Absconditi, there's no electricity, no internet, and
a brutal eye-for-an-eye punishment system. Classes include
knife-throwing, poisons, and the art of deception. The other students are in training to become assassins, spies, and master manipulators.
November Adley doesn't know why she's been sent to this place, but she'll quickly discover that allies
are few in a school where competition is everything. When another
student is murdered, all eyes turn to November, who must figure out
exactly how she fits in before she is found guilty of the crime...or
becomes the killer's next victim.
When Archie, Betty,
Veronica and Jughead take a road trip, they discover that their
small-town problems seem to follow them wherever they go.
After being
sexually assaulted by a football star, Maggie drops out of college but
cannot escape the fact that everyone blames her for what happened.
Raised in the mortal realm, Everly Morrow has no idea she's a
real-life fairy-tale princess, until she manifests an ability to
commune with mirrors. Soon, a
horrifying truth is revealed: she is fated to be Snow White's greatest
enemy. As bits and pieces of the
prophecy unfold, Everly faces one betrayal after another, and giving in
to her dark side proves more tempting every day. Can she resist, or will
she become the queen, and villain, she was born to be?
In this tiny, terrifying town, the lost are never found. When Araceli
Flores Harper is sent to live with her great-aunt Ottilie, the plan is simple: she'll buckle down and
get ready for college. From the start, things are very, very wrong. Her great-aunt still
leaves food for the husband who went missing twenty years ago, and
local businesses are plastered with MISSING posters. There are
unexplained lights in the woods and a mysterious lab just beyond the
city limits that the locals don't talk about. Ever. When she starts
receiving mysterious letters that seem to be coming from the past, she
suspects someone of pranking her or trying to drive her out of her mind.
To solve these riddles and bring the lost home again, Araceli must
delve into a truly diabolical conspiracy, but some secrets fight to stay
buried.
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Anna works as a psychic in the Samson Brothers
Circus, but she doesn't believe in anything supernatural--until her twin
sister Kat is murdered and comes back as a very demanding ghost.
Sharing a room with her sister was hard, but now they're sharing a body
while trying to identify the killer. With few leads, a troupe full of
secretive folk, and strange paranormal occurrences popping up around the
circus, solving the case seems near impossible. But the murderer in their midst may be the least of their problems.
A murder is tough thing to solve, even without temperamental performers,
supernatural occurrences, and the ghost of the victim giving
commentary. But as Kat's only link to the living world, it's up to
scientifically-minded Anna to figure out who killed her sister before any
more murders rock the small traveling community. Yet as she gets closer
to finding a lead, even more unbelievable events obscure the truth.
The final stages of the U.A. High sports festival promise to be
explosive, as Uraraka takes on Bakugo in a head-to-head match! Bakugo
never gives anyone a break, and the crowd holds its breath as the battle
begins. The finals will push the students of Class 1-A to their limits
and beyond!
As the Class 1-A students begin their internships, Midoriya goes to
study under Gran Torino, who was once All Might's mentor, while the
League of Villains unleashes a terrifying new enemy.
Erwin and the Survey Corps desperately mount a rescue operation to take
Eren back from the Colossus Titan and Armored Titan, but without the
numbers, the humans are set up to be slaughtered.
At great cost to the Garrison and the Survey Corps, Commander Erwin has managed to recover Eren from the Titans who tried to carry him off. But, during the battle, Eren manifested yet another power he doesn't understand. As Eren and Krista find new enemies, the Survey Corps faces threats from both inside and outside the walls. And what will happen to Ymir, now that she has decied to make herself the Titans prize?
NON-FICTION / BIOGRAPHY
An often hilarious and always relevant memoir about one teen boy's
battle with brain cancer and his Starlight Children's Foundation wish:
to meet Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and plead for nuclear disarmament
and world peace.
A riveting biography that shows how a once-bullied school boy became an iconic visionary who the New York Times described as "arguably the most important and successful entrepreneur in the world."
In 1929, in the
blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool
the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital
center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it
has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America. How that
happened is the story of Dreamland. Quinones explains
how the rise of the prescription drug OxyContin, a miraculous and
extremely addictive painkiller pushed by pharmaceutical companies,
paralleled the massive influx of black tar heroin.
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