New in May

Ashes of Twilight
By Kassy Tayler
Sixteen-year-old Wren MacAvoy works as a coal miner for a domed city where, after 200 years, society is complacent and coal is diminishing until she unwittingly becomes a catalyst for a revolution that destroys the dome, which could mean the end of everything.

Furious
By Jill Wolfson
After becoming the Furies of Greek mythology, three angry high school girls take revenge on everyone who deserves it.

Hooked 
By Liz Fichera
Invited to become her varsity golf team's only female member, Fredericka Oday pursues a dream of earning a scholarship only to be challenged by golden boy Ryan Berenger, who resents Fred for replacing his best friend on the team.

My Brother's Book
By Maurice Sendak
Presents a poem Sendak wrote to pay homage to his late brother, Jack, whom he credited for his passion for writing and drawing.

Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood
By Abby McDonald
Sisters Hallie and Grace relocate to Beverly Hills after the death of their father and struggle with respective challenges, from Grace's memories of a crush to Hallie's tempestuous love triangle.

Money Run 
By Jack Heath
Fifteen-year-olds Ashley and Benjamin are planning the heist of a lifetime, but they are not counting on a hit man who has plans of his own.

Moonset
By Scott Tracey
Five orphaned teenagers, the offspring of a terrorist witch coven known as Moonset, struggle against the destructive legacy left by their parents.

Three Little Words: A Memoir
By Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Ashley spent nine years in foster care after being taken away from her mother. She endured many caseworkers, moving from school to school and manipulative, humiliating and abusive treatment from one foster family. See how she survives and eventually thrives against the odds.

 

Out of Nowhere
By Maria Padian
Performing community service for pulling a stupid prank against a rival high school, soccer star Tom tutors a Somali refugee with soccer dreams of his own.

The Program
By Suzanne Young
When suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to seventeen-year-old Sloane who knows that The Program will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend.

Sacred
By Elana K. Arnold
Since her older brother died Scarlett has felt emotionally cut off from everyone on Catalina Island except for her horse, and she has become anorexic--but when she meets a strange boy named Will Cohen she begins to rediscover herself.

It's Raining Fish and Spiders
By Bill Evans
Provides information on tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, and other types of extreme weather, with personal anecdotes from the meteorologist author and examples from some of the well-known storms of the past.

Spellbinding 
By Maya Gold
When sixteen-year-old Abby traces her deceased mother's family to the Salem Witch Trials, the nightmares she has been having begin to make sense, but soon she is caught up in a love triangle and an age-old quest for revenge.

Touch of Death
By Kelly Hashway

Jodi Marshall discovers she's part of a branch of necromancers born under the 13th sign of the zodiac, Ophiuchus. As if that isn't difficult enough, Jodi discovers she's the chosen one who has to save the rest of her kind from perishing at the hands of Hades. If she can't figure out how to control her power, history will repeat itself, and her race will become extinct.

Renegade
By Amy Carol Reeves
"After vanquishing the Conclave, Arabella Sharp tries to focus on her medical studies but soon discovers that she and those she loves have not escaped the manipulations of the Ripper"-- Provided by the publisher.

New in April

17 & Gone
By Nova Ren Suma
Seventeen-year-old Lauren has visions of girls her own age who are gone without a trace, but while she tries to understand why they are speaking to her and whether she is next, Lauren has a brush with death and a shocking truth emerges, changing everything.

Odette's Secrets
By Maryann MacDonald
When Odette Meyer's father is sent to a Nazi work camp, her mother sends Odette from Paris to the French countryside where she must pretend to be a Catholic peasant to remain safe, while secrets burn within her.

Salvation 
By Anne Osterlund
High school seniors Salvador Resendez, the son of Mexican immigrants, and Beth Courant, a bookish student, seem an unlikely couple as they face his family's opposition, until a tragedy forces them to create a better future for themselves.

Tales of Famous Animals 
By Peter and Connie Roop
All throughout history, there have been remarkable stories of bravery and heroics -- and some of those tales aren't just about humans. Come meet the animals who made their mark on the past.

When We Wake
By Karen Healey
In 2027, sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl--playing the guitar, falling in love, and protesting the wrongs of the world with her friends. But then Tegan dies, waking up 100 years in the future as the unknowing first government guinea pig to be cryogenically frozen and successfully revived. Appalling secrets about her new world come to light, and Tegan must choose to either keep her head down or fight for a better future.

Alone Yet Not Alone
By Tracy Craven
In 1755, in the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania, sisters Barbara and Regina Leininger are carried away from their family by Allegheny warriors, but hold onto their faith in God and belief that they will one day be reunited.

A Corner of White
By Jaclyn Moriarty
Fourteen-year-old Madeleine of Cambridge, England, struggling to cope with poverty and her mother's illness, and fifteen-year-old Elliot of the Kingdom of Cello in a parallel world where colors are villainous and his father is missing, begin exchanging notes through a crack between their worlds and find they can be of great help to each other.

Courage Has No Color
By Tanya Lee Stone
Examines the role of African-Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought against attacks perpetrated on the American West by the Japanese during World War II.

The Farm 
By Emily McKay
In a vampire-infested world where teenagers have been imprisoned to provide food for the undead, Lily and her autistic twin, Mel, team up with a former schoolmate to make a desperate escape.

Orleans
By Sherri L. Smith
After a string of devastating hurricanes and a severe outbreak of Delta Fever, the Gulf Coast has been quarantined. Now, years later, a new primitive society has been born over the wall.

Alien Hunter's Handbook 
By Mark Brake
A guide to the science behind the search for extraterrestrials, including the conditions necessary for life, where such conditions could exist, how aliens might look, and how we might be able to communicate with them.

Paradise 
By Joanna Nadin
When sixteen-year-old Billie Paradise unexpectedly inherits her grandmother's seaside house she gains not only the opportunity to move with her mother and half brother from their cramped London apartment but, perhaps, also to uncover family secrets, including the identity of her father.

Slated
By Teri Terry
In a future England, sixteen-year-old Kyla is one of the "slated," those whose memories have been erased usually because they have committed serious crimes, but as she observes more and more strange events, she also gains more memories which put her and her boyfriend, Ben, in danger.

When We Wuz Famous
By Greg Takoudes
Francisco Ortiz, a handsome straight-A student and gifted basketball player from the barrio, wins a full scholarship to an elite boarding school. His future seems promising. But soon after Francisco moves into the dorm, his new classmates assume the worst of him: they pepper him with questions about drugs and gangs. It's all so confusing, made even more complicated when Francisco realizes that back home in the hood, he no longer fits in, though his friends still rely on him to solve their problems. In a desperate attempt to help one of his homies, Francisco makes a terrible decision and becomes everything he fought so hard to rise against.

New in March

Dr. Frankenstein's Daughters
By Suzanne Weyn
Giselle and Ingrid are the twin daughters of Doctor Victor Frankenstein, but they are very different people, and when they inherit his castle in the Orkney Islands, Giselle dreams of holding parties and inviting society--but Ingrid is fascinated by her father's forbidden experiments.

Pinned 
By Sharon Flake
Adonis is smart, intellectually gifted, and born without legs; Autumn is strong, a great wrestler, and barely able to read in ninth grade--but Autumn is attracted to Adonis and determined to make him a part of her life whatever he or her best friend thinks.

Lies Beneath
By Anne Greenwood Brown
As the only brother in a family of mermaids living in Lake Superior, Calder White is expected to seduce Lily, the daughter of the man believed to have killed the mermaids' mother, but he begins to fall in love with her just as Lily starts to suspect the legends about the lake are true.

How To Lead a Life of Crime
By Kirsten Miller
A teenaged pickpocket, haunted by the ghost of his brother killed by his father, is recruited for Mandel Academy, a school for criminals where only one student survives each semester.

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
By Deborah Hopkinson
Tells the tale of the sinking of the Titanic using the narratives of the witnesses and survivors to the disaster.

Also Known As 
By Robin Benway
As the active-duty daughter of international spies, sixteen-year-old safecracker Maggie Silver never attended high school so when she and her parents are sent to New York for her first solo assignment, Maggie is introduced to cliques, school lunches, and maybe even a boyfriend.

Notes From Ghost Town 
By Kate Ellison
Young artist Olivia Tithe struggles to keep her sanity as she unravels the mystery of her first love's death through his ghostly visits.

The Trouble With Flirting
By Claire Scovell Lazebnik 
Loosely based on Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park," relates high school junior Franny's summer at Mansfield College in Portland, Oregon, where she helps her aunt sew costumes for an acting program and gets caught between the boy she likes and the one who likes her.

Road Trip 
By Gary Paulsen
A father and son embark on a road trip to a distant animal shelter to save a homeless border collie puppy.

Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America 
By Andrea Davis Pinkey
Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day.

Revel
By Maurissa Guibord
"Looking for her grandmother, seventeen-year-old Delia goes to an isolated island in Maine and discovers a frightening and supernatural world where ancient Greek symbols adorn the buildings and secret ceremonies take place on the beach at night"--Provided by publisher.

Escape Theory 
By Margaux Froley
Bound by her oath of confidentiality and tortured by unrequited love, sixteen-year-old Devon, a peer counselor at a prestigious California boarding school, finds herself on a solitary mission to get to the bottom of a popular student's apparent suicide.

OCD, the Dude and Me
By Lauren Roedy Vaughn
Danielle Levine stands out even at her alternative high school--in appearance and attitude--but when her scathing and sometimes raunchy English essays land her in a social skills class, she meets Daniel, another social misfit who may break her resolve to keep everyone at arm's length.

Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality
By Elizabeth Eulberg
Living in the shadow of her spoiled pageant-queen little sister, Lexi struggles with her school's fixation on appearances and despairs of winning the affections of a crush who regards her as a good buddy before resolving to give herself a makeover.

New in February

Three Little Words
By Sarah N. Harvey
When Sid decide to leave his foster family in search for his mother and brother that he doesn't remember. He isn't ready for the surprises he finds.

The Fire Horse Girl
By Kay Honeyman
When Jade Moon, born in the unlucky year of the Fire Horse, and her father immigrate to America in 1923 and are detained at Angel Island Immigration Station, Jade Moon is determined to find a way through and prove that she is not cursed.

Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things
By Kathryn Burak
A new girl in Amherst, Massachusetts, comes to terms with her mother's suicide and her best friend's disappearance with the help of Emily Dickinson's poetry--and her dress.

Perry's Killer Playlist 
By Joe Schreiber
As his rock band tours Italy, eighteen-year-old Perry says a reluctant "bonjour" to Gobi, his former exchange student/Lithuanian assassin, who enlists his help on a justice-dispensing rampage all over Europe.

Lincoln's Last Days 
By Bill O'Reilly and Dwight Jon Zimmerman
Describes the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the hunt to track down John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices.

Flutter
By G. J. Linko
"Although doctors want to treat 17-year-old Emery Land for the seizures that define her life, she runs away from the hospital in the hopes of uncovering the secret behind her "loops"--the moments during her seizures when she travels to different places and moments in time" --.

Meant to Be
By Lauren Morrill
During an educational trip to London, away from her friends and the boy she thinks she is fated to love, Massachusetts high school junior Julia Lichtenstein is paired with her nemesis, Jason, and begins seeing many things differently.

Midnight City
By Mitchell J. Barton
When the world's adults succumb to an alien signal designed to reduce populations to subservience, teen bounty hunter Holt and treasure seeker Mira rescue a young girl and journey through North America to free their world.

Rescuing the Children: The Story of the Kindertransport 
By Deborah Hodge
Learn why children were in danger in Nazi Europe and about the brave people who helped them escape to England.

My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century
By Rachel Harris
While on a trip to Florence, Italy, Cat Crawford travels back in time to the sixteenth century where she meets her ancestors, falls for an aspiring artist, and becomes the target of an unwanted suitor.

Nobody
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Fifteen-year-old Claire Ryan has always felt invisible, always lived beyond people's notice, which causes trouble when she instantly connects with seventeen-year-old Nix, who really can become invisible and has been sent to assassinate her.

Passion Blue
By Victoria Strauss
In fifteenth-century Italy, seventeen-year-old Giulia, a Count's illegitimate daughter, buys a talisman hoping it will bring her true love to save her from life in a convent, but once there she begins to learn the painter's craft, including how to make the coveted paint, Passion blue, and to question her true heart's desire.

Vicious: True Stories by Teens About Bullying 
Edited by Hope Vanderberg
Teens share personal stories about physical, verbal, and cyber bullying.

Level 2
By Lenore Appelhans
Seventeen-year-old Felicia Ward is dead and spending her time in the hive reliving her happy memories--but when Julian, a dark memory from her past, breaks into the hive and demands that she come with him, she discovers that even the afterlife is more complicated and dangerous then she dreamed.

All the Broken Pieces
By Cindi Madsen
After waking from a coma with no memory of her past, Liv returns to her normal life with two distinct, warring voices in her head, and it takes an investigation into her car accident and her new relationship with Spencer to rebuild her broken past.

The Future We Left Behind
By Mike A. Lancaster
A thousand years after the release of the Straker Tapes, when Peter and Alpha discover that stories of human upgrades are true, they strive to stop a group of scientists from making a decision that could destroy humanity.