New in December

Pawn
By Aimee Carter

Escaping a life of marginalization and misery, Kitty Doe joins the most powerful family in the country, a choice that requires her to assume the identity of the Prime Minister's niece and stop a rebellion that ended her predecessor's life.

The Living
By Matt de la Pena

After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.

Hostage Three
By Nick Lake

Seventeen-year-old Amy, her father, and her stepmother become hostages when Somalian pirates seize their yacht, but although she builds a bond with one of her captors it becomes brutally clear that the price of life and its value are two very different things.

Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design
By Chip Kidd

Chip is is "the closest thing to a rock star" in the design world (USA Today), and in Go he explains not just the elements of design -- including form, line, color, scale, typography, and more -- but most important, how to use those elements in creative ways. Like putting the word "go" on a stop sign, Go is all about shaking things up -- and teens will love its playful spirit and belief that the world looks better when you look at it differently.

Premeditated
By Josin L. McQuein

A contemporary thriller about the lengths one girl will go in order to get revenge on the boy who ruined her cousin's life.

Hero
By Alethea Kontis

Companion novel to ENCHANTED: Saturday Woodcutter accidentally conjures an ocean in the backyard and, with sword in tow, sets sail on a pirate ship, only to find herself kidnapped and held captive by a mountain witch with the power to destroy the world.

Man Made Boy
By Jon Skovron

Tired of being sheltered from humans, seventeen-year-old Boy, son of Frankenstein's Monster and the Bride of Frankenstein, runs away from home and embarks on a wild road trip that takes him across the country and deep into the heart of America.

Super Pop!
By Daniel Harmon

Super Pop offers a maximum-pleasure, minimum-effort way to become smarter, happier, and more likely to survive your next family function (or a shark attack). This hilarious and wide-ranging guide sorts nearly 500 different bestsellers, blockbusters, and underappreciated gems into quirky top ten lists, like "Outwit Death: Essential Lessons in Survival," and "Achieve Mindfulness: Movies that Will Show You the Way (With Wise Elders Now Included)." So whether you're looking for some motivational workout music, need help planning a July 4th double feature, or just want to pick up some knowledge without straining your brain, this book has you covered. Super Pop! makes sense of pop culture -- and then puts pop culture back to work!

Eat, Brains, Love
By Jeff Hart

New Jersey teens Jake Stephenson and Amanda Blake are turning into zombies and, having devoured half of their senior class, they are on the run, pursued by teen psychic Cass, a member of a government unit charged with killing zombies and keeping their existence secret.

Blythewood
By Carol Goodman

After a summer locked away in a mental institution, seventeen-year-old orphan Ava Hall is sent to Blythewood, a finishing school for young ladies that is anything but ordinary

One Crow Alone
By S.D. Crockett

Born at the height of a mid-twenty-first-century ice age, fifteen-year-old Willo Blake encounters outlaws, halfmen, and an abandoned girl while journeying in search of his family members who have mysteriously disappeared from their freezing mountaintop home.


 

This Is Not a Writing Manual: Notes for the Young Writer in the Real World
By Kerri Majors

You're an aspiring writer. The last thing you need is another preachy writing manual telling you how you should write. This book isn't a writing manual -- it's a series of candid and irreverent essays on the writing life, from a writer who's lived it. Kerri Majors shares stories from her own life that offer insights on the realities all writers face: developing a writing voice, finding a real job (and yes, you do need to find one), taking criticism, getting published, and dealing with rejection. This Is Not a Writing Manual is the writing memoir for young writers who want to use their talents in the real world.

Charm & Strange
By Stephanie Kuehn

A lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school in the wake of a family tragedy must either surrender his sanity to the wild wolves inside his mind or learn that surviving means more than not dying.

Twinmaker
By Sean Williams

When her best friend, Libby, misuses instant transportation technology to alter her appearance, seventeeen-year-old Clair is drawn into a shadowy world of conspiracies and cover-ups as she attempts to save Libby from the hidden consequences of her actions.

Until It Hurts to Stop
By Jennifer R. Hubbard

A former victim of middle school bullying, seventeen-year-old Maggie struggles to navigate the high school world of love and friendships, finding solace in her love of hiking.

New in November

 

Linked
By Imogen Howson

When Elissa's nightmarish visions and inexplicable bruises lead to the discovery of a battered twin sister on the run from government agents, Elissa enlists the help of an arrogant new graduate from the space academy.

Inhuman
By Kat Falls

Beyond the Titan wall lies the Feral Zone, and the only people who break quarantine and venture there are the "fetches," who are paid exorbitant sums to bring back items that were left behind when the wall went up — but Delaney McEvoy's father is there and she is being forced to find him and bring him back.

Scorched
By Marianne Mancusi

Sixteen-year-old Trinity Foxx does not believe her grandfather's latest treasure is a real dragon's egg until soldiers invade trying to steal it, a strange boy tells her she must work with him to stop an impending dragon war, and the dragon inside the egg begins telling her what to do.

Teens Cook Dessert
By Megan Carle and Jill Carle

Sisters Megan and Jill Carle understand what other teens know and do't know about baking, and they clearly describe and explain everything their peers need to do to produce fabulous results. This is the only full-color dessert cookbook written by and for teenagers! 

This Song Will Save Your Life
Leila Sales

Nearly a year after a failed suicide attempt, sixteen-year-old Elise discovers that she has the passion, and the talent, to be a disc jockey.

Burning
By Elana K. Arnold

In the scorching Nevada desert during the Burning Man art festival, a small town boy meets a Gypsy girl, when both are at crossroads in their lives.

Arclight
By Josin McQuein

The first person to cross the barrier that protects Arclight from the Fade, teenaged Marina has no memory when she is rescued but when one of the Fade infiltrates Arclight, she recognizes it and begins to unlock secrets she never knew she had.

Teen Cuisine: The New Vegetarian
By Matthew Locriccho

Teens will celebrate all the great features in this exquisite cookbooks that speak directly to today's most popular eating trends. The cookbook includes 50 mouthwatering, original step-by-step recipes for all times of day. Whether you're vegetarian or vegan, considering moving away from meat-based cooking, or just looking for inspired approaches to traditional vegetarian recipes, this book is for you.

The Hallowed Ones
By Laura Bickle

Amish teen Katie smuggles a gravely injured young man, an outsider, into her family's barn despite the elders' ruling that no one can come in or out of the community while some mysterious and massive unrest is wreaking havoc in the "English" world.

The Lost Sun
By Tessa Gratton

In an alternate U.S.A. (the United States of Asgard), Soren Bearskin, the son of an infamous berserker, and Astrid Glyn, daughter of a renowned seer, embark on a road trip to find Baldur, the missing god whose absence has caused panic throughout the country

VIII
By H.M. Castor

Hal, a young man of extraordinary talents, skill on the battlefield, sharp intelligence, and virtue, believes he is destined for greatness but, haunted by his family's violent past, he embarks on a journey that leads to absolute power and brings him face to face with his demons as he grows to become Henry VIII.

Lego Minifigure Year by Year: A Visual History
By Daniel Lipkowitz

Shows the evolution of this classic toy for the first time ever, with exquisite photography and fascinating facts about each and every minifigure included. Featuring more than 2,000 of the most significant, popular, and rare minifigures, this engaging reference guide explores minifigures chronologically by theme.

Season of the Witch
By Mariah Fredericks

A girl who is bullied experiments with witchcraft in order to get revenge on her attackers.

This Is How I Find Her
By Sara Polsky

High school junior Sophie has always had the burden of taking care of her mother, who has bipolar disorder, but after her mother's hospitalization she must learn to cope with estranged family and figure out her own life.

Thin Space
By Jody Casella

Consumed by guilt and secrets about his twin brother's death, Marsh Windsor is looking for a thin space — a place where the barrier between this world and the next is thin enough for a person to cross over — in hopes of setting things right.

Solstice
By P.J. Hoover

Eighteen-year-old Piper lives with her controlling mother amid a Global Heating Crisis, but when she gets her first taste of freedom she discovers a universe of gods and monsters where her true identity, kept secret from her birth, could make all the difference in the world.

Asylum
By Madeleine Roux

Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secrets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying — secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past.



New in October

Just Like Fate
By Cat Patrick and Suzanne Young

With her Grandmother dying, Caroline is given a choice to either stay by her Gram's side or go to the biggest party of the year. The story is told in alternating chapters, revealing what happens if Caroline stays or goes.

Truly, Madly, Deadly
By Hannah Jayne

When her abusive boyfriend dies in what seems to be a drunk-driving accident, Sawyer is secretly relieved until she opens her locker and finds a note from a secret admirer that says "You're welcome."

September Girls
By Madison Bennett

Vacationing in a sleepy beach town for the summer, Sam is pursued by hordes of blonde girls before falling in love with the unusual DeeDee, who compels him to uncover secrets about the community's ocean-dwelling inhabitants.
 

My Totally Awkward Supernatural Crush
By Laura Toffler-Corrie

While coping with middle school drama and costuming a teen production of Fiddler on the Roof, fourteen-year-old Jenna falls for Luke, an angel, and joins him in battle against demonic foe Adam, who wants Jenna's ancient pendant.

The 100
By Kass Morgan

When 100 juvenile delinquents are sent on a mission to recolonize Earth, they get a second chance at freedom, friendship, and love, as they fight to survive in a dangerous new world.

The Fallout
By S.A. Bodeen

The sequel to The Compound finds Eli and his family struggling to acclimate to the outside world after escaping the compound where his father imprisoned them for six years, an effort that is complicated by an intrusive media and disturbing revelations about his father's company.

How (Not) to Find a Boyfriend
By Allyson Valentine Schrier

When varsity cheerleader Nora falls for brilliant new student Adam, she struggles to maintain her popularity while proving to Adam that she is actually a genius in disguise.

Dead Girls Don't Lie
By Jennifer Shaw Wolf

Jaycee and Rachel were best friends until a terrible night when their friendship faltered and Rachel was found dead, but her last text message starts Jaycee on a search that may prove Rachel's death was no random crime.

Bubble World
By Carol Snow

After sixteen-year-old Fresia learns--and tells her friends--that their perfect life on a luxurious tropical island is not real, she is banished from her virtual world to the "mainland," where people are ugly, school is hard, and families are dysfunctional.

Cinderella, Ninja Warrior
By Maureen McGowan

In this twist on the traditional tale, Cinderella trains as a ninja warrior to help her escape the control of her evil stepmother and attend a special Magic Festival at the palace. The reader is given chances throughout the text to choose the direction of the plot.

Antigoddess
By Kendare Blake

Athena and Hermes' search for the cause of their unexpected, life-threatening illnesses leads them to Cassandra, a former prophetess, who may be key to a war started by Hera and other Olympians who have become corrupt anti-gods determined to destroy their rivals.

Taste Test
By Kelly Fiore

While attending a New Hampshire culinary academy, North Carolina high schooler Nora suspects someone of sabotaging the academy's televised cooking competition.

Not a Drop to Drink
By Mindy McGinnis

Sixteen-year-old Lynn will do anything to protect her valuable water source, but the arrival of new neighbors forces her to reconsider her attitudes. Fans of classic frontier survival stories as well as readers of dystopian literature will enjoy this futuristic story where water is worth more than gold.

New in September

Gated
By Amy Christine Parker
Seventeen-year-old Lyla feels ambivalent when the charismatic leader of her isolated suburban community is told that the end of the world is near and when it arrives they must all be ready to defend themselves against the unchosen.

Spies and Prejudice
By Talia Vance

"Berry Fields's life working for her dad's investigation firm and searching for clues to her mother's death unravels when gorgeous Tanner arrives in town and changes everything"-- Provided by publisher.

Love Disguised
Lisa Klein
After a mixed-up courtship with the Hathaway sisters ends badly, eighteen-year-old Will Shakespeare jumps at the chance to go to London, where he can pursue his dream of becoming an actor and where he is about to meet the girl who will change his life forever.

In the After
By Demitria Lunetta
In a post-apocalyptic world where nothing is as it seems, seventeen-year-old Amy and Baby, a child she found while scavenging, struggle to survive while vicious, predatory creatures from another planet roam the Earth.

Boy on the Bridge
By Natalie Standiford
It is 1982 and nineteen-year-old Laura Reid is spending a semester in Leningrad studying Russian, but when she meets Alyosha she discovers the dissident Russia--a world of wild parties, underground books and music, love, and constant danger.

Rush
By Eve Silver
Rochester, New York, high schooler Miki Jones is pulled into a sort of a game in which she and other teens battle real-life aliens and the consequences of each battle could be deadly.

Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War
By Helen Frost
Twelve-year-olds Anikwa, of the Miami village of Kekionga, and James, of the trading post outside Fort Wayne, find their friendship threatened by the rising fear and tension brought by the War of 1812.

Ink
By Amanda Sun
After a family tragedy in Deep River, Canada Katie Greene is sent to live with her aunt in Shizuoka, Japan. There she feels lost and alone until she meets the mysterious Tomohiro and strange things begin to happen whenever they are together : ink drips from nowhere, drawings come to life, etc. As their relationship deepens Katie becomes drawn into Tomo's world, that is somehow connected to the kami - powerful ancient Japanese beings.

Second Impact
By David Klass
When Jerry Downing, star quarterback in a small football town, gets a second chance after his drunk driving had serious consequences, Carla Jensen, ace reporter for the school newspaper, invites him to join her in writing a blog, mainly about sports.

Identity Theft
By Anna Davies
Someone claiming to be Hayley posts incriminating photographs of her online, jeopardizing her chance at a college scholarship, but when the photographs reveal dark secrets in her family's past, Hayley learns her very life is at stake.

Lauren Yanofsky Hates the Holocaust
By Leanne Lieberman
Lauren, a Jewish teenager, is tired of hearing about the Holocaust but must make a tough choice when some friends play Nazi war games.

Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked-Tailed Elephant
By Michael Daly
Describes how P.T. Barnum's Topsy the elephant was electrocuted in Coney Island with 6600 volts of alternating current as proof that it was much more dangerous than direct current in an ongoing dispute between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse.

Gettysburg: The True Account of Two Young Heroes in the Greatest Battle of the Civil War
By Iain C. Martin
An account of the historic Civil War battle from the perspectives of two teenage soldiers draws on first-hand accounts to cover key events while providing complementary maps, related trivia, and original photographs.