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When Julia plans to spend the summer with her dad in New York City, the last thing she expects is to be drawn into a mysterious and exciting adventure on an abandoned island off the coast of Massachusetts. Her father's work leads him to...

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants meets The Education of Margot Sanchez in this Caribbean-set "heartwarming and sincere" (Kirkus Reviews) story about four friends who experience unexpected changes in their lives during the summer when a hotel developer purchases their community's beloved beach. Change...

"A cheeky take on the afterlife brimming with sass, angst, and heart." --Christine Riccio, New York Times bestselling author of Again, but Better Beatrice Fox deserves to go straight to hell. At least, that's what she believes. Her last day on Earth, she ruined...

Love is a chemical reaction. When Jordan Hughes arrives at Pinecrest High School, Elliot Goldman's graduating year suddenly gets a lot more interesting. Smart, good looking and charming, Jordan isn't exactly the kind of person Elliot's used to having as a lab partner. But...

"Stewart presents readers with a dynamite coming-of-age story ... A tale spins its answer to an age-old question into an inclusive, hilarious, and thought-provoking yarn."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Grandma's Last Will and Testament names Ray to inherit the trailer park. It's a million-dollar estate with...

In Elena's world words have power over life and death--but none more so than hers. As the daughter of shopkeepers, Elena has always known that the mysteries of reading and writing were closed to her. Only the mageborn can risk harnessing the power unleashed...

Princess Giselle is excited to be leading her first royal delegation-until everything goes wrong before they even reach their destination. With her rank and authority stripped away and her people scattered, she's left with nothing but a gaggle of geese.Giselle is determined to prove...

Some people live their entire lives without changing their perspective. For Allison Dennis, all it takes is 180 seconds...After a life spent bouncing from one foster home to the next, Allison is determined to keep others at arm's length. Adopted at sixteen, she knows...

Verene has survived first year. But discovering she possesses a new and dangerous ability has only complicated her tenuous position at the Kallorwegian Academy. Not yet ready to share her new powers with anyone, Verene finds herself with even fewer friends than before.Darius has...

From debut author Cameron Kelly Rosenblum comes a stunning teen novel that tackles love, grief, and mental health as one girl must process her friend's death and ultimately learn how to stand in her own light. Perfect for fans of All the Bright Places...

"Calling My Name is a treasure."--Nic Stone, New York Times-bestselling author of Dear MartinCalling My Name is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self--ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.This unforgettable novel tells...

Sadie Navarro rescued a mare from an auction accomplishing what she thought was the most important mission of her young life.Now, that mare is headed to a ranch in Montana and a home Sadie knows nothing about.She wants to make sure the horse is...

In a kingdom where emotion is punished by death, Princess Syona is forced into a marriage alliance to stop a thirty-year war, and she must choose between her duty to the kingdom or the boy she truly loves.Author: Sarah HumpherysISBN-10: 1631955845ISBN-13: 9781631955846Publisher: Morgan James...

Verene is determined to complete her fourth and final year at the Academy, despite her family's opposition to Darius, and his own obstinance about the future of their relationship. And Darius needs to graduate in order to claim his throne. But with the threat...

Poignant and chilling by turns, The Opposite of Innocent is award-winning author Sonya Sones's most gripping novel in verse yet. It's the story of a girl named Lily, who's been crushing on a man named Luke, a friend of her parents, ever since she...

Sara Grey is done hiding and done being afraid. The Master thinks he has her running scared, but she's taking matters into her own hands and taking her life back. With the help of her friends, she sets out to find the one person...

At age nineteen, the queer narrator of Green Glass Ghosts steps off a bus in downtown Vancouver, a city where the faceless condo towers of the wealthy loom over the streets to the east where folks are just trying to get by, against the...

One girl's victory is another's tragic defeat.Thirteen-year-old Selah's perfect life unravels when her beloved horse is stolen. Then ten-year-old Emma buys the dream of a lifetime at a horse auction. When she learns the horse was stolen, even removing her hearing aid won't drown...

Fantasy of Flight is the second action-packed title in The Tainted Accords. My veil is gone and I need it back. *************************************************************************** Stuck in the lethal Outer Rings of Glacium, I must fight to survive while keeping my true identity the gravest of secrets....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Endlessly inventive . . . a] hybrid of Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and The Phantom Tollbooth."--Salon What is Un Lun Dun? It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all...

Seventeen-year-old Madeline May "Maddie" Richardson, is a dynamic classically trained concert pianist with plans to attend The Juilliard School in the fall. For the first time in years she's taking a "break" to spend the summer with her extended family in California. What's supposed...

Cassie knows she was made for more than a life buried away in her uncle's remote forest estate. Eager to meet the great spymaster, Aurora, she jumps at the chance to travel to her distant kingdom. But meeting Aurora isn't enough-Cassie wants to prove...

Christian Kent has many labels - warrior, protector, friend, lover - but the one label he never wanted was mate. In his lifetime, the only girl he has ever loved, was the one he couldn't have. He left her to protect her heart, but...

Things are going well for Roland Greene. High school is behind him, he has a sweet new ride, a good job, and he's making plans for his future. At eighteen, he's one of the strongest werewolves in his pack, and he already has more...

What if ... buried deep inside your brain were eyewitness memories of events that changed history? Memories of what your own great, great - too many to write - grandfather or grandmother saw and did when they were young. Of how a prankster, a...

From "the queen of heartbreaking prose" (Paste) Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found is a young adult realistic fiction novel in the vein of The Perks of Being a Wallflower about three friends coming-of-age against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis in the...

"Subtle, nuanced, and full of heart" (Kirkus Reviews), this powerful story about football and a boy on the brink of adulthood is perfect for fans of Carl Deuker and Mike Lupica. Seventeen-year-old Zeb Holloway is happy to work in his uncle's auto repair shop...

From the author of Blind, a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story set during World War II in Shanghai, one of the only places Jews without visas could find refuge. Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is fifteen when her mother, Alenka, disappears and her...

Season 2 of this series is a basketballaEUR"themed story following the life and times of high school studentaEUR"athlete Francis "Mack" McKyer and his friends. Mack's first semester as a transfer student to Lincoln High School in Columbia City was not easy. As a football...

THE ALIEN SKILL SERIES (BOOKS 4-6) IN A SINGLE VOLUMECAN A HUMAN BOY SAVE EARTH FROM AN ALIEN INVASION?Ben Archer's adventures continue as he learns to wield his alien power. A looming threat approaches Earth. Can he and his alien friend, Mesmo, protect humans...

From Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan, authors of Unpregnant--now a movie streaming on HBO Max, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira--comes a twist on the cancer love story that's dark humor mixed with quirky fun. Think Dirty Rotten Scoundrels meets The Fault in...

A young love story about breaking painful legacies by the author of The Upside of Falling Down.Convention doesn't carry much weight in Alder Creek. It doesn't in Amoris Westmore's family either. Daughter of a massage therapist and a pothead artist, inheritor of her grandmother's...

It was the summer of storms and strays and strangers. The summer that lightning struck the big oak tree in the front yard. The summer his mother died in a tragic accident. As he recalls the tumultuous events that launched a surprising journey, Samuel...

Princess Cordelia is used to being overshadowed by her many brothers and sisters. So when she's offered the chance to attend her brother's wedding in a faraway kingdom, she leaps at it. In Northhelm, she'll finally have the chance to stand out. And maybe,...

For anyone who has wanted to change the past, this captivating and haunting novel is about seemingly innocent choices and their devastating consequences. When Michael fires his new rifle into the air on his seventeenth birthday, he never imagines that the bullet will end...

In this timely and gripping novel, author Bettina Restrepo exposes the challenges of one girl's unique yet universal immigrant experience. This is an eye-opening look into the harrowing journey a family takes to forge a more hopeful future. The paperback includes a new foreword...

What happens when a biracial teenage boy starts to question what is going on in his world? Life can be wonderful, right? But why does everything seem to be somewhat wacky and out-of-place? This book "A Wacky, Rocky World: Just a Teeny Little Voice"...

Jesse risked everything to bring her mother and father home, but her life is far from back to normal. With her parents' memories of their abduction gone, Jesse is no closer to finding answers, and the threat still looms over her family. When the...

Would you destroy another world to save your own? As the site of a former military base, there have always been rumors that East Township High School was the site of experiments with space and time. For years, students have whispered in the hallways...

Even the Spoken Mage has limits to the power of her voiceElena may be the only Spoken Mage in history, but she struggles with limitations. Unable to stockpile written workings as her mageborn year mates do, she runs the constant risk of burning out....

The definition of who a Royal is and will become is determined by how one utilizes the power they possess... After all that has happened, the very last thing Esmari wants to do is learn more about the powers inside of her. Nothing seems...

Like some other Native American teens on Montana reservations, Rhonda Runningcrane attempted suicide. To her, life seemed bleak and pointless. But when she learns that donations are needed to support a large protest against an oil company running a pipeline through sacred Native land,...

"Thorndike Pressｪ Large Print The Literacy Bridge."Author: Elizabeth AcevedoISBN-10: 1432864580ISBN-13: 9781432864583Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/29/2019Pages: 380Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90dLarge PrintAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.2Point Value: 5Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 195165 / Poet XAward: National Book Awards -...

A riveting tale of magic, mystery, and adventure, The Chronicles of William Wilde will thrill readers who loved The Reckoners Trilogy and The Maze Runner.On a cold winter's night, just shy of his seventeenth birthday, William Wilde became an orphan. It was a simple...

A Seventeen Best Book of the YearA New York Public Library Top Ten Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Best Book of the Year For fans of All the Bright Places and Looking for Alaska comes "a daring, inventive story about love and loss...

Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: she's homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and she's probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can't swim.Then Emilie's mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying...

Sophie's sweet plan is about to get complicated.Bad things come in threes, right? Apparently not for Sophie. It seems like everything in her life is turning sour. Her family's crumbling, her creative spark has fizzled, and school's unbearable now that her ex-boyfriend and best...

Author: Ciara SmythISBN-10: 0062957155ISBN-13: 9780062957153Publisher: HarperteenLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2022Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.10dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.8Point Value: 13Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 520883 / Not My Problem

Plum would love to work as Lady Sulat's chef and spend her days crafting healing foods, but it isn't safe for her to stay in the capital. She knows far too many of the king's secrets. Lady Sulat proposes sending Plum away on a...

On the cusp of adulthood, a 17-year-old girl escapes her abusive home and discovers a refuge in a sleepy Arizona town. Two weeks have passed since Nana's funeral. Her absence still feels raw to Lucy Sanchez, a Mexican American girl who has inherited her...