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All the Truth That's In Me
Julie Berry Four years ago, Judith and her best friend disappeared from Roswell Station. Only Judith returned, mutilated, reviled and ignored by those who were once her friends and family. Unable to speak, Judith lives like a ghost in her own home, silently pouring out her thoughts. But when Roswell Station is attacked, long-buried secrets come to light, and Judith is forced to choose: continue to live in silence, or recover her voice, even if it means changing her world, and the lives around her, forever. |
Anna Dressed in Blood
Kendare Blake Cas Lowood has an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. Following legends and local lore, he destroys the murderous dead and keeps pesky things like the future and friends at bay. Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. |
Anya's Ghost
Vera Brosgol Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of a well, a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who’s been dead for a century. Falling down a well is bad enough, but Anya’s normal life might actually be worse. She’s embarrassed by her family, self-conscious about her body, and has given up on fitting in at school. A new friend - even a ghost - is just what she needs. Or so she thinks. |
The Eye of Minds
James Dashner Michael is a gamer. And like most gamers, he almost spends more time on the VirtNet than in the actual world. Recent reports claim that one gamer is going beyond what any gamer has done before: he’s holding players hostage inside the VirtNet. The effects are horrific - the hostages have all been declared brain-dead. Yet the gamer’s motives are a mystery. The government knows that to catch a hacker, you need a hacker. And they’ve been watching Michael. |
Stupid Fast
Geoff Herbach My name is Felton Reinstein, which is not a fast name. But last November, my voice finally dropped and I grew all this hair and then I got stupid fast. Fast like a donkey. Zing! Now they want me, the guy they used to call Squirrel Nut, to try out for the football team. With the jocks. But will that fix my mom? Make my brother stop dressing like a pirate? Most important, will it get me girls-especially Aleah? |
In Darkness
Nick Lake Shorty is 15 years old and trapped in a collapsed hospital after an earthquake in Haiti. Surrounded by the bodies of the dead, increasingly weak from lack of food and water, Shorty begins to hallucinate. As he waits in darkness for a rescue that may never come, a mystical bridge seems to emerge between him and Haitian leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, uniting the two in their darkest suffering - and their hope. |
Huntress
Malinda Lo Nature is out of balance in the human world. The sun hasn't shone in years, and crops are failing. Worse yet, strange and hostile creatures have begun to appear. To solve the crisis, Kaede and Taisin, two 17-year-old girls, are picked to go on a dangerous journey to the city of the Fairy Queen. The two come to rely on each other and even begin to fall in love. But saving their kingdom could tear Kaede and Taisin apart forever. This book was generously donated by the author. |
A Long Walk to Water
Linda Sue Park In 2008, Nya fetches water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. In 1985, Salva became one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya’s in an astonishing way. |
Dodger
Terry Pratchett Seventeen-year-old Dodger is content as a sewer scavenger. But he enters a new world when he rescues a young girl from a beating, and her fate impacts some of the most powerful people in England. From Dodger's encounter with the mad barber Sweeney Todd, to his meetings with the great writer Charles Dickens and the calculating politician Benjamin Disraeli, history and fantasy intertwine in a breathtaking account of adventure and mystery. |
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell Eleanor is bullied at school because she's overweight. Park is half-Korean and has lived in Nebraska all his life, but he still feels like an outsider. They become friends through their love of comic books and music. Park is the only good thing in Eleanor's life. Her home life is a miserable exercise in staying out of her abusive stepfather's way. Park adores everything about Eleanor, and she finds refuge at his house. When things explode at Eleanor's house, their relationship is truly tested. |
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Saenz Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship—the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be. |
Jasper Jones
Craig Silvey 13-year-old Charlie is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Jasper takes him to his secret glade, where Charlie witnesses the horrible discovery. With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion. In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart. |
Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan Willow Chance is a 12-year-old genius. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life - until now. Suddenly Willow's world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. |
Miles from Ordinary
Carol Lynch Williams Lacey wakes to a beautiful morning, excited to begin her new job at the library. Her mother is supposed to start work at the grocery store. Lacey hopes that her mother's ghosts have finally been laid to rest; after all, she seems so much better these days. But all too soon, a day full of hope spins terrifyingly out of control... |
The 5th Wave
Rick Yancey Oa lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. He may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother - or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. Will she give up? Or will she get up? |
Level Up
Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham Dennis Ouyang lives in the shadow of his parents’ high expectations. They want him to go to med school and become a doctor. Dennis just wants to play video games—and he might actually be good enough to do it professionally. But four adorable, bossy, and occasionally terrifying angels arrive just in time to lead Dennis back onto the straight and narrow: the path to gastroenterology. It’s all part of the plan, they tell him. But is it? |
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Revealed - P. C. Cast (House of Night)
Drastically altered after her fall at the end of Hidden, Neferet is now more dangerous than ever—and her quest for vengeance will wreak havoc. The Iron Traitor - Julie Kagawa (The Iron Fey) Ethan's nephew, Keirran, is missing, and may be on the verge of doing something unthinkable - fracturing the human and faery worlds forever. |
The Private School Murders - James Patterson (Confessions)
Wealthy young women are being murdered, and Tandy Angel has a hunch it may be the work of a serial killer. Can she untangle the mysteries in time? I Even Funnier - James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein (I Funny) Jamie Grimm dreams of being a stand-up comic. But when trouble hits, will he put his ambitions on hold and stand by the people he cares about? |
