YA FIC BARRETT
Jane cares for her mother and sister until her stepfather
dies, leaving nothing but debts and Jane's spoiled stepsister behind, but a
mysterious boy from the woods and an invitation to a royal ball are certain to
change her fate.
YA FIC CAREY
Young Clod is an Iremonger. He lives at Heap House, his
family's mansion at the center of the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded
items. Each Iremonger has an odd gift and Clod’s is perhaps the oddest of all….he
can hear all of the objects of Heap House whispering!
YA FIC EVANS
Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan
head to Taiwan in search of nine-year-old child prodigy Lin Julung, or Jade
Dragon, who the Elgen kidnapped for Hatch's army of electric children.
YA FIC EWING
Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden
romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is
purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children.
YA FIC FOMBELLE
In a world between wars, a young man on the cusp of
taking priestly vows is suddenly made a fugitive. Fleeing the accusations of
police who blame him for a murder, as well as more sinister forces with darker
intentions, Vango attempts to trace the secrets of his shrouded past and prove
his innocence before all is lost.
YA FIC LAFEVERS
Annith's worst fears are realized when she discovers
that, despite her lifelong training to be an assassin, she is being groomed by
the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever shut up in the convent of Saint Mortain.
YA FIC PARKER
A teen girl and her boyfriend must find her older brother
after he wanders into their town's swamp and a mysterious girl appears in his
place.
YA FIC MAGOON
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his
community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter,
Jack Franklin, is white. Everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of
the events agree.
YA FIC PERRY
After fifteen years of horrific abuse and neglect by her
mother and her mother's boyfriends, Joy struggles to understand and accept a
normal life with relatives, at school, and with a boyfriend.
YA FIC SARN
Eighteen-year-old Sohane loves no one more than her
beautiful, carefree younger sister, Djelila. And she hates no one as much. The
two have always shared everything. But now, Djelila is embracing her life as a
secular teen, and Sohane is becoming more religious in her Muslim faith.
YA FIC SHUSTERMAN
The thrilling continuation of the UnWind Dystology
series.Three teens band together to force the government to repeal horrific procedures
in which unwanted teenagers are captured and are unwound into parts that can be
reused for transplantation.
YA FIC STIEFVATER
Book 3 of the
Raven Cycle. Blue Sargent has found things.
She has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys
have taken her in as one of their own. The trick with found things though, is
how easily they can be lost.
YA FIC WALTMAN
Derrick "D-Bow" Bowman thought sophomore year
would be easier, but his girlfriend Jasmine leaves him for putting too much
focus on basketball, the jump shot he worked on all summer is not working, and
his father has a heart attack, forcing Derrick to accept that basketball cannot
be his only priority.
YA BIOG MYERS
Bestselling author Walter Dean Myers travels back to his
roots in the magical world of Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. As a boy,
Myers was quick-tempered and physically strong, always ready for a fight. He
also read voraciously and aspired to be a writer. But growing up in a poor
family, his hopes for a successful future diminished as he realized the class
and racial struggles that surrounded him.
YA 302.3 DEA
Discover how Lauren Kate transformed the feeling of that
one mean girl getting under her skin into her first novel, how Lauren Oliver
learned to celebrate ambiguity in her classmates and in herself, and how R.L.
Stine turned being the "funny guy" into the best defense against the
bullies in his class. Today's top authors share their stories about bullying in
a collection at turns moving and self-effacing, but always deeply personal.
