Magic is
dangerous but love is more dangerous still. When
sixteen-year-old Tessa crosses the ocean to find
her brother, her destination is England.
The time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and
something terrifying is waiting for her in
London's Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and
other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit
streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors
dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep
order amidst the chaos. A Steampunk title
not to be missed!
Logan Witherspoon recently
discovered that his girlfriend of
three years cheated on him; things start to
look up when a new student breezes
through the halls of his small-town high
school. Sage Hendricks befriends Logan
at a time when he
no longer trusts or believes in people. Sage
has been homeschooled for years,
and her parents have forbidden her to date
anyone, but she won’t tell Logan
why.She
eventually does disclose her big secret:
she’s actually a boy. Enraged, frightened, and
feeling betrayed, Logan
disowns and lashes
out at Sage; he has no idea how rocky the road
back to friendship will be.
Berlin
Boxing Club
By Robert Sharenow
Fourteen-year-old Karl
Stern has never thought of himself as
a Jew. But to the bullies at his school in
Nazi era Berlin,
it doesn't matter that Karl has
never set foot in a synagogue or that his
family doesn't practice religion.
Demoralized by relentless attacks on a
heritage he doesn't accept as his own,
Karl longs to prove his worth to everyone
around him.Can Karl balance his love of boxing
with his
obligation to keep his family out of harm’s
way?
Fifteen-year-old Lina is a
Lithuanian girl living an
ordinary life--until Soviet officers invade her
home and tear her family apart.
Separated from her father and forced onto a
crowded train, Lina, her mother,
and young brother make their way to a Siberian
work camp, where they are forced
to fight for their lives. Lina finds solace in
her art, documenting these
events by drawing. Risking everything, she
imbeds clues in her drawings of
their location and secretly passes them along,
hoping they will make their way
to her father's prison camp. But will the family
be strong to survive?
Join Carter for his freshman
year, where he’ll search for
sex, love, and acceptance anywhere he can find
it. In the process, he’ll almost
kill a trombone player, face off against his
greatest nemesis, get caught up in
a messy love triangle, suffer a lot of blood
loss, narrowly escape death, run
from the cops (twice), meet his match in the
form of a curvy drill teamer, and
surprise everyone, including himself.
Around the world, black
handprints are appearing on doorways,
scorched there by winged strangers who have
crept through a slit in the
sky.In
a dark and dusty shop, a devil's
supply of human teeth has grown dangerously
low, and in the tangled lanes of Prague,
a young art
student is about to be caught up in a brutal
otherworldly war. Meet Karou, who
fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may
or may not be real; she's prone to
disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she
speaks many languages--not
all of them human; and her bright blue hair
actually grows out of her head that
color. Who is she? She’s about to find out
herself.
In Beatrice’s dystopian Chicago,
society is divided into five
factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of
a particular virtue—Candor
(honesty), Abnegation (selflessness),
Dauntless (bravery), Amity
(peacefulness), and Erudite (intelligence). On
an appointed day each year,
sixteen-year-olds select the faction to which
they will devote the rest of
their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is
between staying with her family and
being who she really is; she can’t have both.
So she makes a choice that
surprises everyone, including herself.
Jill MacSweeny just wishes
everything could go back to
normal. But ever since her dad died, she's been
isolating herself from her
boyfriend and friendsand
everyone who
wants to support her. When her mom decides to
adopt a baby, it feels like she's
somehow trying to replace a lost family member
with a new one.
Mandy Kalinowski
understands what it's like to grow up
unwanted--to be raised by a mother who never
intended to have a child. When
Mandy becomes pregnant, one thing she's sure
of is that she wants a better life
for her baby. Will she ever find someone to
care for her, too?
What's it like in juvie jail?
Enter the world of
fourteen-year-old Reese, who's locked up at
Progress juvenile detention
facility. Can he get a second chance?
For budding costume
designer Lola Nolan, the more wild and
zany the outfit the better. But even though
Lola's style is outrageous, she's a
devoted daughter and friend with some big
plans for the future. Everything is
pretty perfect (right down to her hot rocker
boyfriend) until the dreaded Bell
twins move back into
the house next door.When
the family
returns and Cricket - a gifted inventor and
engineer - steps out from his twin
sister's shadow and back into Lola's life, she
must finally reconcile a lifetime
of feelings for the boy next door.
A mysterious island. An
abandoned orphanage. A strange
collection of very curious photographs.The story opens with a horrific family
tragedy which sets
sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote
island off the coast of Wales
where he
discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss
Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
As he explores its abandoned bedrooms and
hallways, it becomes clear that the
children were more than just peculiar; they
may have been dangerous and
quarantined on the deserted island for a good
reason. And somehow—impossible
though it seems—they may still be alive.
The day Louisiana teenager
Rory Deveaux arrives in London
marks a memorable occasion. For Rory, it's the
start of a new life at a London
boarding school,
but for many, this will be remembered as the
day a series of brutal murders
broke out across the city, gruesome crimes
mimicking the horrific Jack the
Ripper events of more than a century ago.Why did only Rory see the suspect when
no one else did?In this edge-of-your-seat thriller,
full of
suspense, humor, and romance, Rory will learn
the truth about the secret ghost
police of London
and discover her own shocking abilities.
Some race to win. Others race
to survive.It happens at the start of every
November:
the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold
of their water horses long
enough to make it to the finish line. Some
riders live.Others die. At age
nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the
returning champion. He is a young man of few
words, and if he has any fears, he
keeps them buried deep, where no one else can
see them.Puck
Connolly is different. She never meant
to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn't
given her much of a choice; she
is in no way prepared for what she will have to
encounter.
It's been three years since
the devastating accident . . .
three years since Mia walked out of Adam's
life forever. Now living on opposite
coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and
Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to
his new rock star status and celebrity
girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York
by himself,
chance brings the couple together again, for
one last night. As they explore
the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and
Mia revisit the past and open
their hearts to the future-and each other.
