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Click the following link to see the sixth grade list. Sea of Shadows - Armstrong, Shadow and Bone - Bardugo, Kelley Leigh Moving Up to Sixth Grade Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, EB, Call Number: FIC, JFIC, TEEN, EA CD, EB Comments (0) Twin sisters Ashyn and Moria must Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina embark on a a dangerous journey Starkov is taken from obscurity and when the spirits they're charged with her only friend, Mal, to become the protecting turn vengeful protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite Middle School 2015 in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the Sorrow's Knot - Bow, Erin monsters of the Fold. Something for everyone! Click on the book Call Number: J FIC, TEEN cover or the title to check our catalog and read Otter is a girl of the Shadowed People, a review of the book. a tribe of women, and she is born to be The Coldest Girl in Coldtown - a binder, a woman whose power it is to Black, Holly tie the knots that bind the dead--but This book list was created by the Newton Free Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, CD Librarians and Newton Public Schools Middle she is also destined to remake her world. When seventeen-year-old Tana wakes School Library Teachers. up following a party in the aftermath of a violent vampire attack, she travels to Coldtown, a quarantined Massachusetts city full of vampires, The Luck Uglies - Durham, Paul with her ex-boyfriend and a mysterious Call Number: J FIC, EB vampire boy in tow. Eleven-year-old Rye O'Chanter and Comments (0) her two friends delve into the secret lore of their village when mysterious The Hunt - Fukuda, Andrew creatures of legend reappear on the night of the Black Moon, leading them Call Number: TEEN to the notorious secret society, the ISBN: 9781250005298 Realistic Fiction Luck Uglies. Gene has passed as a vampire for years, but now, just as he finds a girl worth fighting for, he is chosen to 45 Pounds (More or Less) - participate in the hunt for the last Barson, Kelly Chasing Power - Durst, Sarah remaining humans among ruthless Call Number: TEEN Beth vampires who soon suspect his true nature. When Ann decides that she is going to Call Number: TEEN lose 45 pounds in time for her aunt's Sixteen-year-old Kayla, whose wedding, she discovers that what she telekinetic ability allows her to be a looks like is not all that matters master shoplifter with enough money The Name of the Star - to flee with her mother if her father finds them again, meets Daniel, who Johnson, Maureen has the ability to teleport and needs Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, CD, her help to find and steal an ancient EB Revenge of the Girl with the incantation that can help rescue his Rory, of Boueuxlieu, Louisiana, is kidnapped mother--but may lead to spending a year at a boarding Great Personality - Eulberg, great danger for Kayla. school when she witnesses a murder Elizabeth by a Jack the Ripper copycat and Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, EB becomes involved with the very unusual investigation. Sick of living in the shadow of her Half Bad - Green, Sally seven-year-old pageant queen sister who is praised for her looks, Lexi Call Number: TEEN, EB resolves to get a makeover when she In modern-day England, where witches determines her personality just isn't live alongside humans, Nathan, son of See You at Harry's - Knowles, enough to garner the attentions of a White witch and the most powerful Jo boys. Black witch, must escape captivity Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, CD, before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his P, EB future. welve-year-old Fern feels invisible in After Iris - Farrant, Natasha her family, where grumpy eighteen- year-old Sarah is working at the family Call Number: J FIC restaurant, fourteen-year-old Holden is Twelve-year-old Bluebell Gadsby's The Glass Sentence - Grove, S. struggling with school bullies and his written and video diary chronicles life E. emerging homosexuality, and in a rowdy London family, and how adorable, three-year-old Charlie is Zoran, the new au pair, and Joss, the Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, EB always the center of attention, and when tragedy strikes, troublemaking boy next door, help to One sentence can reveal the world's the fragile bond holding the family together is stretched pull her out of her shell and cope with most powerful secret almost to the breaking point. the loss of her twin three years before.

Hothouse - Lynch, Chris Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling - Frank, Lucy Teens D.J. and Russell, life-long friends and neighbors, Call Number: TEEN had drifted apart but when their firefighter fathers are both In this novel in verse, two very different girls bond while Firstborn - Grover, Lorie Ann killed, they try to help one another come to terms with the hospitalized for Crohn's disease. Call Number: J FIC, TEEN tragedy and its aftermath. Tiadone has been forced to live her entire life as a female accepted as male in her community in order to survive as a firstborn child. But when she needs to pass the rites of manhood, she finds the Creator may have use for her feminine traits after all

To All the Boys I've Loved Before - Han, Jenny Promise of Shadows - Ireland, A Confusion of Princes - Nix, Call Number: TEEN, EB Justina Garth Lara Jean writes love letters to all the Call Number: J FIC Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, P, boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those As a human/god offspring, Zephyr EB, EA letters are accidentally sent Mourning is destined for a life of Battling aliens, space pirates, and servitude but when she uses a competitors, Prince Khemri meets a forbidden dark power to kill the minor young woman, named Raine, and god who murdered her sister she is learns more than he expected about sent to Tartarus, where she discovers the hidden workings of a vast, that she may be the Nyx, a dark intergalactic Empire, and about The Whole Story of Half a Girl goddess prophesied to change the himself - Hiranandani, Veera balance of power. Call Number: J FIC, EB When Sonia's father loses his job and The Things a Brother Knows - she must move from her small, The Mark of the Dragonfly - supportive private school to a public Reinhardt, Dana middle school, the half-Jewish half- Johnson, Jaleigh Although they have never gotten along Indian sixth-grader experiences Call Number: J FIC well, seventeen-year-old Levi follows culture shock as she tries to navigate Since her father's in a factory in his older brother Boaz, an ex-Marine, the school's unfamiliar social scene, the Dragonfly territories, thirteen-year- on a walking trip from Boston to and after her father is diagnosed with old Piper has eked out a living as a Washington, D.C. in hopes of learning clinical depression, she finds herself scrapper in Merrow Kingdom, but the why Boaz is completely withdrawn. becoming even more confused about herself and her arrival of a mysterious girl sends her family. on a dangerous journey to distant lands. Revolution 19 - Rosenblum, We Were Liars - Lockhart, E. Gregg Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, EB, The Falconer - May, Elizabeth Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, EB EA Call Number: J FIC, TEEN Twenty years after robots designed to Spending the summers on her family's In 1844 Edinburgh eighteen-year-old fight wars abandoned the battlefields private island off the coast of Lady Aileana Kameron is neither an and turned their weapons against Massachusetts with her cousins and a ordinary debutante, nor a murderess-- humans, siblings Nick, Kevin, and special boy named Gat, teenaged she is a Falconer, a female warrior Cass must risk everything when the Cadence struggles to remember what born with the gift for hunting and killing wilderness community where they happened during her fifteenth summer. the faeries who prey on mankind and have spent their lives in hiding is who killed her mother. discovered by the bots.

The Theory of Everything - Unthinkable - Werlin, Nancy Luna, Kari Under the Never Sky - Rossi, Call Number: TEEN Call Number: J FIC, TEEN Veronica Fenella, the first of cursed Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, CD, When fourteen-year-old Sophie Scarborough girls, is challenged to Sophia journeys to New York with a accomplish three tasks of destruction EB scientific boy genius, a Kerouac-loving against her family in order to finally Aria and Perry, two teens from bookworm, and a giant shaman panda leave her miserable life of purgatory in radically different societies--one highly guide, she discovers more about her the faerie realm and return to the advanced, the other primitive--hate visions, string theory, and a father who human world. being dependent on one another until could be the key to an extraordinary they overcome their prejudices and fall life. in love, knowing they can't stay together Comments (0) Ketchup Clouds - Pitcher, Annabel Bruiser - Shusterman, Neal Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, P, Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, EB EA Mystery Adventure Inexplicable events start to occur Zoe, a teenager in Bath, England, when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson writes letters to a death-row inmate in and Brontë befriend a troubled and Texas, hoping to find comfort in Tunnel Vision - Adrian, Susan misunderstood outcast, aptly sharing her guilty secret over the nicknamed Bruiser, and his little Call Number: J FIC, TEEN brother, Cody. death of a friend with someone who When Jake Lukin, eighteen, reveals can never tell her family. his psychic ability, he's forced to become a government asset in order to keep his mother and sister safe, but The Swap - Shull, Megan Rachel, the girl he likes, tries to help Curveball - Sonnenblick, Jordan him live his own life instead of Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, CD Call Number: J FIC, EB tunneling through others. When seventh-grader Ellie, who is After an injury ends former star pitcher having best-friend problems, and Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he eighth-grader Jack, who is under concentrates on photography which tremendous pressure from his father, The Naturals - Barnes, Jennifer leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as switch bodies and lives, they learn a a high school sports photographer, Lynn and a deeper relationship with the great deal about themselves and the Seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a opposite sex. beloved grandfather who, when he natural ability to read people, joins an realizes he's becoming senile, gives elite group of criminal profilers at the Pete all of his professional camera FBI in order to help solve cold cases gear. Counting By 7s - Sloan, Holly Goldberg Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, EB Comments (0) Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a Kepler's - Bell, Juliet surrogate family for herself after her Call Number: J FIC parents are killed in a car accident. While her mother undergoes radical cancer treatment, Nonfiction eleven-year-old Ella stays with her father's mother in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she learns about grammar and family history, and helps investigate the theft D-Day - Atkinson, Rick of an extremely rare book from her grandmother's library. Call Number: J 940.542 A87D An adaptation of "The Guns at Last Comments (0) Light," tracing the Battle of Normandy and the Allied liberation of Western Europe through the end of World War II. Sports

Zombie Baseball Beatdown - Bacigalupi, Paolo Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, CD While practicing for their next baseball All Fall Down - Carter, Ally Fad Mania! - BIX, Cynthia game, thirteen-year-old friends Rabi, Call Number: TEEN Overbeck Miguel, and Joe discover that the There are many powerful people along nefarious activities of the Delbe, Iowa, Call Number: J 973.9 B55F, Embassy Row who want Grace to meatpacking plant have caused cows 306.097 B55F 2015 block out all her unpretty thoughts. But to turn into zombies. Fad Mania! takes readers through a Grace will not stop until she finds out century of crazy fads in the United who killed her mother and make the States--from swallowing goldfish to killer pay. cramming phone booths and showing Swagger - Deuker, Carl up for spontaneous flash mob events-- Call Number: J FIC, TEEN providing a great snapshot of High school senior point guard Jonas American popular culture. Dolan is on the fast track to a Knightley and Son - Gavin, basketball career until an unthinkable Rohan choice puts his future on the line. Call Number: J FIC, J MYST, The Fashion Book - Dorling TEEN Kindersley Publishing Staff A father and son detective team Call Number: 391 B56F 2014 investigates the mystery surrounding a A sassy style guide for teenage girls book that that makes its readers shares insight into the fashion world commit terrible crimes, and a sinister The Walk on (the Triple Threat, and how to personalize one's organization known as the appearance for best results, 1) - Feinstein, John Combination. chronicling fashion trends throughout Call Number: J FIC, TEEN history while sharing practical tips from After moving to a new town his top designers and models freshman year in high school, Alex Zebra Forest - Gewirtz, Adina Myers is happy to win a spot on the varsity team as a quarterback but Rishe must deal with idea of not playing for Call Number: J FIC, TEEN Sneaker Century - Keyser, two years since the first-string When eleven-year-old Annie first Amber quarterback is not only a , he started lying to her social worker, she Call Number: 685.31 K52S 2015 is also the son of the corrupt head had been taught by an expert: Gran. In Sneaker Century, follow sneaker coach. She told Annie and her little brother, fashions and the larger-than-life Rew, the one thing they know about personalities behind the best known their father: that he was killed in a fight athletic shoe brands in history. Learn with an angry man who was sent away. Gold Medal Winter - Freitas, how teen sneakerheads became But then something shocking happens important style makers and drove the Donna to unravel all their stories: a rattling at success of NIKE, Inc., and other shoe Call Number: J FIC the back door, an escapee from the companies. Look behind the scenes at the labor-intensive Esperanza Flores's place on the prison holding them hostage in their own home, four lives process of manufacturing sneakers. Explore the sneaker Olympic figure skating that will never be the same. frontier of the future--recycled shoes, earth-friendly team has come at the expense of an initiatives, and high-fashion statements. injured skater, so in addition to the pressure of sudden fame and outsized The Body in the Woods - expectations Espi has to deal with the resentment of her teammates--and Henry, April The Green Teen Cookbook - their efforts to sabotage her routine. Call Number: TEEN Marchive , Laurane While helping the Portland County Call Number: 641.562 G82M Sheriff's Search and Rescue to seek a 2014 missing autistic man, teens Alexis, The League - Heldring, Nick, and Ruby find, instead, a body A cookbook for beginners and for all Thatcher and join forces to find the girl's those interested in pursuing an eco- friendly lifestyle, includes one hundred Call Number: J FIC murderer, forming an unlikely friendship, as well. favorite recipes and tips for eating on Fourteen-year-old Wyatt, hoping to a budget in a healthy and impress a girl and ward off a bully, environmentally friendly way. decides to join his older brother's summer football league, "The League The Darkest Path - Hirsch, Jeff of Pain," against the advice of his parents, who think golf is the right Call Number: TEEN Harry Potter - Revenson, Jody sport for him. Since he was captured by the Glorious Call Number: 791.437 R32H Path, a militant religion based on the teachings of a former soldier, fifteen- 2014 year-old has served the Path in its Dementors and House-elves, Fantasy League - Lupica, Mike brutal war with the remains of the merpeople and Chinese Fireball Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, EB United States government, and tried to Dragons--these are just a few of the magical creatures and frightening In , twelve-year-old survive and protect his younger brother but when he kills an officer to protect a monsters populating J. K. Rowling's Charlie's skill at fantasy football gains wizarding world. Harry Potter: The the attention of both the local media stray dog, Cal is forced take his brother and the dog and run. Creature Vault is a fascinating look at and the owner of a professional how this menagerie was brought to life for the blockbuster football team. Harry Potter film series. Devin Rhodes Is Dead - Kam, Jennifer Wolf Kam No Summit Out of Sight - Call Number: J FIC Romero, Jordan Underhand - McIsaac, M. J. To most people Cassandra and Devin Call Number: TEEN are teenage girls who are best friends- Call Number: 796.522 R66N Nick is determined to clear his -but Cassandra actually resents the 2014 brother's name when a vicious rumor arrogant and bossy Devin, and when The story of Jordan Romero, who at jeopardizes Markus's lacrosse Devin turns up dead in a ravine the age of 13 became the youngest scholarship. Cassandra is wracked by her guilty person ever to reach the summit of secret. Mount Everest. At age 15, he reached the summits of the world's 7 highest mountains The Voice Inside My Head - Laidlaw, S. J. Call Number: J FIC Luke's older sister, Pat, has always been his moral The Top 10 of Everything in Sports - Sports Screaming at the Ump - Vernick, Audrey compass, every time he has a decision to make. So when Illustrated Kids Magazine Staff Call Number: J FIC, TEEN Pat disappears on a tiny island off the coast of Honduras Presented in the format of Top 10 lists, this book is a Twelve-year-old Casey lives with his father and grandfather and the authorities claim she's drowned - despite the fact comprehensive yet fun look at the greatest aspects of Pro at their family-run umpire school, and as he deals with that they can't produce a body - Luke heads to Honduras to Sports. From the top athletes to the most popular teams in middle school and his mother's find her. Once there, he meets several the world, SI Kids ranks a variety of unwelcome return, he stumbles on a characters who describe his sister as a topics covering every professional sensational story that has him very different girl from the one knows. sport. questioning his dream of becoming a journalist.

Photos Framed - Thomson, Ruth Call Number: J 770 T38P Game Seven - Volponi, Paul Comments (0) Explores some of the most famous Call Number: TEEN photographs in history, including Stephen Dalton's "Ladybird Take-off," A sixteen-year-old shortstop in Cuba Charles C. Ebbets' "Lunchtime atop a who dreams of playing with the pros Skyscraper," and Neil Leifer's must choose between his country and "Muhammad Ali versus Sonny Liston." his father who defected to the U.S Science Fiction

The Islands at the End of the The Finest Hours - Tougias, World - Aslan, Austin Michael J. Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, EB Call Number: J 973.94 T64F Muckers - Wallace, Sandra Neil Stranded in Honolulu when a strange On the night of February 18, 1952, Call Number: J FIC, TEEN cloud causes a worldwide electronics during one of the worst winter storms failure, sixteen-year-old Leilani and her that New England has ever seen, two Felix O'Sullivan, standing in the father must make their way home to shadow of his dead brother, an angry, oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Hilo amid escalating perils, including Cod were torn in half by the force of distant father, and racial tension, must her severe epilepsy. lead the last-ever Muckers high school the storm. This book tells the story of football team to the state the shipwreck and a harrowing Coast championship before a mine closing Guard rescue when four men in a tiny shuts down his entire town. Perfect Ruin - DeStefano, lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30 stranded sailors. Lauren Call Number: TEEN Comments (0) Sixteen-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives in Internment, a floating city Comments (0) utopia. But when a murder occurs, everything she knows starts to unravel

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Through the Woods - Carroll, The Neptune Project - Holyoke, Masks - Blake, E. C. Emily Polly Call Number: FIC, TEEN Call Number: TEEN GRAPHIC A group of kids who have been Masks, the first novel in a NOVELS genetically altered to survive in the ocean must embark on a dangerous mesmerizing new fantasy series, A collection of five spine-tingling short underwater journey to find refuge--and draws readers into a world in which stories maybe even a way to save the world. cataclysmic events have left the Autarchy of Aygrima—the one land blessed with magical resources—cut off from its former trading partners Friends with Boys - Hicks , across the waters, not knowing if any Faith Erin of those distant peoples still live. Yet Call Number: J GRAPHIC, Linked - Howson, Imogen under the rule of the Autarch, Aygrima TEEN GRAPHIC NOVELS When Elissa's nightmarish visions and survives. And thanks to the creation of the Masks and the vigilance of the Autarch’s Watchers, no one can threaten After an idyllic childhood of inexplicable bruises lead to the the security of the empire. homeschooling with her mother and discovery of a battered twin sister on three older brothers, Maggie enrolls in the run from government agents, public high school, where interacting Elissa enlists the help of an arrogant new graduate from the space with her peers is complicated by the You Look Different in Real Life melancholy ghost that has followed academy. her throughout her entire life. - Castle, Jennifer Call Number: TEEN Five teens starring in a documentary film series about their ordinary lives This One Summer - Tamaki, Scan - Jury, Walter must grapple with questions of change Mariko Call Number: J FIC, TEEN and identity under the scrutiny of the Call Number: J GRAPHIC, Tate Archer outruns armed camera TEEN GRAPHIC NOVELS government officials as he tries to keep his now dead father's strange invention Rose and her parents have been out of the wrong hands, alien hands going to Awago Beach since she was a little girl. It's her summer getaway, Elena Vanishing - Dunkle, her refuge. Her friend Windy is always Elena there, too, like the little sister she Seventeen-year-old Elena is never had, completing her summer vanishing. Every day means renewed family. But this summer is different. determination, so every day means Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting, and Rose and Control - Kang, Lydia fewer calories. This is the story of a Windy have gotten tangled up in a tragedy-in-the-making in Call Number: TEEN girl whose armor against anxiety the small town of Awago Beach. It's a summer of secrets In 2150, when genetic manipulation becomes artillery against herself as and heartache, and it's a good thing Rose and Windy have she battles on both sides of a lose- each other. has been outlawed, seventeen-year- old Zelia must rescue her kidnapped lose war in a struggle with anorexia. sister with the help of a band of Told entirely from Elena's perspective outcasts with mutated genes. over a five-year period and cowritten with her mother, award-winning author Clare B. Dunkle, The Silence of Our Friends - Elena's memoir is a fascinating and intimate look at a Long, Mark deadly disease, and a must read for anyone who knows Call Number: J GRAPHIC, someone suffering from an eating disorder. GRAPHIC FIC white family from a notoriously racist Stitching Snow - Lewis, R. C. neighborhood in the suburbs and a Call Number: J FIC, TEEN The Princess Bride - Goldman, William black family from its poorest ward A futuristic retelling of Snow White in Call Number: TEEN, FIC cross Houston''s color line, which seventeen-year-old Essie, a Presents the timeless love story between a farm boy overcoming humiliation, degradation, master at repairing robots and drones named Westley and the beautiful Princess Buttercup, along and violence to win the freedom of five on the frozen mining planet Thanda, is with the author's comments on life and art as he attempts black college students unjustly pulled into a war by handsome and to edit the children's classic. charged with the murder of a policeman. mysterious Dane after his shuttle crash-lands near her home.

Ms. Marvel - No Normal - Wilson, G. Willow Call Number: TEEN GRAPHIC Illusive - Lloyd-Jones, Emily NOVELS, GRAPHIC FIC Call Number: JFIC, TEEN, EA Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from After a vaccine accidentally creates Jersey City - until she's suddenly superpowers in a small percentage of empowered with extraordinary gifts. the population, seventeen-year-old But who truly is the new Ms. Marvel? Ciere, an illusionist, teams up with a Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Find group of fellow high-class, super- out as she takes the Marvel Universe powered thieves to steal the vaccine's by storm! When Kamala discovers the formula while staying one step ahead dangers of her newfound powers, she of mobsters and deadly government unlocks a secret behind them, as well. agents Is Kamala ready to wield these immense new gifts? Or will the weight of the legacy before Superheroes and Beyond - her be too much to bear? Kamala has no idea, either. But Hart, Christopher she's comin' for you, New York One Past Midnight - Call Number: 741.535 H25S Shirvington, Jessica 2009 Call Number: TEEN, EB This book shows aspiring artists how Meteor Men - Parker, Jeff Each night, eighteen-year-old Sabine to create a huge array of original transitions between a life of privilege Call Number: J GRAPHIC heroes and villains. The and security but no intimacy to one of characters found within these pages On a summer night, Alden Baylor sits economic struggle but loving are broken down into step-by-step in a field watching the largest meteor relationships, and the difficulty of this constructions that help the student of shower in human history. What begins strange situation causes her to comics visualise the basic forms and individual features of as teenage adventure becomes consider suicide, at least in one comic book superheroes. something more - the celestial event physical reality. brings travelers who will change the world completely, and Alden discovers a connection to one of them. How Steampunk LEGO - Himber, does a young man who had to grow Slated - Terry, Teri Guy up fast handle the invasion of his In a future England, sixteen-year-old planet? Can Alden keep humanity from oblivion? Kyla is one of the "slated," those Call Number: 688.725 H57S whose memories have been erased 2015 usually because they have committed Filled with LEGO-based airships and serious crimes, but as she observes dirigibles, monowheels and penny- Macbeth - Hinds, Gareth more and more strange events, she farthings, cabinets of curiosity and Call Number: TEEN GRAPHIC also gains more memories which put robots galore, Steampunk LEGO is an NOVELS her and her boyfriend, Ben in danger. illustrated gallery of Victorian-era Macbeth, a general in the king's army, treasures, all built from LEGO. This is returning from battle when he full-color coffee table book is styled as a diary of the comes upon three witches who tell him fictional Victorian-era explorer Captain Herbert Jobson as that one day he'll be king. At first Flights and Chimes and he catalogs the wonders of the world for Queen Victoria. Macbeth dismisses their predictions, Mysterious Times - Trevayne, but an evil seed takes root in his mind, Emma and soon he is convinced and impatient. At the urging of his wife, he Call Number: J FIC, EB Throne of Glass - Maas, Sarah resolves to take the throne by the n 19th-century London, Jack Foster J. most direct path: a dagger in the heart of King Duncan. But discovers a mysterious mechanical Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, J world he may never escape 'blood will have blood,' and when others grow suspicious of FANT/PB, EB his sudden rise to power, is Macbeth prepared to commit After she has served a year of hard more murder to keep the crown? labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian Afterworlds - Westerfeld, Scott offers eighteen-year-old assassin Dead Boy Detectives - Litt, Celaena Sardothien her freedom on Call Number: TEEN, EB, EA the condition that she act as his Toby .n alternating chapters, eighteen-year- champion in a competition to find a Call Number: J GRAPHIC old Darcy Patel navigates the New new royal assassin. Dead Boy Detectives is the Hardy York City publishing world and Lizzie, Boys meets 's . the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into It stars Edwin Paine and Charles the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist Rowland, boys who were killed in their attack and becomes a spirit guide, as Girls Who Rocked the World - youth long ago in London, now floating both face many challenges and both McCann, Michelle Roehm around solving crimes. It starts off as fall in love. Call Number: J 920 M12G Edwin and Charles get in over their This fun and inspiring collection of heads (normally they do stuff like find influential stories provides forty-six a missing cat) and get dragged back illustrated examples of strong, to St. Hilarion's, the boarding school both boys attended Comments (0) independent female role models, all of and the site of their murder. Joined by Crystal Palace, a girl whom first impacted the world as among the living, the trio investigate what is really going on teenagers or younger. at St. Hilarion's. Horror/ Volume 1: Times Boxers - Yang, Gene Luen Squared - Montclare, Brandon Call Number: J GRAPHIC, Famous Last Words - Alender, Call Number: TEEN GRAPHIC TEEN GRAPHIC NOVELS, Katie NOVELS GRAPHIC FIC Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, EA The NYTPD sent her to 1986 New High-schooler Willa has just moved to In China in 1898 bands of foreign York City to investigate the Quintum with her mother and film missionaries and soldiers roam the Mechanics megacorporation for director stepfather, and she will be countryside, bullying and robbing crimes against time. Piecing together attending a private school--but her real Chinese peasants. Little Bao has had the clues, Dayoung Johansson problem is that she keeps seeing enough: harnessing the powers of discovers the "future" she calls home - things that are not really there, like a ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an - a high-tech alternate reality version dead body in the swimming pool, and army of Boxers--commoners trained in of 2013 -- shouldn't exist at all! kung fu who fight to free China from "foreign devils." her visions may be connected to a serial killer that is stalking young girls in Hollywood. She Is Not Invisible - Comments (0) Sedgwick, Marcus Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer - Call Number: J MYST, TEEN, Alender, Katie EB Call Number: TEEN A London teenager who is blind and Historical Fiction While in Paris, France on a class trip, her younger brother travel to New York Colette Iselin enlists the help of her to find their missing father, using clues charming French tour guide to help from his notebook. Mending Horses - Barker, Michele uncover a possible connection Laureth Peak's father has taught her Call Number: J FIC between Marie Antoinette, a series of to look for recurring events, patterns, and numbers, a skill at which she's Free and on his own, Daniel Linnehan is nearly sixteen in gruesome murders, and perhaps her remarkably talented. Her secret: she is 1839 when he joins Jonathan Stocking and Billy, a girl own family history, and he also gives blind. But when her father goes missing, Laureth and her hiding from her abusive father, in peddling goods in New her insights into herself. younger brother Benjamin are thrust into a mystery that England. takes them to . Surviving will take all her skill at spotting the amazing, shocking, and sometimes dangerous connections in a world full of darkness. Heap House - Carey, Edward Call Number: J FIC, EB Young Clod is an Iremonger. He lives in at Heap House, his family's mansion Comments (0) at the center of the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items whose ever-shifting masses have been known to swallow people alive.

The Madman of Piney Woods - The Fall - Griffin, Bethany Curtis, Christopher Paul Call Number: TEEN, EB Call Number: J FIC, EB A retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Even though it is now 1901, the Fall of the House of Usher' in which people of Buxton, Canada (originally a Madeline and her twin brother, settlement of runaway slaves) and Roderick, suffer from the Usher family Chatham, Canada are still haunted by illness but she hears the House talking two events of half a century before-- to her, filling her dreams, controlling the American Civil War, and the Irish her actions, and ensuring she never potato famine, and the lasting damage leaves the property. those events caused to the survivors.

Demon Derby - Harris, Carrie Circle of Stones - Fisher, Call Number: J FIC Catherine Once a true daredevil, South Carolina Call Number: J FIC, TEEN high school junior Casey is in The mysterious Circus--a circular remission from cancer when a street of thirty houses--in Bath, terrifying encounter at a Halloween England, provides the hub for three party leads her to become a demon- intertwining stories about a fighting roller derby girl. contemporary girl with a terrible past, an eighteenth-century architect obsessed with druids, and a prehistoric king who learns to fly. The Young Elites - Lu, Marie Call Number: J FIC, TEEN, EB, EA Halley - Gibbons, Faye Adelina Amouteru survived the blood Call Number: J FIC fever, a deadly illness that killed many, Times are hard in Depression era but left others with strange markings Georgia mountain country. Even so, and supernatural powers. Cast out by fourteen-year-old Halley Owenby, her her family, Adelina joins the secret younger brother, Robbie, and their society of the Young Elites and parents, Jim and Kate manage to get discovers her own dangerous abilities by until Jim dies suddenly in an accident, and Kate decides she and her children have no choice but to move in with her parents. Fracture - Miranda, Megan Call Number: J FIC, TEEN After falling through the ice of a frozen Going Over - Kephart, Beth lake and being resuscitated by her best friend Decker, seventeen-year-old Call Number: J FIC, TEEN,EB Delaney begins experiencing a strange In the early 1980s Ada and Stefan are affinity for the dead and wonders young, would-be lovers living on whether she is predicting death or opposite sides of the Berlin Wall--Ada causing it. lives with her mother and grandmother and paints graffiti on the Wall, and Stefan lives with his grandmother in the East and dreams of escaping to Welcome to the Dark House - the West. Stolarz, Laurie Faria Call Number: J FIC, TEEN Seven super fans have won the trip of A Death-Struck Year - Lucier, a lifetime to meet the master of horror, Makiia legendary film director Justin Blake. But things quickly go from delightfully Call Number: J FIC, TEEN dark to dangerously deadly, when Ivy, When the Spanish influenza epidemic Parker, Shayla, Natalie, Frankie, and reaches Portland, Oregon, in 1918, Garth find themselves trapped in an 17-year-old Cleo leaves behind the abandoned amusement park. To earn comfort of her boarding school to work a ticket out, they must face their for the Red Cross. darkest demons one ride at a time

Incommunicado - Platt, Randall Silver - Wooding, Chris Call Number: J FIC Call Number: J FIC, TEEN When the students at Mortingham When a wealthy Japanese American Boarding Academy find a group of resort owner in a small, sleepy Oregon strange, silvery beetles on school coastal town becomes the prime target grounds they are excited, but when the of an angry mob, following the beetles attack them and a mysterious Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, virus starts spreading, a group of twelve-year-old Ruby Opal Pearl mismatched students must work "Jewels" Stokes comes to his defense. together to survive.

Echo - Ryan, Pam Muñoz Fiendish - Yovanoff, Brenna Call Number: TEEN, EB Call Number: TEEN, EB, EA Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets Clementine DeVore, seventeen, is three mysterious sisters and finds determined to learn what happened himself entwined in a prophecy, a ten years ago that led to her magical promise, and a harmonica--and imprisonment and problems in her decades later three children, Friedrich town, but a dangerous attraction to in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, Fisher, the boy who freed her, town and Ivy in California find themselves politics, and the terrifying Hollow get in caught up in the same thread of the way. destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica. Comments (0)

Brotherhood - Westrick, Anne Call Number: J FIC "The year is 1867, and the South has lost the Civil War. Those on the lowest rungs, like Shad's family, fear that the freed slaves will take the few jobs available. In this climate of despair and fear, a group has formed. Today we know it as the KKK

The Cure for Dreaming - Winters, Cat Call Number: J FIC, TEEN In Portland, Oregon, in 1900, seventeen-year-old Olivia Mead, a suffragist, is hypnotized by the intriguing young Henri Reverie, who's paid by her father to make her more docile and womanly but who, instead, gives her the ability to see people's true natures, while she secretly continues fighting for women's rights.

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