Young Adult Fiction

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by Sheryl Scarborough (Author)Sheryl Scarborough continues the adventures of teen amateur sleuth and aspiring forensic scientist Erin Blake in To Right the Wrongs, the sequel to To Catch a Killer. Erin Blake has one goal for summer vacation: leave behind her reputation as the girl whose mom was murdered, and just be normal girl enjoying her first real romance. Unfortunately -- or maybe fortunately for a mystery fanatic -- her hot new boyfriend has an unsolved murder in his own past. When Jour...

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by Robert Cochran (Author)The Sword and the Dagger is an epic YA historical adventure by debut novelist Robert Cochran, the Emmy Award-winning executive producer and co-creator of the hit TV series 24. When empires clash, a princess, a knight, and an assassin embark on the quest of a lifetime During the time of the Crusades, an unlikely trio--a Christian princess, her affianced prince, and a Muslim assassin--embarks on a quest to the court of the most fearsome warrior the world has ever kn...

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by Julia Keller (Author)The Dark Intercept by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Keller is the beginning of a "riveting"* science fiction adventure that challenges the voluntary surrender of liberties for the perception of safety. When the state controls your emotions, how hard will you fight to feel free? In a radiant world of endless summer, the Intercept keeps the peace. Violet Crowley, the sixteen-year-old daughter of New Earth's Founding Father, has spent her life in comfort and safety...

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by Julia Keller (Author)Julia Keller's Dark Star Calling is the third and final book in the Dark Intercept Trilogy, a high-concept YA science fiction saga. Out in the observatory, protruding from the vast gap in the roof, was the giant telescope. It stared unblinkingly into the night sky, its gaze peering deep into the wilderness of stars. Somewhere within that wilderness was the single star Rez was determined to find. New Earth, 2297. A year after the resurrection of a universal surveillance...

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by Timothy Zahn (Author)New edition of the first book in the popular Dragonback science fiction series from Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn Timothy Zahn has been entertaining science fiction readers young and old for more than twenty years with exciting, thought-provoking adventures. Dragon and Thief is sure to delight all his fans and gain new teen and adult readers as well. Jack Morgan has been framed for theft. He's hiding on a distant planet with the virtual presence of his decease...

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by A. J. Hartley (Author)In A. J. Hartley's newest Steeplejack adventure Firebrand, a dangerous secret, a murder among nobility, and missing immigrants are all in a day's work for amateur sleuth Anglet Sutonga Anglet Sutonga is moving up in the world, helping politician Josiah Willinghouse track down a thief who stole plans for a covert government weapon. Finding him won't be easy, not when the thief has connections to Elitus, the city's most powerful and super-exclusive social club. When so...

Making Do: Growing Up Colored in the Jim Crow South During the Great Depression - Paperback

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by Josan Wright Callender (Author)In the midst of the turbulent 1940's a young black couple find their future goals, livelihoods and destinies meet in an unexpected way, on the streets of Bessemer, Alabama. However, they must first confront the very tangible fears of the Jim Crow south, the Great Depression and their nation poised on the brink of World War II, to realize what they seek. While on this journey, they find that courage will come from the legacy of their families, support of frien...

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by Justin Williams (Author)After waking up with no memories of his past, Azuelo finds some sanctuary in Stormhold, a city defended by the promenauts from the vicious Gurgans lurking right outside its walls.Safety is not Azuelo's only concern though. Soon after joining the promenauts, he finds a strange necklace marked with an unknown avarune. Believing it to be the key to discovering who he is, Azuelo sets out to solve the mystery of the avarune necklace.However, strange incidents occur all o...

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by Marilyn Ludwig (Author)So much magic in one middle school play! The play was magic, Beth decided. The whole play-from Miss Armstrong's writing dream and the cast being chosen, all the way through the final performance-was even more magical than the story of The Secret Garden itself. No matter what came along before eighth grade graduation, this was the highlight of her year. Just a stage, Beth, Danny, and Hannah's parents agreed. They'd just have to live through it. Eventually, Beth wouldn...

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by Karen Stolz (Author)Finally in paperback In this remarkable debut work from author Karen Stolz, readers follow the arc of a girl's life as she grows to womanhood. From crushes to surprise baby sisters to nail polish to a devastating death, Roxanne is our guide through a life that has moments of tenderness, poignancy, sorrow, and great humor, as well as some wonderful baking memories. A sumptuous novel--though like the best pie, tart in all the right places.Author BiographyKaren Stolz's fi...

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by A. J. Anderson (Author)An adventure story. Two girls, Lori and Tulip, set off to the wilder parts of the countryside on horse, camping out and foraging for their meals. They discover abandoned villages and ruined mansions, swim in lonely lochs, explore ancient forests and take time to study the animals, birds and insects who live there. As they travel they come across potential life-threatening situations and don't hesitate to act and save the day! Number of Pages: 222 Dimensions: 0.51 x ...

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by Tamsin Adams (Author)Abigail "Billie" Harper is moving from her independent school to the local school. A couple of weeks before the new term she is in the wrong place at the wrong timed is cursed by 10 year old Fawnie. Fawnie is the seventh child of Enoch Lovell, who himself is a seventh son and whose father was also a seventh son. Fawnie has magic powers so rare and potent they have hardly ever been seen before. So Billie is cursed, she's moving to a new school and has the added complica...

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by Ann Hunter (Author)A new year has come to North Oak, and with it a new life for Alexandra Anderson.Still haunted by Ashley's brutal death, Alex worries she won't seem grateful if she's unhappy. To make it worse, Promenade has been nominated to the Keeneland Yearling Sale.She's going to lose everything... again.It's too painful to let love in and easier to be angry at the world for her abusive past than to let it go. Easier to put up walls so no one knows she's hurting.Will Alex be able to ...

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by Jessica Greyson (Author)With King Harold away at war, Lord Raburn has his eye on the throne. Those who dare to stand in his way fall beneath his power. All but one. A girl named Annabeth. Can a common, ordinary girl, with love for king, country, and her father, achieve the impossible? Trained by her father, a master swordsman, outlawed Annabeth has only her sword, her wits, and her disguises to keep Belterra from falling entirely into Lord Raburn's clutches. Can she rescue her captured fat...

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by Bonnie S. Calhoun (Author)In post-apocalyptic America, Selah Chavez is crouched in long grass on a shore littered with the rusted metal remnants of a once-great city. It is the day before her eighteenth Born Remembrance, and she is hunting, though many people refuse to eat animal flesh, tainted by radiation during the Time of Sorrows. What Selah's really after are Landers, mysterious people from a land across the big water who survive the delirium-inducing passage in small boats that occas...

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by Thomas Locke (Preface by)For a decade now, seventeen-year-old twins Sean and Dillon Kirrell have been drawn to a mysterious alternate world theyve translated into hand-drawn images covering their bedroom walls. Its a world theyve only seen in their dreams until now--when a stranger recruits them to train for a mind-bending mission of survival. Number of Pages: 384 Dimensions: 1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 14, 2017

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by Thomas Locke (Preface by)When twins Sean and Dillon Kirrell use their transit abilities to rescue a kidnap victim, they cross a clandestine group within their government who seeks to control all planets with their transit powers, forcing the brothers to choose sides in what could explode into full-blown war. Number of Pages: 288 Dimensions: 0.81 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 07, 2017

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by Thomas Locke (Preface by)Fifty years after America's collapse, Caleb has a plan that could help secure his enclave's future. But if his secret is uncovered, he won't live to see another dawn. Number of Pages: 290 Dimensions: 0.81 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 20, 2018

Poems from Homeroom: A Writer's Place to Start - Paperback

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by Kathi Appelt (Author)A collection of original poems and creative writing exercises that will inspire teens to write about their own lives. Since the very beginnings of the human race, we've been gathering in circles and telling stories because beyond the physical needs for food, water, clean air, and security, one of our most basic yearnings is to express ourselves, to share what we know, what we dream, what we imagine, and what we feel. Experienced poet and teacher Kathi Appelt has writte...

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by Harriet McBryde Johnson (Author)I'm in the middle of a full-blown spaz-attack, and I don't care. I don't care at all. At home I always try to act normal, and spaz-attacks definitely aren't normal. Here, people understand. They know a spaz-attack signals that I'm excited. They're excited too, so they squeal with me; some even spaz on purpose, if you can call that spazzing . . .An unforgettable coming-of-age novel about what it's like to live with a physical disability It's the summer of 197...

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by Mary E. Pearson (Author)Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers? This fascinating novel represents a stunning new direction for acclaimed author Mary Pearson. Set in a near future America, it takes readers on a...

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by Elise Broach (Author)There are some kinds of trouble you never see coming, like those thunderstorms that start from nothing at all. One minute the sky is bright blue and distant. Then, all of a sudden, it's dark and thick with clouds, pressing down right on top of you. The leaves turn silvery and twist in the wind, the air starts to hum, and the rain comes, so heavy and fast you can't even see. You almost never make it to the house on time. A dead body on the road--who is responsible and h...

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by Laura E. Williams (Author)The riveting tale of an executioner's daughter who struggles to find a different path in life Born into the family of an executioner, Lily has always been sheltered by her mother from the horrors of her father's occupation. But when her ailing mother takes a turn for the worse, Lily is suddenly thrust into the paralyzing role of executioner's assistant. Aside from preparing healing concoctions for the suffering and maimed, Lily must now accompany her father at the...

Return to Daemon Hall: Evil Roots - Hardcover

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by Andrew Nance (Author), Coleman Polhemus (Illustrator)A year has passed since that fateful night in Daemon Hall's house of horrors. Bestselling macabre author Ian Tremblin decides to hold another writer's contest but this time in the safety of his own home. Tremblin is excited to share with contestants a very old book he has recently acquired that once belonged to Rudolph Daemon, the millionaire builder of Daemon Hall who later went mad and killed his family. But the book, like the mansion,...

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by Donna Jo Napoli (Author)Don Giovanni was once the wealthiest and handsomest young man in Messina. Then a tidal wave changed everything. When a well-dressed stranger offers him a magical purse, he knows he shouldn't take it. Only the devil would offer a deal like this, and only a fool would accept. Don Giovanni is no fool, but he is desperate. He takes the bet: he will not bathe for 3 years, 3 months, and 3 days. Beauty is a small price to pay for worldly wealth, isn't it? Unless he loses t...

Soldier's Secret: The Story of Deborah Sampson - Paperback

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by Sheila Solomon Klass (Author)In the 1700s, women's responsibilities were primarily child rearing and household duties. But Deborah Sampson wanted more from life. She wanted to read, to travel--and to fight for her country's independence. When the colonies went to war with the British in 1775, Deborah was intent on being part of the action. Seeing no other option, she disguised herself in a man's uniform and served in the Continental army for more than a year, her identity hidden from her f...

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by Elaine Marie Alphin (Author)The ghost of a young soldier from the Civil War haunts a troubled teen. I sat up. The jagged trenches were only soft grassy depressions in the sunny battlefield park. I felt tears burn my eyes, the relief was so strong, and then the misery of losing the ghost hit me. Alexander has the ability to see ghosts. But it's been several years since his last encounter. When he reluctantly joins his father on a long trip away from home, a surprise awaits him. In the unfam...

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by Matthew Runals (Author), Sharilyn Grayson (Editor), Robbie Grayson (Illustrator)Thirteen-year-old Joey is in trouble. His mother can hardly feed him, which-because of his small size-is saying a lot. As war moves closer to their little town, his mother's options for more work are a big fat zero. Desperate, she sends him to a place where he won't starve. Soon after arriving, however, Joey learns that he and the hundreds of other children aren't just charity cases. Lapidius is a prestigious m...

Prophecies of Rain and Revenge - Paperback

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by Christopher Young (Author)The prophecy has begun. Unite the Relics.Kay Piereson's entire life had been planned out in painstaking detail-from graduating Breyer Preparatory Academy, to getting into Juilliard and becoming the greatest flute player of her generation. But that plan is ultimately destroyed when her father succumbs to illness and leaves Kay and her mother reeling from his untimely passing. Over a year later, Kay still has yet to find her new direction. Her grades are slipping an...

Amber Stone and the Dead Doctor - Paperback

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by Vivian Otoo (Author)She's not supposed to exist, but her abilities are growing stronger day after day... Amber Stone is a seventeen-year-old orphan. From the outside looking in she has a great life. But with the elite class controlling the society, life is far from great. Even her "loving" Auntie has warned her from a young age to hide who she is, and more importantly, what she can do. Because the Elite class is dead set on keeping the status quo. Anyone who is different is a threat. If he...

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by Suzann Albright (Author)In the same region of Virginia where John Boy and his siblings grew up on Walton's Mountain during the Depression, five adolescents on Charry Ridge are coming of age in the early 21st century. One of them is a crow. It is the naif narrator of their stories. The young bird surreptitiously follows the lives of the other four. Having raised a fledgling bird as a school science project, Kevin must decide whether to keep it or return it to the wild. His close friend Virg...

My Ride. My Rules.: The Sky We Look At Is The Same - Paperback

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by Courtney K. Hurst (Author)How do you know who you are when everything you've been told is a lie?Elizabeth hasn't been home since she left for college a year ago and wishes she could keep it that way. Staying away helped bury the dark secret she keeps, and she fears going home to Wellbury will unearth it. When her dad insists she come back for an annual barbeque before sophomore year begins, Elizabeth has no choice but to return. She tells herself - It's only two nights - and plans on a qui...