Juvenile & Young Adult

How Tia Lola Ended Up Starting Over

by Julia Alvarez

Welcome to Tia Lola's bed and breakfast! With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Tía Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois' grand old Vermont house to visitors from all...

The Only Ones

by Aaron Starmer

"Call it coincidence, call it fate. This is the place you come. There's no one else. This is the entire world."

These words welcome Martin Maple to the village of Xibalba. Like the other children who've journeyed...

You Have Seven Messages

by Stewart Lewis

   It's been a year since Luna's mother, the fashion-model wife of a successful film director, was hit and killed by a taxi in New York's East Village. Luna, her father, and her little brother, Tile, are...

The Tanglewood Terror

by Kurtis Scaletta

When 13-year-old Eric Parrish comes across glowing mushrooms in the woods behind his house, he's sure there's a scientific explanation. But when they start encroaching on the town—covering the football field...

Calvin Coconut: Kung Fooey

by Graham Salisbury & Jacqueline Rogers

Calvin Coconut's fourth grade class meets Benni Obi, a weird and likable new kid. Benny brags about knowing kung fu, wears mirrored sunglasses, eats worms, crickets, and chocolate-covered scorpions, and says...

All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky

by Joe R. Lansdale

Jack Catcher's parents are dead—his mom died of sickness and his dad of a broken heart—and he has to get out of Oklahoma, where dust storms have killed everything green, hopeful, or alive. When former classmate...

Paintings from the Cave: Three Novellas

by Gary Paulsen

Meet Jake who lives in a neighborhood controlled by street violence and fear. He meets a sculptor across the street, and his eyes are opened to another world.  Or Jojo,who's closer to her three dogs than to...

Every You, Every Me

by David Levithan & Jonathan Farmer

In this high school-set psychological tale, a tormented teen named Evan starts to discover a series of unnerving photographs—some of which feature him. Someone is stalking him . . . messing with him . . ....

Toys Come Home: Being the Early Experiences of an Intelligent Stingray, a Brave Buffalo, and a Brand-New Someone Called Plastic

by Emily Jenkins & Paul Zelinsky

Here is the third book in the highly acclaimed Toys Trilogy, which includes the companion books Toys Go Out and Toy Dance Party.

"[A] timeless story of adventure and friendship to treasure aloud or independently,"...

Starry, Starry Night

by Lurlene Mcdaniel

Remember the true meaning of the holidays with three touching novellas from best-selling author Lurlene McDaniel.

In the opening novella, "Christmas Child," 15-year-old Melanie is just getting used to the idea...

Dark Territory: The Tracks, Book One

by J. Gabriel Gates & Charlene Keel

Star-crossed love, supernatural evil, and martial arts meet at the abandoned tracks in the deceptively quaint village of Middleburg . . .

When Ignacio Torrez moved from the rough streets of Los Angeles to a small...

Shy Cheyenne And the Substitute Teacher

by Nikki Yochum

Synopsis: Cheyenne is a very shy little girl. One day, she walks into her kindergarten class and sees a teacher she has never seen before. Her regular teacher, Mrs. Bells, is out sick and Mr. Brown is substituting...

The Secret of the Old Swing Bridge

by Ian Wilson

When 12-year-old Angus Wolfe discovers a cache of documents near the site of an old swing bridge in Washago, Ontario, he becomes entangled in a mystery dating back to World War II. Are the papers connected to...

The Time Hackers

by Gary Paulsen

You ever open your locker and find that some joker has left something really weird inside?

Seventh-grader Dorso Clayman opens his locker door to find a dead body.

Thirty seconds later it disappears.

It’s not...

The Sky Inside

by Clare B. Dunkle

Martin lives in a perfect world.

Every year a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parents. Every spring the residents of his town take down the snow they've stuck...

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Jeffrey and the Third-Grade Ghost #4

by Megan Stine

Jeffrey and the Third-Grade Ghost #4

From the Trade Paperback edition.

City of Orphans

by Avi & Greg Ruth

Plot twists, big accusations, and plenty of shifty, crooked characters fill the pages of this harrowing adventure from Newbery Medalist Avi.

The streets of 1893 New York are crowded and filthy. For thirteen-year-old...

Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Things are so bad, I feel like I'm going to explode if I don't do something...

Everyone has to keep a journal in Mrs. Dunphrey's English class, but the teacher has promised she won't read any entry marked "Do...

The Ogre of Oglefort

by Eva Ibbotson

For excitement-hungry orphan Ivo, a mission to save Princess Mirella from the dreaded Ogre of Oglefort is a dream come true. Together with a hag, a wizard, and a troll, Ivo sets out, ready for adventure. But...

Benjamin Franklinstein Lives!

by Matthew McElligott & Larry Tuxbury

Victor Godwin, a serious-minded boy genius living in Philadelphia, discovers that Ben Franklin never died - he was put into suspended animation, and was hidden away for more than 200 years in Victor's basement!...