Bullied at school, eighth-grader Apple, a Filipino American who loves the music of the Beatles, decides to change her life by learning how to play the guitar.
Jun 1, 2016
The Fourteenth Goldfish
By Jennifer Holm
The Great Greene Heist
The Honest Truth
By Dan Gemeinhart
A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
King of the Mound: My Summer with Satchel Paige
By Wes Tooke
Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes
By Lauren Child
This genius code-cracker and daring detective, along with her sidekick butler, Hitch, work for a secret crime-busting organization called Spectrum. Ruby gets into lots of scrapes with evil villains, like being trapped in a giant hourglass or held over a flaming volcano, but she's always ice-cool in a crisis. First in series.
45 Pounds (More or Less)
By K.A. Barson
When Ann decides that she is going to lose 45 pounds in time for her aunt's wedding, she discovers that what she looks like is not all that matters.
All Fall Down
By Ally Carter
There are many powerful people along Embassy Row who want Grace to block out all her unpretty thoughts. But Grace will not stop until she finds out who killed her mother and make the killer pay. Sequel: See How They Run.
Better Off Friends
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
By James Swanson
Recounts the escape of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin, and follows the intensive twelve-day search for him and his accomplices.
Don't Turn Around
By Michele Gagnon
After waking up on an operating table with no memory of how she got there, Noa must team up with computer hacker Peter to stop a corrupt corporation with a deadly secret. First book in trilogy.
Gracefully Grayson
By Ami Polonski
Grayson, a transgender twelve-year-old, learns to accept her true identity and share it with the world.
Guitar Notes
By Mary Amato
Tripp, who plays guitar only for himself, and Lyla, a cellist whose talent has already made her famous but not happy, form an unlikely friendship when they are forced to share a practice room at their high school.
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education and Changed the World
By Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick
This edition of Malala's story includes exclusive photos and material with firsthand accounts of the story of a girl who always knew she wanted to change the world.
This edition of Malala's story includes exclusive photos and material with firsthand accounts of the story of a girl who always knew she wanted to change the world.
I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want To Be Your Class President
By Josh Leib
In Omaha, Nebraska, twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy, evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way.
Islands at the End of the World
By Austin Aslan
Stranded in Honolulu when a strange cloud causes a worldwide electronics failure, sixteen-year-old Leilani and her father must make their way home to Hilo amid escalating perils, including her severe epilepsy.
The Nightmarys
By Dan Poblocki
Seventh-grader Timothy July and his new friend Abigail try to break a curse that is causing them and others to be tormented by their greatest fears brought to life.
Seventh-grader Timothy July and his new friend Abigail try to break a curse that is causing them and others to be tormented by their greatest fears brought to life.
Pop
By Gordon Korman
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker, who is great at training him but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
Prisoner of Night and Fog
By Anne Blankman
The Secret Sky
By Atia Abawi
Two teens from different ethnic groups in present-day Afghanistan must fight their culture, tradition, families, and the Taliban to stay together as they and another village boy relate the story of their forbidden love.
This Dark Endeavor
By Kenneth Oppel
When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura. Sequel: Such Wicked Intent
When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura. Sequel: Such Wicked Intent
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