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2018 Senior, 9-12
Nemesis Image
Nemesis
Details
One of Us is Lying Image
One of Us is Lying
Details
Racial Profiling: everyday inequality Image
Racial Profiling: everyday inequality
Details
Soldier Boy Image
Soldier Boy
Details
Spellbook of the Lost and Found Image
Spellbook of the Lost and Found
Details
Spill Zone Image
Spill Zone
Details
Wires and Nerve Image
Wires and Nerve
Details
Magellan: over the edge of the world Image
Magellan: over the edge of the world
Details
Be the One Image
Be the One
Details
Because I was a Girl Image
Because I was a Girl
Details
Light Years Image
Light Years
Details
After the Fall Image
After the Fall
Details
Such a Good Girl Image
Such a Good Girl
Details
Words on Bathroom Walls Image
Words on Bathroom Walls
Details
Vincent and Theo: the Van Gogh brothers Image
Vincent and Theo: the Van Gogh brothers
Details
An Uninterrupted View of the Sky Image
An Uninterrupted View of the Sky
Details
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team Image
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team
Details
One Memory of Flora Banks Image
One Memory of Flora Banks
Details
Speak: the graphic novel Image
Speak: the graphic novel
Details
57 Bus Image
57 Bus
Details
Alex Approximately Image
Alex Approximately
Details
All the Crooked Saints Image
All the Crooked Saints
Details
And Then There were Four Image
And Then There were Four
Details
Bull Image
Bull
Details
Far From the Tree Image
Far From the Tree
Details
Goodbye Days Image
Goodbye Days
Details
Jane, Unlimited Image
Jane, Unlimited
Details
Kids Like Us Image
Kids Like Us
Details
Librarian of Auschwitz Image
Librarian of Auschwitz
Details
Little Monsters Image
Little Monsters
Details
Long Way Down Image
Long Way Down
Details
Mars One Image
Mars One
Details
Mr. 60% Image
Mr. 60%
Details
Nowhere Girls Image
Nowhere Girls
Details
Obsessed: a memoir of my life with OCD Image
Obsessed: a memoir of my life with OCD
Details
Dear Evan Hanson Image
Dear Evan Hanson
12.99
Details
2018 Senior, 9-12
Nemesis
Nemesis Image

The town of Fire Lake has a secret. Min and her classmates are part of a government cover-up that even they are unaware of. Every two years, on her birthday, Min faces a strange man who murders her only to wake up hours later, unharmed. Min has no idea why and believes she is the only one, until the Anvil threatens life on Earth and all of their secrets are discovered.

Images
One of Us is Lying
One of Us is Lying Image

Simon, the creator of their high school’s gossip app, has an allergic reaction while in detention. Unfortunately, Simon dies and the police don’t believe it was an accident. The four students in detention with him become suspects and must prove their innocence.

Images
Racial Profiling: everyday inequality
Racial Profiling: everyday inequality Image

The high-profile deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of police officers have brought renewed national attention to racial profiling and have inspired grassroots activism from groups such as Black Lives Matter. Combining rigorous research with powerful personal stories, this insightful title explores the history, the many manifestations, and the consequences of this form of social injustice.

Images
Soldier Boy
Soldier Boy Image

Based on the life of Ricky Richard Anywar, who at age fourteen was forced to fight as a soldier in the guerrilla army of notorious Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony

 

Images
Spellbook of the Lost and Found
Spellbook of the Lost and Found Image
Best friends, Olive and Rose begin to loose things. Simple things like hair clips but Rose has lost something bigger. The two meet Ivy, Hazel, and Rowan, who are squatting in an abandon house. The group finds a mysterious spellbook that contains spells to conjure back lost things. Maybe it is the answer to all they are looking for.

Images
Spill Zone
Spill Zone Image
Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. The Spill claimed Addison’s parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn’t spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone’s twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre images, but getting close enough for the perfect shot can mean death–or worse.
Images
Wires and Nerve
Wires and Nerve Image

Based on Marissa Meyer’s The lunar chronicles series. Extends the world of the Lunar Chronicles with a brand-new,action-packed story about Iko, the android with a heart of (mechanized) gold.When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko takes it upon herself to hunt down the soldiers’ leader.

Images
Magellan: over the edge of the world
Magellan: over the edge of the world Image

Adaptation of the adult work, “Over the Edge of the World”. Chronicles Ferdinand Magellan’s daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century.

Images
Be the One
Be the One Image

Six true stories of teens overcoming hardship compiled by ABC News correspondent, Byron Pitts.

Images
Because I was a Girl
Because I was a Girl Image

Because I Was a Girl is acollection of true stories by women and girls about the obstacles, challenges, and opportunities they’ve faced…because of their gender. Edited by bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz.

Images
Light Years
Light Years Image

Luisa’s extraordinary coding skills have landed her a finalist spot for a fellowship sponsored by Thomas Bell, the world’s most brilliant and mercurial tech entrepreneur. Being chosen means funding, mentorship, and most importantly, freedom from her overbearing mother. But when a deadly virus is affecting people across the globe, including her beloved father, Lu receives a cryptic message that might hold the key to stopping the epidemic.

Images
After the Fall
After the Fall Image

Raychel spends most of her time with her best friend Matt and his slacker brother, Andrew. Raychel may be in love with Andrew but Matt is certain he is in love with Raychel. When tragedy strikes while the group is on a hike, Raychel is faced with grief and a change to  life as she is accustomed.

Images
Such a Good Girl
Such a Good Girl Image

Riley Stone is just about perfect and has her entire life planned out. She’s never faced a challenge she couldn’t win. But a relationship with her French teacher, Alex may turn all of her accomplishments meaningless.

Images
Words on Bathroom Walls
Words on Bathroom Walls Image

Adam is schizophrenic but a new experimental drug may be his hope of leading a normal life. He starts a new school where he meets Maya, who he wants to believe he is a great, normal guy. When the experimental drug starts to fail, Adam and Maya will have to discover what this will mean for their relationship.

Images
Vincent and Theo: the Van Gogh brothers
Vincent and Theo: the Van Gogh brothers Image

The true story of the relationship between brothers Theo and Vincent van Gogh

Images
An Uninterrupted View of the Sky
An Uninterrupted View of the Sky Image

Set in Bolivia in 1991, when Francisco’s father is arrested and his mother leaves, he and his sister must move into the prison with their father.

Images
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team Image

When superstar athlete Jim Thorpe and football legend Pop Warner met in 1904 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, they forged one of the winningest teams in American football history. Called “the team that invented football,” they took on the best opponents of their day, defeating much more privileged schools such as Harvard and the Army in a series of breathtakingly close calls, genius plays, and bone-crushing hard work.

Images
One Memory of Flora Banks
One Memory of Flora Banks Image
Seventeen-year-old Flora Banks has no short-term memory. Her mind resets itself several times a day, and has since the age of ten, when the tumor that was removed from Flora’s brain took with it her ability to make new memories. That is, until she kisses Drake, her best friend’s boyfriend, the night before he leaves town. Miraculously, this one memory breaks through Flora’s fractured mind, and sticks. Flora is convinced that Drake is responsible for restoring her memory and making her whole again. So, when an encouraging email from Drake suggests she meet him on the other side of the world–in Svalbard, Norway–Flora knows with certainty that this is the first step toward reclaiming her life.
Images
Speak: the graphic novel
Speak: the graphic novel Image

Melinda busted an end-of-summer party and now she is an outcast. Now nobody wants to talk to her so what’s the point of talking. Melinda is finally able to face what really happened that night through her work on an art project.

The graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning novel Speak.

Images
57 Bus
57 Bus Image

Sasasha lives in the middle-class foothills of Oakland, California and attends a small private school. Richard lives in the flatlands and attends a large, public school. The 57 bus is their only connection. One act connects the two and ends with Richard charged with a hate crime and Sasaha severely burned.

Images
Alex Approximately
Alex Approximately Image

Bailey “Mink” Rydell moves across the country to live with her father in Southern California. It’s just a coincidence that Alex, the boy she has been communicating with on a classic film site, also lives in the same town. Not sure if Alex is really who he says he is, she has a plan to find out more before letting him know she has moved. But, her co-worker might just be the boy of her dreams. Or does he have a secret as well?

Images
All the Crooked Saints
All the Crooked Saints Image

Bicho Raro, Colorado is home to the Soria family. The family members all have the ability to perform unusual miracles but three cousins hope to change the families future. As Beatriz, Daniel, and Joaquin run a renegade radio station they also find the strangers who come for miracles are more important to the family than they think.

Images
And Then There were Four
And Then There were Four Image

Five teens, with little in common, are brought together when the building they are in collapses at the Rockland Academy. Shaken but glad each is okay, they go on about their lives or at least they try to. When school administrators and their parents don’t take their concerns seriously, and one of the five is killed in a bizarre car accident, the others realize they will need to take matters into their own hands to survive.

Images
Bull
Bull Image

Bull is the story of Theseus and the Minotaur. Written in verse with modern language, this retelling gives each of the characters their own unique voice.

Images
Far From the Tree
Far From the Tree Image

Grace is adopted. Grace is an only child. When Grace gives her own baby up for adoption, she decides it is time to locate her biological family. Maya, the younger sister, is out spoken and really has no interest in locating their mother. Joaquin, the older brother, is quite and intense and not interested in his biological mother either. The three form an uneasy relationship with secrets still between them.

Images
Goodbye Days
Goodbye Days Image

Carver lost his three best friends and he might be to blame. “Where are you guys?” is the last text he sends them before the horrible car crash. Did Carver cause it? Mars’s father sure thinks so as does Eli’s sister. Eli’s girlfriend stands by him through some of the hard times and Blake’s grandmother asks Carver to spend a Goodbye Day with her to share their memories and say a proper goodbye to his friends.

Images
Jane, Unlimited
Jane, Unlimited Image

Jane has been raised by her aunt Magnolia. But when Magnolia dies, Jane feesl directionless not to mention, she is broke. When Jane sees Kiran Thrash, her old tutor and Kiran asks her to attend a gala at the Thrashes’ mansion, Tu Reviens, Jane feels as if Magnolia is telling her to go. Jane recalls a conversation with her aunt: “If anyone ever invites you to Tu Reviens, promise me that you’ll go.” But Tu Reviens changes things. The house offers her five choices, choices that will change her life.

Images
Kids Like Us
Kids Like Us Image

Martin, diagnosed with autism as a child, attends public school for the first time while his mother is directing a movie in France. Martin makes friends and meets a girl who reminds him of a character from his favorite book. Just when Martin feels he might be fitting in, he realizes his new friends might only be drawn to the actors from his mother’s film.

Images
Librarian of Auschwitz
Librarian of Auschwitz Image

Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Jewish leader Fredy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards. Based on the experiences of real-life Auschwitz prisoner, Dita Kraus.

Images
Little Monsters
Little Monsters Image

Kacey moves to Broken Falls to live with the father she has never met, a stepmother, stepbrother, and a half sister who adores her. The move seems to be good for Kacey who is finding her way with her new family and has made good friends. But when Kacey’s new friend Bailey goes missing, she begins to question if her new life is as perfect as she believes.

Images
Long Way Down
Long Way Down Image

Will’s older brother, Shawn has been shot in a gang shooting. In Will’s neighborhood, there are three rules, No. 1 No Crying; No. 2 No Snitching; No. 3 Get Revenge. When Will steps into the elevator with plans for revenge, he has no idea that sixty seconds and seven floors may change his mind.

Images
Mars One
Mars One Image

Sixteen-year-old Tristan and his parents will be some of the first colonist on Mars as part of the Mars One Space Program. Tristan has been training for this since he was twelve-years-old but now, as we realizes what he will leave behind and a terrorist group is threatening the program, he questions if it is all worth it.

Images
Mr. 60%
Mr. 60% Image

The vice principal calls him “Mr. 60%” because Matt always just gets by. Everyone knows he sells drugs and is a deadbeat. Matt is assigned to an after-school club (mandatory if he wants to graduate) where he meets Amanda. Amanda refuses to allow Matt to give less than 100 percent but when she finds out his secret, will she continue to push him to be better?

Images
Nowhere Girls
Nowhere Girls Image

There are words carved into the walls of her closet in Grace’s new home. Words of pain that haunt Grace. When Grace learns the former occupants of her home left town after the daughter accused the popular guys of rape, she convinces her new friends to form an anonymous group to resist the sexist culture at their school.

Images
Obsessed: a memoir of my life with OCD
Obsessed: a memoir of my life with OCD Image
Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. She was a dedicated student with tons of extracurricular activities, friends, and loving parents at home.

But after awakening from a vivid nightmare in which she was diagnosed with brain cancer, she was convinced the dream had been a warning. Allison believed that she must do something to stop the cancer in her dream from becoming a reality.

It started with avoiding sidewalk cracks and quickly grew to counting steps as loudly as possible. Over the following weeks, her brain listed more dangers and fixes. She had to avoid hair dryers, calculators, cell phones, computers, anything green, bananas, oatmeal, and most of her own clothing.

Unable to act “normal,” the once-popular Allison became an outcast. Her parents questioned her behavior, leading to explosive fights. When notebook paper, pencils, and most schoolbooks were declared dangerous to her health, her GPA imploded, along with her plans for the future.

Finally, she allowed herself to ask for help and was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. This brave memoir tracks Allison’s descent and ultimately hopeful climb out of the depths.

Images
Dear Evan Hanson
12.99
Dear Evan Hanson Image

Dear Evan Hansen,

Today’s going to be an amazing day and here’s why…

When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family’s griefover the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend.

Suddenly, Evan isn’t invisible anymore–even to the girl of his dreams. And Connor Murphy’s parents, with their beautiful home on the other side of town, have taken him in like he was their own, desperate to know more about their enigmatic son from his closest friend.As Evan gets pulled deeper into their swirl of anger, regret, and confusion, he knows that what he’s doing can’t be right, but if he’s helping people, how wrong can it be?

No longer tangled in his once-incapacitating anxiety, this new Evan has a purpose. And a website. He’s confident. He’s a viral phenomenon. Every day is amazing. Until everything is in danger of unraveling and he comes face to face with his greatest obstacle: himself.

A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this big-hearted coming-of-age story of grief, authenticity and the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation.

Images
2018 Senior, 9-12
Nemesis Image
Nemesis
The town of Fire Lake has a secret. Min and her classmates are part of a government cover-up that even they are unaware of. Every two years, on her birthday, Min faces a strange man who murders her only to wake up hours later, unharmed. Min has no idea why and believes she is the only one, until the Anvil threatens life on Earth and all of their secrets are discovered.
Details
One of Us is Lying Image
One of Us is Lying
Simon, the creator of their high school’s gossip app, has an allergic reaction while in detention. Unfortunately, Simon dies and the police don’t believe it was an accident. The four students in detention with him become suspects and must prove their innocence.
Details
Racial Profiling: everyday inequality Image
Racial Profiling: everyday inequality
The high-profile deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of police officers have brought renewed national attention to racial profiling and have inspired grassroots activism from groups such as Black Lives Matter. Combining rigorous research with powerful personal stories, this insightful title explores the history, the many manifestations, and the consequences of this form of social injustice.
Details
Soldier Boy Image
Soldier Boy
Based on the life of Ricky Richard Anywar, who at age fourteen was forced to fight as a soldier in the guerrilla army of notorious Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony  
Details
Spellbook of the Lost and Found Image
Spellbook of the Lost and Found
Best friends, Olive and Rose begin to loose things. Simple things like hair clips but Rose has lost something bigger. The two meet Ivy, Hazel, and Rowan, who are squatting in an abandon house. The group finds a mysterious spellbook that contains spells to conjure back lost things. Maybe it is the answer to all they are looking for.
Details
Spill Zone Image
Spill Zone
Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. The Spill claimed Addison’s parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn’t spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone’s twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre images, but getting close enough for the perfect shot can mean death–or worse.
Details
Wires and Nerve Image
Wires and Nerve
Based on Marissa Meyer’s The lunar chronicles series. Extends the world of the Lunar Chronicles with a brand-new,action-packed story about Iko, the android with a heart of (mechanized) gold.When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko takes it upon herself to hunt down the soldiers’ leader.
Details
Magellan: over the edge of the world Image
Magellan: over the edge of the world
Adaptation of the adult work, “Over the Edge of the World”. Chronicles Ferdinand Magellan’s daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century.
Details
Be the One Image
Be the One
Six true stories of teens overcoming hardship compiled by ABC News correspondent, Byron Pitts.
Details
Because I was a Girl Image
Because I was a Girl
Because I Was a Girl is acollection of true stories by women and girls about the obstacles, challenges, and opportunities they’ve faced…because of their gender. Edited by bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz.
Details
Light Years Image
Light Years
Luisa’s extraordinary coding skills have landed her a finalist spot for a fellowship sponsored by Thomas Bell, the world’s most brilliant and mercurial tech entrepreneur. Being chosen means funding, mentorship, and most importantly, freedom from her overbearing mother. But when a deadly virus is affecting people across the globe, including her beloved father, Lu receives a cryptic message that might hold the key to stopping the epidemic.
Details
After the Fall Image
After the Fall
Raychel spends most of her time with her best friend Matt and his slacker brother, Andrew. Raychel may be in love with Andrew but Matt is certain he is in love with Raychel. When tragedy strikes while the group is on a hike, Raychel is faced with grief and a change to  life as she is accustomed.
Details
Such a Good Girl Image
Such a Good Girl
Riley Stone is just about perfect and has her entire life planned out. She’s never faced a challenge she couldn’t win. But a relationship with her French teacher, Alex may turn all of her accomplishments meaningless.
Details
Words on Bathroom Walls Image
Words on Bathroom Walls
Adam is schizophrenic but a new experimental drug may be his hope of leading a normal life. He starts a new school where he meets Maya, who he wants to believe he is a great, normal guy. When the experimental drug starts to fail, Adam and Maya will have to discover what this will mean for their relationship.
Details
Vincent and Theo: the Van Gogh brothers Image
Vincent and Theo: the Van Gogh brothers
The true story of the relationship between brothers Theo and Vincent van Gogh
Details
An Uninterrupted View of the Sky Image
An Uninterrupted View of the Sky
Set in Bolivia in 1991, when Francisco’s father is arrested and his mother leaves, he and his sister must move into the prison with their father.
Details
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team Image
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team
When superstar athlete Jim Thorpe and football legend Pop Warner met in 1904 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, they forged one of the winningest teams in American football history. Called “the team that invented football,” they took on the best opponents of their day, defeating much more privileged schools such as Harvard and the Army in a series of breathtakingly close calls, genius plays, and bone-crushing hard work.
Details
One Memory of Flora Banks Image
One Memory of Flora Banks
Seventeen-year-old Flora Banks has no short-term memory. Her mind resets itself several times a day, and has since the age of ten, when the tumor that was removed from Flora’s brain took with it her ability to make new memories. That is, until she kisses Drake, her best friend’s boyfriend, the night before he leaves town. Miraculously, this one memory breaks through Flora’s fractured mind, and sticks. Flora is convinced that Drake is responsible for restoring her memory and making her whole again. So, when an encouraging email from Drake suggests she meet him on the other side of the world–in Svalbard, Norway–Flora knows with certainty that this is the first step toward reclaiming her life.
Details
Speak: the graphic novel Image
Speak: the graphic novel
Melinda busted an end-of-summer party and now she is an outcast. Now nobody wants to talk to her so what’s the point of talking. Melinda is finally able to face what really happened that night through her work on an art project. The graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning novel Speak.
Details
57 Bus Image
57 Bus
Sasasha lives in the middle-class foothills of Oakland, California and attends a small private school. Richard lives in the flatlands and attends a large, public school. The 57 bus is their only connection. One act connects the two and ends with Richard charged with a hate crime and Sasaha severely burned.
Details
Alex Approximately Image
Alex Approximately
Bailey “Mink” Rydell moves across the country to live with her father in Southern California. It’s just a coincidence that Alex, the boy she has been communicating with on a classic film site, also lives in the same town. Not sure if Alex is really who he says he is, she has a plan to find out more before letting him know she has moved. But, her co-worker might just be the boy of her dreams. Or does he have a secret as well?
Details
All the Crooked Saints Image
All the Crooked Saints
Bicho Raro, Colorado is home to the Soria family. The family members all have the ability to perform unusual miracles but three cousins hope to change the families future. As Beatriz, Daniel, and Joaquin run a renegade radio station they also find the strangers who come for miracles are more important to the family than they think.
Details
And Then There were Four Image
And Then There were Four
Five teens, with little in common, are brought together when the building they are in collapses at the Rockland Academy. Shaken but glad each is okay, they go on about their lives or at least they try to. When school administrators and their parents don’t take their concerns seriously, and one of the five is killed in a bizarre car accident, the others realize they will need to take matters into their own hands to survive.
Details
Bull Image
Bull
Bull is the story of Theseus and the Minotaur. Written in verse with modern language, this retelling gives each of the characters their own unique voice.
Details
Far From the Tree Image
Far From the Tree
Grace is adopted. Grace is an only child. When Grace gives her own baby up for adoption, she decides it is time to locate her biological family. Maya, the younger sister, is out spoken and really has no interest in locating their mother. Joaquin, the older brother, is quite and intense and not interested in his biological mother either. The three form an uneasy relationship with secrets still between them.
Details
Goodbye Days Image
Goodbye Days
Carver lost his three best friends and he might be to blame. “Where are you guys?” is the last text he sends them before the horrible car crash. Did Carver cause it? Mars’s father sure thinks so as does Eli’s sister. Eli’s girlfriend stands by him through some of the hard times and Blake’s grandmother asks Carver to spend a Goodbye Day with her to share their memories and say a proper goodbye to his friends.
Details
Jane, Unlimited Image
Jane, Unlimited
Jane has been raised by her aunt Magnolia. But when Magnolia dies, Jane feesl directionless not to mention, she is broke. When Jane sees Kiran Thrash, her old tutor and Kiran asks her to attend a gala at the Thrashes’ mansion, Tu Reviens, Jane feels as if Magnolia is telling her to go. Jane recalls a conversation with her aunt: “If anyone ever invites you to Tu Reviens, promise me that you’ll go.” But Tu Reviens changes things. The house offers her five choices, choices that will change her life.
Details
Kids Like Us Image
Kids Like Us
Martin, diagnosed with autism as a child, attends public school for the first time while his mother is directing a movie in France. Martin makes friends and meets a girl who reminds him of a character from his favorite book. Just when Martin feels he might be fitting in, he realizes his new friends might only be drawn to the actors from his mother’s film.
Details
Librarian of Auschwitz Image
Librarian of Auschwitz
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Jewish leader Fredy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious books the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards. Based on the experiences of real-life Auschwitz prisoner, Dita Kraus.
Details
Little Monsters Image
Little Monsters
Kacey moves to Broken Falls to live with the father she has never met, a stepmother, stepbrother, and a half sister who adores her. The move seems to be good for Kacey who is finding her way with her new family and has made good friends. But when Kacey’s new friend Bailey goes missing, she begins to question if her new life is as perfect as she believes.
Details
Long Way Down Image
Long Way Down
Will’s older brother, Shawn has been shot in a gang shooting. In Will’s neighborhood, there are three rules, No. 1 No Crying; No. 2 No Snitching; No. 3 Get Revenge. When Will steps into the elevator with plans for revenge, he has no idea that sixty seconds and seven floors may change his mind.
Details
Mars One Image
Mars One
Sixteen-year-old Tristan and his parents will be some of the first colonist on Mars as part of the Mars One Space Program. Tristan has been training for this since he was twelve-years-old but now, as we realizes what he will leave behind and a terrorist group is threatening the program, he questions if it is all worth it.
Details
Mr. 60% Image
Mr. 60%
The vice principal calls him “Mr. 60%” because Matt always just gets by. Everyone knows he sells drugs and is a deadbeat. Matt is assigned to an after-school club (mandatory if he wants to graduate) where he meets Amanda. Amanda refuses to allow Matt to give less than 100 percent but when she finds out his secret, will she continue to push him to be better?
Details
Nowhere Girls Image
Nowhere Girls
There are words carved into the walls of her closet in Grace’s new home. Words of pain that haunt Grace. When Grace learns the former occupants of her home left town after the daughter accused the popular guys of rape, she convinces her new friends to form an anonymous group to resist the sexist culture at their school.
Details
Obsessed: a memoir of my life with OCD Image
Obsessed: a memoir of my life with OCD
Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. She was a dedicated student with tons of extracurricular activities, friends, and loving parents at home. But after awakening from a vivid nightmare in which she was diagnosed with brain cancer, she was convinced the dream had been a warning. Allison believed that she must do something to stop the cancer in her dream from becoming a reality. It started with avoiding sidewalk cracks and quickly grew to counting steps as loudly as possible. Over the following weeks, her brain listed more dangers and fixes. She had to avoid hair dryers, calculators, cell phones, computers, anything green, bananas, oatmeal, and most of her own clothing. Unable to act “normal,” the once-popular Allison became an outcast. Her parents questioned her behavior, leading to explosive fights. When notebook paper, pencils, and most schoolbooks were declared dangerous to her health, her GPA imploded, along with her plans for the future. Finally, she allowed herself to ask for help and was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. This brave memoir tracks Allison’s descent and ultimately hopeful climb out of the depths.
Details
Dear Evan Hanson Image
Dear Evan Hanson
Dear Evan Hansen, Today’s going to be an amazing day and here’s why… When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family’s griefover the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend. Suddenly, Evan isn’t invisible anymore–even to the girl of his dreams. And Connor Murphy’s parents, with their beautiful home on the other side of town, have taken him in like he was their own, desperate to know more about their enigmatic son from his closest friend.As Evan gets pulled deeper into their swirl of anger, regret, and confusion, he knows that what he’s doing can’t be right, but if he’s helping people, how wrong can it be? No longer tangled in his once-incapacitating anxiety, this new Evan has a purpose. And a website. He’s confident. He’s a viral phenomenon. Every day is amazing. Until everything is in danger of unraveling and he comes face to face with his greatest obstacle: himself. A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this big-hearted coming-of-age story of grief, authenticity and the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation.
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