A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionA CBC Spring 2024 Showcase SelectionLibrarian Favorites: Third to Fifth GradeNo matter where she goes, or how big she grows, Wanjikũ knows her name.In the lush Kenyan countryside, a young Gikũyũ girl helps her grandmother with daily tasks. Here, as she tends to the cows, carries water, and plays in the fruit trees and sugarcane, she is called W...

For young Adam Jones, inheriting the family business is more than a rotten hand. It's downright skeletal."The Powerses' worldbuilding and writing will keep [readers] hooked. They will find themselves questioning what is fact and what is fiction and cheering Adam on as he journeys in this new, strange world. A gripping, philosophical paranormal thriller." — Kirkus ReviewsAdam wants nothing more than to be a "normal" teen, but his reality is...

A moving story of one child's life in a conflict zone, in Mogadishu, Somalia.Amina lives on the edges of Mogadishu. Her family's house has been damaged in Somalia's long civil war, but they continue to live there, reluctant to leave their home. Amina's world is shattered when government forces come to arrest her father because his art has been officially censored, deemed too political. Then rebel forces kidnap Amina's brother, forcing him to become a soldier in Som...

Fourteen-year-old Khosi yearns for this thing called the future-- something better than sickness and superstition in a shanty town. Does she want too much? A stunning YA coming-of-age story set in post-apartheid South Africa.Khosi lives with her beloved grandmother, her little sister, and her weekend mother in a matchbox house on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. In this shantytown, it seems like somebody is dying all the time. Billboards everywhere ...

With the discovery of the hyperdrive, mankind at last possessed the means of going out to the stars. Four expeditions had already gone by the fine the fifth starship left Pluto for Vega. Carrying its complement of scientists and military personnel, they arrived at the solar system of Vega to find one planet sufficiently like Earth to allow them to land.Here, they discovered mystery. The ruins of great cities built on the shattered remains of still earlier fortresses, showing that s...

Fifteen top young-adult authors let us in on provocative secrets in a fascinating collection that will have readers talking.A baby no one knows about. A dangerous hidden identity. Off-limits hookups. A parent whose problems your friends won’t understand. Everyone keeps secrets—from themselves, from their families, from their friends—and secrets have a habit of shaping the lives around them. Acclaimed author Ann Angel brings together some of today’s most gifted YA a...

~NEW YORK TIMES WALL STREET JOURNAL & USA TODAY BESTSELLER~ A Novel by New York Times Bestselling Author H.M. Ward"Holy hot for teacher! I loved this book!” - Stay Blu Reads"Ward has such a brilliant way with words creating such a realist world that we can get lost in, and creating characters that could easily be your best friends.” -Nicole @ Book Addicts AA"I loved that. Serious sexual tension!” -Spare Time...

Over 10 million copies sold worldwide! * Now A Broadway Musical Starring Grant Gustin and Isabella McCalla#1 New York Times Bestseller * A Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Bestseller"This colorful headlong tale of a Depression-era circus simply can't be beat." **—**Stephen KingA Major Motion Picture starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, a...

Can you find real love when you've always got your head in the clouds?Maybell Parish has always been a dreamer and a hopeless romantic. But living in her own world has long been preferable to dealing with the disappointments of real life. So when Maybell inherits a charming house in the Smokies from her Great-Aunt Violet, she seizes the opportunity to make a fresh start.Yet when she arrives, it seems her troubles have only just begun. Not only is the house ...

The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.'Banks is a phenomenon' William GibsonTwo and a half millennia ago in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe, the artifact ap...

An enchanting YA romance from the New York Times best-selling author of The Dead Romantics**.**A tale as old as time is made new in Ashley Poston's fresh, geeky retelling of Beauty and the Beast.Rosie Thorne is feeling stuck—on her college application essays, in her small town, and on that mysterious General Sond cosplayer she met at ExcelsiCon. M...

BELLI grew up in a cult, one that kept me completely sheltered from the real life. They even forced me to marry at the age of fourteen.I was trapped, and life was utter hell until I was offered a way out. I spent months healing and finally being happy for the first time ever.Then he came into my life.Maverick rooted himself deep inside my heart from the second I met him. From his cocky grin to his alpha male attitude, I was in love with him.More impor...