"Sometimes trees can look healthy on the outside, but actually be dying inside. These trees fall unexpectedly during a storm." For high school senior Parker Rabinowitz, anything less than success is a failure. A dropped extracurricular, a C on a calc quiz, a non-Jewish shiksa girlfriend—one misstep, and his meticulously constructed life splinters and collapses. The countdown to HYP (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) has begun, and he will stay focused. That's why he has to keep it a secret. The po...

At the beginning of the Civil War, Lula McLean’s family home in Manassas, Virginia, is taken over by the Confederate army and used as its headquarters. Forced to flee by the oncoming Union army, Lula and her family and her favorite rag doll move south to a small village called Appomattox Court House. Then one day in 1865, Lula left her doll behind, and what happened next made history.

An Israeli immigrant's journey to become a "real" American.With their mother caring for relatives in Israel and their father driving a cab all hours of the day, Roxanne and her sister, Gayle, spend a lot of time watching television reruns of Little House on the Prairie, The Brady Bunch, and Wonder Woman—perfect examples of perfect Americans. Roxanne is desperate to be like them.When Liat, a fellow Israeli, moves into the "Cursed House" next door, things begin to change and ...

"Sometimes trees can look healthy on the outside, but actually be dying inside. These trees fall unexpectedly during a storm."For high school senior Parker Rabinowitz, anything less than success is a failure. A dropped extracurricular, a C on a calc quiz, a non-Jewish shiksa girlfriend―one misstep, and his meticulously constructed life splinters and collapses. The countdown to HYP (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) has begun, and he will stay focused.That's why he has to keep it a ...

“Impossible not to love.” —Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet ApartA wedding harpist disillusioned with love and a hopeless romantic cater-waiter flirt and fight their way through a summer of weddings in this effervescent romantic comedy from the acclaimed author of Today Tonight Tomorrow.Quinn Berkowitz and Tarek Mansour’s families have been in business together for years: Qui...

A tween goes to an all-girls boarding school for a fresh start only to get entangled in a series of dares from a mysterious pen pal in this bestselling middle grade drama—now with a fresh new look!Scarlett’s got a secret—one so big her mother’s shipping her off to a prestigious all-girls boarding school. There, everyone is into academics and extracurriculars, and nobody knows about what she’s trying to leave behind.But Scarlett is out of her depth. Her inte...

An ALA Sydney Taylor Award HonoreeA Junior Library Guild SelectionIsabel has one rule: no dating.It’s easier—It’s safer—It’s better——for the other person.She’s got issues. She’s got secrets. She’s got rheumatoid arthritis.But then she meets another sick kid.He’s got a chronic illness Isabel’s never heard of, something she can’t even pronounce. He understands what it means to be sick. He unders...

Sinister witches don’t take vacations.In the months since Krissa joined Clan Twilight to keep the world safe from magical threats, she hasn’t found time to visit her loved ones. But now, with the holidays quickly approaching, Krissa feels pressure from her family—and Owen—to return to Clearwater.But Krissa’s worst fears are realized when danger follows her home.The witches of Circle Nightshade want something Krissa possesses, and they’ll stop at not...

“How could we know that forever could end at seventeen?”Anyone passing through North Shore, Illinois, would think it was the most picture-perfect place ever, with all the lakefront mansions and manicured hedges and iron gates. No one talks about the fact that the brilliant, talented kids in town have a terrible history of throwing themselves in front of commuter trains.Meet Simone, the bohemian transfer student from London, who is thrust into the strange ne...

How do you heal a broken heart?  It’s a question Stephanie has been asking herself over and over again lately.  From the second she met Rich, Stephanie fell hard. Sure, she got a little too attached to the relationship, and sure she started to neglect some important parts of her life. Like…oh, her family, her friends, and school.  It’s okay, though, because she has Rich, right?  Wrong. Out of nowhere, Rich breaks up wi...

“Funny and engaging. Marty Pants is a surefire hit!”—Lincoln Peirce, author of the Big Nate series"Readers will love the riotous hero of this new series."—School Library JournalMove over, Wimpy Kid. Here comes the imaginative, the inquisitive, the unstoppable Marty Pants!Marty Pants is different from your typical middle schooler. He has the soul of an artist, and as an artist, he notices things–except when he doesn’t.When Marty discovers a note suggesting an...

From the award-winning author of Break and Teeth comes a raw and honest exploration of complicated identities in a novel about a girl living on the fringe of every fringe group in her small town.Etta is tired of dealing with all of the labels and categories that seem so important to everyone else in her small Nebraska hometown.Everywhere she turns, someone feels she’s too fringe for the fringe. Not gay enough for the Dykes, her ex-clique, ...