To Joseph Friedman, middle school might as well be the Running of the Bulls. He's friendless and puny, with ADD to boot, so he spends most of his time avoiding class bully Charlie Kastner and hiding out in the Resource Room, a safe place for misfit kids like him. But then, on the first day of seventh grade, two important things happen. First, his Resource Room teacher Mrs. T encourages (i.e., practically forces) him to join the school track team, and second, he meets Heather, a tough, athl...

A richly compelling and deeply moving novel that traces the converging lives of a young boy who witnesses a brutal murder, the doctor who tends to him, and an elderly woman guarding her long buried secrets. Clare, one of the oldest women in Rhode Island, believes that all the painful secrets of her long life have been laid to rest, until an unexpected encounter with a piece of her past forces her to realize the time has come to tell her story. Ben, a shy, precocious six-year-old being gent...

Ben is the sole survivor of a crime that claims his mother and countless others. He’s just six years old, and already he must find a new place for himself in the world. Lucy, the doctor who tends to Ben, is grappling with a personal upheaval of her own. She feels a profound connection to the little boy who has lived through the unthinkable. Will recovering his memory heal him, or damage him further? Clare has long believed that the lifetime of secrets she’s been keeping don’t matter to any...

On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs to be used in retaliation if the Germans resorted to gas warfare.After young sailors began suddenly dying with mysterious symptoms, Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Alexander, a d...

The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy.On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty shi...

FROM STRUGGLING ARTIST TO ILLUMINATI PRINCEHow did counter-culture pop artist Alex Kazemi, a self-described “kid from the suburbs,” get Taylor Swift to invite him backstage, Marilyn Manson to tweet about his directorial debut, Selena Gomez and Petra Collins to collaborate with him on a magazine piece, and Madonna to express excitement over a magazine cover he created? Magick!MAGICK IS REALTalent is great if you have it and luck is f...

They can rule the half-pipe, but can they survive this?Jimmy, David, and Henry are psyched. It's summer, school's out, and they are on their way to California, where they will be able to do some major skating. But on the plane, the unthinkable happens: They are hijacked by terrorists. As frightened as they may be, they take action and they succeed. Sort of. They may have beaten the terrorists, but now their plane has crashed in the middle of nowhere and all of a su...

“Kadohata’s slapshot is the heart-swelling narrative of a father and son …Truly powerful.”—Jason Reynolds**“A deeply poignant story about a boy sorting out his priorities.”—**Publishers Weekly (starred review)**“A vivid, memorable portrayal of a boy within his family, his sport, and his gradually broadening world.”—**Booklist (starred review)From Newbery Me...

From debut author Peter Stone comes a heart-stopping, pulse-pounding political thriller that's perfect for fans of Ally Carter and House of Cards. When recent high school graduate Cameron Carter lands an internship with Congressman Billy Beck in Washington, DC, he thinks it is his ticket out of small town captivity. What he lacks in connections and Beltway polish he makes up in smarts, and he soon finds a friend and mentor in fellow staffer Ariel Lancaster. That is, until she winds up dead...

Out of hiding. Into the danger.Luke Garner is an illegal third child. All his life has been spent in hiding. Now, for the first time, Luke is living among others. He has assumed a deceased boy’s identity and is attending Hendricks School for Boys, a windowless building with cruel classmates and oblivious teachers.Luke knows he has to blend in, but he lives in constant fear that his behavior will betray him.Then one day Luke discovers a door to the outside. He knows t...

When you’re stuck with the name Beauty, people expect a lot from you—like beauty and graceand courage and a sense of style. But what if you have none of these things? What if all you like to dois read books and search for odd objects that other people drop? Oh, and you have a perfect oldersister who really should have had your name instead of you.And when you’re a prince, you’re supposed to be athletic and commanding and brave and tall. Butwhat if you ar...

The girl’s been asleep for a hundred years.The boy’s got issues of his own.There are two sides to every story …It’s not easy being Princess Rose. Especially when a fairy curses you and you find yourself avoidingall sharp objects … and then end up pricking your finger anyway, causing you to slumber for ahundred years.And it’s not easy being The Prince. Especially when your mother has some ogre blood and tendsto chow down at the most unfortu...