Most Circulated Titles

Scythe

Shusterman, Neal,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocates, In a future world where all hunger, disease, war, misery, and even death have been conquered, to keep the population from exploding and becoming unsustainable, the scythes are the only agents with the legal authority to kill people. Teens Citra and Rowan are chosen to be apprentice scythes, a role neither wants, but they have no choice--if they do not master the "art" of ending life, they might lose their own.
Date Published:2016

Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocates, In a future world where all hunger, disease, war, misery, and even death have been conquered, to keep the population from exploding and becoming unsustainable, the scythes are the only agents with the legal authority to kill people. Teens Citra and Rowan are chosen to be apprentice scythes, a role neither wants, but they have no choice--if they do not master the "art" of ending life, they might lose their own.

Date Published:2016

You'd be home now

Glasgow, Kathleen, 1969-


School Library Journal starred, August 2021. Booklist starred, August 2021. Publishers Weekly, August 2021. Kirkus Starred, July 2021. "After a fatal car accident that reveals Emory's brother Joey's opioid addiction, Emory struggles to help him on his road to recovery and make herself heard in a town that insists on not listening"--OCLC.
Date Published:2021

Winger

Smith, Andrew (Andrew Anselmo), 1959-


Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocate, Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.
Date Published:2013

Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocate, Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.

Date Published:2013

The Naturals

Barnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn),


Horn Book Guide, Library Media Connection, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocates, When seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a superb ability to read people simply by looking at them, is recruited by the FBI to solve a cold case, she discovers she is one of a number of exceptional teens like herself who have been asked to help in various ways. As she gets to know the others in her program, however, she begins to realize that nothing is what it seems, especially when a killer strikes and pushes the teens to their investigative limits.
Date Published:2013

Horn Book Guide, Library Media Connection, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocates, When seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a superb ability to read people simply by looking at them, is recruited by the FBI to solve a cold case, she discovers she is one of a number of exceptional teens like herself who have been asked to help in various ways. As she gets to know the others in her program, however, she begins to realize that nothing is what it seems, especially when a killer strikes and pushes the teens to their investigative limits.

Date Published:2013

The inheritance games

Barnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn),


Booklist, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, Avery Grambs has plans for her future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get far away. But when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery nearly his entire fortune, her life changes in an instant. The problem? Avery has no idea who Tobias Hawthorne was or why he would leave her his fortune. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into Hawthorne House, which is filled with secret passages, puzzles, codes, and the family that Avery just dispossessed. Avery will have to go up against Tobias's scheming daughters and four grandsons, who are convinced that she's either a con-woman or another puzzle to be solved.
Date Published:2020

Booklist, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, Avery Grambs has plans for her future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get far away. But when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery nearly his entire fortune, her life changes in an instant. The problem? Avery has no idea who Tobias Hawthorne was or why he would leave her his fortune. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into Hawthorne House, which is filled with secret passages, puzzles, codes, and the family that Avery just dispossessed. Avery will have to go up against Tobias's scheming daughters and four grandsons, who are convinced that she's either a con-woman or another puzzle to be solved.

Date Published:2020

Check & mate

Hazelwood, Ali.


Booklist starred, September 2023. Publishers Weekly, September 2023. Kirkus Starred, September 2023. When eighteen-year-old Mallory begrudgingly agrees to return to chess in one last charity tournament, her surprise upset against Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champ and bad boy of the chess world, sets her on an worldwind adventure as she rediscovers her passion for the game.
Date Published:2023

Betting on you

Painter, Lynn.


Publishers Weekly, October 2023. "When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see an old acquaintance is one of her coworkers. Bailey met Charlie a year ago on the long flight to Omaha, where she moved after her parents' divorce. Charlie's cynicism didn't mix well with Bailey's carefully well-behaved temperament, and his endless commentary was the irritating cherry on top of an already emotionally fraught trip. Now, Bailey and Charlie are still polar opposites, but instead of everything about him rubbing Bailey the wrong way, she starts to look forward to hanging out and gossiping about the waterpark guests and their coworkers--particularly two who keep flirting with each other. Bailey and Charlie make a bet on whether or not the cozy pair will actually get together. Charlie insists that members of the opposite sex can't just be friends, and Bailey is determined to prove him wrong. Bailey and Charlie keep close track of the romantic progress of others while Charlie works to deflect the growing feelings he's developed for Bailey. Terrified to lose her if his crush becomes known, what doesn't help his agenda is Bailey and Charlie 'fake dating' in order to disrupt the annoying pleasantries between Bailey's mom and her mom's new boyfriend. Soon, what Charlie was hoping to avoid becomes a reality as Bailey starts to see him as not only a friend she can rely on in the midst of family drama--but someone who makes her hands shake and heart race. But Charlie has a secret--a secret that involves Bailey and another bet Charlie may have made. Can the two make a real go of things . . . or has Charlie's secret doomed them before they could start?"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2023

Publishers Weekly, October 2023. "When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see an old acquaintance is one of her coworkers. Bailey met Charlie a year ago on the long flight to Omaha, where she moved after her parents' divorce. Charlie's cynicism didn't mix well with Bailey's carefully well-behaved temperament, and his endless commentary was the irritating cherry on top of an already emotionally fraught trip. Now, Bailey and Charlie are still polar opposites, but instead of everything about him rubbing Bailey the wrong way, she starts to look forward to hanging out and gossiping about the waterpark guests and their coworkers--particularly two who keep flirting with each other. Bailey and Charlie make a bet on whether or not the cozy pair will actually get together. Charlie insists that members of the opposite sex can't just be friends, and Bailey is determined to prove him wrong. Bailey and Charlie keep close track of the romantic progress of others while Charlie works to deflect the growing feelings he's developed for Bailey. Terrified to lose her if his crush becomes known, what doesn't help his agenda is Bailey and Charlie 'fake dating' in order to disrupt the annoying pleasantries between Bailey's mom and her mom's new boyfriend. Soon, what Charlie was hoping to avoid becomes a reality as Bailey starts to see him as not only a friend she can rely on in the midst of family drama--but someone who makes her hands shake and heart race. But Charlie has a secret--a secret that involves Bailey and another bet Charlie may have made. Can the two make a real go of things . . . or has Charlie's secret doomed them before they could start?"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2023

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That's not my name

Lally, Megan.


School Library Journal, January 2024. Publishers Weekly, October 2023. Kirkus Review, October 2023. Told in two voices, a seventeen-year-old battered and bruised girl struggles to remember who she or the man claiming to be her father is while seventeen-year-old Drew stops at nothing to find his missing girlfriend.
Date Published:2024

As fast as words could fly

Tuck, Pamela M.


School Library Journal, June 2013 Publisher's Weekly, February 2013 Booklist, June 2013 Horn Book, November 2013 Kirkus Review, March 2013 Library Media Connection, November 2013 "A thirteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, uses his typing skills to make a statement as part of the Civil Rights movement. Based on true events. Includes author's note"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2013

School Library Journal, June 2013 Publisher's Weekly, February 2013 Booklist, June 2013 Horn Book, November 2013 Kirkus Review, March 2013 Library Media Connection, November 2013 "A thirteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, uses his typing skills to make a statement as part of the Civil Rights movement. Based on true events. Includes author's note"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2013

Projekt 1065

Gratz, Alan, 1972-,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal Starred, Michael O'Shaunessey and his parents move from Ireland to Nazi Germany in the middle of World War II. Like other boys in his new town, Michael joins the Hitler Youth, but unlike everyone else, Michael and his family are spies, showing false support for Hitler in order to gain information for the other side. But as the stakes get higher and higher, Michael's not sure he's up to the task.
Date Published:2016

Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal Starred, Michael O'Shaunessey and his parents move from Ireland to Nazi Germany in the middle of World War II. Like other boys in his new town, Michael joins the Hitler Youth, but unlike everyone else, Michael and his family are spies, showing false support for Hitler in order to gain information for the other side. But as the stakes get higher and higher, Michael's not sure he's up to the task.

Date Published:2016

Long way down

Reynolds, Jason.


"A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book." School Library Journal starred, July 2017. Booklist starred, July 2017. Horn Book Starred, July 2017. Library Media Connection starred, November 2017. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, October 2017. Pub Weekly, July 2017. Kirkus Starred, July 2017. As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.
Date Published:2017

"A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book." School Library Journal starred, July 2017. Booklist starred, July 2017. Horn Book Starred, July 2017. Library Media Connection starred, November 2017. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, October 2017. Pub Weekly, July 2017. Kirkus Starred, July 2017. As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.

Date Published:2017

Dog Man. : Grime and punishment /

Pilkey, Dav, 1966-


"The Supa Buddies bamboozled the baddies, but all's not right in the world. Dog Man has a new problem to pound, and he's going to need his entire pack to help him. Will he go barking up the wrong tree?"--OCLC.
Date Published:2020

Be not far from me

McGinnis, Mindy,


Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, Lost in the Great Smoky Mountains, rising high school senior Ashley Hawkins must fight for survival without any tools, growing in awareness that the world is not tame, and neither are people.
Date Published:2020

Punching the air

Zoboi, Ibi Aanu,


Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Connection Star, School Library Journal Starred, Even though Amal Shahid is an artist and poet, he's still viewed as disruptive and unmotivated at his diverse art school. One fateful night at a local park, a fight breaks out between Amal and his friends and a group of white boys from a nearby gentrified neighborhood, leaving one of the white boys in a coma. Amal is convicted of the attack and sent to prison, even though he's not the one who put the boy in a coma. His despair and rage at having his bright future destroyed threaten to overcome him until he discovers the refuge and hope that his words and art give him.
Date Published:2021

Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Connection Star, School Library Journal Starred, Even though Amal Shahid is an artist and poet, he's still viewed as disruptive and unmotivated at his diverse art school. One fateful night at a local park, a fight breaks out between Amal and his friends and a group of white boys from a nearby gentrified neighborhood, leaving one of the white boys in a coma. Amal is convicted of the attack and sent to prison, even though he's not the one who put the boy in a coma. His despair and rage at having his bright future destroyed threaten to overcome him until he discovers the refuge and hope that his words and art give him.

Date Published:2021

The way of kings

Sanderson, Brandon.


"A Tom Doherty Associates book." Publishers Weekly, In the rough-hewn world of Roshar, men fight over the Shardblades and Shardplate of the ancient Knights Radiant. Because these weapons and armor make ordinary men invincible, armies led by Kaladin and Dalinar Kholin. Meanwhile, a woman named Shallan seeks training from Dalinar's niece, Kholin.
Date Published:2010

The book of Ivy

Engel, Amy,


"Entangled teen"--Spine. School Library Journal, In an apocalyptic future where girls from the losing faction are forcibly married to boys of the winning faction, sixteen-year-old Ivy is tasked to kill her fiancée Bishop, although when she finally meets him, he is not the monster she has been led to believe.
Date Published:2014

Diary of a wimpy kid : hard luck.

Kinney, Jeff.


Numbering on spine. Horn book guide, Best books for children : preschool through grade 6. Wilson Children's core collection. Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?
Date Published:2013

Numbering on spine. Horn book guide, Best books for children : preschool through grade 6. Wilson Children's core collection. Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?

Date Published:2013

Croak

Damico, Gina.


School Library Journal, April 2012 Publisher's Weekly, January 2012 Booklist, March 2012 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), March 2012 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2011 Kirkus Review, February 2012 A delinquent sixteen-year-old girl is sent to live with her uncle for the summer, only to learn that he is a Grim Reaper who wants to teach her the family business.
Date Published:2012

Made for you

Marr, Melissa,


In a small southern town, Eva Tilling wakes up in the hospital with the frightening ability to see through the eyes of the victims of a serial killer, and realizes that she, too, is a target of the stalker.
Date Published:2014