2. After the eruption of the
Yellowstone supervolcano
destroys his city and its
surroundings, fifteen-year-
old Alex must journey from
Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois
to find his parents and
sister, trying to survive in a
transformed landscape and
a new society in which all
the old rules of living have
vanished.
3. Cinder, a gifted mechanic
and a cyborg with a
mysterious past, is blamed
by her stepmother for her
stepsister's illness while a
deadly plague decimates the
population of New
Beijing, but when Cinder's
life gets intertwined with
Prince Kai's, she finds
herself at the center of an
intergalactic struggle.
4. In a dark future, when
North America has split
into two warring
nations, fifteen-year-
olds Day, a famous
criminal, and prodigy
June, the brilliant
soldier hired to capture
him, discover that they
have a common
enemy.
5. Sequel to Birthmarked.
Sixteen-year-old midwife
Gaia Stone is in the
wasteland with nothing
but her baby sister, a
handful of supplies, and a
rumor to guide her when
she is captured by the
people of Sylum, a
dystopian society where
she must follow a strict
social code or never see her
sister again.
6. Emma gets her first
computer and an
America Online CD-
ROM in 1996, and when
her best friend Josh
visits and they log
on, they discover
themselves on
Facebook fifteen years
in the future.
7. Benjamin Franklin
returns from the
dead, moves into Victor
Goodwin's downstairs
apartment, and faces
peril from vampires in
Philadelphia, a pair of
bike shop owners, and a
shadowy figure known
as "the Emperor."
8. Middle-schooler Nate
Wright must compete
with a new rival, the
"perfect" Artur, for the
grand prize of a
customized skateboard
in their scout troop
contest.
9. Devastated when her
parents separate, twelve-
year-old Rebecca must
move with her mother
from Baltimore to Gran's
house in Atlanta, where
Rebecca discovers an old
breadbox with the power
to grant any wish--so long
as the wished-for thing fits
in the breadbox.
10. When
fashionistaSicilee, arty
Maya, and antisocial
Waneeda risk their
reputations by joining
Clifton Springs High
School's Environmental
Club to be near gorgeous
new student Cody
Lightfoot, each finds a
new way of looking at
the world.
11. Marley is not given a
choice when her newly
separated parents decide
she will spend the summer
with her dad and make her
take a job she did not ask
for, but things start to look
better for Marley after she
meets a cute boy who
loves dogs as much as she
does.
12. Fifteen-year-old Lizzie
Cohen recalls what it
was like growing up
with her imaginative
but disturbed older
sister Tess, and how
she is striving to
reclaim her own life
since Tess died.
13. Hazel and Jack are best
friends until an accident
with a magical mirror
and a run-in with a
villainous queen find
Hazel on her
own, entering an
enchanted wood in the
hopes of saving Jack's
life.
14. Through a letter to her
English teacher, fourteen-
year-old Lizzy Mortimer of
Crabapple, California, relate
s her discovery that she and
her eccentric grandmother
are kin to Morgan le
Faye, charged with saving
the last descendant of King
Arthur from an untimely
death that would endanger
the world.
15. Sequel to: Beautiful Darkness.
Swarms of locusts, record-
breaking heat, and
devastating storms ravage
Gatlin as Ethan and Lena
struggle to understand and
control the impact of Lena's
claiming, which is even
causing her family members'
abilities to dangerously
misfire.
16. At a rustic summer
camp, sixteen-year-old
Tori, a senator's
daughter, learns that she is
descended from medieval
dragon slayers, that
dragons still exist, and that
she is expected to hone her
special abilities to join her
fellow campers in battling
the beasts and the man
who controls them.
17. When their parents' seedy
old motel burns down on
the same night they are
visited by a strange man
covered in skeleton tattoos,
Cyrus, Antigone, and their
brother Daniel are
introduced to an ancient
secret society, and discover
that they have an
important role in keeping it
alive.
18. Mona is miserable. Her
family consists of Sister
Figg Newton; Truman, the
human pretzel; Aunt Gracie
Jo, the dog catcher; and
her son, Fido the Second.
The only person Mona likes
is her Uncle Florence, the
book dealer, until she
learns that things are
seldom what they seem.
19. Book #1
When two boys stay
with an eccentric
relative at his mansion
in rural Vermont, they
discover an old-
fashioned board game
that draws them into a
mysterious adventure.
20. Book #2
Friends Brian and Gregory
have survived the Game of
Sunken Places, but are once
again drawn back to cousin
Prudence's house in
Vermont, where they discover
that something has gone very
wrong with time, people have
disappeared, and danger is
lurking everywhere.
21. Book #3
Brian and Gregory are
transported to New
Norumbega, a
kingdom inside an
alien body, where they
face a rebellion, a
murder mystery, and a
rivalry over a girl.
22. Phoebe's
stepfather, headmaster of a
school for the descendents of
Greek gods, enrolls Phoebe in
Goddess Boot Camp to help
her gain control of her newly
discovered powers, but
Phoebe's romantic life and
impulsive decisions may ruin
any chance she has at passing
the test of the gods.
23. Book #1
Thirteen-year-old Dan
Cahill and his older
sister, Amy, thought the
search for the thirty-nine
clues leading to the source
of their family's power was
over, but when Cahills are
kidnapped by the
Vespers, Amy and Dan find
themselves with only a few
day to fulfill a bizarre
ransom request before
their friends start dying.
24. Book #2
Thirteen-year-old Dan
Cahill and his older
sister Amy race against
time to find an ancient
map that has not been
seen for half a century
and use it to redeem
their family members
who have been
kidnapped by a sinister
organization called the
Vespers.
25. In all the years she has
watched the wolves in
the woods behind her
house, Grace has been
particularly drawn to
an unusual yellow-eyed
wolf who, in his turn,
has been watching her
with increasing
intensity.
26. Sequel to Shiver
Grace and Sam
struggle to keep their
relationship
together, while Grace
lies to her parents and
keeps a secret from
them and Sam copes
with his werewolf past.
27. Hal, Stig, and the other
outcasts do not have the
size and strength of the
Skandians, but when they
face off against the Wolves
and the Sharks in an
ultimate race for survival,
they hope that their
courage and cunning are
enough to help them win in
a game that everyone
seems to think is a matter
of life and death.
28. Collects the lost stories
of the Rangers who
risked their lives to
defend the
kingdom, including the
tales of the young
warrior Horace, the
courageous princess
Evanlyn, the diplomat
Alyss, and Will and his
mentor, Halt.
29. Book #1
Emma is shocked to
learn she has a twin
sister, Sutton, but on
the day the girls are
supposed to
meet, Sutton is
killed, and Emma risks
everything to slip into
her twin's life and try to
bring the killer to
justice.
30. Book #2
Emma Paxton, who
has taken over her
missing twin's life in
the hopes of finding
her killer, discovers
that her lies may wind
up costing her her own
life.
31. Leo, the son of the
maintenance man of the
Whippet Hotel, opens a
series of cryptic boxes
which reveals hidden
floors, strange
puzzles, and unexpected
alliances and lead him on
an adventure to save the
building and his future.
32. Fifteen-year-old Kat
Bishop and her fellow
talented teenagers work
together to find and steal
the Cleopatra Emerald
from an unscrupulous
dealer and return it to its
rightful owner, while her
uncle Eddie's former love
tries to get the gem for
herself.
33. When eleven-year-old Mo's
mother dies in an accident
and Mo's devastated father
deals with the loss by
moving the family to a new
town and starting a new
life as the owner of a sports
bar, Mo must leave her
much loved neighborhood
on Fox Street to live in an
apartment above the
"cursed" Corkey's Tavern.
35. A budding musician
named Saint, who earns
money playing clarinet
for the New Orleans
tourists, refuses to
leave the city after the
hurricane until he can
find his best friend
Shadow.
36. Three city siblings, now
living on a farm during
the Great Depression,
must survive on their
own when their father
takes a construction
job miles away.
37. A fictionalized look at
the last twenty years of
Thomas Jefferson's life
at Monticello through
the eyes of three of his
slaves, two of whom
were his sons by his
slave, Sally Hemings.
38. In the Stalinist era of the
Soviet Union, ten-year-old
Sasha idolizes his father, a
devoted Communist, but
when police take his father
away and leave Sasha
homeless, he is forced to
examine his own
perceptions, values, and
beliefs.
39. On July
4th, 1777, fourteen-year-
old Jake Mallory and his
friends are celebrating their
new nation's
independence, but over the
next four years Jake finds
himself in increasingly
adventurous circumstances
as he battles British
forces, barely survives
captivity on a prison
ship, and finally returns
home to Connecticut.
40. During World War
II, eleven-year-old Felicity
is sent from London to
Bottlebay, Maine, to live
with her
grandmother, aunt, uncle,
and a reclusive boy who
helps her decode
mysterious letters that
contain the truth about her
missing parents.
41. In 1887, the social-climbing
Cranstons voyage from
New York to
London, where they hope
to find a husband for their
awkward older
daughter, secretly
accompanied by Helena
and her mouse siblings, for
whom the journey is both
terrifying and wondrous as
they meet an array of titled
humans despite their best
efforts at remaining
hidden.
42. Sixth-grader Tommy and
his friends describe their
interactions with a paper
finger puppet of Yoda,
worn by their weird
classmate Dwight, as they
try to figure out whether or
not the puppet can really
predict the future. Includes
instructions for making
Origami Yoda.
43. A collection of spooky short
stories for children,
describing a teenager whose
greed outweighs his respect
for the dead, a kid whose
after-school job could cost
more than it pays, and a
snowboarder who decides to
show off on a haunted
mountain.
44. Sequel to Independence
Hall.
Q and Angela attempt to
learn the truth about the
supposed death of
Angela's real
mother, who used to be a
Secret Service
agent, while trying to
figure out who they can
trust.
45. Princess Wisdom, who yearns
for a life of adventure, Tips, a
soldier keeping his true life
secret from his
family, Fortitude, an orphaned
maid who longs for Tips and
Magic the cat form an uneasy
alliance as they try to save the
kingdom from certain
destruction. Told through
diaries, memoirs, encyclopedi
a
entries, letters, biographies, a
nd a stage play.
46. Sequel
Twelve-year-old best
friends Julie and Lydia
are reunited after six
months apart, but the
news that their friend
Sukie's mother has died
after a long illness causes
them to reevaluate their
goals and focus on being
supportive of the friends
they already have.
47. When a mummy
disappears from the
local history museum
while Cass and her
friends Max-Ernest and
Yo-Yoji are there, they
try to solve the case in
order to clear their
names and, they
hope, discover the
Secret they have been
seeking.
48. When Gavin takes his
metal detector to a new
playground to hunt for
lost objects, he instead
discovers a group of
mysterious children who
only appear after
dark, and who tease him
and try to persuade him
to play with them until
late into the night.
49. Taj is horrified when he
starts growing wings
and fears he is turning
into a horrible beast, so
he turns to his cousin
for help, only to learn
his cousin is hiding the
same secret.
50. David is excited that
his family has been
chosen to participate in
a reality television
taping for the program
"Trading Moms," until
he learns whose mom
is being swapped with
his--his biggest
enemy, Rose Thornton.
51. In the Library of
Doom, the librarian's job
is to protect the books
from falling into the
wrong hands and being
used for evil purposes, but
when one of his own
books begins draining the
others of ink, he must
stop it before the entire
library is destroyed.
52. An illustrated history of
the witch hunts that took
place in colonial-era
Salem, Massachusetts,
featuring primary source
accounts, and describing
the victims, accused
witches, corrupt officials,
and impact of the events
on society.
53. An illustrated retelling
of the myth of
Achilles, depicting the
hero's life from his birth
to his participation in
the Trojan War, despite
his mother's warning
that it will cost him his
life.
54. Anya, embarrassed by
her family and lacking
confidence in her body
and her social
skills, finally finds a
friend after falling down
a well, but quickly learns
there are drawbacks to
having a ghost for a
friend.
55. Vanessa Shingle drags her
best friend Stork on a
nighttime mission to learn
more about an attractive
janitor named Jean-Paul
McClellan, but after she
witnesses something
unexpected and her little
New Mexico town becomes
overrun by
vampires, Vanessa wonders
whether Jean-Paul is one of
them.
56. When Maria meets the
new boy at her high
school, Tom Stone, the
two feel a
connection, but Maria
finds it hard to get to
know Tom, the son of
Persephone
Falls, Alaska's new
funeral director.
57. Presents both old and
new tales about
trolls, discussing the
depiction of trolls as
troublesome, bloodthir
sty, vicious, and
slow, and looking at
contemporary
examples of trolls in
popular culture.
58. Photographs and text
recount Caitlin O'Connell's
experiences observing
African elephants in their
natural habitat, describing
the discoveries she made
about elephant
communication.
59. An introduction to the
tools and techniques
professionals use to
investigate crime
scenes, describing the
roles of crime scene
investigators to find
and record criminal
evidence.
60. Traces the cases in
recent history that have
been solved using the
latest forensic science of
the time, such as the
first case to use
fingerprint evidence,
hair matching, and DNA
profiling. 'Includes real
case files and case
studies.
61. An exploration of the
life of Michael Phelps
that discusses his
childhood, struggles
with attention-
deficit/hyperactivity
disorder, training, moti
vation, Olympic
performance, and
other related topics.
62. Provides a chronological
account of September
11, 2001, and the
terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Center in
New York and the
Pentagon in
Washington, D.C., and
the hijacking of a plane
that crashed in
Pennsylvania.
63. Uses real-life examples
and five basic moral
principles to encourage
teens to make the right
choices in various
situations related to
friends, family, school,
and relationships.
64. Blends humor and facts in a
look at events in America
and the world, providing
information about the
electoral system in the
U.S., the world
economy, the role of
religion in
conflict, America's place in
the world, and other
topics, and including
advice on how to get
involved.
65. Explores the lasting legacy of the
"Titanic" tragedy, discussing
how the sinking of the ship led to
new regulations and the
formation of an ice patrol that
later became the U.S. Coast
Guard, earned the "New York
Times" a lasting reputation for
news, caused a Senate
inquiry, destroyed the lives of
several survivors, and fascinated
people around the world for a
century.
66. Retells the events
surrounding the sinking
of the RMS "Titanic,"
describing the ship's
construction and
launch, and featuring
authentic photographs
and illustrations from
the period.
67. Introduces teens to
Greek mythology, with
interactive activities,
retellings of classic
myths, an overview of
the gods and goddesses,
and questions to help
them realize how the
myths apply to modern
life.
68. Presents illustrated
retellings of classic
Greek myths, sharing
the stories of
Zeus, Aphrodite, Apoll
o, Athena, Helen of
Troy, Perseus, and
Medusa.