In this inventive Cinderella retelling, there's a ball and a prince, sure. But this heroine wants to earn her freedom – and create her own fairy-tale ending. Nicolette's awful stepsisters call her "Mechanica" to demean her, but the nickname fits: she learned to be an inventor at he... read more
| Author: | Lisa Bullard |
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13+ Years |
Thirteen-year-old Trav has always wondered about his dead-before-he-was-born dad. But when he heads from California to his grandmother's house in rural Minnesota, hoping to learn about his past, he gets more than he bargained for. It turns out his dad was involved in a bank robbe... read more
| Author: | Rona Arato |
| Category: |
13+ Years |
The Last Train is the harrowing true story about young brothers Paul and Oscar Arato and their mother, Lenke, surviving the Nazi occupation during the final years of World War II. Living in the town of Karcag, Hungary, the Aratos felt insulated from the war -- even as it... read more
| Author: | Cheryl Blackford |
| Category: |
13+ Years |
Cheryl Blackford's debut novel is set in England during World War II and told from the dual perspectives of ten-year-old Lizzie, a homesick girl evacuated from bomb-blitzed Hull to the remote Yorkshire valley, and Elijah, a local gypsy boy. When Lizzie discovers an abandoned ... read more
Yonie Watereye lives in the bayou. The water there is full of guile, a power that changes people and objects. Yonie, 16, makes a living investigating objects affected by guile, but in fact it's her talking cat, LaRue, who has the power to see guile. Yonie becomes aware that someone is sending h... read more
| Author: | Suzanne Collins |
| Category: |
13+ Years |
| Series: | Hunger Games |
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Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glor... read more
| Author: | Kate Milford; Jaime Zollars (Illustrator) |
| Category: |
13+ Years |
| Series: | Greenglass House Ser. |
New York Times Bestseller National Book Award Nominee Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery It's wintertime at Greenglass House. The creaky smuggler's inn is always quiet during this season, and twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend... read more
| Author: | Hannah Barnaby |
| Category: |
13+ Years |
A striking historical fiction YA debut about a wayward girl amid the freaks and sideshows of a late-1930s traveling circus.
| Author: | Karen Wood |
| Category: |
8-12+ Years |
| Series: | Diamond Spirit |
| Reading Level: | 11-14 |
The first in a warm-hearted and adventurous series about friendship, courage, a spirited girl, and the love of horses
After a horrific accident, Jess loses Diamond, her beloved pony. Her best friend, Shara, the only witness to the accident, won't tell Jess what happened.... read more
| Author: | Anthony Horowitz |
| Category: |
13+ Years |
| Series: | Alex Rider |
| Reading Level: | Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11 |
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The first in the # 1 New York Times bestselling Alex Rider series
They told him his uncle died in an accident. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt, they said. But when fourteen-year-old Alex finds his uncle's windshield riddled with bullet holes, he knows it was no ac... read more
At the age of 14, Jenny Swift is torn from her home deep in the forest to become apprenticed to the master alchemist Richard Antrobus. Jenny's mother was a healer from the East who has taught her well and from whom she inherits her exotic looks. But this difference means that she faces susp... read more
