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In Victorian England, when women were thought to be inferior to men, 14 year old Faith Sunderly is inquisitive and clever enough to pursue justice and revenge. Winner of England’s prestigious Costa Book of the Year (formerly Whitbread), this is the first children’s book to win since Philip Pullman’s Amber Spyglass in 2001. It’s a wow!
Samantha Mather is a direct descendant of Cotton Mather, a key accuser in The Salem Witch Trials. As a result, when she and her family move to notorious Salem, she is instantly outcast. Before long, she has acquired a spirit living in her house, is receiving death threats, and members of the community have begun dying at an alarming rate. Sam soon discovers this is all part of an elaborate, centuries-old curse that only she can break. Fast-moving and creepy, readers will be immediately hooked on Adriana Mather’s debut novel.
The story of the Pentagon Papers and how Daniel Ellsberg risked everything to reveal to the nation the corruption in the White House throughout the Vietnam War. Here is a look at patriotism, integrity, and freedom.
Lucy lives in a huge, castle-like estate with her father, aunt, and cousin. One day, her aunt mysteriously disappears and strange voices and screams begin to emanate from within the walls. Are the voices those of her relatives or are they simply hallucinations? Lucy and her cousin begin a disturbingly horrific investigation that may very well lead them to their own demise.
Arthur Slade’s latest novel, Flickers, features orphaned twins Isabelle and Beatrice Thorn who are living in glamorous 1920s Hollywood far from the Canadian prairie where they were born. Slade is the award-winning author of seventeen novels for young readers including The Hunchback Assignments, and Dust. He is also the author of the acclaimed graphic novel Modo: Ember’s End.
Flannery’s mom is a flaky but loving eco-artist, who can’t pay the bills. Her little brother is charming but spoiled. Her best friend is in love with an abusive boyfriend. Flannery is in love with Tyrone, an outlaw graffiti artist and they’re paired for their final project in entrepreneurship class. Tyrone comes up with the idea of love potions, then disappears. It’s up to Flannery to work it all out.
How do a young boy from Africa and a rebellious teenager from Canada end up on a remote Irish island populated with only a lighthouse and its keeper? In this adventure for teens, taking place in three countries, readers will discover how people from very different cultures can help each other.
One hundred years in the future stands a glittering one thousand story tower that has replaced Manhattan as it was once known. A place where anything is possible if you want it badly enough. Inside this tower are five teenagers whose lives are interwoven by technology, scandal, and betrayal. Friendships are put to the test. Personal boundaries are pushed to the limit. Everyone wants something and everyone has something to lose. Katharine McGee deftly explores the lies and deceit that make up the dazzling future New York elite in this thrilling debut novel.
Did Thisbe jump off the bridge that joins Coronado Island to the California mainland? Then where’s her body? She couldn’t have survived. Could she? Over a dozen narrators—including her no good boyfriend, her sister, her mother, the police, school friends—help tell Thisbe’s story in 87 brief chapters.
After 7-year-old Anna’s father disappears in 1939 Krakow, Poland, she follows a tall lanky man across a field. She calls him the Swallow Man. We never learn his name in spite of the fact that the two walk through the countryside for four years, hiding in full view.
Four stories are linked by the image of a spiral. The first centers on a Paleolithic girl who might be inventing the first written language glyph. Then Anna is hunted as a witch in 17th century England. The third brings us to the story of a mad poet in a 19th century asylum. And finally, the future. All are tragedies, but are they really tragic?
In this young reader revision of the best-seller, nine Washington State boys, sons of lumberjacks and farmers, compete first to get on the rowing team, then beat the champion California team to qualify to row against the elite eastern schools, and finally make it all the way to Hitler’s Nazi Germany to compete in the Olympics.
