THE LAST BOY IN MARS ( MAX ) - Malone,Lee Gjensen
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Jeremy is the only boy left after the school’s brief
experiment in co-education. And he needs to get out. But
his mother—a teacher at the school—won’t let him transfer,
so Jeremy takes matters into his own hands: he’s going to
get expelled.
Together with his best friend Claudia, Jeremy unleashes a
series of hilarious pranks in hopes that he’ll get kicked out
with minimal damage to his permanent record. But when his
stunts start to backfire, Jeremy has to decide how far he’s
willing to go and whom he’s willing to knock down to get out
the door.
THE LAST BOY IN MARS ( MAX )
Malone,Lee Gjensen
Every Falling Star, the first book to portray
contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the
intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju
who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and
fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and
lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides
on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous
story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to
create a new family with his gang, his “brothers”; to be
hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even
execution
EVERY FALLING STAR
Lee,Sungje
Thirteen-year-old Liam was born on Mars. His whole life, his
scientist parents have worked long hours doing vital experiments
for the Mars-to-Aaru-5 transition. On the day when the last
starliner spaceship will leave for Aaru-5, almost all of the 100
million remaining Martian residents are already on board. Liam
and his best friend Phoebe remain on the ground, waiting for their
parents to finish work at their research facility. The two teens
expect to spend the day idly awaiting their departure. Instead, they
end up discovering an invisible research lab, appropriating some
seriously advanced 4-D alien technology, saving their parents from
a fiery explosion, flying through space with an artificially intelligent
panda named JEFF, and racing to catch up with the last starliner
so they can deliver important information that might be the key to
saving humanity.
THE LAST DAY ON MARS
Emerson,Kevin
Sitting on the top deck of a bus days before Christmas,
Maya sees a couple arguing violently in the middle of a
crowded Regent Street. They see her watching, she
looks away, and the woman disappears. Maya goes to
the police, who shrug and send her away. Then a body
turns up... Now convinced she is a vital witness to a
crime, the police send Maya into hiding in rural Wales.
She resolves to get to the bottom of the mystery. Then
the snow comes and no one can get out. But what if
someone can still get in?
MURDER IN MIDWINTER
Hitchcock,Fleur
Twelve-year-old Omar and his brothers and sisters
were born and raised in the beautiful and bustling city
of Bosra, Syria. Omar doesn't care about politics - all
he wants is to grow up to become a successful
businessman who will take the world by storm. But
when his clever older brother, Musa, gets mixed up
with some young political activists, everything changes
. . . Before long, bombs are falling, people are dying,
and Omar and his family have no choice but to flee
their home with only what they can carry. Yet no matter
how far they run, the shadow of war follows them - until
they have no other choice than to attempt the
dangerous journey to escape their homeland altogether
WELCOME TO NOWHERE
Laird,ElizabethSubhi knows only life in the Australian refugee detention
center where he was born, and lately, things are getting
worse. His mother is increasingly lethargic, older sister
Queeny is bossy and angry, and his best friend Eli has
been transferred to the single men's compound. The
Jackets (guards) are unfriendly, except for Harvey, who
occasionally brings presents and diversions. It's at this
low point that Subhi meets Jimmie, a local child who finds
her way into the camp. Jimmie's mother has died, and
between her father's grief and his erratic work schedule,
she is alone for long periods. Jimmie can't read, so she
asks Subhi to read aloud her mother's notebooks, which
contain stories from her mother's past.
THE BONE SPARROW
Fraillon,ZanaYuki Nakahara is American. He was born in California,
wears jeans, and has never even visited another country-
but at the start of World War II he becomes aware that
other Americans see him as a foreign enemy. His family is
one of the thousands of Japanese American citizens
arrested and forcibly transferred to internment camps in
the rural desert. Although depressed about their situation,
Yuki and friend Shig decide to join the army to fight for
their country and to prove once and for all that they are
loyal to the United States. As the war wages on, however,
Yuki realizes that he must respect himself and where he
came from, and that neither war nor changing others'
minds is as easy as he had imagined.
FOUR-FOUR-TWO
Hughes,DeanEleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the
Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise,
Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far
Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together.
That is, until a new district attorney discovers the truth--and
Perry is removed from the facility and forced into a foster
home.
When Perry moves to the "outside" world, he feels trapped.
Desperate to be reunited with his mom, Perry goes on a quest
for answers about her past crime. As he gets closer to the truth,
he will discover that love makes people resilient no matter
where they come from . . . but can he find a way to tell
everyone what home truly means?
ALL RISE FOR HONORABLE PERRY T. COOK
Conner,LeslieYa-el, a young woman who escaped the horrors of a
concentration camp but could not escape being
changed forever by Nazi experimentation. Ya-el is a
shape-shifter, assuming other people's appearances
with ease. As a resistance fighter, Ya-el is given a
critical mission: assume the identity of motorcycle
racing champion Adele Wolf and compete in the Axis
Tour. She must win the race and assassinate Hitler at
the victory dance. However, she doesn't count on Felix,
Adele's brother, accompanying her. Ya-el struggles
against the grueling race course, her competitors, and
the nightmares of her past as she seeks to win the race
and set off a revolution.
WOLF BY WOLF: ONE GIRL’S MISSION TO WIN A
RACE AND KILL HITLER
Graudin,RyanSerafina has developed catlike skills in exploring the vast
Biltmore estate and enjoys sneaking through heating vents and
other small spaces in order to eavesdrop on staff and
inhabitants. Her quiet existence is shattered when she
witnesses a strange man dragging a tearful young girl down
into the bowels of the vast home. The man is wearing a large
black cloak and reassures the young girl that everything is
okay. Suddenly, the captive struggles to get away from the man
and his cloak appears to come alive. It wraps itself around the
terrified child as she calls out for help. Serafina is frozen with
fear and before she can react, the girl has vanished. Serafina
escapes, thanks to her agility, and discovers the next day that a
visitor of the Vanderbilts by the name of Clara has disappeared
during the night. More children disappear and it becomes
increasingly obvious that Serafina's new best friend, Braeden,
is the man in the black cloak's newest target.
SERAFINA AND THE BLACK CLOAK
Beatty,RobertThe story of Peter Pan (Pete), Wendy (Gwen), and the Lost
Boys is reimagined as a steampunk fantasy. Hook (aka Hanz
Otto Oswald Kretschmer), the son of Katherina, the power-
hungry "Bloodred Queen" of Germany, is captain of an army
of Marauders. Equipped with eight-legged steam crawlers
and zeppelins (including the Jolly Roger), they capture
London (now called Everland) and reduce it to rubble. Hook's
Buckingham Palace headquarters is the only building left in
reasonably good condition. Even worse, the German bombs
have destroyed Europe's largest biological weapons lab,
releasing the deadly Horologia Virus, killing nearly everyone
over the age of 18. Gwen and her two siblings, moving from
one destroyed home to another in London's outskirts, are
discovered by Pete and Bella (a petite girl wearing
mechanical wings) and taken to live underground among the
Lost Boys.
EVERLAND
Spinale,WendyIn the rare case that two are born, they must compete,
because Russia's inherent magic will allow only one to remain
alive. Vika is an expert at controlling the elements and has
been training her whole life to serve her country, unaware that
another enchanter exists. Nikolai, best friend to the tsar's son,
Pasha, who does not know of Nikolai's ability, has been
training with his mentor explicitly for the Crown's Game. When
the game begins, Vika and Nikolai take turns showing off their
magical prowess for the tsar, creating wonders that get more
powerful with each turn. Friendships, budding romances, and
betrayal among Nikolai, Vika, and Pasha make the stakes
even higher in a Game that will cost Nikolai or Vika their life.
THE CROWN’S GAME
Skye,EvelynCharlie Wilde is moving to Arizona, leaving behind her best
friend and all that she knows, where her physician mother
and biologist father have taken new jobs. When she gets
there, she struggles to fit in at her new school. As she
searches for her soccer equipment, hoping that a tryout for
the school's team will change her outlook on her new
situation, Charlie comes across a package containing an odd
metal bracelet. She realizes that the bracelet will lend her
powers matching those of several animals, making her a sort
of chimera. When Dr. Gray, the man behind a sinister group
bent on retrieving Charlie's bracelet, discovers its
whereabouts, he will stop at nothing to get it back, leaving
Charlie and her new friends, Mac and Maria, with far more
questions than answers.
GOING WILD
McMann, LisaThirteen-year-old Stewart and 14-year-old Ashley could not
be more different. Stewart is a quirky, gifted intellectual
who is coping with the loss of his mother, while Ashley is a
popular fashionista still reeling from her parents' divorce-
brought about by her father's announcement that he is gay.
When a serious relationship develops between Stewart's
father and Ashley's mother, the two teens find themselves
living under the same roof. By turns humorous and
heartbreaking, the story is told in alternating chapters
narrated by both protagonists.
WE ARE ALL MADE OF MOLECULES
Nielsen,SusinIt's the year 1665 and Christopher Rowe is an orphan
apprenticed to the great apothecary master Benedict
Blackthorn. Except for a few explosions here and there, his
life is great. His master is kind and intelligent, and
Christopher has what it takes to become a great apothecary
himself. But when a mysterious cult starts murdering all of
London's apothecaries, Christopher's world is turned upside
down. He and his friends are in danger, and only a cryptic
warning and some coded clues can stop the cult. It's up to
Christopher to solve riddles upon riddles, codes within
codes, and learn the truth about the Cult of the Archangel.
THE BLACKTHORN KEY (THE BLACKTHORN SERIES)
Sands,KevinTwelve-year-old Ben, who has taken most of his life
lessons from reading Star Wars stories, is the adoptive
son of a loving and understanding but elderly lesbian.
The charming mite of a stray dog that adopts the white
boy is also old. Most worryingly, the endearingly
depicted Halley, his fully rounded new best friend, also
white and the daughter of a so-perceptive librarian and
a funny magician, is undergoing chemotherapy. What
could go wrong here? After he discovers his dead mom
on the floor, Ben's remote but well-intentioned aunt and
abusive, bumbling uncle, the pair constantly at odds,
become his reluctant new parents. What resilient,
generous Ben, in a lifetime of foster care punctuated by
loss, hasn't learned is how to believe in the lasting
power of love.
WHEN FRIENDSHIP FOLLOWED ME HOME
Griffin,PaulNavigating the dangers, depths, and shifting alliances of
the high seas is always a tricky affair. Because Lucy
Bluecrowne, Maxwell Ault, and Oliver Dexter (pirate's
daughter, aspiring natural philosopher, and midshipman-
turned-acting prize captain, respectively) are barely
teenagers, what might have been merely tricky turns into
an undertaking of epic proportions. With settings ranging
from the tumultuous Baltimore harbor to the magical
fictional port of Nagspeake, this sequel to Milford's
Bluecrowne follows the quest for a mysterious ancient
engine, a weapon that could perhaps put an end to war.
THE LEFT-HANDED FATE
Milford,KateAt school, Castle "Ghost" Crenshaw is taunted about
where he lives and what he wears. He also has an
anger management problem, but the kid can run, really
run. Supported by a loving mother and a tough but
caring track-and-field coach, Ghost learns a few lessons
about life and teamwork while reminding readers of the
potential in everyone. Nuanced characters facing real-
life problems delivered with the author's irresistible
warmth and humor.
GHOST
Reynolds,JasonAfter Fletcher and Ignatius, his ferretlike demon, attack the
local bully, Fletcher is forced to flee his village. Through a
chance encounter with a mage, Fletcher finds himself
attending an academy for battle mages. Trained mages are
needed in Hominum's ongoing war with the orcs and in the
armed truce against the elves. At the Academy, Fletcher, a
commoner, endures scorn from the more skilled second-year
students of noble birth, especially a pair of snobbish twin
siblings, who are particularly cruel to Sylva, the elf chieftain's
daughter, and the dwarf Othello. Dwarves are despised and
treated as second-class citizens by many humans in
Hominum.
THE NOVICE:SUMMONER:
BOOK ONE(THE SUMMONER TRILOGY)
Matharu,TaranIn 1242 France, weary travelers at an inn trade stories
about three miraculous children and their dog,
Gwenforte, who has returned from the dead. The
children—Jeanne, a peasant girl who has visions of the
future; William, an oblate of partial African heritage with
uncanny strength; and Jacob, a Jewish boy with the
power to heal the sick and injured.
THE INQUISITOR’S TALE: OR,THE THREE
MAGICAL CHILDREN AND THEIR HOLY DOG
Gidwitz,AdamThe story follows Yuriko, a young girl whose world has
been turned upside down by the changing culture in
Japan. She faces challenges that will be familiar to many
middle school students-homework and a new
stepmother-as well as some that will be unfamiliar:
bombing drills at school and cultural edicts from the
government. Yuriko's characterization and reactions to
the events feel uneven at times. She seems to take
bombings and huge cultural shifts in stride but then is
thrown off-balance by her aunt's mean attitude.
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