Steve Jobs: Insanely Great

by Jessie Hartland

Call Number: YA BIO GRAPHIC JOBS

Red Queen

by Victoria Aveyard

Call Number: YA FIC AVEYARD

Zac & Mia

by A.J. Betts

Call Number: YA FIC BETTS

Out of My Mind

by Sharon M. Draper

Call Number: YA FIC DRAPER

Rat Runners

By Oisin McGann

Call Number: YA FIC MCGANN

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

by Jesse Andrews

Call Number: YA FIC ANDREWS

American Born Chinese

by Gene Yang

Call Number: YA FIC GRAPHIC NOVEL YANG

Love & Gelato

by Jenna Evans Welch

Call Number: YA FIC WELCH

Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe

by Jane Goodall Institute

Call Number: YA 590.92 LINDSEY

The Wee Free Men

by Terry Pratchett

Call Number: YA FIC PRATCHET

What’s Left of Me: The Hybrid Chronicles

by Kat Zhang

Call Number: YA FIC ZHANG

This biography of the great American entrepreneur is presented in graphic novel format and illuminates the meteoric successes, devastating setbacks, and myriad contradictions that make up the extraordinary life and legacy of the insanely great Steve Jobs.

In Mare’s world, the red blooded commoners serve the silver blooded elite. When Mare discovers she has a hidden talent, the King pulls her into the Silver world, promising her to one of his sons. Mare uses her new position to help the Red rebellion, but remains torn between the two worlds.

Two strangers, Zac and Mia, are undergoing cancer treatments at the Australian hospital simultaneously. Once they are released, they can’t forget each other, even as they attempt to resume their normal lives.

A brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.

Four young thieves, one simple mission: Steal a black-leather box from the daughter of a murdered scientist without anyone noticing. But WatchWorld controls London now, and the organization knows everything.

Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group without having any friends, but all of that changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew School who has Leukemia.

Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture.

After her mother dies, Lina travels to Italy where she discovers her mother’s journal and sets off on an adventure to unearth her mother's secrets.

An illustrated volume that traces the story of Jane Goodall’s work with the chimpanzees of Gombe to the Jane Goodall Institute's present day international activities.

A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.

Eva and Addie started out the same way as everyone, two souls woven together in one body. But as they grew, so did the worried whispers. The doctors ran tests, and finally Addie was pronounced healthy and Eva was declared gone...except she was still there.

The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Call Number: YA FIC TOLKIEN

Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.

The Siren

by Kiera Cass

Call Number: YA FIC CASS

Bound

by Donna Jo Napoli

Call Number: YA FIC NAPOLI

Alchemy & Meggy Swann

by Karen Cushman

Call Number: YA FIC CUSHMAN

Rot & Ruin

by Jonathan Mayberry

Call Number: YA FIC MAYBERRY

Flutter

by Gina Linko

Call Number: YA FIC LINKO

Cinder

by Marissa Meyer

Call Number: YA FIC MEYER

Wolf by Wolf

by Ryan Graudin

Call Number: YA FIC GRAUDIN

Becoming Maria

by Sonya Manzano

Call Number: YA BIO MANZANO

Forced to work as a Siren and lure strangers to their deaths after being rescued from drowning by the Ocean, Kahlen falls in love with a human and defies the rules of her service in order to follow her heart.

Fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well. Bound is twist on the traditional Cinderella story.

In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths.

In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.

Although doctors want to treat 17-year-old Emery Land for the seizures that define her life, she runs away from the hospital in the hopes of uncovering the secret behind her "loops".

As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world.

The year is 1956, and the Axis powers of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan rule. To commemorate their Great Victory, they host the Axis Tour: an annual motorcycle race across their conjoined continents. The prize? An audience with the highly reclusive Adolf Hitler.

Sonya Manzano, an Emmy-award winning actress and writer, grew up in a loving, but troubled Latino family. It was her dream of becoming an actress that kept her life afloat during her turbulent childhood.

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