New Titles

A long walk to water : a novel : based on a true story /

Park, Linda Sue.


"Sandpiper." School Library Journal starred, November 2010. Book Links (A.L.A.), October 2010. Booklist starred, September 2010. Library Media Connection starred, January 2011. Pub Weekly, October 2010. Horn Book, January 2011. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), December 2010. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2010. Kirkus Review, October 2010. School Library Journal starred. Book Links (A.L.A.). Booklist starred. When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
Date Published:2010

"Sandpiper." School Library Journal starred, November 2010. Book Links (A.L.A.), October 2010. Booklist starred, September 2010. Library Media Connection starred, January 2011. Pub Weekly, October 2010. Horn Book, January 2011. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), December 2010. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2010. Kirkus Review, October 2010. School Library Journal starred. Book Links (A.L.A.). Booklist starred. When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.

Date Published:2010

Fallen angels

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-


Wilson's Senior High School, November 2002. Wilson's Junior High School, November 2005. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), March 1998. Book Links (A.L.A.), July 2006. Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), May 2002. Publisher's Weekly, December 2008. Wilson's Senior High School. Wilson's Junior High School. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
Date Published:1988

Wilson's Senior High School, November 2002. Wilson's Junior High School, November 2005. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), March 1998. Book Links (A.L.A.), July 2006. Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), May 2002. Publisher's Weekly, December 2008. Wilson's Senior High School. Wilson's Junior High School. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

Date Published:1988

The warrior's heart : becoming a man of compassion and courage /

Greitens, Eric, 1974-


School Library Journal, September 2012. Kirkus Starred, May 2012. School Library Journal. Kirkus Starred. Eric Greitens shares his life journey from being an average kid to working to make a difference in the world's trouble spots and joining the Navy SEALS to protect the weak, and encourages readers to reflect on the power of choice and acts of courage.
Date Published:2012

The maze runner

Dashner, James, 1972-


School Library Journal, October 2009. Publisher's Weekly, September 2009. Horn Book, April 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2009. Kirkus Review, September 2009. School Library Journal. Publisher's Weekly. Horn Book. Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Date Published:2009

School Library Journal, October 2009. Publisher's Weekly, September 2009. Horn Book, April 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2009. Kirkus Review, September 2009. School Library Journal. Publisher's Weekly. Horn Book. Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

Date Published:2009

10 Things Nobody Told Me About Money Life lessons about building wealth everyone should know.

Brad Wieher


Learn about budgets, savings accounts, debt, investing, wealth.
Date Published:2025

Trapped how the world rescued 33 miners from 2,000 feet below the Chilean desert /

Aronson, Marc.


Tells the story of thirty-three miners trapped in a copper-gold mine in San Jose, Chile and how experts from around the world, from drillers, to astronauts, to submarine specialists, came together to make their remarkable rescue possible.
Date Published:2011

The Haunted States of America


"Made in collaboration with the SCBWI"--Dust jacket. "A collection of scary stories from across the United States and Puerto Rico"--
Date Published:2024

How fascism works the politics of us and them /

Stanley, Jason,


"With a new preface"--Front cover. The mythic past -- Propaganda -- Anti-intellectual -- Unreality -- Hierarchy -- Victimhood -- Law and order -- Sexual anxiety -- Sodom and Gomorrah -- Arbeit Macht Frei. "As a scholar of philosophy and propaganda and the child of refugees of World War II Europe, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding that democratic societies, including the United States, can be vulnerable to fascism. In 'How Fascism Works', he focuses on fascist politics--the language and beliefs that separate people into an 'us' and a 'them.' Stanley knits together reflections on history, philosophy, sociology, and critical race theory with stories from contemporary Hungary, Poland, India, Myanmar, and the United States, among other nations, making clear the immense dangers of what he identifies as the ten pillars of fascist politics. By uncovering disturbing patterns that are as prevalent today as ever, Stanley reveals that the stuff of politics--rhetoric and myth--can become policy and reality all too quickly. Only by recognizing them, he argues, can we begin to resist their most harmful effects and return to democratic ideals."--Back cover.
Date Published:2018

"With a new preface"--Front cover. The mythic past -- Propaganda -- Anti-intellectual -- Unreality -- Hierarchy -- Victimhood -- Law and order -- Sexual anxiety -- Sodom and Gomorrah -- Arbeit Macht Frei. "As a scholar of philosophy and propaganda and the child of refugees of World War II Europe, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding that democratic societies, including the United States, can be vulnerable to fascism. In 'How Fascism Works', he focuses on fascist politics--the language and beliefs that separate people into an 'us' and a 'them.' Stanley knits together reflections on history, philosophy, sociology, and critical race theory with stories from contemporary Hungary, Poland, India, Myanmar, and the United States, among other nations, making clear the immense dangers of what he identifies as the ten pillars of fascist politics. By uncovering disturbing patterns that are as prevalent today as ever, Stanley reveals that the stuff of politics--rhetoric and myth--can become policy and reality all too quickly. Only by recognizing them, he argues, can we begin to resist their most harmful effects and return to democratic ideals."--Back cover.

Date Published:2018

Appalachian elegy poetry and place /

hooks, bell, 1952-2021.


Includes index.
Date Published:2012

Orbital 1. Scars /

Runberg, Sylvain



Date Published:2009

All the noise at once

Davis, DeAndra,


"All Aiden has ever wanted to do was play football just like his star quarterback brother, Brandon. An overstimulation meltdown gets in the way of Aiden making the team during summer tryouts, but when the school year starts and a spot unexpectedly needs to be filled, he finally gets a chance to play the game he loves. However, not every player is happy about the new addition to the team, wary of how Aiden's autism will present itself on game day. Tensions rise. A fight breaks out. Cops are called. Brandon interferes on behalf of his brother, but is arrested by the very same cops who, just hours earlier, were chanting his name from the bleachers. When he's wrongly charged for felony assault on an officer, everything Brandon has worked for starts to slip away, and the brothers' relationship is tested. As Brandon's trial inches closer, Aiden is desperate to figure out what really happened that night. Can he clear his brother's name in time?" --
Date Published:2025

"All Aiden has ever wanted to do was play football just like his star quarterback brother, Brandon. An overstimulation meltdown gets in the way of Aiden making the team during summer tryouts, but when the school year starts and a spot unexpectedly needs to be filled, he finally gets a chance to play the game he loves. However, not every player is happy about the new addition to the team, wary of how Aiden's autism will present itself on game day. Tensions rise. A fight breaks out. Cops are called. Brandon interferes on behalf of his brother, but is arrested by the very same cops who, just hours earlier, were chanting his name from the bleachers. When he's wrongly charged for felony assault on an officer, everything Brandon has worked for starts to slip away, and the brothers' relationship is tested. As Brandon's trial inches closer, Aiden is desperate to figure out what really happened that night. Can he clear his brother's name in time?" --

Date Published:2025

Louder than hunger

Schu, John, 1981-,


Pub Weekly, December 2023. Pub Weekly. "Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he eats, the bigger he feels. How long can Jake punish himself before he truly disappears? A fictionalized account of the author's experiences and emotions living in residential treatment facilities as a young teen with an eating disorder"--Publisher.
Date Published:2024

Pub Weekly, December 2023. Pub Weekly. "Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he eats, the bigger he feels. How long can Jake punish himself before he truly disappears? A fictionalized account of the author's experiences and emotions living in residential treatment facilities as a young teen with an eating disorder"--Publisher.

Date Published:2024

We could be magic

Meyer, Marissa,


School Library Journal, May 2025. Publishers Weekly, March 2025. Kirkus Review, April 2025. School Library Journal. Publishers Weekly. Kirkus Review. Tabitha Laurie is working at the amusement park Sommerland. Her dream is to be one of its princesses, but she is not the typical body type for the role. With the help of her friends and new love interest, she tries to realize her dream.
Date Published:2025

A terrible thing to waste environmental racism and its assault on the American mind /

Washington, Harriet A.,


"From injuries caused by lead poisoning to the devastating effects of atmospheric pollution, infectious disease, and industrial waste, Americans of color are harmed by environmental hazards in staggeringly disproportionate numbers. This systemic onslaught of toxic exposure and institutional negligence causes irreparable physical harm to millions of people across the country--cutting lives tragically short and needlessly burdening our health care system. But these deadly environments create another insidious and often overlooked consequence: robbing communities of color, and America as a whole, of intellectual power. The 1994 publication of The Bell Curve and its controversial thesis catapulted the topic of genetic racial differences in IQ to the forefront of a renewed and heated debate. Now, in A Terrible Thing to Waste, award-winning science writer Harriet A. Washington adds her incisive analysis to the fray, arguing that IQ is a biased and flawed metric, but that it is useful for tracking cognitive damage. She takes apart the spurious notion of intelligence as an inherited trait, using copious data that instead point to a different cause of the reported African American-white IQ gap: environmental racism--a confluence of racism and other institutional factors that relegate marginalized communities to living and working near sites of toxic waste, pollution, and insufficient sanitation services. She investigates heavy metals, neurotoxins, deficient prenatal care, bad nutrition, and even pathogens as chief agents influencing intelligence to explain why communities of color are disproportionately affected--and what can be done to remedy this devastating problem"--Dust jacket.
Date Published:2019

"From injuries caused by lead poisoning to the devastating effects of atmospheric pollution, infectious disease, and industrial waste, Americans of color are harmed by environmental hazards in staggeringly disproportionate numbers. This systemic onslaught of toxic exposure and institutional negligence causes irreparable physical harm to millions of people across the country--cutting lives tragically short and needlessly burdening our health care system. But these deadly environments create another insidious and often overlooked consequence: robbing communities of color, and America as a whole, of intellectual power. The 1994 publication of The Bell Curve and its controversial thesis catapulted the topic of genetic racial differences in IQ to the forefront of a renewed and heated debate. Now, in A Terrible Thing to Waste, award-winning science writer Harriet A. Washington adds her incisive analysis to the fray, arguing that IQ is a biased and flawed metric, but that it is useful for tracking cognitive damage. She takes apart the spurious notion of intelligence as an inherited trait, using copious data that instead point to a different cause of the reported African American-white IQ gap: environmental racism--a confluence of racism and other institutional factors that relegate marginalized communities to living and working near sites of toxic waste, pollution, and insufficient sanitation services. She investigates heavy metals, neurotoxins, deficient prenatal care, bad nutrition, and even pathogens as chief agents influencing intelligence to explain why communities of color are disproportionately affected--and what can be done to remedy this devastating problem"--Dust jacket.

Date Published:2019

American spirits : the famous Fox sisters and the mysterious fad that haunted a nation /

Rosenstock, Barb,


School Library Journal, April 2025. Kirkus Starred, April 2025. Booklist, April 2025. Horn Book, May 2025. School Library Journal. Kirkus Starred. Booklist. "Rap. Rap. Rap. The eerie sound was first heard in March of 1848 at the home of the Fox family in Hydesville, New York. The family's two daughters, Kate and Maggie, soon discovered that they could communicate with the spirit that was making these uncanny noises. This strange incident, and the ones that followed, generated a media frenzy beyond anything the Fox sisters could have imagined"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2025

School Library Journal, April 2025. Kirkus Starred, April 2025. Booklist, April 2025. Horn Book, May 2025. School Library Journal. Kirkus Starred. Booklist. "Rap. Rap. Rap. The eerie sound was first heard in March of 1848 at the home of the Fox family in Hydesville, New York. The family's two daughters, Kate and Maggie, soon discovered that they could communicate with the spirit that was making these uncanny noises. This strange incident, and the ones that followed, generated a media frenzy beyond anything the Fox sisters could have imagined"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2025

The Cruel Prince

Holly Black



Date Published:2018

Needy little things

Desamours, Channelle,


Seventeen-year-old Sariyah, who can sense people's immediate needs, must use her ability to solve her friend's mysterious disappearance while dealing with family challenges and avoiding the same danger that befell her friend.
Date Published:2025

Goldenborn

Lieb, Ama Ofosua.



Date Published:0602

Heiress of nowhere

Lee, Stacey (Stacey Heather),


In 1918 on Orcas Island, eighteen-year-old orphan Lucy becomes heiress to her employer�??s estate after his mysterious death and must clear her name by unmasking a killer linked to eerie seaside legends before she and her beloved orcas become the next victims.
Date Published:2026

The Oks are not ok

Shim, Grace K.,


When seventeen-year-old influencer Elena Ok�??s family loses its fast-fashion fortune and flees to rural California, she is forced to confront her family�??s dynamics, and when she begins helping local vendors at the Blaire Fair, she starts to rethink her definition of success.
Date Published:2026