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Thirteen-year-old Melien loves horror stories. She reads, writes, and draws terrifying characters. Her classmates call her the strangest girl in the world. One day, she discovers that her drawings and characters have come to life! This chapter book...

This debut novel was written when the author was just 17 years old. It tells the story of a typical teenager named Tori Spring. She must deal with the stress of applying to schools, fitting in, and dealing with the expectations of others. When she...

This book presents three folktales from Latin America is graphic novel format. Background information about the tales is provided at the end.

This collection of twenty very short stories presents different types of ghosts in a clever, entertaining way. The illustrations add a healthy dose of the macabre to the tales.

Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking novel is the story of Liesel Meminger who scratches out a meager existence by stealing. She encounters something she can't resist--books and shares her stolen books with her neighbors...

Adam Moynihan's life was perfect until his brother died. Now his family has fallen to pieces. Jolene Timber's life is nothing like she sees in the movies, at least not the happy films. As the daughter of divorced parents, she has witnessed her shares...

The Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into Paris and has revealed one of its oldest secrets. S verin Montaget-Alarie knows the city better than anyone. When he is contacted by the elite Order of Babel to help them with a mission, they offer...

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the reservation to attend an all-white...

After her family suddenly falls apart, Mim Malone is dragged from her home in Northern Ohio to Mississippi to live with her father and new stepmother. Before the dust gets a chance to settle, she finds out that her mother is sick in a Cleveland Hospital...

Sixteen-year-old Vivian Carter is bored and sick and tired of her school's football team getting everything it wants, sexist dress codes, bullying, and, especially, following the rules. Her mother's daring, feminist past inspires her to buck the system...

This moving novel demonstrates our capacity to dream, even in the worst of circumstances. Hazel and Gus, two teen cancer patients, find love and solace together as the embark on a cross-Atlantic trip to fulfill Hazel's wish of meeting her favorite...

Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco have a story to tell. It begins with the death of Vic's father and ends with the murder of Mad's uncle. The Hackensack Police Department is very interested in what they have to say, but Vic and Mad must first focus on...

Told in four voices, this novel is based on the tragic sinking of the ship Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945. It brilliantly captures the despair and chaos of refugees at the end of World War II as the Soviet troops advanced towards East Prussia.

April has it all: the boy of her dreams, a scholarship to a prestigious university, and a bright future in New York. Her fairy tale comes to an end after a tragic accident. Just as she is about to give up hope, a ghost from her past re-emerges. This...

Clay Jensen wishes he did have to deal with the cassettes Hannah Baker recorded because she is dead and should have taken her secrets to the grave. If he received them, then he must somehow be involved with her death. What he hears on them will change...

New York City as you've never seen it before. A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible if you want it enough. Welcome to Manhattan, 2118. Do you know how many secrets can hide in...

Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in a town ruled buy the Irish mob, drugs, violence, and racial tension. He has always dreamed of getting out of this place, but wearing number 21 helps him in the meantime. Super athlete Russ...

It all started when the literature teacher gave the assignment to write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain. After the first letter, she cannot stop. She writes to Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison, Heath Ledger, and other...

Dan, Abby, and Jordan are still traumatized by the summer they spent in Brookline. While they try and move forward, someone is intent on keeping the terror fresh and sends them disturbing pictures from an old fair. Dan also receives a list of...

While her mother, the aerobics queen, is on a summer tour in Europe, 15-year-old Colie has to stay with her Aunt Mira in a boring North Carolina town. She is convinced it will be the worst time in her life, but she soon realizes she was mistaken. She...

In this superb debut novel, named by the New York Times Book Review as a notable young adult titles of 2011, introduces the reader to harsh reality of life under Stalin's rule. Based on exhaustive research and interviews with family members, its...