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The Carbon Diaries 2015

by Lloyd, Saci

It's the year 2015, a time when global warming has begun to ravage the environment. In response, the United Kingdom becomes the first country to mandate carbon...

Marcelo in the Real World

by Stork, Francisco X.

Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he...

Charles and Emma

The Darwins' Leap of Faith

by Heiligman, Deborah

Charles Darwin and his wife, Emma, were deeply in love and very supportive of each other, but their opinions often clashed. Emma was extremely religious, and C...

Here Lies Arthur

by Reeve, Philip

When her village is attacked and burned, Gwyna seeks protection from the bard Myrddin, who uses Gwyna in his plan to transform young Arthur into the heroic Kin...

Sunrise over Fallujah

by Myers, Walter Dean

In 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking Africa...

White Time

by Lanagan, Margo

Presents ten short stories, both dark and hopeful, that journey into the past, the future, and altered versions of the present.

Full Service

by Weaver, Will

In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is chal...

Talk

by Koja, Kathe

Hoping to escape from himself for awhile, Kit auditions for a controversial school play and discovers his talent for acting, struggles with coming out, and bot...

How I Live Now

by Rosoff, Meg

To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bo...

Feed

by Anderson, M. T.

In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.