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Look Both Ways
Ten blocks. Ten stories. Lots of middle-school kids doing many different things after school. Jasmine and TJ walk home together, wondering what they're made of-dust and water? boogers? Four friends hustle for change all day and maneuver their capital into buying an urgently needed treat for one of their moms. Ty sprints to check on Bryson, who stayed home to recover from getting jumped the day before. Fatima manages the unpredictable by writing lists of things that don't change and keeping track of things that do. Gregory's friends spruce him up and hype him up as they walk him over to Sandra's house so he can finally tell her he likes her. And Canton, the son of the crossing guard who got injured by a school bus a year ago, sits at his mom's intersection doing homework.
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Nightbooks
Horror-buff Alex has always been kept at arm’s length by his peers, and late one night, he decides he’s through with not fitting in. To kick off his campaign for normalcy, he sneaks out of his apartment to burn his “nightbooks,” journals where he writes nightmarish short stories. On his way to the furnace, Alex is inexplicably drawn to another apartment, where he becomes magically imprisoned by the witch Natacha. Assured that escape is impossible and surviving is far from guaranteed, Alex buys time by reading to story-hungry Natacha from his nightbooks each evening.
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Patina
Patina(Patty) Jones is the fastest girl on the team, but that isn’t her entire story. Like many other teenagers she is dealing with a number of life obstacles that she must overcome. This book is about relationships, family and team.
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Watch Us Rise
Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission--they start a Women’s Rights Club to combat how women and girls are treated. The post their work online--poems, essays, videos--and they go viral. The club is targeted by trolls and things escalate. Not willing to be silenced, the girls will risk everything for their right to be heard.
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Illegal
Ebo is alone. His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, and Ebo knows it can only be to attempt the hazardous journey to Europe, and a better life, the same journey their sister set out on months ago. But Ebo refuses to be left behind in Ghana. Ebo's epic quest takes him across the Sahara Desert to the dangerous streets of Tripoli, and finally out to the merciless sea. But with every step he holds on to his hope for a new life, and a reunion with his family.
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The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
For the past five years, 12-year-old Coyote Sunrise and her father, Rodeo, have traveled all over the U.S. on a retired school bus converted into a home on wheels. Once upon a time, they lived in Washington State, but when her mother and two sisters died in an automobile accident, her father bought the bus, changed their names, and took off, determined to put painful memories behind them. But when Coyote learns that her former neighborhood park, where she and her mother and sisters buried a memory box, is about to be demolished, she knows she has to get back there and retrieve it.
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Superman: Dawnbreaker
Clark Kent has always been faster, stronger–better–than everyone around him. But it’s not like he’s earned his powers . . . yet. Lately it’s difficult to hold back and keep his heroics in the shadows. When Clark follows the sound of a girl crying, he comes across Gloria Alvarez and learns that people are disappearing from the Mexican-American and undocumented worker community in Smallville. Teaming up with his best friend, Lana Lang, Clark discovers that before he can save the world, he must save Smallville.
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Right as Rain
It has been almost a year since that night, and Rain's family needs a new start in a totally new town. Rain's new neighbor and classmate, Frankie, is chilly at first, until Rain realizes she's taken the place of Frankie's best friend, Reggie, in her home, her classroom desk, and even her place on the track team. However, Frankie respects Rain as a runner and introduces her to Ms. Dacie, who runs a makeshift teen center. When she learns Ms. Dacie's funding has been cut, she puts all her efforts into a fund-raising project in hopes of ignoring the sorry state of her homelife: her mother pretends everything is OK, while her father can barely get out of bed, and Rain is weighed down by the fact that she's been keeping a secret since that night—the night her brother died.
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Sticks & Stones
Sixth grader Elyse suffers from a bizarre (and fictional) disease: cognadjivisibilitis, or the visual appearance of words on one’s skin when someone levels a compliment or insult. In addition to all of the expected perils of middle school, such as dealing with mean girls, coping with a failed romance, and relating to parents, Elyse must live with itchy skin rashes that spell out the adjectives that others use to describe her. When she receives a mysterious offer to help with her condition, she discovers just how powerful words can be, especially those that are hurtful.
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