Young Adult

Getting good grades, keeping up with social media, maintaining friendships... teens have a lot on their plates, and it's more difficult when you add anxiety to the mix. So, how do teens stop themselves from missing out on life? Galanti shares mindfulness techniques that can help teens manage their anxiety and reverse negative patterns with simple and effective exercises that help change thoughts, behaviors and physical reactions. Great guide for the start of the school year.

From the author of critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Falling Leaves, this is a poignant and moving true account of her childhood, growing up as an unloved daughter in 1940s China. Mah's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her, and life does not get any easier when her father remarries. Adeline and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled with gifts and attention. Like the classic Cinderella story, this inspiring memoir is a moving story of resilience and hope. 

Students LOVE this book about Mexico’s Tarahumara Indians. Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, they have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury.

A dark, intensely moving story of a girl desperately determined to find a cure for the illness that swept her mother away, and could possibly destroy her own life as well.

Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart.

Great tweener by the Newbery-winning author of The One and Only Ivan. Jackson and his family have fallen on hard times. Crenshaw is a cat that’s large, outspoken…and imaginary. He has come back into Jackson's life to help him. But is an imaginary friend enough to save this family from losing everything? Great book about the importance of friendship.

Using concepts from algebra and relating them to life, Tess navigates the waters of friendship, popularity, and family.

Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to save a friend. But the story doesn’t end there. Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make. The final installment of the Harold Fry trilogy.

Once upon a time in America, there were two Jasons. Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin. One a poet. One an artist. One Black. One white. Two voices. One journey in mind: to move to New York, the city of dreams, to make their own dreams come true. Willing to have a life not un-hard, so long as it wasn’t unhappy. Willing to let the city swallow them whole, so long as it gives them their chance. A stunning visual autobiography of two crazy-talented besties, bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds and painter Jason Griffin, who could never be who they are singularly if they weren’t who they were together.

Ragweed is determined to see the world, so he leaves his family and cozy country home and sets off by train for the big city. What wonders await him: music, excitement, new friends...and cunning, carnivorous cats! The first book in the beloved Poppy series by Newbery Medal-winning author Avi, with illustrations from Caldecott Medal-winning artist Brian Floca. Great for tweens.

Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars and a fork-tongued princess are but a few of the truly brilliant stories included in this collection of fairy tales, written by the creator of the popular Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series.

Combating the idea of adolescence as a vacation from responsibility, the authors weave together biblical insights, history and modern examples to redefine the teen years as the launching pad of life and map a clear trajectory for long-term fulfillment and eternal impact. Written by teens for teens, this book is packed with humorous personal anecdotes, practical examples and stories of real-life “rebel”utionaries in action.

Perfect for tweens. Half-witch Kiki never runs from a challenge. So when her thirteenth birthday arrives, she's eager to follow a witch's tradition: choose a new town to call home for one year. But gaining the trust of the locals is trickier than she expected. Forging new friendships and building her inner strength, Kiki ultimately realizes that magic can be found in even the most ordinary places.

Benny faces many uphill battles throughout this inspiring chapter book. His brother has autism and his father is in the hospital, but Benny focuses on helping others in order to overcome his pain. Children will learn about coping with adversity and developing inner strength.

When carefree high school student Mitty Blake waits until that last second to get started on his Advanced Bio report, he comes across some of medical books at his family’s weekend house. That’s the good news. The bad news is that they contain smallpox scabs that he may have inhaled, in this thriller that brings new meaning to the term “life-or-death” school project.