Lamar Giles
Author
Language
English
Description
High school junior Del Rainey unwittingly joins a Purity Pledge class at church, hoping to get closer to his long-term crush, Kiera.
Del has had a crush on Kiera Westing since kindergarten. And now, during their junior year, shes finally available. So when Kiera volunteers for an opportunity at their church, Dels right behind her. Though he quickly realizes hes inadvertently signed up for a Purity Pledge. His dad thinks his wires are crossed, and...
Author
Publisher
Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Otto and Sheed Alston are local sleuths in their zany Virginia town, masters of unraveling mischief using their unmatched powers of deduction. As summer winds down and the first day of school looms, the boys are craving just a little more time for fun, even as they bicker over what kind of fun they want to have. That is, until a mysterious man named Mr. Flux appears with a camera that literally freezes time. Now, with the help of some very strange...
Author
Series
Legendary Alston boys adventure volume 2
Publisher
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Otto and Sheed, The Legendary Alston Boys of Logan County, are ordered by Missus Nedraw to bring a fugitive to justice in a world that mirrors their own but has its own rules.
Unlike the majority of Logan County's residents, Missus Nedraw of the Rorrim Mirror Emporium remembers the time freeze from The Last Last-Day-of-Summer, and how Otto and Sheed took her mirrors without permission in order to fix their mess. Usually thats an unforgivable offense,...
4) Fake ID
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An African-American teen in the Witness Protection Program moves to a new town and finds himself trying to solve a murder mystery when his first friend is found dead"--
5) Spin
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
387 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When DJ ParSec (Paris Secord), rising star of the local music scene, is found dead over her turntables, the two girls who found her, Kya (her pre-fame best friend) and Fuse (her current chief groupie) are torn between grief for Paris and hatred for each other--but when the lack of obvious suspects stalls the investigation, and the police seem to lose interest, despite pressure from social media and ParSec's loyal fans, the two girls unite, determined...
6) The getaway
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jay discovers that mountain resort where he lives and works with his friends and family is also a doomsday oasis for the rich and powerful who expect top-notch customer service even as the world outside the resort's walls disintegrates.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Chris Grabenstein and his all-star cast of contributing authors team up for Super Puzzletastic Mysteries, a group of interactive short stories that invite the reader to solve the mystery themselves."--
Language
English
Description
Black is... sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson. Black is... three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything, in a story by Jason Reynolds. Black is... Nic Stone's high-class beauty dating a boy her momma would never approve of. Black is... two girls kissing in Justina Ireland's story set in Maryland. Black is urban and rural, wealthy and poor,...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
200 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After Virgil Hawkins reveals his secret identity as Static to his girlfriend, Daisy, she breaks up with him, leaving him free to go to a big music festival with his best friend Richie Foley (also known as superhero Gear), but they soon run into girls who each have secret identities of their own.
10) Cosmos Camp
Author
Series
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265, 6 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"School's out, and Wiki and Leen Ellison are facing a new challenge...their first summer apart! Genius inventor Leen has been accepted to Petey Thunkle's world-famous summer training program for STEM prodigies with their eyes on the stars. Meanwhile, Wiki is looking forward to her first summer on her own, running the family corn stand and outclassing Otto and Sheed Alston. But the night before Leen's departure, the twins find out that Wiki has also...
11) Black boy joy
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From seventeen acclaimed Black male and nonbinary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.
12) Overturned
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous...
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
These top YA authors tackle the much-debated trope of the love triangle, and the result is sixteen fresh, diverse, and romantic stories you don't want to miss. A teen girl who offers kissing lessons. Zombies in the Civil War South. The girl next door, the boy who loves her, and the girl who loves them both. Vampires at a boarding school. Three teens fighting monsters in an abandoned video rental store. Literally the last three people on the planet....
15) House party
Publisher
Joy Revolution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ten bestselling, critically acclaimed authors deliver a fresh novel of interconnected stories that follows a group of young adults over the course of a few wild, transformative hours at an epic house party!"--
The Florence Hills High School seniors are having their last hurrah before graduation. It's the biggest event of the year-- and you're invited! The place: a megamansion in one of Chicago's wealthiest suburban enclaves. The host: DeAndre Dixon,...
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Triumph. Tragedy. The empyreal. The infernal. Even the mundane, filtered through the fantastical. Superheroes are, appropriately enough, a sort of super-genre, encompassing all other story types. This YA anthology features 13 short stories that creatively turn superhero tropes on their head, while still paying homage to the genre that has found fans for more than eight decades. And there will be no mistake--superheroes don't have to just be generic...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
viii, 470 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen of Poe's terrifying works are reimagined in new and unexpected ways for modern readers. Poe's own stories are included, so readers can compare.
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
vi, 325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Featuring exclusively Black characters, this multi-genre story collection--drawing from contemporary, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, magical and realistic--celebrates and redefines the many facets of Blackness and geekiness, both in the real world and those imagined.
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
186 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An anthology featuring over thirty Black authors and illustrators to honor Black life past, present, and future"--