Most Circulated Titles

Scythe

Shusterman, Neal.


In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't.
Date Published:2016

Horror hotel

Fulton, Victoria,


Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, Chrissy has always been able to see ghosts, and when her friend Chase realized it, he turned her affliction into an internet sensation. When the YouTube-famous Ghost Gang--Chrissy, Chase, Emma, and Kiki--visit a haunted LA hotel notorious for tragedy to secretly film after dark, they expect it to be just like their previous paranormal huntings. Spooky enough to attract subscribers--and ultimately harmless. But when they stumble upon something unexpected in the former room of a gruesome serial killer, they quickly realize that they're in over their heads.
Date Published:2022

Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, Chrissy has always been able to see ghosts, and when her friend Chase realized it, he turned her affliction into an internet sensation. When the YouTube-famous Ghost Gang--Chrissy, Chase, Emma, and Kiki--visit a haunted LA hotel notorious for tragedy to secretly film after dark, they expect it to be just like their previous paranormal huntings. Spooky enough to attract subscribers--and ultimately harmless. But when they stumble upon something unexpected in the former room of a gruesome serial killer, they quickly realize that they're in over their heads.

Date Published:2022

Five midnights

Cardinal, Ann Dávila,


"A Tom Doherty Associates book." Junior Library Guild. If Lupe Davila and Javier Utierre can survive each other's company, together they can solve a series of grisly murders sweeping through Puerto Rico. But the clues lead them out of the real world and into the realm of myths and legends. And if they want to catch the killer, they'll have to step into the shadows to see what's lurking there--murderer, or monster?
Date Published:2019

"A Tom Doherty Associates book." Junior Library Guild. If Lupe Davila and Javier Utierre can survive each other's company, together they can solve a series of grisly murders sweeping through Puerto Rico. But the clues lead them out of the real world and into the realm of myths and legends. And if they want to catch the killer, they'll have to step into the shadows to see what's lurking there--murderer, or monster?

Date Published:2019

A first time for everything

Santat, Dan,


Booklist starred reviews, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Reviews starred, Publishers Weekly starred, School Library Connection, School Library Journal starred, After a terrible middle school experience, Dan usually just wants to be invisible and blend into the crowd, but everything changes when he goes on a school trip to Europe the summer before high school begins. He sees some of the most famous sights in Europe, lives with a host family in Germany, makes some new friends, and even experiences his first love.
Date Published:2023

Booklist starred reviews, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Reviews starred, Publishers Weekly starred, School Library Connection, School Library Journal starred, After a terrible middle school experience, Dan usually just wants to be invisible and blend into the crowd, but everything changes when he goes on a school trip to Europe the summer before high school begins. He sees some of the most famous sights in Europe, lives with a host family in Germany, makes some new friends, and even experiences his first love.

Date Published:2023

InStyle


Title from cover. Some issues accompanied by CD-ROMs. Latest issue consulted: Vol. 13, no. 3 (Mar. 2006).
Date Published:1994

Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir /

Feder, Tyler,


Maw -- Uh-oh -- Compartmentalization -- The worst day -- Making arrangements -- The death circus, part 1 -- The death circus, part 2 -- The new normal -- The good, the bad, and the awkward (but mostly the bad, if we're really being honest) -- Motherless 4ever -- Afterword: A whole bunch of photos. Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir.
Date Published:2020

Maw -- Uh-oh -- Compartmentalization -- The worst day -- Making arrangements -- The death circus, part 1 -- The death circus, part 2 -- The new normal -- The good, the bad, and the awkward (but mostly the bad, if we're really being honest) -- Motherless 4ever -- Afterword: A whole bunch of photos. Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir.

Date Published:2020

The death cure

Dashner, James,


Sequel to: The Scorch trials. ALA Booklist. Horn Book. Kirkus Reviews. School Library Journal. As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
Date Published:2011

Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team /

Sheinkin, Steve.


Junior Library Guild. Jim Thorpe: super athlete, Olympic gold medalist, member of the Sac and Fox Indian Nation. Pop Warner: indomitable coach, football mastermind, Ivy League grad. Before these men became legends, they met in 1907 at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, where they forged one of the winningest teams in the history of America's favorite sport.
Date Published:2017

The librarian of Auschwitz

Iturbe, Antonio.


"First published in Spain by Editorial Planeta in 2012"--Title page verso. Godwin Books. School Library Journal starred, August 2017. Booklist starred, September 2017. Publishers Weekly, August 2017. Kirkus starred, September 2017. Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA), December 2017. Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.
Date Published:2012

"First published in Spain by Editorial Planeta in 2012"--Title page verso. Godwin Books. School Library Journal starred, August 2017. Booklist starred, September 2017. Publishers Weekly, August 2017. Kirkus starred, September 2017. Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA), December 2017. Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.

Date Published:2012

Spies : the secret showdown between America and Russia /

Favreau, Marc, 1968-,


Prologue: Seeing ghosts -- The defector -- The spy hunters -- The double -- Capital of the Cold War -- The pilot -- Missiles -- Moscow rules -- War games -- The year of the spy -- The man without a face -- Epilogue: Molehunt. An account of the Cold War spies whose survival depended on carefully orchestrated deceptions as they fought in the shadows to help avert global nuclear war and, in so doing, changed the global landscape in ways that are still felt today.
Date Published:2019

Prologue: Seeing ghosts -- The defector -- The spy hunters -- The double -- Capital of the Cold War -- The pilot -- Missiles -- Moscow rules -- War games -- The year of the spy -- The man without a face -- Epilogue: Molehunt. An account of the Cold War spies whose survival depended on carefully orchestrated deceptions as they fought in the shadows to help avert global nuclear war and, in so doing, changed the global landscape in ways that are still felt today.

Date Published:2019

You'd be home now

Glasgow, Kathleen, 1969-,


Booklist starred reviews, Kirkus Reviews starred, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal starred, Sixteen-year-old Emory's life was turned upside down when she and her addict brother Joey were in a car accident that killed another girl. Four months later, Joey is home from rehab, and Emmy is about to start her junior year. Her parents make Emmy take care of her brother, and she is forced to harbor secrets of her own. Soon, her family must come to terms with the true consequences of Joey's addiction.
Date Published:2021

Booklist starred reviews, Kirkus Reviews starred, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal starred, Sixteen-year-old Emory's life was turned upside down when she and her addict brother Joey were in a car accident that killed another girl. Four months later, Joey is home from rehab, and Emmy is about to start her junior year. Her parents make Emmy take care of her brother, and she is forced to harbor secrets of her own. Soon, her family must come to terms with the true consequences of Joey's addiction.

Date Published:2021

Find him where you left him dead

Simmons, Kristen.


"Please be aware that there is blood, gore, death, abandonment, and grief in these pages"--Author's note. School Library Journal, November 2023. Publishers Weekly, August 2023. Booklist, September 2023. Kirkus Review, August 2023. Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived. Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors--Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax--have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they've been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead. Together they return to the place where their friendship ended with one goal: find Ian and bring him home. So they restart the deadly game they never finished.
Date Published:2023

"Please be aware that there is blood, gore, death, abandonment, and grief in these pages"--Author's note. School Library Journal, November 2023. Publishers Weekly, August 2023. Booklist, September 2023. Kirkus Review, August 2023. Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived. Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors--Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax--have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they've been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead. Together they return to the place where their friendship ended with one goal: find Ian and bring him home. So they restart the deadly game they never finished.

Date Published:2023

Smile

Telgemeier, Raina,


Notable/Best Books (ALA), January 2011. School Library Journal, March 2010. Book Links (ALA), October 2010. Publishers Weekly, December 2009. Booklist, December 2009. New York Times, May 2010. Horn Book, October 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), March 2010. Kirkus Review, January 2010. Wilson's Children, October 2010. Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there’s still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly.
Date Published:2010

Notable/Best Books (ALA), January 2011. School Library Journal, March 2010. Book Links (ALA), October 2010. Publishers Weekly, December 2009. Booklist, December 2009. New York Times, May 2010. Horn Book, October 2010. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), March 2010. Kirkus Review, January 2010. Wilson's Children, October 2010. Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there’s still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly.

Date Published:2010

Attack on Titan : No safe place left /

Isayama, Hajime, 1986-,


Printed Manga-style; book opens from left to right. Pages are read from right to left. Eren is rescued, and he discovers he possesses another power he doesn't understand. While Eren, Krista, and the Survey Corps face new enemies, Ymir faces her fate as the Titans' prize.
Date Published:2014

Attack on Titan : Escape from King Titan /

Isayama, Hajime, 1986-,


Printed Manga-style; book opens from left to right. Pages are read from right to left. "First published in Japan in 2015 by Kodansha, Ltd., Tokyo"-Colophon. Translated from the Japanese. While Eren is trying to deal with the truth of his father's crimes, he finds himself trying to save his friends and himself from the king's plan to kill Eren and restore the power of the Titans to its rightful place.
Date Published:2015

Printed Manga-style; book opens from left to right. Pages are read from right to left. "First published in Japan in 2015 by Kodansha, Ltd., Tokyo"-Colophon. Translated from the Japanese. While Eren is trying to deal with the truth of his father's crimes, he finds himself trying to save his friends and himself from the king's plan to kill Eren and restore the power of the Titans to its rightful place.

Date Published:2015

Psychology


Introduction -- Psychology : from the early days to today -- A detailed look at the thought process -- Memory : encoding, storing, and retrieving past experiences -- Personality: how we think, feel, and behave -- Leaders in the world of psychology -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index. Introduces readers to the study of psychology and related sciences.
Date Published:2016

Love and first sight

Sundquist, Josh,


Junior Library Guild. As Will starts to find his footing in high school, he develops a crush on a sweet but shy girl named Cecily. Then an unprecedented opportunity arises: an experimental surgery that could give Will eyesight for the first time in his life. But learning to see is more difficult than Will ever imagined, and he soon discovers that the sighted world has been keeping secrets. It turns out Cecily doesn’t meet traditional definitions of beauty—in fact, everything he’d heard about her appearance was a lie engineered by their so-called friends to get the two of them together. Does it matter what Cecily looks like? No, not really. But then why does Will feel so betrayed?
Date Published:2017

Junior Library Guild. As Will starts to find his footing in high school, he develops a crush on a sweet but shy girl named Cecily. Then an unprecedented opportunity arises: an experimental surgery that could give Will eyesight for the first time in his life. But learning to see is more difficult than Will ever imagined, and he soon discovers that the sighted world has been keeping secrets. It turns out Cecily doesn’t meet traditional definitions of beauty—in fact, everything he’d heard about her appearance was a lie engineered by their so-called friends to get the two of them together. Does it matter what Cecily looks like? No, not really. But then why does Will feel so betrayed?

Date Published:2017

13 minutes

Pinborough, Sarah, 1972-,


"A different version of this title was published in Great Britain by Gollancz, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group." Junior Library Guild. Natasha doesn't remember how she ended up in the icy water that night, but she does know this---that it wasn't an accident, and that she wasn't suicidal.
Date Published:2017

Avalanche

Braun, Melinda,


After an avalanche hits, a group of skiers in the Rocky Mountains must survive Mother Nature and a life-threatening injury to one of their members in order to make it out of the mountains and find help.
Date Published:2016

As you wish

Sedoti, Chelsea.,


Booklist, Publishers Weekly, School Library Connection, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA), In Madison, a small town in the Mojave Desert, everyone gets one wish that will come true on his or her eighteenth birthday, and Eldon takes his very seriously. Some people wish for money, some people wish for love, but Eldon has seen how wishes have broken the people around him. And with the lives of his family and friends in chaos, he’s left with more questions than answers. Can he make their lives better? How can he be happy if the people around him aren’t? And what hope is there for any of them if happiness isn’t an achievable dream? Doubts build, leading Eldon to a more outlandish and scary thought: maybe you can’t wish for happiness…maybe, just maybe, you have to make it for yourself.
Date Published:2018

Booklist, Publishers Weekly, School Library Connection, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA), In Madison, a small town in the Mojave Desert, everyone gets one wish that will come true on his or her eighteenth birthday, and Eldon takes his very seriously. Some people wish for money, some people wish for love, but Eldon has seen how wishes have broken the people around him. And with the lives of his family and friends in chaos, he’s left with more questions than answers. Can he make their lives better? How can he be happy if the people around him aren’t? And what hope is there for any of them if happiness isn’t an achievable dream? Doubts build, leading Eldon to a more outlandish and scary thought: maybe you can’t wish for happiness…maybe, just maybe, you have to make it for yourself.

Date Published:2018