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  • Award year: 2019
  • Dry

    Dry

    By Neal Shusterman

    Imagine what would happen if water become scarce. Would you turn into a water zombie, kill all your neighbors for their water, or try to find a savior?
  • Du Iz Tak

    Du Iz Tak

    By Carson Ellis

    Adorable children's voices and music brilliantly enhance this unique story of backyard insects who communicate in their own language. This production helps listeners decipher the plot while sound effects and evocative music spark the imagination. An original song written for this production is a wonderfully “scrivadelly” bonus.
  • Echo After Echo

    Echo After Echo

    By Amy Rose Capetta

    Debuting on the New York stage, Zara is unprepared—for Eli, the girl who makes the world glow; for Leopold, the director who wants perfection; and for death in the theater. Zara Evans has come to the Aurelia Theater, home to the visionary director Leopold Henneman, to play her dream role in Echo and Ariston, the Greek tragedy that taught her everything she knows about love. When the director asks Zara to promise that she will have no outside commitments, no distractions, it's easy to say yes. But it's hard not to be distracted when there's a death at the theater—and then another—especially when Zara doesn't know if they're accidents, or murder, or a curse that always comes in threes. It's hard not to be distracted when assistant lighting director Eli Vasquez, a girl made of tattoos and abrupt laughs and every form of light, looks at Zara. It's hard not to fall in love. In heart-achingly beautiful prose, Amy Rose Capetta has spun a mystery and a love story into an impossible, inevitable whole—and cast lantern light on two girls, finding each other on a stage set for tragedy.
  • Educated: A Memoir

    Educated: A Memoir

    By Tara Westover

    Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
  • Educated: A Memoir

    Educated: A Memoir

    By Tara Westover

    Tara Westover grew up in isolation with six siblings, an herbalist mother, and a devout Mormon father, and at seventeen, she begins to fight for her education. Whelan gives an understated performance for the narration, which has enough dramatic action, such as the harrowing accidents the family experiences, to compel the story.
  • Escape from Syria

    Escape from Syria

    By Samya Kallab, Jackie Roche (Illustrator)

    Amina and her family have escaped from the civil war in Syria and are now living in Canada. This book tells her family's story while explaining the Syrian civil war that led to the plight of Syrian refugees as many made their way from Syria to Lebanon and then elsewhere in Europe.
  • Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist

    Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist

    By Susan Wood

    The work of innovative composer Juan Garcia Esquivel is uniquely portrayed in this picture book biography by Susan Wood.  Brian Amador's narration, combined with tracks of space aged music and sound effects, presents a carefully orchestrated experience, with each element of the illustrations perfectly represented in stereo sound.
  • Estranged

    Estranged

    By Ethan M. Aldridge

    The Human Childe, taken as a baby by the fay king and queen to the Below, must track down his changeling look-alike Edmund, when a rival queen overthrows the fay throne. Accompanied by his family and friends, he encounters numerous dangers in an effort to save the fay kingdom.
  • Everything Else in the Universe

    Everything Else in the Universe

    By Tracy Holczer

    When Lucy's injured father returns home from Vietnam, the war which had until then felt far away and abstract becomes very real, and Lucy begins to comprehend its effect on everyone around her.
  • The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler

    The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler

    By John Hendrix

    A true and gripping spy story, this graphic biography describes pivotal moments in the career of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose religious faith led him to devote his life to the German Resistance to Hitler. Visual metaphors in the powerful illustrations convey the looming danger.
  • Fake Blood

    Fake Blood

    By Whitney Gardner

    When AJ starts middle school, he hopes that things will be different, including his unrequited crush on Nia. With the help of his sister and two best friends, he hopes to change that. Knowing Nia's love of vampires, he Impersonates one—only to discover that she is a vampire slayer.
  • Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All

    Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All

    By M.T. Anderson

    He was King Henry VIII, a charismatic and extravagant ruler obsessed with both his power as king and with siring a male heir. They were his queens--six ill-fated women, each bound for divorce, or beheading, or death. Watch spellbound as each of Henry's wives attempts to survive their unpredictable king and his power-hungry court. See the sword flash as fiery Anne Boleyn is beheaded for adultery. Follow Jane Seymour as she rises from bullied court maiden to beloved queen, only to die after giving birth. Feel Catherine Howard's terror as old lovers resurface and whisper vicious rumors to Henry's influential advisors. Experience the heartache of mothers as they lose son after son, heir after heir. Told in stirring first-person accounts, Fatal Throne is at once provocative and heartbreaking, an epic tale that is also an intimate look at the royalty of the most perilous times in English history. Who's Who: * M. T. Anderson - Henry VIII * Candace Fleming - Katharine of Aragon * Stephanie Hemphill - Anne Boleyn * Lisa Ann Sandell - Jane Seymour * Jennifer Donnelly - Anna of Cleves * Linda Sue Park - Catherine Howard * Deborah Hopkinson - Kateryn Parr
  • Feed

    Feed

    By M.T. Anderson

    For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days.
  • Fence, Volume 1

    Fence, Volume 1

    By C.S. Pacat, Johanna The Mad

    Nicholas is determined to become a world-class fencer like his estranged father. When he starts at Kings Row Boys School, though, he suddenly finds himself in very close quarters with both his nemesis and his father's legitimate son.
  • A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

    A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919

    By Claire Hartfield

    Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that shook the city of Chicago to its foundations. This mesmerizing narrative draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of the explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture.
  • Final Draft

    Final Draft

    By Riley Redgate

    The only sort of risk 18-year-old Laila Piedra enjoys is the peril she writes for the characters in her stories: epic sci-fi worlds full of quests, forbidden love, and robots. Her creative writing teacher has always told her she has a special talent. But three months before her graduation, he's suddenly replaced—by Nadiya Nazarenko, a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist who is sadistically critical and perpetually unimpressed. At first, Nazarenko's eccentric assignments seem absurd. But before long, Laila grows obsessed with gaining the woman's approval. Soon Laila is pushing herself far from her comfort zone, discovering the psychedelic highs and perilous lows of nightlife, temporary flings, and instability. Dr. Nazarenko has led Laila to believe that she must choose between perfection and sanity—but rejecting her all-powerful mentor may be the only way for Laila to thrive.
  • Finding Langston

    Finding Langston

    By Lesa Cline-Ransome

    When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known as the Great Migration. It's lonely in the small apartment with just the two of them, and at school Langston is bullied. But his new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the local public library welcomes everyone. There, hiding out after school, Langston discovers another Langston, a poet whom he learns inspired his mother enough to name her only son after him.
  • Finding Yvonne

    Finding Yvonne

    By Brandy Colbert

    Since she was seven years old, Yvonne has had her trusted violin to keep her company, especially in those lonely days after her mother walked out on their family. But with graduation just around the corner, she is forced to face the hard truth that she just might not be good enough to attend a conservatory after high school. Full of doubt about her future, and increasingly frustrated by her strained relationship with her successful but emotionally closed-off father, Yvonne meets a street musician and fellow violinist who understands her struggle. He's mysterious, charming, and different from Warren, the familiar and reliable boy who has her heart. But when Yvonne becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she has to make the most difficult decision yet about her future.
  • Fire Song

    Fire Song

    By Adam Garnet Jones

    Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend, Tara, but she's too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort. What he really wants is to be able to turn to the one person on the rez whom he loves—his friend, David. Things go from bad to worse as Shane's dream of going to university is shattered and his grieving mother withdraws from the world. Worst of all, he and David have to hide their relationship from everyone. Shane feels that his only chance of a better life is moving to Toronto, but David refuses to join him. When yet another tragedy strikes, the two boys have to make difficult choices about their future together. With deep insight into the life of Indigenous people on the reserve, this book masterfully portrays how a community looks to the past for guidance and comfort while fearing a future of poverty and shame. Shane's rocky road to finding himself takes many twists and turns, but ultimately ends with him on a path that doesn't always offer easy answers, but one that leaves the reader optimistic about his fate.
  • Flying Witch v.3

    Flying Witch v.3

    By Chihiro Ishizuka

    This series continues to follow the sweet and gentle witch in training, Makoto, as she enjoys country life and honing her craft.
  • Flying Witch v.4

    Flying Witch v.4

    By Chihiro Ishizuka

    This series continues to follow the sweet and gentle witch in training, Makoto, as she enjoys country life and honing her craft.
  • Flying Witch v.5

    Flying Witch v.5

    By Chihiro Ishizuka

    This series continues to follow the sweet and gentle witch in training, Makoto, as she enjoys country life and honing her craft.
  • Flying Witch v.6

    Flying Witch v.6

    By Chihiro Ishizuka

    This series continues to follow the sweet and gentle witch in training, Makoto, as she enjoys country life and honing her craft.
  • Folded Notes from High School

    Folded Notes from High School

    By Matt Boren

    Tara Murphy's folded notes correspondences between her friends, boyfriend, and unexpected crush freshman Matthew Bloom between 1991-1992 make this title a blast from the past. The full cast add teen angst and personality to this satirical coming of age novel.
  • Foolish Hearts

    Foolish Hearts

    By Emma Mills

    When Claudia finds herself ensnared in a school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, she must also navigate the elaborate politics of her private girls' school, her budding friendship with prickly Iris, and a charming, tentative romance in addition to family drama in this funny, feel-good contemporary novel.
  • For Every One

    For Every One

    By Jason Reynolds

    A letter to everyone who is on their path to achieve their dream. Reynolds offers no answers to achieving one's dream; he only offers his honest and love, his experiences, his failures, and his realizations for the listener's consideration and inspiration.
  • Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

    Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

    By Julie C. Dao

    Xifeng longs to fulfill her destiny to become empress, but the path leading to the throne may make her one of the most vicious villains in all of the stories ever told.
  • The Forest Queen

    The Forest Queen

    By Betsy Cornwell

    When sixteen-year-old Sylvie's brother takes over management of their family's vast estates, Sylvie feels powerless to stop his abuse of the local commoners. Her dearest friend asks her to run away to the woods with him, and soon a host of other villagers join them. Together, they form their own community and fight to right the wrongs perpetrated by the king and his noblemen.
  • Frankie

    Frankie

    By Shivaun Plozza

    Frankie Vega's half-brother suddenly presents himself, and just as she begins to get to know him, he disappears. Frankie is the only one who seems worried about his whereabouts so she sets out to find him.
  • Frau Faust v.1

    Frau Faust v.1

    By Kore Yamazaki

    Marion agrees to help a strange woman in exchange for tutoring lessons, with no idea that he is actually assisting Dr. Faust, the fairy tale character known for selling his soul to a demon. However, the real Dr. Faust is not the sinister man from the stories, but rather, a solitary woman on a mission to find all the pieces of her demon to put him back together.
  • Frau Faust v.2

    Frau Faust v.2

    By Kore Yamazaki

    Marion agrees to help a strange woman in exchange for tutoring lessons, with no idea that he is actually assisting Dr. Faust, the fairy tale character known for selling his soul to a demon. However, the real Dr. Faust is not the sinister man from the stories, but rather, a solitary woman on a mission to find all the pieces of her demon to put him back together.
  • Frau Faust v.3

    Frau Faust v.3

    By Kore Yamazaki

    Marion agrees to help a strange woman in exchange for tutoring lessons, with no idea that he is actually assisting Dr. Faust, the fairy tale character known for selling his soul to a demon. However, the real Dr. Faust is not the sinister man from the stories, but rather, a solitary woman on a mission to find all the pieces of her demon to put him back together.
  • The Gallery of Unfinished Girls

    The Gallery of Unfinished Girls

    By Lauren Karcz

    A beautiful and evocative look at identity and creativity, The Gallery of Unfinished Girls is a stunning debut in magical realism. Perfect for fans of The Walls Around Us and Bone Gap. Mercedes Moreno is an artist. At least, she thinks she could be, even though she hasn't been able to paint anything worthwhile in the past year. Her lack of inspiration might be because her abuela is in a coma. Or the fact that Mercedes is in love with her best friend, Victoria, but is too afraid to admit her true feelings. Despite Mercedes's creative block, art starts to show up in unexpected ways. A piano appears on her front lawn one morning, and a mysterious new neighbor invites Mercedes to paint with her at the Red Mangrove Estate. At the Estate, Mercedes can create in ways she hasn't ever before. But Mercedes can't take anything out of the Estate, including her new-found clarity. Mercedes can't live both lives forever, and ultimately she must choose between this perfect world of art and truth and a much messier reality.
  • Game Changer

    Game Changer

    By Tommy Greenwald

    Teddy Youngblood is one of the most talented incoming freshman football players on the team. After an incident at practice that lands Teddy in a coma, his family must fight to figure out what really happened.
  • Ghost Boys

    Ghost Boys

    By Jewell Parker Rhodes

    After a police officer shoots and kills 12-year-old Jerome, Jerome's ghost stays nearby and meets other ghost boys from the past, including Emmett Till.
  • Giant Days v.6

    Giant Days v.6

    By John Allison, Max Sarin (Illustrator), Liz Fleming (Illustrator)

    Susan, Esther, and Daisy continue their college adventures with sleep deprived nights, relationship troubles, student elections, and the pressure to meet everyone's expectations, as their second year of university ends.
  • Giant Days v.7

    Giant Days v.7

    By John Allison, Max Sarin (Illustrator), Liz Fleming (Illustrator)

    Susan, Esther, and Daisy continue their college adventures with sleep deprived nights, relationship troubles, student elections, and the pressure to meet everyone's expectations, as their second year of university ends.
  • Giant Days v.8

    Giant Days v.8

    By John Allison, Max Sarin (Illustrator), Liz Fleming (Illustrator)

    Susan, Esther, and Daisy continue their college adventures with sleep deprived nights, relationship troubles, student elections, and the pressure to meet everyone's expectations, as their second year of university ends.
  • The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil A Rún v.3

    The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil A Rún v.3

    By Nagabe

    Left in the care of "Teacher," a young girl named Shiva must survive in the Outside, a land filled with vicious beasts that curse others with a touch. Shiva, Teacher, and Shiva's auntie find themselves in the mysterious push-pull situation between the creatures of the Outside and the humans in power on the Inside.
  • The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil A Rún v.4

    The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil A Rún v.4

    By Nagabe

    Left in the care of "Teacher," a young girl named Shiva must survive in the Outside, a land filled with vicious beasts that curse others with a touch. Shiva, Teacher, and Shiva's auntie find themselves in the mysterious push-pull situation between the creatures of the Outside and the humans in power on the Inside.
  • The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil A Rún v.5

    The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil A Rún v.5

    By Nagabe

    Left in the care of "Teacher," a young girl named Shiva must survive in the Outside, a land filled with vicious beasts that curse others with a touch. Shiva, Teacher, and Shiva's auntie find themselves in the mysterious push-pull situation between the creatures of the Outside and the humans in power on the Inside.
  • A Girl Like That

    A Girl Like That

    By Tanaz Bhathena

    Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a risk taker. She's also the kind of girl that parents warn their kids to stay away from: a troublemaker whose many romances are the subject of endless gossip at school. You don't want to get involved with a girl like that, they say. So how is it that eighteen-year-old Porus Dumasia has only ever had eyes for her? And how did Zarin and Porus end up dead in a car together, crashed on the side of a highway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia? When the religious police arrive on the scene, everything everyone thought they knew about Zarin is questioned. And as her story is pieced together, told through multiple perspectives, it becomes clear that she was far more than just a girl like that.
  • Girl Made of Stars

    Girl Made of Stars

    By Ashley Herring Blake

    "I need Owen to explain this. Because yes, I do know that Owen would never do that, but I also know Hannah would never lie about something like that." Mara and Owen are about as close as twins can get. So when Mara's friend Hannah accuses Owen of rape, Mara doesn't know what to think. Can the brother she loves really be guilty of such a violent crime? Torn between the family she loves and her own sense of right and wrong, Mara is feeling lost, and it doesn't help that things have been strained with her ex-girlfriend and best friend since childhood, Charlie. As Mara, Hannah, and Charlie navigate this new terrain, Mara must face a trauma from her own past and decide where Charlie fits in her future. With sensitivity and openness, this timely novel confronts the difficult questions surrounding consent, victim blaming, and sexual assault.
  • The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

    The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

    By Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil

    Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries, searching for safety—perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty.
  • Girls of Paper and Fire

    Girls of Paper and Fire

    By Natasha Ngan

    In this lush fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards still haunts her. Now, the guards are back, and this time it's Lei they're after--the girl whose golden eyes have piqued the king's interest. Over weeks of training in the opulent but stifling palace, Lei and eight other girls learn the skills and charm that befit being a king's consort. But Lei isn't content to watch her fate consume her. Instead, she does the unthinkable--she falls in love. Her forbidden romance becomes enmeshed with an explosive plot that threatens the very foundation of Ikhara, and Lei, still the wide-eyed country girl at heart, must decide just how far she's willing to go for justice and revenge.
  • Goldie Vance Vol 3

    Goldie Vance Vol 3

    By Hope Larson, Jackie Ball, Elle Power (Illustrator)

    Catch up with the coolest new girl detective on the block, Goldie Vance. Sixteen-year-old Marigold “Goldie” Vance has an insatiable curiosity with dreams of one day becoming a detective. Luckily, she lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place, and with a rotating roster of guests and events, there's bound to be some mystery afoot! With the Prescription One race in town, Goldie and her biggest rival, Sugar Maple, find themselves in an unlikely alliance to find who is sabotaging the drivers before the big event.
  • Grand Theft Horse

    Grand Theft Horse

    By Greg Neri

    Gail Raffu became an outlaw when she stole a horse she was part owner of, Urgent Envoy, because her partners wanted to race him to early and drug him to help him win. She battled the corrupt racing system for years to protect Urgent Envoy.
  • Green

    Green

    By Sam Graham-Felsen

    Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School. Everybody clowns him, girls ignore him, and his hippie parents won't even buy him a pair of Nikes, let alone transfer him to a private school. Unless he tests into the city's best public high school—which, if practice tests are any indication, isn't likely—he'll be friendless for the foreseeable future
  • Green Lantern: Earth One, Volume 1

    Green Lantern: Earth One, Volume 1

    By Gabriel Hardman

    The origin story of former astronaut-turned-space miner for hire Hal Jordan and how he becomes the Green Lantern with the help of the few remaining Guardians.
  • Grenade

    Grenade

    By Alan Gratz

    Fourteen-year-old Hideki is preparing to defend his home island of Okinawa during World War II. Ray is an eighteen year old US Marine fighting his first battle. During the Battle of Okinawa, they will discover resilience and compassion as the horrors of war forever change their perspective on humanity.