

A childhood memoir unlike any other
Satrapi, M. (2003). Persepolis: The story of a childhood. New York, NY: Pantheon Books. Author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi lived a...


Fantasy authors combine talents for 2nd in a series
Black, H., Clare, C., & Fischer, S. M. (2015). The copper gauntlet. New York, NY: Scholastic. Holly Black, author of the highly popular...


A visual guide to design
Kidd, C. (2013). Go: A Kidd's guide to graphic design. New York, NY: Workman Publishing. Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design is an...


A revealing summer vacation
Tamaki, M., & Tamaki, J. (2014). This one summer. New York, NY: First Second. The writing team of Jillian and Mariko Tamaki received the...


Escape from a society gone desperately awry
Ness, P. (2008). The knife of never letting go. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press. Todd has never known a life without The Noise, the...


A sports novel set in zero gravity
Lee, F. (2015). Zeroboxer. Woodbury, MN: Flux. Carr, 17, is a rising star in an exciting new sport of the future, the competitive world...


Fast paced dystopian fantasy
Aveyard, V. (2015). Red queen. New York, NY: HarperTeen. Red Queen is an ambitious first novel by Victoria Aveyard. Set in a dystopian...


The power of finding one's voice
Anderson, L. H. (1999). Speak. New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux. This powerful novel tells the story of Melinda, a popular, well-liked...


A guide to a teen's changing body
Harris, R. H., & Emberley, M. (1994). It's perfectly normal: A book about changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health. Cambridge,...

A moving story beautifully told
Nelson, J. (2014). I'll give you the sun. New York, NY: Dial Books. Nelson won the Printz Award for her 2014 novel, and it is a...