New Teen Fiction

Norbert Riddle lives in the United State of Earth, where normal means following the rules, never standing out, and being exactly the same as everyone else, down to the plain gray jumpsuits he wears everyday. He's been normal his whole life - until a moment of temporary hilarity when he does a funny impression of their dictator, Loving Leader...and gets caught! Now, Norbert's been arrested and banished to planet Zorquat 3 in the Orion Nebula, where kids who defy the rules roam free in the Astronuts camp.

Just when Joey Pigza's wired world finally seems to be under control, his good-for-nothing dad pops back into his life. This time, though, Carter Pigza is a new man - literally. After a lucky lotto win, he has a crazy new outlook on life, and he's even changed his name to Charles Heinz. He thinks Joey and his mom should become new people, too. Soon Joey finds himself bombarded with changes, including a new name, a new home, and a new family business: running the beat-up Beehive Diner.

Un monstruo de las cavernas. Un demonio abandonado. Un fantasma que quiere borrar la historia. Un comandante asesino. Estos son solo algunos de los desafíos a los que se enfrentan los héroes de estas historias. ¿Hasta dónde estás dispuesto a llegar?

In 1955, 18-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend, Marie, a secret. It's not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women, it awakens something in Janet. As she juggles a romance she must keep hidden and a newfound ambition to write and publish her own story, she risks exposing herself - and Marie - to a danger all too real.

When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era. This anthology gathers together, for the first time, the funniest work of more than seventy New Yorker contributors.

The Dark Mage thinks he's defeated Riley. After poisoning her and leaving her to die, Rendal heads toward New Perth to claim his new kingdom. Victory appears to be in his grasp. But not if Riley has anything to do with it. She knows to defeat him she has to finally master the magic within her. To free her kingdom, she must become the most powerful mage Australia has ever seen. Cured of Rendal's poison, Riley trains under the woman who brought magic to her continent. The woman who learned from Ezekiel himself. The woman who taught Rendal.

Hadie Swinton is giving up on boys. After a disastrous relationship, she is convinced that all males are the same - arrogant, self-assured, and complete jerks. Lincoln Bracks is giving up on his old life. After moving to a new town to escape the problems plaguing him, he is set against ever getting close to anyone again.

Summer is over and that can only mean one thing for eight-year-old Mallory McDonald (like the restaurant, but no relation) - she has to go back to school. But not just any school, a new school with all new kids in it. To make matters worse, her mom is going, too! She’s the new music teacher, and Mallory can’t think of anything that could possibly be worse - until her first day. She has to sit with Pamela, who always says the right thing and steals her ideas. Joey is so busy with his old friends that he has no time for her, and she’s picked to be an eggplant in the Fall Festival.

The second title in an all-new Dragonlance series for young listeners! The Dying Kingdom continues a new series of Dragonlance adventures written specifically for listeners ages 10 and up. Sized to fit the young listener market, the series features a new band of young companions who band together for friendship and excitement during the golden age of the Dragonlance world.

Now, more than ever, young people are motivated to make a difference in a world they're bound to inherit. They're ready to stand up and be heard - but with much to shout about, where they do they begin? What can I do? How can I help? How I Resist is the response, and a way to start the conversation. To show listeners that they are not helpless, and that anyone can be the change. A collection of essays, songs, and interviews about activism and hope, How I Resist features an all-star group of contributors.

This classic children's tale brings back the much-loved characters of Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and H.O. Bastable as they stumble into yet more comic adventures. Teresa Gallagher read the previous two books in this highly praised series and returns to recount more japes in her colourful array of children's voices.

Following the many challenges in the best-selling novel, The Tribe: A New World, the Mall Rats find themselves faced with an even greater struggle as they try to unravel the many unexplained mysteries they now encounter. What was the real mission of the United Nations survival fleet? Who is the enigmatic leader of The Collective? What really did occur at Arthurs Air Force Base? Is there something more sinister to the secrets revealed on the paradise island where they are now stranded?

Everything that Rose Beaufont has worked for is in jeopardy. Every skill the witch hunter has honed will be tested. Everything rests on one battle. Rose entered this world of magic alone. She will face her greatest enemy on her own to defend that world. Only one can survive.

With that terrifying message, Jo and her family learned the truth: They are trapped forever on Tau Ceti e. But the planet’s current occupants - the Sorrow - are not interested in sharing. The fragile peace Jo negotiated abruptly shatters, and soon a bloody battle is raging between the Sorrow and the Pioneers. As tensions rise, the survival of everyone Jo cares for seems less likely by the second.

Maori child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Hinemoa Elder has shaped her beloved book Aroha into this special collection of whakatauki and whakatauaki for mokopuna of all ages.

Carnivalesque is the perfect escape—if you can score an invitation and find its secret location. The carnival boasts exhibits like glow-in-the-dark bumper cars, King's Court speed dating, a pitch-black maze you could get lost in, and thousands of teens—dressed up, in costume, and wearing Mardi Gras masks to protect their outward identities. At Carnivalesque, privacy is paramount. No cell phones. No press. No social media, which makes it the perfect scoop for seventeen-year-old journalist, Mackenzie Davis.

Claire and her team are pushed to the edge in the vampire cities' shadowed alleys. Danger lurks, and a conspiracy dark as the night aims to erase their existence. Secrets unveil, allegiances shift, and the line between ally and adversary blurs. With multiple races' fate hanging in the balance, Claire strives to forge unity out of chaos.

This time, Chuck, Mac, and the crew must decide whether the Flicker extraterrestrials are what they seem! And find out why they came to the solar system in the first place! Lots of future science, unexpected reveals, and a mysterious war going on in an adjacent arm of the Milky Way that threatens to spill over into the Orion Arm. This is intended to wrap up the series, with not only a war, but a new, advanced species of extraterrestrial, possibly two of them!

Farrington High School Junior, Kate Kellner, has her whole future planned and a list of high-priority goals aligned. This season, she’s going to lead the Fighting Falcons to their first ever Midlands Conference title, break all the school pitching records, and impress a boatload of college recruiters so she can pick where she wants to go after she graduates from high school. But then, one day in the middle of a training session, Grady Hughes walks into her multipurpose room.

Imagine that your mother tells you she's going away. She is going to leave you with relatives you've never heard of - and they are members of a strict religious cult. Your name is changed, and you are forced to follow the severe set of social standards set by the cult. There is no television, no radio, no newspaper. No mirrors. You must wear long, modest clothes. You don't know where your mother is, and you are beginning to question your own identity.