New Titles

12 Things to know about water access

Eberth, Kristin


Help make complex current events approachable with a timely series for middle grade students. Students get the facts on relevant topics that come straight from news headlines. Each book breaks the topic into 12 short chapters that provide a balanced understanding accessible to grades 4 and up. Loaded with stat boxes, sidebars, and “Think About It” features, these nonfiction books support critical thinking skills and will encourage awareness of world issues. Water is crucial part of life, yet millions of people struggle to access it. From shortages to pollution, there are a lot of facts to keep straight about one of today's biggest headlines. Help middle-grade students get the essential information about this complex political-social issue that affects current events. Twelve short chapters provide a balanced understanding accessible to grades 4 and up with approachable text offering insights into the rising demand for water, the costs and energy of moving and cleaning water, the impacts of climate change on water resources, and how countries are responding to the crisis. Loaded with stat boxes, sidebars, and "Think About It" features, this nonfiction book supports critical thinking skills and encourages awareness of global issues.
Date Published:2025

Help make complex current events approachable with a timely series for middle grade students. Students get the facts on relevant topics that come straight from news headlines. Each book breaks the topic into 12 short chapters that provide a balanced understanding accessible to grades 4 and up. Loaded with stat boxes, sidebars, and “Think About It” features, these nonfiction books support critical thinking skills and will encourage awareness of world issues. Water is crucial part of life, yet millions of people struggle to access it. From shortages to pollution, there are a lot of facts to keep straight about one of today's biggest headlines. Help middle-grade students get the essential information about this complex political-social issue that affects current events. Twelve short chapters provide a balanced understanding accessible to grades 4 and up with approachable text offering insights into the rising demand for water, the costs and energy of moving and cleaning water, the impacts of climate change on water resources, and how countries are responding to the crisis. Loaded with stat boxes, sidebars, and "Think About It" features, this nonfiction book supports critical thinking skills and encourages awareness of global issues.

Date Published:2025

The summer I turned pretty ( Summer ; 1)

Han, Jenny.


Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, April 2009. Pub Weekly, April 2009. Booklist, May 2009. Horn Book, October 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2009. Kirkus Review, April 2009. Wilson's Senior High School. Wilson's Junior High School. School Library Journal starred. Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different as she finds herself falling for a boy she has known since childhood.
Date Published:2009

Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, April 2009. Pub Weekly, April 2009. Booklist, May 2009. Horn Book, October 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2009. Kirkus Review, April 2009. Wilson's Senior High School. Wilson's Junior High School. School Library Journal starred. Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different as she finds herself falling for a boy she has known since childhood.

Date Published:2009

Lessons from a lifetime : Ninety years of inspiration and activism /

Suzuki, David.


In words and photographs, Lessons From a Lifetime shares David Suzuki's journey from surviving internment camps as a Japanese-Canadian child to becoming North America's most trusted voice in science communication. The book charts his years as a geneticist and superstar professor at the University of British Columbia; his dedication to demystifying complex science through his public broadcasting work, especially his beloved CBC Television program, The Nature of Things; his founding of The David Suzuki Foundation; and his unparalleled dedication to standing up for Indigenous and environmental rights, a dedication that continues today.
Date Published:2026

In words and photographs, Lessons From a Lifetime shares David Suzuki's journey from surviving internment camps as a Japanese-Canadian child to becoming North America's most trusted voice in science communication. The book charts his years as a geneticist and superstar professor at the University of British Columbia; his dedication to demystifying complex science through his public broadcasting work, especially his beloved CBC Television program, The Nature of Things; his founding of The David Suzuki Foundation; and his unparalleled dedication to standing up for Indigenous and environmental rights, a dedication that continues today.

Date Published:2026

Jungle, The

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.


When it was first published in 1906, The Jungle exposed the inhumane conditions of Chicago’s stockyards and the laborer’s struggle against industry and “wage slavery.” It was an immediate bestseller and led to new regulations that forever changed workers’ rights and the meatpacking industry. A direct descendant of Dickens’s Hard Times, it remains the most influential workingman’s novel in American literature. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Date Published:1985

When it was first published in 1906, The Jungle exposed the inhumane conditions of Chicago’s stockyards and the laborer’s struggle against industry and “wage slavery.” It was an immediate bestseller and led to new regulations that forever changed workers’ rights and the meatpacking industry. A direct descendant of Dickens’s Hard Times, it remains the most influential workingman’s novel in American literature. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Date Published:1985

This thing of ours

Joseph, Frederick, (Activist).


After an injury ends Ossie Brown’s basketball career, Brown, a Black teen who doesn’t come from wealth or privilege, navigates his new place in his predominately white school, discovering the power of words and of finding his true voice.
Date Published:2025

Famous for a time : Forgotten giants of Canadian sport

Wilson, Jason


From team sports such as lacrosse, baseball, and cricket to Canada’s cycling craze, track and field, and boxing, each chapter offers insight into an important aspect of the nation’s narrative. The winners and losers of Canada’s games simply mirror the larger questions that have faced Canadian society across three centuries.
Date Published:2023

Last mission, The

Mazer, Harry.


From their base in England, he and his crew fly twenty-four treacherous bombing missions over occupied Europe. The war is almost over and Hitler near defeat when they fly their last mission -- a mission destined for disaster. Shot down far behind enemy lines, Jack is taken prisoner and sent to a German POW camp, where his experiences are more terrifying than anything he'd ever imagined.
Date Published:1979

Journey back, The (Red Canoe ; 2)

Cummings, Priscilla.


Nine months in a juvenile detention facility was the punishment for his crime. After just a month he makes a bold escape that nearly kills him and soon an angry fourteen-year-old Digger is on the run. When injuries stop him, Digger hides at a riverside campground, where he befriends a young boy and a girl his own age. New friends, a job caring for rescued horses, and risking his life to save another make Digger realize that the journey back is not just about getting home. But he come to terms with his troubled past and face what he's really running from?
Date Published:2012

Nine months in a juvenile detention facility was the punishment for his crime. After just a month he makes a bold escape that nearly kills him and soon an angry fourteen-year-old Digger is on the run. When injuries stop him, Digger hides at a riverside campground, where he befriends a young boy and a girl his own age. New friends, a job caring for rescued horses, and risking his life to save another make Digger realize that the journey back is not just about getting home. But he come to terms with his troubled past and face what he's really running from?

Date Published:2012

Forrest Gump

Groom, Winston.


Six foot six, 242 pounds, and possessed of a scant IQ of 70, Forrest Gump is the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this classic comic tale. His early life may seem inauspicious, but when the University of Alabama’s football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, it sets him on an unbelievable path that will transform him from Vietnam hero to world-class Ping-Pong player, from wrestler to entrepreneur. With a voice all his own, Forrest is telling all in a madcap romp through three decades of American history.
Date Published:1986

Six foot six, 242 pounds, and possessed of a scant IQ of 70, Forrest Gump is the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this classic comic tale. His early life may seem inauspicious, but when the University of Alabama’s football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, it sets him on an unbelievable path that will transform him from Vietnam hero to world-class Ping-Pong player, from wrestler to entrepreneur. With a voice all his own, Forrest is telling all in a madcap romp through three decades of American history.

Date Published:1986

Dark matter

Crouch, Blake


“Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man he’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.” In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it this life or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how will Jason make it back to the family he loves? From the bestselling author Blake Crouch, Dark Matter is a mind-bending thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.
Date Published:2017

“Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man he’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.” In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it this life or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how will Jason make it back to the family he loves? From the bestselling author Blake Crouch, Dark Matter is a mind-bending thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.

Date Published:2017

Atlas shrugged

Rand, Ayn.


You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this book. You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy...why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction...why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph...why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill. Atlas Shrugged, a modern classic and Rand’s most extensive statement of Objectivism—her groundbreaking philosophy—offers the reader the spectacle of human greatness, depicted with all the poetry and power of one of the twentieth century’s leading artists.
Date Published:1985

You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this book. You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy...why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction...why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph...why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill. Atlas Shrugged, a modern classic and Rand’s most extensive statement of Objectivism—her groundbreaking philosophy—offers the reader the spectacle of human greatness, depicted with all the poetry and power of one of the twentieth century’s leading artists.

Date Published:1985

Project hail mary

Weir, Andy.


What happens: A man awakens from a coma with amnesia and makes two discoveries: 1.) he is aboard a spaceship and 2.) he is the sole survivor of a last-ditch mission to save humanity.Is it for you? Closer in feel to The Martian than Artemis, Andy Weir's optimistic new novel offers accessible hard science and an everyman protagonist with a talent for creative problem-solving.
Date Published:2025

Edge of darkness

Stone, Kyla


After an EMP strike plunges America into darkness, the world grows deadly. Hannah Sheridan has survived years of captivity and civilization's collapse. Now, heavily pregnant and wounded, with her faithful dog Ghost dying from a bullet wound, she must reach home-a brutal journey through a frozen wasteland-to the family she was stolen from. Former Delta operator Liam Coleman's mission is simple: deliver Hannah safely to Fall Creek, then settle his own debts with the past. But with Ghost critically injured and Pike stalking them through the snow, every mile is a battle. Every contraction a ticking clock. In Fall Creek, Noah Sheridan fights to hold his broken town together after horrific violence shatters their fragile peace. He'd built a safe place for his son Milo, surviving the cold and chaos. But as grief turns to fury and neighbors turn against each other, he faces an impossible choice: protect what remains or risk everything to save it all. In the ashes of the old world, some build communities. Others build empires. And some just want to watch it all burn.
Date Published:2020

After an EMP strike plunges America into darkness, the world grows deadly. Hannah Sheridan has survived years of captivity and civilization's collapse. Now, heavily pregnant and wounded, with her faithful dog Ghost dying from a bullet wound, she must reach home-a brutal journey through a frozen wasteland-to the family she was stolen from. Former Delta operator Liam Coleman's mission is simple: deliver Hannah safely to Fall Creek, then settle his own debts with the past. But with Ghost critically injured and Pike stalking them through the snow, every mile is a battle. Every contraction a ticking clock. In Fall Creek, Noah Sheridan fights to hold his broken town together after horrific violence shatters their fragile peace. He'd built a safe place for his son Milo, surviving the cold and chaos. But as grief turns to fury and neighbors turn against each other, he faces an impossible choice: protect what remains or risk everything to save it all. In the ashes of the old world, some build communities. Others build empires. And some just want to watch it all burn.

Date Published:2020

Odyssey, The

Homer


A translation of the epic poem retells the story of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
Date Published:2018

Five feet apart

Lippincott, Rachael


Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals. Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It feels like punishment. What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too?
Date Published:2018

Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals. Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It feels like punishment. What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too?

Date Published:2018

Handmaid's tale, The

Atwood, Margaret.


The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population. The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment’s calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid’s Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and a tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.
Date Published:1985

The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population. The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment’s calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid’s Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and a tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.

Date Published:1985

The Martian : a novel.

Weir, Andy


An edge-of-your seat debut thriller with laugh-out-loud dialogue mixed in. After a bad storm cuts his team's Mars mission short, injured astronaut Mark Watley is stranded. Now he's got to figure out how to survive without air, shelter, food, or water on the harsh Martian landscape until the next manned mission in four years.
Date Published:2014

Housemaid's secret, The

McFadden, Freida.


It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs. Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I'm doing laundry. And one day I can't help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything...That's when I make a promise. After all, I've done this before. I can protect Mrs. Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe. Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It's simply a question of how far I'm willing to go..
Date Published:2023

It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs. Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I'm doing laundry. And one day I can't help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything...That's when I make a promise. After all, I've done this before. I can protect Mrs. Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe. Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It's simply a question of how far I'm willing to go..

Date Published:2023

The Naturals

Barnes, Jennifer Lynn.


Cold cases are about to get hot. Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But it's not a skill that she's ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI comes knocking: They've begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie. What Cassie doesn't realize is that there's more at risk than a few unsolved homicides-especially when she's sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. And when a new killer strikes, danger looms close. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all their gifts just to survive.
Date Published:2013

Cold cases are about to get hot. Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But it's not a skill that she's ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI comes knocking: They've begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie. What Cassie doesn't realize is that there's more at risk than a few unsolved homicides-especially when she's sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. And when a new killer strikes, danger looms close. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all their gifts just to survive.

Date Published:2013

The Handmaid's tale

Atwood, Margaret.


This is the story of one Handmaid in a world in which women are merely natural resources. A chilling look at the near future presents the story of Offred, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction. NOTE: THIS NOVEL DOES CONTAIN GRAPHIC SEXUAL CONTENT.
Date Published:2019