Most Circulated Titles

The Hate U Give

Thomas, Angie,


"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life"--
Date Published:2017

"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life"--

Date Published:2017

Octavia E. Butler's Kindred

Butler, Octavia E.,


"Based on the novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler copyright 1979" -- colophon Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope -- Epilogue. Junior Library Guild Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space from her loving home in 1970s California to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it.
Date Published:2017

"Based on the novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler copyright 1979" -- colophon Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope -- Epilogue. Junior Library Guild Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space from her loving home in 1970s California to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it.

Date Published:2017

The Forsaken

Stasse, Lisa M.


After the formation of the United Northern Alliance--a merger of Canada, the United States, and Mexico into one nation--sixteen-year-old Alenna is sent to an desolate prison island for teenagers believed to be predisposed to violence.
Date Published:2012

Invisible Man

Ellison, Ralph.


Series statement from jacket.
Date Published:1992

Miles Morales

Reynolds, Jason,


"A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book." During Mile's in-school suspension, he finds himself in a fierce battle with a classmate turned insidious termite who is determined to destroy books and the Black and Brown history they contain, and only Miles can stop him.
Date Published:2023

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid : the ugly truth

Kinney, Jeff.


Publisher's Weekly, November 15, 2010. Horn book guide, Best books for children : preschool through grade 6 : supplement to the 9th edition. Best books for middle school and junior high readers. While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
Date Published:2010

Publisher's Weekly, November 15, 2010. Horn book guide, Best books for children : preschool through grade 6 : supplement to the 9th edition. Best books for middle school and junior high readers. While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.

Date Published:2010

Catching Fire

Collins, Suzanne.


By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Date Published:2009

The Hunger Games

Collins, Suzanne.


Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010 School Library Journal starred, September 2008 Booklist starred, September 2008 Horn Book Starred, September 2008 Library Media Connection starred, November 2001 Pub Weekly, November 2008 New York Times, November 2008 Horn Book, April 2009 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2008 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2008 In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.
Date Published:2008

Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010 School Library Journal starred, September 2008 Booklist starred, September 2008 Horn Book Starred, September 2008 Library Media Connection starred, November 2001 Pub Weekly, November 2008 New York Times, November 2008 Horn Book, April 2009 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), November 2008 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2008 In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

Date Published:2008

The Maze Runner

Dashner, James, 1972-


Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape
Date Published:2009

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid (1): Greg Heffley's Journal

Kinney, Jeff,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocates, Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
Date Published:2007

The Poet X

Acevedo, Elizabeth,


Junior Library Guild Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
Date Published:2018

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Ward, Jesmyn.


Living with his grandparents and sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his mother's addictions and his grandmother's cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.
Date Published:2017

The Long Haul

Kinney, Jeff.


The Heffley family road trip starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns, with everything from a fender bender to crazed seagulls, but even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys will not soon forget.
Date Published:2014

On The Come Up

Thomas, Angie.



Date Published:2018

Uprising

Stasse, Lisa M



Date Published:2014

Attack On Titan.

Isayama, Hajime, 1986-,


Printed "manga-style." Book opens left-to-right; pages are read right-to-left. "First published in Japan in 2010 by Kodansha, Ltd., Tokyo as Shingeki no kyojin, volume 1"--Colophon. After attacks on mankind by giant humanoid beings called Titans, the humans that are left are hidden in a walled city protected for the time being. But when a colossal Titan that towers above the city walls arrives and begins eating humans, the people inside the city are at a loss as to how to fight this new enemy.
Date Published:2012

Printed "manga-style." Book opens left-to-right; pages are read right-to-left. "First published in Japan in 2010 by Kodansha, Ltd., Tokyo as Shingeki no kyojin, volume 1"--Colophon. After attacks on mankind by giant humanoid beings called Titans, the humans that are left are hidden in a walled city protected for the time being. But when a colossal Titan that towers above the city walls arrives and begins eating humans, the people inside the city are at a loss as to how to fight this new enemy.

Date Published:2012

Edens Zero. 1, Into The Sky Where Cherry Blossoms Flutter

Mashima, Hiro, 1977-


First published in Japan in 2018 by Kodansha, Ltd., Tokyo. Reads from right to left. At Granbell Kingdom, an abandoned amusement park, Shiki has lived his entire life among machines. But one day, Rebecca and her cat companion Happy appear at the park's front gates. Little do these newcomers know that this is the first human contact Granbell has had in a hundred years! As Shiki stumbles his way into making new friends, his former neighbors stir at an opportunity for a robo-rebellion...And when his old homeland becomes too dangerous, Shiki must join Rebecca and Happy on their spaceship and escape into the boundless cosmos.
Date Published:2018

First published in Japan in 2018 by Kodansha, Ltd., Tokyo. Reads from right to left. At Granbell Kingdom, an abandoned amusement park, Shiki has lived his entire life among machines. But one day, Rebecca and her cat companion Happy appear at the park's front gates. Little do these newcomers know that this is the first human contact Granbell has had in a hundred years! As Shiki stumbles his way into making new friends, his former neighbors stir at an opportunity for a robo-rebellion...And when his old homeland becomes too dangerous, Shiki must join Rebecca and Happy on their spaceship and escape into the boundless cosmos.

Date Published:2018

A Bride's Story

Mori, Kaoru, 1978-


"Translation : William Flannagan, Lettering : Abigail Blackman"--T.p. verso. "First published in Japan in 2009 by Enterbrain, Inc., Tokyo"--T.p. verso. Read Manga style, from right to left and back to front. As she and her husband adjust to their arranged marriage, Amir strives to find her role as she settles into a new life and a new home in a society quick to define that role for her.
Date Published:2011

Beloved

Morrison, Toni.


Includes chronology.
Date Published:2006

One Of Us Is Lying

McManus, Karen M.


Five teens walk into high school detention and one of them drops dead. Someone in the room is the killer and all have something to hide.
Date Published:2017