Most Circulated Titles

Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood

Noah, Trevor, 1984-,


Booklist starred, October 2016. Pub Weekly, October 2016. "Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. .... Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man's relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother-his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life"--Amazon.com.
Date Published:2016

Booklist starred, October 2016. Pub Weekly, October 2016. "Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. .... Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man's relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother-his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life"--Amazon.com.

Date Published:2016

The 57 bus

Slater, Dashka,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Voice of Youth Advocates, Explores the fateful 2013 interaction between Sasha and Richard, two teens from Oakland, California, who never would have met if not for the 57 bus which they both were taking home from school one day. Richard, an African American boy, had a lighter; Sasha, a white agender teen, wore a skirt. A dare to use the lighter changed the teens' lives forever.
Date Published:2018

Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Voice of Youth Advocates, Explores the fateful 2013 interaction between Sasha and Richard, two teens from Oakland, California, who never would have met if not for the 57 bus which they both were taking home from school one day. Richard, an African American boy, had a lighter; Sasha, a white agender teen, wore a skirt. A dare to use the lighter changed the teens' lives forever.

Date Published:2018

The poet X

Acevedo, Elizabeth,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide Starred, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Voice of Youth Advocates, Xiomara Batista is a teenage girl living in Harlem who's learned to use her fists to send messages. When she's invited to join her school's poetry club, she knows her religious mother will never allow it. But Xiomara is determined to find a way because she has something to say that can only be shared through her poetry.
Date Published:2020

Booklist, Horn Book Guide Starred, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Voice of Youth Advocates, Xiomara Batista is a teenage girl living in Harlem who's learned to use her fists to send messages. When she's invited to join her school's poetry club, she knows her religious mother will never allow it. But Xiomara is determined to find a way because she has something to say that can only be shared through her poetry.

Date Published:2020

The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian

Alexie, Sherman, 1966-,


Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Kliatt, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocates, Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Date Published:2007

Dear Martin

Stone, Nic,


ALA Best Book For Young Adults. Bulletin(Center for Children's Books). Horn Book. Following a wrongful arrest as a result of racial profiling, Justyce McAllister starts a journal to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to work through his thoughts on contemporary American race relations.
Date Published:2018

Hope nation : YA authors share personal moments of inspiration

Brock, Rose, (Dr.),


Includes discussion questions. We / David Levithan -- Before and after / Libba Bray -- Now more than ever / Angie Thomas -- Rundown / Ally Condie -- Surviving / Marie Lu -- Nobody remembers the names of people who build walls / Jeff Zentner -- Love / Nicola Yoon -- Wings and teeth / Kate Hart -- Shot of hope / Gayle Forman -- Baseball pasta / Christina Diaz Gonzalez -- Don't listen to the a**holes / Atia Abawi -- Different dances / Alex London -- The dreadful summer of 1991 / Howard Bryant -- The two types of secrets / Ally Carter -- Born in Argentina, made in America : the immigrant identity / Romina Garber -- Chah-muh / Renée Ahdieh -- The only one I can apologize for / Aisha Saeed -- In the past / Jenny Torres Sanchez -- Always / Nic Stone -- Hoping for home / Julie Murphy -- Caution : this hope is NSFW (but it shouldn't be) / I.W. Gregorio --The kids who stick / Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kelly. Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Voice of Youth Advocates, A collection of over twenty essays by contemporary young adult authors sharing their personal experiences of resilience, loss, love, acceptance, and hope.
Date Published:2019

Includes discussion questions. We / David Levithan -- Before and after / Libba Bray -- Now more than ever / Angie Thomas -- Rundown / Ally Condie -- Surviving / Marie Lu -- Nobody remembers the names of people who build walls / Jeff Zentner -- Love / Nicola Yoon -- Wings and teeth / Kate Hart -- Shot of hope / Gayle Forman -- Baseball pasta / Christina Diaz Gonzalez -- Don't listen to the a**holes / Atia Abawi -- Different dances / Alex London -- The dreadful summer of 1991 / Howard Bryant -- The two types of secrets / Ally Carter -- Born in Argentina, made in America : the immigrant identity / Romina Garber -- Chah-muh / Renée Ahdieh -- The only one I can apologize for / Aisha Saeed -- In the past / Jenny Torres Sanchez -- Always / Nic Stone -- Hoping for home / Julie Murphy -- Caution : this hope is NSFW (but it shouldn't be) / I.W. Gregorio --The kids who stick / Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kelly. Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Voice of Youth Advocates, A collection of over twenty essays by contemporary young adult authors sharing their personal experiences of resilience, loss, love, acceptance, and hope.

Date Published:2019

One of us is lying

McManus, Karen M.,


Booklist, May 2017. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2017. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2017. Kirkus Review, March 2017. "When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students all four become suspects. It's up to them to solve the case"--
Date Published:2021

The girl from the well

Chupeco, Rin,


Library Media Connection, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, Okiku, a spirit who releases the souls of the murdered by taking the lives of their killers, tries to rescue a boy named Tark who has an evil demon trapped within him.
Date Published:2014

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time

Haddon, Mark, 1962-,


Wilson's Senior High School, October 2007. Wilson's Fiction, October 2010. School Library Journal, October 2003. Library Journal, May 2003. Pub Weekly, April 2003. Booklist, April 2003. Kirkus Starred, April 2003. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2003. Kliatt Starred, July 2004. Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
Date Published:2004

Wilson's Senior High School, October 2007. Wilson's Fiction, October 2010. School Library Journal, October 2003. Library Journal, May 2003. Pub Weekly, April 2003. Booklist, April 2003. Kirkus Starred, April 2003. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2003. Kliatt Starred, July 2004. Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

Date Published:2004

Just mercy : adapted for young adults : a true story of the fight for justice

Stevenson, Bryan,


Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal Starred, Lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares his efforts to end racial and economic injustice through his organization Equal Justice Initiative. With personal stories from his work, he sheds light on a broken justice system he's working to change.
Date Published:2019

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe

Sènz, Benjamin Alire,


Horn Book Guide, Library Media Connection, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocates, Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
Date Published:2012

The catcher in the rye

Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-,


Booklist, 10/1/1988. An adolescent boy, knowing he is about to be dropped by his school, spends three days and nights in New York City.
Date Published:2001

The astonishing color of after : a novel

Pan, Emily X. R.,


School Library Journal starred, March 2018. Booklist starred, February 2018. Library Media Connection starred, May 2018. Pub Weekly, January 2018. New York Times, June 2018. Horn Book, November 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2018. Kirkus Review, January 2018. After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
Date Published:2019

School Library Journal starred, March 2018. Booklist starred, February 2018. Library Media Connection starred, May 2018. Pub Weekly, January 2018. New York Times, June 2018. Horn Book, November 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2018. Kirkus Review, January 2018. After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.

Date Published:2019

Long way down

Reynolds, Jason,


"A Caitlyn Dlouhy book." As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.
Date Published:2019

The manga guide to statistics

Takahashi, Shin.


Translated from the Japanese. Includes index. Determining data types -- Getting the big picture, understanding numerical data -- Getting the big picture, understanding categorical data -- Standard score and deviation score -- Let's obtain the probability -- Let's look at the relationship between two variables -- Let's explore the hypothesis tests. School Library Journal, May 2009. Choice, April 2009. Library Media Connection, August 2009. An introduction to statistics, featuring manga illustrations, that explain how to calculate means, medians, and standard deviations, determine probability, graph data, and more.
Date Published:2009

Translated from the Japanese. Includes index. Determining data types -- Getting the big picture, understanding numerical data -- Getting the big picture, understanding categorical data -- Standard score and deviation score -- Let's obtain the probability -- Let's look at the relationship between two variables -- Let's explore the hypothesis tests. School Library Journal, May 2009. Choice, April 2009. Library Media Connection, August 2009. An introduction to statistics, featuring manga illustrations, that explain how to calculate means, medians, and standard deviations, determine probability, graph data, and more.

Date Published:2009

Turtles all the way down

Green, John, 1977-,


Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Connection Star, Aza Holmes, a high school student with obsessive-compulsive disorder, becomes focused on searching for a fugitive billionaire.
Date Published:2019

The silence of our friends

Long, Mark, 1957-


Bulletin of the Center for Children's Bo, Publisher's Weekly, School Library Journal, In 1960s Texas, the racial boundaries are crossed when a black family from the poorest section of Houston and a white family from a racist neighborhood join forces to win the freedom of five black college students who have been unjustly accused of murdering a policeman.
Date Published:2012

El Deafo

Bell, Cece,


School Library Journal starred, September 2014. Horn Book Starred, November 2014. Pub Weekly, July 2014. Booklist, August 2014. Kirkus Starred, September 2014. New York Times, August 2014. Horn Book, April 2015. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), October 2014. A graphic novel memoir of author/illustrator Cece Bell who grew up hearing impaired.
Date Published:2014

Code Talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two

Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-,


Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2006. School Library Journal, May 2005. Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2007. Booklist starred, February 2005. Library Media Connection starred, February 2006. Kirkus Starred, January 2005. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), February 2005. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2005. After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Date Published:2005

Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2006. School Library Journal, May 2005. Book Links (A.L.A.), January 2007. Booklist starred, February 2005. Library Media Connection starred, February 2006. Kirkus Starred, January 2005. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), February 2005. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2005. After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

Date Published:2005

The things they carried : a work of fiction

O'Brien, Tim, 1946-,


ALA Notable Book For Children. ALA Best Book For Young Adults. Kirkus Reviews. A series of connected stories based on the author's experiences in Vietnam.
Date Published:2009