ALA Best Book for Young Adults ∙ School Library Journal Best Book ∙ Publishers Weekly Best Book ∙ IRA/CBC Children's Choice ∙ NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts

A Vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a Cleveland vacant lot. Looking down on the immigrant-filled neighborhood, a Romanian woman watches suspiciously. A school janitor gets involved, then a Guatemalan family. Then muscle-bound Curtis, trying to win back Lateesha. Pregnant Maricela. Amir from India. A sense of community sprouts and spreads.

Newbery-winning author Paul Fleischman uses thirteen speakers to bring to life a community garden's founding and first year. The book's short length, diverse cast, and suitability for adults as well as children have led it to be used in countless one-book reads in schools and in cities across the country.

Seedfolks has been drawn upon to teach tolerance, read in ESL classes, promoted by urban gardeners, and performed in schools and on stages from South Africa to Broadway.

The book's many tributaries--from the author's immigrant grandfather to his adoption of two brothers from Mexico--are detailed in his forthcoming memoir, No Map, Great Trip: A Young Writer's Road to Page One.

The size of this slim volume belies the profound message of hope it contains. --Christian Science Monitor

And don't miss Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, the Newbery Medal-winning poetry collection!

Embark on a captivating odyssey with Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey. Join the heroic Odysseus as he navigates mythical creatures, battles, and personal challenges, in this timeless tale of courage, loyalty, and the triumph of the human spirit.

An epic journey of heroism and adventure!

Sixteen-year-old Molly Dix has just discovered that her biological father is Brick Berlin, world-famous movie star and red-carpet regular. Intrigued (and a little) terrified by her Hollywood lineage, Molly moves to Los Angeles and plunges headfirst into the deep of Beverly Hills celebrity life. Just as Molly thinks her life couldn't get any stranger, she meets Brooke Berlin, her gorgeous, spoiled half sister, who welcomes Molly to la-la land with a smothering dose sisterly love...but in this town, nothing is ever what it seems.

Set against a world of Redbull-fuelled stylists, tiny tanned girls, popped-collar guys, and Blackberry-wielding publicists, Spoiled is a sparkling debut from the writers behind the viciously funny celebrity blog GoFugYourself.com.

But soon enough, cameras following them everywhere and interfering producers surreptitiously scripting their lives start to affect the four best friends' relationships. Brooke seems to want all the screen time. Keiran is abruptly written out of the show--and, consequently, the group's friendship--when she doesn't rate well. As soon as Charlie realizes what's going on, she figures out the perfect way to give the studio and her home audience a much-needed reality check.

Because friends don't let friends do reality shows.

Our story begins with three inseparable, completely gorgeous fifteen-year-olds, Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, and Nate Archibald. Blair's loved Nate and his glittering green eyes since she was in Bonpoint onesies. Too bad Nate wishes Blair's beautiful
best friend, Serena, was the one with the crush. And Serena has a secret she's keeping from them both. Hmmm, something tells me these best friends may not be as close as we thought. . . .

How do I know all this? Because I know everything-and lucky for you, I can't keep a secret. So sit back while I untangle this messy little tale and tell you how it all began.

Admit it, you're already falling for me.

You know you love me.
gossip girl

It didn't take long for powerful Tinsley Carmichael to tell Callie their sweet-faced new roommate was really a manipulative skank. So what if Tinsley herself stole a guy out from under their other roommate Brett Messerschmidt's perky little nose? Then Callie and Tinsley threw Jenny and Brett out of their ultra-exclusive club. And just like that, it was war.

Now the four roommates have been split up across enemy lines - Jenny and Callie are living together in Dumbarton 303, and Brett and Tinsley are seemingly miles away downstairs. What will happen when Easy sneaks in to see Jenny . . . but finds Callie instead? And what if Brett discovers the one secret Tinsley's kept hidden for years?

Everyone at Waverly is watching and whispering. With girls this wild, anything can happen, but only one can be it.

It's graduation time for the A-List crew. That means lavish yacht parties, designer caps and gowns, and saying bye-bye to high school for good. Despite the festivities, Anna isn't in a partying mood. Ben's been acting distant and she is worried. Maybe her father's hot tattooed intern, Caine Manning, will help cheer Anna up! Ever since her illicit kiss with Parker, Sam has been Eduardo-less and heartbroken. But hopefully Sam will use her brains and considerable means to get creative about winning Eduardo back. And infamous Cammie? She couldn't care less about graduation, not when she's so close to unraveling the mystery of her mother's death. She'll stop at nothing to find out the truth.

The purpose for which this book has been written is to help people understand Delhi better in all its aspects and to not make them feel alone in this big city. Reading this book will make the readers feel like moving to a new place isn't tough if you have a book to guide you throughout.

Don't know where to go on your first date? The book has answers to that as well. Are you a tourist and don't want to get scammed? Read the last chapter of the book. Don't know where to stay? Read the first chapter of the book. Every little detail present in this book has been thought of, and then this book has been curated.

Thanks to a bully in gym class, unpopular Nate suffers a broken finger--the middle one, splinted to flip off the world. It won't be the last time a middle finger is raised as ten voices speak loud and clear about the complex dance that is life in a small town. They resonate in a gritty and unflinching portrayal of a day like any other, with ordinary traumas, heartbreak, and revenge. But as on any given day, the line where presentation and perception meet is a tenuous one, hard to discern. Unless, of course, one looks a little closer--and reads between the lines.

Reader, what an exciting opportunity you will have to unravel the mind of the two main characters Kane and Xavier as you follow these main characters who both struggle with life lessons and growing up in the inner city project life. As things build to a climax in these young characters' lives, both struggle with their versions of morality and what's real. Throughout the story, reader, you too, of course, will be able to relate to certain situations that the characters are faced with throughout their different paths to the crossroads. That's right-the Crossroads, the same place in time that the most important paths are chosen. However, in the case of these characters, every decision, every word, and every thought affects the other character's path to the Crossroads. Reader, brace yourself for the first of a two-part series of an exhilarating, mysterious, exciting, and thrilling story of two paths to one destination. Prepare for twists, turns, and betrayal which will captivate your attention. I hope you will not just read but relate to the transparency of the characters and the deep connection to their own realities as the series continues. Thank you.

Leah and Finley are starting high school in the fall so it's their last chance to totally goof off as kids. They make a list of ten things they've always wanted to do and secretly try to complete them all, from building a throne and driving a car to finding buried treasure and attempting a world record.

They're set to have an amazing time but mental health struggles, growing responsibilities, and self-esteem issues aren't as easy to ignore now that they're teenagers. This summer they'll need to fight for their friendship and for their childhood dreams to last a little longer.

In King Biscuit, Michael Loyd Gray returns once again to the fictional small town of Argus, Illinois, (the setting of his novels Well Deserved and The Last Stop), to tell a coming-of-age story set in 1966. With the Vietnam War hovering in the background. Seventeen-year-old Billy Ray Fleener, frustrated by the narrow confines of Argus, seeks adventure and a look at the wider world in a novel that puts him on a collision course with the famous as well as infamous.

Oliver Hale is one of those people who is purely a workaholic and a hopeless grafter with no personal life in the world of corporatism. His exceptionally lone evenings are spent dreaming vividly about a shadowy parallel world that reveals a sulkier counterpart, Oliver himself. This dream world presents a parallel universe for Oliver's choice of life courses, which often has and causes vast differences in the existence he currently leads.

While tethered to two worlds, Oliver probes even more to discover that the very lines that separate this reality from that of the dreaming are beginning to blend. The shadowy figure he finds in his dreams-not entirely unlike an echo of his own unfulfilled potential and darker desires-is going to be the one to unearth disturbing facts about his life choices and push him to embrace his true self. The figure is partly antagonist and partly guide, goading Oliver to confront his fears and regrets.

Confronting the past and the present, Oliver learns true fulfilment lies not just in work alone but in the relationships he's neglected and the choices he now must make. Themes of identity and the consequences of choices play alongside the struggle between ambition and personal growth, culminating in a sad revelation about the nature of self-acceptance and change.

Eddie Corazon is angry. He's also very smart. But he's working pretty hard at being a juvenile delinquent. He blows off school, even though he's a secret reader. He hangs with his cousins, who will always back him up--when they aren't in jail.

Then along comes Lupe, who makes his blood race. She sees something in Eddie he doesn't even see in himself. A heart, and a mind, and something more: a poet. But in Eddie's world, it's a thin line between tragedy and glory. And what goes down is entirely in Eddie's hands.

Gripping, thought-provoking, and hopeful, Muchacho is a rare and inspiring story about one teen's determination to fight his circumstances and shape his own destiny.