February 2, 2024
The other night, Trace Brewster, Max’s best friend and star hockey player for the Hawks, scored on his own net and put the team’s chances of qualifying for an upcoming tournament in jeopardy. Since then, Trace has gone silent and is shutting everyone out. But Max thinks there’s more going on with his friend than what happened on the ice. For one thing, there are bruises on Trace’s face that he refuses to explain. Can Max find a way to get Trace to open up and help him in time for the big game? The only thing that Max […]
February 2, 2024
A chilling new young-adult thriller about four teens whose dark secrets come back to terrorize them. Someone from the past is blackmailing Sam and his friends with their dangerous secrets. Sam isn’t sure who he can trust, who’s watching him – or how far he’s willing to go to bury the past once and for all. Sam Hall hopes he has left everything in the past about his fall from stardom. He participates in a secret cathartic ritual with a few of his friends where they vocalize their worst secrets in private in a wooden hut in the woods. […]
February 2, 2024
On the edge of town, a boy named Dawz lives with his sister and their uncle-turned-adoptive-father, Pop. No one in their ramshackle house knows that a monster – who is smaller than a bear cub – lives in Dawz’s bedroom closet. She calls herself Mim. When a series of events forces Mim to leave her closet, she sets out on a quest to unlock the magic of books, but will Dawz be willing to help her? The story of a monster who desperately wants to be seen and the reluctant boy who wishes he weren’t the only one who could, […]
January 5, 2024
Generations of American history students have grown up believing that enslaved people accepted their lot and became attached to their enslavers, that rebellion was rare and that liberation from slavery happened thanks to the enslavers. In this newly updated version of a celebrated history book first published in 1990, high school teacher and children’s book author William Loren Katz offers a closer look at the lives of enslaved people in the United States, from their African abductions through to their brave resistance to harsh plantation life and their roles in the Civil War. It documents how enslaved people themselves were […]
January 5, 2024
An action-driven, high-octane “thrill ride” about a group of working-class teens who join a dangerous scavenger hunt with a prize that can save their families and community. Jax the puzzler, Yas the parkourist, Spider the hacker and Han the cartographer are Team Jericho, the best scavenger hunting team in Seattle. But with an oil refinery proposed in their backyard, they fear their families are at risk of losing their jobs, communities and homes. When “The Order,” a mysterious vigilante organization, hijacks the scavenger hunting forum and concocts a puzzle of its own, promising a reward of influence, Team Jericho sees […]