Ages 13 to 14

After surviving sexual assault by her father and six months in foster care, college freshman Victoria Parker is trying to move on with her life. She’s focusing on the positives—attending college, living on her own, repairing old relationships...

Jase Ellison doesn’t remember having acute lymphocytic leukemia when he was three years old. His cancer diagnosis only enters his mind twice a year: once at his yearly checkup at the oncology clinic and one when he attends Camp Chemo in the summer...

Teenager Cason Martin is the youngest ballerina in the Atlanta Ballet Conservatory. She never really had a choice of whether she learned to dance or not. Her mother, the conservatory’s artistic director, has made all the decisions in Cason’s...

When an assassin kills Princess Jiara’s older sister Scilla, her vengeful ghost is doomed to walk their city of glittering canals, tormenting loved ones until the murderer is brought to justice. While the entire kingdom mourns, Scilla’s...

Gut a fish. Rewire a truck. Survive the collapse of the US government. All lessons fifteen-year-old Lark has learned during “homeschool” with her conspiracy-theorist-doomsday-prepping parents. If only she’d also learned the fundamentals...

Surrender Your Sons is an LGBTQ+ YA mystery / thriller that expertly blends together humor, horror, and heart, in a wholly unique read like no other. A blend of Lost and Lord of the Flies … just with gay teenagers taking the horrors of the world...

A powerful, award-winning debut for fans of Amber Smith’s The Way I Used To Be. Victoria Parker knew her dad’s behavior toward her was a little unusual, but she convinced herself everything was fine—until she found herself locked...

A rising star in Muay Thai figures out what (and who) is worth fighting for in this YA debut full of heart. If seventeen-year-old Kareena Thakkar is going to alienate herself from the entire Indian community, she might as well do it gloriously...

Bounced between foster homes since the age of seven, Jessica knows better than to set down roots. Most of the kids at her new Michigan high school think she’s a witch anyway (because, you know, goth). The only one who gives her the time of day is...

After Philly teenager Alexis Duncan is injured in a gang shooting, her dreams of a college scholarship and pro basketball career vanish in an instant. To avoid becoming another Black teen trapped in her poverty-stricken neighborhood, she shifts her focus...

It’s been a rough year for Alex Collins. In the past twelve months, he’s lost his best friend, become the target of the two biggest bullies at school, and been sentenced to community service. But on June 25, 2013, he gets a call for help from...

Get healthy on their own—or stay sick together? At Recovery and Relief, a treatment center for girls with eating disorders, the first thing Shoshana Winnick does is attach herself to vibrant but troubled Rowan Parish. Shoshana—a cheerleader...

The Fandom Fever series provides an inside look to some of today's hottest musical fandoms. From Swifties to the BTS ARMY, fans and soon-to-be fans will enjoy this hi-lo series. Titles Included: Beyonce's BeyHive Blackpink's Blinks Harry Style's Harries...

Help students get the concepts they need to know while building foundational reading skills with The Breakdown. Each title layers decoding strategies with comprehension skills to ensure students can access the text as they build content knowledge. With...

Sphinxes and dragons and witches, oh my! Join Elena, her big brother Jorge, and their friends Marcus, Fiona, and Amy as they travel through time to ancient civilizations hunting for mythical monsters and keeping them safe from the eyes of history! This...

Nightmute Academy offers a unique summer learning experience. As new students Suni, Gale, and Shi-woo will discover, there's more than reading, writing, and arithmetic taking place on campus. In this school's lockers, you're just as likely to find a...

Doing the right thing is never easy--especially if you feel alone. But having friends who are out of this world can help! A spaceship full of alien athletes who crash-landed on Earth offer advice to their new human friends. Whether it's confidence...

Do you think students can tell fact from fiction? In a world where social media reigns supreme and tweets and posts go viral, discerning what's fact from fiction can be more difficult than it seems. The Conspiracy Theories: DEBUNKED series takes a closer...

Could you survive being stranded at sea? What about a plane crash in the middle of the jungle? Each book in the True Survival series explores a shocking survival story. Books are written with a high interest level and lower level of complexity to serve...

The Nerd Culture hi-lo series covers popular topics in the nerd community: DIY, fantasy, gaming, Japanese popular culture, role-playing, and science fiction. Titles Included: Nerding Out About DIY Nerding Out About Fantasy Nerding Out About Gaming...

Each title uncovers some of the most famous fakers, schemers, and cheaters who turned the world, and the truth, upside down across the ages. Readers of this high-low series learn how to spot a lie and confirm the truth for themselves as they look a...

Everyone knows their stories, but do you know the REAL history behind the stories? History has never been so juicy! Written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience and a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help...

Who were history's biggest rebels? Who was voted "Life of the Party"? Who had the biggest heart? In the History's Yearbook series, readers will learn about the amazing women in history. From business savvy "girl bosses" to fierce women warriors to...

Failure is part of life, and the old adage "try, try again" is at the center of this hi-lo series exploring failures across industries that, with ingenuity and resilience, turned into some of the world's greatest success stories. Surprising origin...

Could you survive a zombie apocalypse? What about being hunted by predators? Or an AI uprising? This book could save your life. Each book in this series contains five survivalist hacks from everyday objects, monsters don't stand a chance! Hacks are...

The STEM Files graphic novel series focuses on the hilarious, top secret stories of ambitious, but inept, would-be evil villains. These blundering cast of characters try their hardest to take over the world and unleash their evil plan only to fail...

Science can be weird. What's the purpose of snot? How do we taste flavors? Why do polar bears look white if their skin is black? In How the Heck Does That Work?! series, readers will explore the science behind how things work from plants to space to the...

The truth is out there, and the Star Gazers is looking for it! Follow friends Erin, Mateo, and Noel as they follow clues that lead them through Area 51, deep under the sea, and even into outer space. On the way, they meet some out-of-this-world aliens...

After being bitten by a highly advanced robot, Imran soon discovers that he has nanotechnology coursing through his veins. Now, able to do things that kids his age can only dream of, Imran becomes Robot Boy--a crime-fighting superhero who uses his...

Malcolm and his friend Daniela are having the coolest summer ever. Malcolm's dad, Dr. Thomas, has brought them to his work--on Mars! Exploring the unexplored up close is every young scientist's dream. The planet's craters, dust storms, and volcanoes lead...

As an adventurous team prepares to return to Earth from Mars, they break down their camp and make notes about how to improve the livable conditions of Mars for both future explorers and long-term sustainable life. The subject of terraforming intrigues...

An adventurous team discovers why the chaos terrain of Mars is so chaotic when waves of lava flow over the land, trapping them on a ridge. With the magma rising, Malcolm imagines the region as a migratory haven for the birds of Mars, and through this...

Even with no visible water present, the team discovers a vast ocean that stretches deep beneath the surface of Mars. While Malcolm imagines the aquatic Martians who live there to be uniquely adapted to the dark, their technology proves to not be as...

Mesmerized by the unique landscape of the brain terrain, Malcolm imagines the type of Martians that could have adapted to life along the complex ridges that wrinkle the landscape. Stranded a long way from camp, the team must harness the energy from a...

An adventurous team inspects a series of volcanoes on Mars but these puzzling structures erupt with mud instead of lava. When Daniela gets too close to one of the formations, her beloved biologist field kit falls in, sinking beneath the surface. Dr...

An adventurous team explores the Mars plains, which is littered with impact craters as far as the eye can see. As Malcolm imagines the region filled with gentle giants who travel in herds, Daniela analyzes the soil and makes a startling realization--a...

Three interplanetary explorers arrive at the yardangs of Mars, a series of spellbinding rocky ridges that have been shaped by centuries of wind erosion. But the team runs into trouble when their portable navigation device gets damaged! Surrounded by...

The rover Perseverance is damaged and stranded in the windswept sand seas of Mars. The team of interplanetary explorers locates the rover, but Dr. Thomas is unable to repair it in the field without the necessary parts. Malcolm and Daniela volunteer to...

Have you ever wondered why you look the way you do? Why are some people tall or short? Why do we have different eye colors? This colorful graphic novel helps to answer these questions by outlining the concepts of traits and heredity through colorful...

If even the tiniest cells are alive, does that mean they have life cycles? Yes! This colorful graphic novel explains how the cell life cycle works and why they’re so important to animals and plants. Readers will learn about the parts of the cell and...