When Libby wakes up in the hospital, she’s told she’s going to be charged in an accident that has left an innocent victim clinging to life. But Libby can remember none of it. She can’t even remember the guy who keeps sending her flowers and acting like he’s her boyfriend. With the help of her best friend, Libby pieces together the events of the tragic evening. As memories start trickling through, she begins to realize that what she’s been told may not be what happened at all. But is she prepared for a truth that is darker than the fiction?

Live to Tell

Children's Books

Harrington, Lisa

Mysteries & Detectives

DCB Young Readers

Marty and Bill’s joyride in a 1937 Cord 812 Sportsman, and the accidental foiling of a robbery, is caught on video by their friend, aspiring teen reporter Elizabeth Murphy. The video goes viral, and Marty and Bill, or at least their accidental alter egos, Nothing Man and the Purple Zero, become instant celebrities. Is this a fleeting moment of celebrity? Or is the trio living up to a destiny foretold by a dying principal who reminded them that “some have greatness thrust upon them”?

Nothing Man and the Purple Zero

Scarsbrook, Richard

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Serena’s newfound popularity also means discovering the pain of being a fifteen-year-old girl in a world that both sexualizes and shames young women. After narrowly avoiding exploitation in a short-lived relationship, Serena aligns with a new friend who was the victim of an explicit image that was shared at school. When Serena finds herself in a relationship with a new guy, she is surprised to find a different set of expectations. As Serena struggles to find who she is as opposed to who she is expected to be, she begins sighting Devin, her older brother who disappeared months earlier.

The Sweetest Thing You Can Sing

Teen & Young Adult

Martin, C. K. Kelly

Literature & Fiction

Medical science has found a way to remove diseases from the sick. The catch? They can only transfer the diseases into other living humans. The government now uses the technology to cure the innocent by infecting criminals. It is into this world that Talia Hale is born. Now sixteen and the daughter of a prime ministerial candidate, she discovers that the effort to ensure bad things happen only to bad people has turned a once-thriving community into a slum and has made life perilous for two new friends.Nominated for a Snow Willow Award and the 2017 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards

Transferral

Blair, Kate

When a team in an all-girls' hockey league during World War I comes to town looking for a new star player, twelve-year-old Lou thinks his dreams are coming true. But the dreams hinge on one thing: never letting on that he is a boy. The road to stardom is not easy, as Lou discovers that the competition is fierce. All the while, he has to keep his secret and wrestle with the moral dilemma of taking a job away from a deserving female. Loosely based on a true story, Lightning Lou is a riveting and thought-provoking story for middle-grade readers.

Lightning Lou

Weber, Lori

History

Fifteen-year-old Gemma's life on a small New Brunswick island with her father, Jonah, is not an exciting one. Her mother ran off when she was an infant, and Jonah, an amateur scientist, spends most of his time conducting experiments he thinks will one day bring him fame. But when a woman arrives on the island, Gemma tries to play matchmaker—only to discover Jonah’s secret journals, which hold terrifying secrets about both their lives. Mystery, science, and dreams of a better life collide in this page-turning young adult novel from Barbara Radecki.

The Darkhouse

Radecki, Barbara

Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden—but what they don't know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves.

The Marrow Thieves

Dimaline, Cherie

Science, Nature & How It Works

Overweight and bullied, Lionel tries to attract as little attention as possible. Then he discovers something about himself: he's a fast runner. He joins the running group and is recruited for the school track team. But being on the track team and getting more attention brings Lionel closer to the bullies he's been avoiding and makes him a target.

Skuy, David

Sports & Outdoors

It’s taken four hundred years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination, Beta Earth, an uninhabited, untouched planet. The first night seventeen-year-old engineer Ursa is on Beta Earth, she encounters a dead body. She's positive she saw a large creature with sharp teeth, something that shouldn't even be on the planet, but nobody believes her. As injuries and bodies start piling up, Ursa must figure out who to trust when her fellow crewmates start taking sides between maintaining Venture's safety and the hope of creating a home on Beta Earth.

Tangled Planet

As far as Miranda1 knows, there is one world: Oculum. Its dome, its walls and its garden are all there is. That's what the residents have been taught since birth. But William1 shows her something: a door in Oculum's wall. And if there is a door, there must be something on the other side… What they don't know is that there is a shattered world outside where a ragged few, such as Mannfred, Cranker and their friends, struggle to survive among the ruins. These people have heard of a paradise within Oculum. And they, too, have found a door.

Oculum (The Children of Oculum, 1)

Dowding, Philippa

Humor

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