NCW Libraries

"James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover ... seemingly interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light--and each other. Where James is passive, Michelle is anything but. And she quickly discovers that the flashing green light is actually ... a button. Which she presses ... Before they can figure up from down, strange, impossible things start happening: snowstorms form inside the B terminal; jungles...

Ever since the monster apocalypse hit town, average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores. But Jack alone is no match for the hordes of Zombies and Winged Wretches and Vine Thingies, and especially not for the eerily intelligent monster known only as Blarg....

In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as...

Seventeen-year-old Veronica never thought she'd want to fail a test-that is until she finds herself staring at a piece of plastic with a blue plus. With a promising college-bound future now disappearing before her eyes, Veronica considers a decision she never imagined she'd have to make. This never-taken-lightly decision leads her on a 1000-mile hilarious road trip to New Mexico over three days with her ex-best friend, Bailey where they discover sometimes...

Provides readers with a humorous look at what happens to a teenager's body and mind when they reach puberty.

Efrén es un seductor experto; cautiva a las mujeres y siempre mantiene el control, pero algo le sale mal después de acostarse con Joana; de pronto se ve envuelto en problemas que no sabe resolver. Confundido y enojado, conoce a Dhamar, una chica diferente que lo confronta y lo hace entender el verdadero significado del amor y la sexualidad. La historia de estos jóvenes está llena de emociones y escenas fascinantes. El lector quedará extasiado...

Every thousand years, mamodo descend upon earth to conduct the ultimate battle. The winning mamodo becomes the king of the mamodo world. In order for the many mamodo to use their powerful spell books, they need a human partner. Kiyo is a brilliant but aloof fourteen-year old. Kiyo's father, an archeologist, finds a mamodo child named Zatch unconscious in a forest. He sends the goodhearted Zatch to be his son's mentor. It is up to Kiyo and Zatch to...

Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Raven continue the fun in season five with all-new comedic adventures, giving viewers a look at what life is really like as a teen superhero once the cape comes off. With epic staring contests to decide who does the laundry, a series of quests and battles to construct the perfect sandwich or fighting crime in Jump City, one thing is for sure, these Titans are always ready for an adventure, inside the house and...

It is a smart, funny high school junior who happens to be obese. He secretly befriends the prettiest girl in school via social media by pretending to be a jock from another school. As Butter struggles with bullying and self-esteem at school, he plans an incredible social media stunt that will risk his life but gain him attention and popularity. Can he go through with it?

"A new school year begins, and Shiraishi and Kubo land seats in the same class again! They also join the environmental committee together and learn that Kubo isn't the only one who notices Shiraishi. The invisible boy inches toward a social life, but is he ready for an unexpected movie date?"--