Our May roundup includes Emmy Laybourne's follow-up to MONUMENT 14, SKY ON FIRE and Elizabeth Wein's CODE NAME VERITY in paperback.
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Charles and Nate are high school best friends, even though they couldn’t be more different. Charles is a basketball star, and Nate is a science nerd who likes to build robots. But they’ve been friends for years, and nothing’s going to tear them apart…except possibly the head cheerleader, Holly, who wants to kill them both.
She's been six different people in six different places. But now that she's been transplanted to rural Louisiana, she has decided that this fake identity will be her last. Meg has just about had it and it's time she got some answers for herself. But Ethan Landry knows Meg is hiding something big. As they embark on a perilous journey to free her family once and for all, Meg discovers that there's only one rule that really matters --- survival.
More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist, a person who has the power to infuse life into two-dimensional figures known as Chalklings. But as the son of a lowly chalkmaker, he can only watch. When students start disappearing, Joel and his friend Melody are assigned to help the professor investigating the crimes. They find themselves on the trail of an unexpected discovery, one that will change Rithmatics --- and their world --- forever.
Justine charmed the nation in a documentary film featuring five kindergartners. Five years later, her edgy sense of humor made her the star of a second movie. Now Justine is 16, and another sequel is in the works. Justine isn’t ready to have viewers examining her life again. But, ready or not, she and the other four teens will soon be in front of the cameras again.
Camden Fisher arrives at boarding school haunted by a falling-out with her best friend back home. One of Cam's new friends mysteriously disappears, but the teachers don't seem too concerned. Cam wakes up to strangers in her room, who then melt into the night. She is suddenly plagued by odd memories, and senses there might be something dark and terrible brewing.
Chelsea isn’t looking forward to her summer at the lake. It’s the first time her family has been there since her grandmother died, and she can’t break out of her funk. But then she meets cute, sweet and funny Josh. As the days pass by in a blur of boat rides, picnics, and stolen kisses, she can’t believe how lucky she is. But Chelsea knows her days with Josh are numbered.
Meet Rochelle “Elle” Evans: pretty, popular --- and never been kissed. Meet Noah Flynn: badass, volatile --- and a total player. When Elle decides to run a kissing booth at her school's Spring Carnival, she locks lips with Noah and her life is turned upside down. Her head says to keep away, but her heart wants to draw closer. This romance seems far from a fairy tale.
When Seth starts talking to Skye at the last beach party of the summer, it's obvious to both of them that this is something real. But when Seth leaves for college before they exchange contact info, Skye wonders if he felt the same way she did --- and if she will ever see him again.
Julianna Farnetti and Shane Cruz are remembered as the golden couple of Summit Lakes High, but Julianna’s journal tells a different story --- one with secrets that were swept away with her the night that Shane’s jeep plunged into an icy river. Reading Julianna’s journal gives Parker Frost the courage to start to really live --- and reasons to question what really happened the night of the accident.
Emma has just learned that her mother is a long-lost Poseidon princess, and now struggles with an identity crisis: As a Half-Breed, she's a freak in the human world and an abomination in the Syrena realm. Her mother's sudden reappearance turns Poseidon and Triton against one another. Emma is left with a decision to make.
If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail and her to who knows where. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness. That's how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn't want her and going to a school that doesn't understand her. Except for the one guy who shouldn't get her....
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