From #1 New York Times bestselling author and former TRCA nominee Patrick Ness comes a new novel described by author Andrew Smith as “beautiful, enchanting, and exquisitely written.” Inspired by Judy Blume’s Forever and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, this novel tells the story of Adam Thorn a young man struggling with his family’s religious beliefs, an employer’s inappropriate advances, and his unrequited love for his sort-of ex, Enzo.

From Jason Reynolds, one of the co-authors of the 2017 nominee All American Boys, comes a novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. Told in free-verse poems, this story is about fifteen-year-old Will who sees his older brother, Shawn, gunned down on the streets, and sets out to do the expected: seek revenge for his brother’s death.

Shadow Scale, the sequel to Seraphina, a 2014 Top 10 title, picks up where Seraphina left off, with the Queendom of Goredd coming to terms with the existence of half-dragons, a civil war among the dragons themselves after an act of betrayal, and the risk of that war spilling across their borders.

When war eventually breaks out between the dragons and humans, Seraphina must travel the lands to find those like herself—for together they will be able to fight the dragons in powerful, magical ways.
 
As Seraphina gathers her crew, she is pursued by humans who want to stop her. But the most terrifying is another half dragon, who can creep into people’s minds and take them over. Will Seraphina play it safe or risk everything?