Del Norte Public Library

For sixteen-year-old Lana life is often difficult, with a flirtatious foster father, an ice queen foster mother, a houseful of special needs children to care for, and bullies harassing her, until the day she ventures into an antique shop and buys a drawing set that may change her life.

"Some things must be learned the hard way...Reed sees an opportunity to teach the school bully not to mess with him, but ends up mangling the lesson. Robert, an exhausted single father, gets a crash course in parenting when he buys a fancy new teddy bear to watch and entertain his young son. Chris, eager to join the Science Club at school, agrees to undergo a grisly experiment to be accepted. But in the malevolent universe of Five Nights at Freddy's,...

Presents twelve stories by contemporary, award-winning young adult authors, some presented in graphic or letter format, which explore themes of gender identity, love, and sexuality.

Presents facts about the action in all three books, provides a biography of the author, and offers insights into the main themes and features--from the nature of evil, to weaponry and rebellions, to surviving the end of the world.

Civil war tears apart the super hero community as the government enacts the Superhuman Registration Act.

The second volume in a series that will publish the entire run of the acclaimed 1980s Bloom County comic strip.

Thirteen of YA's most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe's most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation. Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction. Whether the stories are familiar to readers or discovered for the first time, readers will revel in Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales, and how they've been brought...

Cassandra Clare's Mortal instruments series, epic urban fantasy set in a richly imagined world of shadowhunters, vampires, werewolves, fairies and more, has captured the imaginations and loyalty of hundreds of thousands of young adult readers. Shadowhunters and Downworlders, edited by Clare (who provides an introduction to the book and each piece), is a collection of young adult authors writing about the series and its world.