Cammie goes to Gallagher Academy, where she doesn’t have to take Algebra, or English, or Biology. She takes covert operations and advanced encryption, and she’s learned to speak 14 languages. She’s in spy school. And she decides to use what she’s learned to sneak out of school at night and blend in with the townies, including a very cute boy named Josh. Securities pretty tight in a spy school, though, so Cammie has to be very clever and get a lot of help from her friends to make it work.

Raphael, Gordo, and Rat pick through trash for a living. On a good day, they find enough metal to sell to buy food that night. Then Raphael finds the bag. It contains a stack of money, a map, and a key. The money turns out to be the least valuable of those three things. The boys know they’ve found something important, because the police come looking for it, and they’re willing to kill to get it back. Raphael, Gordo, and Rat have to keep their find safe and figure out why what they’ve found is so important.

In 1692 in Salem Massachusetts, 22 people were executed for being witches. One by one, these people have been accused by a group of teenage girls, and the townspeople have listened to them. In turn, the accused witches are hanged, stoned, or drowned, and the town keeps turning back to these girls to identify more witches. This book tells the story of the girls who started the Salem witch trials.

It’s 1793 in Philadelphia, and mosquitoes are carrying a disease. It spreads slowly at first. There’s a case reported here and there. Your neighbor’s servant gets it, or you hear a rumor of someone collapsing down at the docks. But it just keeps spreading, and all of a sudden, it’s your best friend, your teacher, your father’s boss. Five thousand people die. For Mattie, that includes her mother. Her father is already dead, and she’s left with just her grandfather, fighting to survive.

Moose is 12, and his family moves to Alcatraz Island. It’s basically a big rock off the coast of San Francisco, where they built a prison to hold the most dangerous criminals of all time, like Al Capone, who was a mob boss. He’s having a tough time, because his dad works really long hours, he misses his baseball team, and he has to spend a lot of his time taking care of his sister, who has autism. And then he meets Piper. And even though Piper is the warden’s daughter, she has no qualms about causing trouble. She’s decided that Moose is going to help her.

Bud’s mom died when he was young, and he’s grown up in a bunch of different orphanages and foster homes. When his most recent family locks him in a shed with a hornet’s nest, he decides he’s had enough. The one thing he has left from his mother is an old flier with a picture of a jazz musician on it. And he decides that he’s going to go find the man in the picture.

Abilene’s always traveled with her dad as he hops trains and goes where the work is. But now that she’s 12, he doesn’t feel like he can handle taking her along. He sends her to live in the town where he grew up: Manifest, Kansas. In the room where she’s staying, Abilene finds a box full of letters and a note that says “The Rattler is Watching.” She’s sure that the Rattler is still living in Manifest, and she’s determined to find out who it is.

Piper grew up in a tiny little farming town, where you were expected to behave properly. Children should be seen and not heard. They should do as their parents tell them. They should listen quietly in school. And they shouldn't do anything out of the ordinary. That last one is a problem for Piper. Because she can fly, and she can't control it. Sometimes when she gets excited, it just happens. Her parents are desperate to keep this a secret. And they succeed for thirteen years. Then, one night, Piper and her family are at a town picnic, and Piper jumps to catch a ball, and she just keeps going up. The people in the town think it's the work of the devil, and Piper's parents don't know what to do. But soon, administrators from a school for children with special talents invite Piper to come away with them. Piper is thrilled, until it turns out the school is not what she expected.

Thirteen years ago, a plane landed at the airport. It appeared out of nowhere, and the only passengers on board were 36 infants. The government covered it all up and shipped the infants off to adoption agencies across the country. But now those infants have grown into teenagers, and they’re all being drawn back to the town where they were found one by one. Then they start getting notes telling them that they’re “among the missing” and that someone is coming to find them.

As climate changed in the world, hurricanes ravaged the coast and destroyed most of the cities and most of the civilization on the eastern sea board. Nailer lives on what’s left of the Louisiana shore. He works with a crew scavenging old, ship wrecked ships to try to find wire and metal and things to sell so that they can buy food to eat. After a really bad storm, he and his friend Pima come across a luxury ship. And they know that with what they find on board, they can make themselves rich for the rest of their lives. But then, they here a cry, and they find the girl who's father owned the ship, the girl who now owns the ship, and she's trapped, and they have to decide, should they free her and let her have her ship, or should they kill her and take the ship for themselves?

A group of scientists experiment on children to try to create superhumans. Most of the kids the kids die, but there’s one group that survived. They’ve had bird DNA spliced into their genes, so in addition to having arms and legs and hands and feet, they all have wings, and they have special abilities. They escaped from the scientists who were torturing them, and they’ve all been living together and hiding and learning to fight. But the scientists send a pack of half human/half wolves after them, and one of the kids gets kidnapped. The rest have to return to the lab where they were tormented to try to save their friend.

Tally lives in a world where you’re only ugly until you turn sixteen. On your sixteenth birthday, you get an operation that makes you flawlessly beautiful. Once you become a Pretty, you get to live in a mansion with all the other sixteen year olds and party as often and as long as you want. But Tally wants to turn it all down. She’s heard that surgery not only makes everyone look beautiful, but it also makes everyone act like complacent drones. The surgery’s not optional, so Tally has to find a way to escape.

Book Talk: Thomas wakes up in an elevator, and the only thing he can remember is his own name. He gets hauled out of the elevator to find that he’s trapped inside a maze along with 60 other teenage boys. They live in a clearing called the glade in the middle of the maze. Every day they search for an escape from the maze. Every night they hide from the Grievers. They’re running out of time, and they have to find a way out.

Book Talk: Jacob's grandfather, Isaac, has always told him stories about the peculiar children who lived on the island where he was sent to live during World War II. Isaac would tell Jacob stories about his friends there: a boy with bees living inside him, an invisible boy, a girl who could levitate, and a boy who could bring clay figures to life by planting mice hearts in their chests. When he was young, Jacob loved the stories, but as he gets older, they start to sound crazy to him. Then his grandfather starts getting more and more forgetful, and more and more paranoid. He starts stockpiling guns, and he is always saying that the monsters are after him. When his body turns up dead in the woods, Jacob decides to travel to the island where his grandfather grew up to try to find the truth behind the stories.

Book Talk: Rafe has just started sixth grade. The whole school is called into the gym for an assembly, and the principal makes every kid in the school sit there while he reads every single rule from the student code of conduct. Rafe is so bored, that his mind starts to wander, and he gets an idea. He decides to spend his school year BREAKING every single rule from the student code of conduct. And this is the story of Rafe's attempt to carry out that plan.

Book Talk: Scott Hutchinson gets bullied at school. Almost every day he gets shoved into a locker or soaked by the water fountain. All the kids at his school think he's a total wuss. The really infuriating thing is that he's ten times as fast and strong as the kids who beat him up, but he has to pretend like he's a wimp. Because secretly, he's a superhero. He just can't blow his cover and let anyone know it. His alter ego is Bright Boy, and after school he and his adopted dad, Phantom Justice, fight bad guys and stop crimes all over the city.

Book Talk: What do you value most? Bravery, intelligence, selflessness, honesty, or peacefulness? In this society, when you turn 16, you have to choose. That choice will determine who your friends are, how you live your life, and whether you ever see your family again for the rest of your life, because you have to go live with the people who made the same choice you did. Tris chooses to be Dauntless, to be brave, and to be one of the people who defends her city, but when she makes that choice, she has no idea what she's really going to have to defend her city from...

Book Talk: This book is about three kids. Bird is a runaway, but she’s trying to find something, not to get away from something. Her stepfather has gone missing, and Bird’s trying to find him. Ethan is a boy who almost died, but got a heart transplant just in time. He can run for the first time in his life. Jay is a boy whose brother just died, and he’s dealing with it by stealing cars and going for joy rides. Then he gets picked up by the police. Their lives are all connected, and you’ll get to see how their woven together in this book, Bird, by Angela Johnson.

Book Talk: Colt's grown up reading his dad's World War II comic books. He knows in and out the story of the Phantom Flyer, the U.S. hero who swooped in on a jetpack to fight the Nazis and the aliens who were helping them. When he's 16, though, Colt's suddently brought back to reality, when his parents are killed in a car crash. As the story unfolds, he discovers that there's more truth to his comic books than he realized, that his parents' car crash wasn't an accident, and that the two may be connected.