Akron Public Library

Deuce struggles for respect in a new topside town where she is treated like a child and avoided by Fade, a situation that compels her to volunteer for patrol duty and protect topside citizens from an unexpected upsurge in Freak activity.

Rachel Deering, an otherwise normal 13-year-old aspiring ballerina from Miami, suddenly finds herself in the hospital, diagnosed with diabetes. Now she needs to learn how to manage her disease, and to cope with being different from all her friends. Will she ever dancd again? Rachel Deering loves-and lives-to dance. She dreams of someday becoming a professional dancer. When she is invited to try out at the regional auditions for New York City Ballet...

When sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall but even to the balloon makers, Ellies time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everythingincluding her only...

Now that Dawn and Mary Anne are friends and sisters, their relationship is not everything they dreamed it would be.

When eighteen-year-old Becky Randle's mother dies, she is whisked away from a trailer park to New York City, where fashion designer Tom Kelly offers to transform her into a glamorous Rebecca, a girl fit for a prince--but soon she begins to fear that she will lose touch with her real self.

Liza tries to put aside her feelings for Annie after the disaster at Foster Academy, but eventually she allows love to triumph over the ignorance of others.

An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey?s daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother?s gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects with him. Audrey can talk through her fears with Linus in a way she?s never been able to do with anyone before. As their friendship deepens and her recovery gains momentum, a sweet romantic connection develops, one that helps not just...

When a frightening ordeal turns her life upside down, Darcy reaches out to her friends for help, but discovers that one of them has an even bigger secret.

"Chronic overachiever Prudence Daniels is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic justice are fulfilled when, after a night out with her friends, she wakes up with the sudden ability to cast instant karma on those around her. Pru giddily makes use of the power, punishing everyone from public vandals to mean gossips, but there is one person on whom her powers consistently backfire:...

Mia is officially a Troubled Teen. She gets bad grades, drinks too much, and has probably gone too far with too many guys. But she doesn't realize how out of control she seems until she is taken from her home in the middle of the night and sent away to Red Oak Academy, a therapeutic girls' boarding school in the middle of nowhere. While there, Mia is forced to confront her painful past at the same time she questions why she's at Red Oak. If she were...