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Tilt
by Alan CumynNominated for the Ottawa Book Award Stan is an intense sixteen-year-old loner who desperately wants to make the junior varsity basketball team. And it seems that he may be about to do so, until he’s blindsided by the unexpected attentions of Janine Igwash. Suddenly Stan is no longer thinking about jump shots. Instead he is obsessed with Janine’s spiky hair, her milky white shoulders and the mysterious little tattoo at the base of her neck, not to mention the heat of her breath, her dark eyes, wide hips and … Then Stan’s father arrives on the scene with Stan’s four-year-old half brother, and things become truly insane. Tilt is a wonderfully droll and insightful story about a sensitive, intelligent and gently funny young man living through an impossibly absurd time of life. This book is a rare achievement -- a witty, sexy compulsively readable work of high literary quality.
Tilt
by Ellen HopkinsLove—good and bad—forces three teens&’ worlds to tilt in a riveting novel from New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins.Three teens, three stories—all interconnected through their parents&’ family relationships. As the adults pull away, caught up in their own dilemmas, the lives of the teens begin to tilt... Mikayla, almost eighteen, is over-the-top in love with Dylan, who loves her back. But what happens to that love when Mikayla gets pregnant the summer before their senior year—and decides to keep the baby? Shane turns sixteen that same summer and falls hard in love with his first boyfriend, Alex, who happens to be HIV positive. Shane has lived for four years with his little sister&’s impending death. Can he accept Alex&’s love, knowing that his life, too, will be shortened? Harley is fourteen—a good girl searching for new experiences, especially love from an older boy. She never expects to hurdle toward self-destructive extremes in order to define who she is and who she wants to be. Love, in all its forms, has crucial consequences in this standalone novel.
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
by Megan ShepherdCelebrate the 30th anniversary of the holiday classic Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas with this stunning collectible novelization, adapted by New York Times bestselling author Megan Shepherd.Jack Skellington is the beloved Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, but he has grown tired of leading the usual scares every year. Then he stumbles upon a mysterious tree-shaped door deep in the Hinterlands and falls straight into Christmas Town--an enchanting place like no other, full of sparkling snow, merry elves, and twinkling lights.Reinvigorated, Jack returns to Halloween Town and recruits the citizens into his new plan: to organize Christmas themselves! But even with aid from his loyal dog Zero and the resourceful rag doll Sally, challenges lurk around every corner. Sally sees a terrible vision of Jack falling into danger, and the mysterious Oogie Boogie hides in the shadows. Will Jack&’s dream of creating the perfect Christmas come true . . . or is it destined to become an utter nightmare? Complete your Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas collection with these ghoulish reads!The Nightmare Before Christmas, by Tim BurtonTim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: 13 Days of Christmas Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Long Live the Pumpkin Queen, by Shea ErnshawArt of Coloring: Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before ChristmasTim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Visual Companion
Timber Creek Station
by Ali LewisDanny Dawson lives on a cattle station in the Australian outback. Usually the annual cattle muster excites Danny, but everything is different now. Because Danny's beloved older brother died in an accident last year, and nobody will talk about it. Because his teenage sister is pregnant and won't tell anyone who the father is. Because his mother can't cope with any of it and has hired a wide-eyed English house girl to deal with the family. Timber Creek Station is the story of a grieving family, entrenched racism, and the surprising ways one boy—who thought he'd be stuck in one terrible place forever—can take a leap forward.
Timberline Tales
by Rutherford MontgomeryYoung Bill Bailey steps into the boots of his father as a hunter, working for irascible Major Jessup, the owner of the Bar-L ranch. Bill must prove his skill in protecting the ranch from predators, including a rogue grizzly bear, wolves, cougar and more. Two-footed predators are on the prowl too, as cattle rustlers target the ranch. Aided throughout by his wolf-dog Misko and his black mustang Thor, Bill even has to free the ranch of a beautiful chestnut mustang stallion that is stealing the Major's prize mares. Set in the high country of the American West, and authored by award winning author Rutherford Montgomery, this is a book for all fans of Westerns.
Time After Time
by Sara CrawfordPraised as Back to the Future for this generation. Megan Gallagher has only ever seen her mother as neurotic and overworked. When a Whitney Houston song at the 80s dance sends Megan back to 1987, she discovers her teenage mom dressed in all black and sneaking liquor in the bathroom. After preventing her mom's drunk car accident, Megan realizes she has one month to get her teenage parents to stop partying and learn enough about her family's secret to getting back home. Too bad the much cuter teenage version of her history teacher is such a distraction. With time running out and her future at stake, Megan must learn that, when it comes to family, you can't always get what you want, but you might just get what you need.
Time After Time (A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick)
by Mikki Daughtry**A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick**Two love stories. One hundred years apart. An unforgettable sapphic romance from the screenwriter and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel and film Five Feet Apart.Libby has always been inexplicably drawn to the old Victorian house on Mulberry Lane. So much so that when she sees a For Sale sign go up in the front yard, Libby uses all the money her grandmother left her to pay for college to buy the house instead, determined to fix it up herself—even though she knows her parents will be furious.Tish, a brash, broke fellow student, doesn&’t need much to get by. She can fix almost anything, so she makes do by building sets for the theater department and working odd jobs at the nearby salvage yard. Tish passes by the house one day and is mysteriously compelled to knock on the door. Libby offers her a room in exchange for her help with repairing the old house, and as they begin to work together, the two young women quickly find themselves growing closer.Soon after moving in, Libby discovers a journal written by a young woman, Elizabeth, who lived in the house a century earlier and was deeply in love with her personal maid, Patricia. As Elizabeth&’s journal entries delve deeper into her secret affair with Patricia—a love that was forbidden and dangerous in their time—Libby can&’t help but notice uncanny similarities between that young couple and Tish and herself.Have she and Tish lived this life before? And is this their chance to get it right?
Time Out
by Carlyn Greenwald Sean Hayes Todd MillinerHeartstopper meets Friday Night Lights in this keenly felt coming-of-age story about a teen hometown hero who must find out who he is outside of basketball when his coming out as gay costs him his popularity and place on the team.In his small Georgia town, Barclay Elliot is basically a legend. Here basketball is all that matters, and no one has a bigger spotlight than Barclay. Until he decides to use the biggest pep rally in the town&’s history to come out to his school. And things change. Quickly. Barclay is faced with hostility he never expected. Suddenly he is at odds with his own team, and he doesn&’t even have his grandfather to turn to the way he used to. But who is Barclay if he doesn&’t have basketball? His best friend, Amy, thinks she knows. She drags him to her voting rights group, believing Barclay can find a bigger purpose. And he does, but he also finds Christopher. Aggravating, fearless, undeniably handsome Christopher. He and Barclay have never been each other&’s biggest fans, but as Barclay starts to explore parts of himself he&’s been hiding away, they find they might have much more in common than they originally thought. As sparks turn into something more, though, Barclay has to decide if he&’s ready to confront the privilege and popularity that have shielded him his entire life. Can he take a real shot at the love he was fighting for in the first place?
Time Quest: The Slave Who Became a Hero
by Kristen VincentA work of fiction that targets the artists, dreamers and fantasy lovers. Zack woke up one morning hoping to hang out with his friend only to find that he was owned by a noble man back in the 12th century. tired of being a slave, and being termed as delirious by the townsmen, he embarks on a journey to get back home with the help of Princess Lorinda who seems to be the only one who believes him
Time Trap
by Margo SorensonAleesa and Kenneth, two classroom enemies, are paired to work on a school project about the 1960's. As they begin their research, they find themselves transported to March, 1968, in a race to stop an American tragedy, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. What can they do to change history? Ages 7-14.
Time Travel for Love and Profit
by Sarah LariviereWhen Nephele has a terrible freshman year, she does the only logical thing for a math prodigy like herself: she invents a time travel app so she can go back and do it again (and again, and again) in this funny love story, Groundhog Day for the iPhone generation.Fourteen-year-old Nephele used to have friends. Well, she had a friend. That friend made the adjustment to high school easily, leaving Nephele behind in the process. And as Nephele looks ahead, all she can see is three very lonely years.Nephele is also a whip-smart lover of math and science, so she makes a plan. Step one: invent time travel. Step two: go back in time, have a do-over of 9th grade, crack the code on making friends and become beloved and popular. Does it work? Sort of. Nephele does travel through time, but not the way she planned--she's created a time loop, and she's the only one looping. And she keeps looping, for ten years, always alone. Now, facing ninth grade for the tenth time, Nephele knows what to expect. Or so she thinks. She didn't anticipate that her new teacher would be a boy from her long ago ninth grade class, now a grown man; that she would finally make a new friend, after ten years. And, she couldn't have pictured someone like Jazz, with his deep violet eyes, goofy magic tricks and the quietly intense way he sees her. After ten freshman years, she still has a lot more to learn. But now that she's finally figured out how to go back, has she found something worth staying for?
Time Traveler Tales (Time Traveler Tales)
by Dave ScheidtAn all-ages action adventure comics story from content creator and internet superstar Karl Jacobs!Oliver has a problem—a time travel problem. An unknown force keeps throwing him through time, from the Wild West to the 1920s to a haunted beach house. All while a mysterious stranger pursues him, seeking Oliver&’s abilities and to gain power over time itself!This volume collects the comics series debut from Karl Jacobs, in collaboration with writer David Scheidt (Mayor Good Boy, Avatar the Last Airbender, Star Wars Adventures), artists Kicking Shoes (Pandora&’s Legacy, The Power of the Dark Crystal, R.L. Stine Just Beyond: The Scare School), and letterer Joamette Gil.Collects Time Traveler Tales #1–#5.
Time Will Tell
by Barry LygaA young-adult thriller ricocheting between the bigotry of the past and present as teens unravel their parents&’ secrets. Perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying. Four teens have dug up the time capsule that their parents buried in 1986 and never bothered to recover. But in addition to the expected ephemera of mixtapes, Walkmans, photographs, letters, toys, and assorted junk, Elayah, Liam, Marcie, and Jorja discover something sinister: a hunting knife stained with blood and wrapped with a note. &“I'm sorry. I didn&’t mean to kill anyone." As the action dramatically alternates between the present day and 1986, the mystery unfolds and the sins of the past echo into today. The teens haven't just unearthed a time capsule: they&’ve also dug up pain and secrets that someone—maybe one of their own parents—is willing to kill for.
Time for Bed, Sleepyhead: The Falling Asleep Book
by Daniel G. AmenThis book contains specific suggestions that help facilitate sleep.
Time of Our Lives
by Emily Wibberley Austin Siegemund-Broka"Emily and Austin have a reputation for delivering heartwarming, provoking, and real contemporary YA novels."--BuzzFeedA reflective, romantic coming-of-age novel that explores life after high school--perfect for fans of Fangirl and Emergency ContactA boy desperate to hold on, a girl ready to let go.Fitz Holton waits in fear for the day his single mother's early-onset Alzheimer's starts stealing her memory. He's vowed to stay close to home to care for her in the years to come--never mind the ridiculous college tour she's forcing him on to visit schools where he knows he'll never go. Juniper Ramirez is counting down the days until she can leave home, a home crowded with five younger siblings and zero privacy. Against the wishes of her tight-knit family, Juniper plans her own college tour of the East Coast with one goal: get out.When Fitz and Juniper cross paths on their first college tour in Boston, they're at odds from the moment they meet-- while Juniper's dying to start a new life apart from her family, Fitz faces the sacrifices he must make for his. Their relationship sparks a deep connection--in each other's eyes, they glimpse alternate possibilities regarding the first big decision of their adult lives. Time of Our Lives is a story of home and away, of the wonder and weight of memory, of outgrowing fears and growing into the future.
Time of the Witches
by Anna MyersOrphaned at the age of four, Drucilla finally has a place she can call home with her new family, the Putnams, of Salem Village. But when a new reverend and his family move into town with their servant Tituba, life takes a strange and dangerous turn as accusations of witchcraft swirl. Dru is overwhelmed by the fervor of lies and the power of groupthink among the other girls in town; reluctant to turn her back on the Putnams, she utters her own accusations. Only her best friend Gabe sees through the deceit, but it may be too late for Dru to protect the truth, and innocent people will pay the ultimate price. Guiding readers through the confusion of this frightening historical event, Anna Myers weaves a compelling story that will captivate teen readers.
Time to Move on (Carter High Senior Year)
by Eleanor RobinsThese books continue the stories from Carter High Chronicles and introduce new characters. Topics are involving and pertinent to young adult readers: romance, sports, friendships, exams, work, family.
Time to Shine: A Fab Life Novel
by Nikki CarterTrying to juggle the Grammy awards, an unfaithful boyfriend, and arguments between her and her boy-crazy friends has got Sunday stressed to the limit. Not to mention the fact that her cousin, Dreya, continues to be a thorn in her side with her competitive nature.
Timebound
by Rysa WalkerWhen Kate Pierce-Keller's grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate's present-day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence. Kate learns that the 1893 killing is part of something much more sinister, and her genetic ability to time travel makes Kate the only one who can fix the future. Risking everything, she travels back in time to the Chicago World's Fair to try to prevent the murder and the chain of events that follows. Changing the timeline comes with a personal cost--if Kate succeeds, the boy she loves will have no memory of her existence. And regardless of her motives, does Kate have the right to manipulate the fate of the entire world?
Timed Readings (Third Edition) (Book Eight)
by Edward SpargoDo your students fail to even finish a timed test? Do they read word by word? Do they simply move their eyes over the page, never remembering what they read? If you suspect that students' test scores are being confounded by any of these traits, or if you have students who need to process greater amounts of information, the Timed Readings books can help. For over thirty years, Jamestown has been helping students increase their reading rate and fluency while maintaining comprehension. Timed Readings is the original series of timed reading books; 400-word nonfiction timed passages in science, social studies, the humanities, and more.
Timeless Treasure (Harcourt School Publishers Trophies Series)
by Harcourt School Publishers StaffYou will find many kinds of treasures in this book. Some are ancient, like the artworks and artifacts found in the pharaohs' tombs. Some are modern, such as the iron gates sculpted by blacksmith Philip Simmons. Some are personal treasures, such as author Jerry Spinelli's trophy for winning a race. Others are living treasures, such as those found in the ocean depths by diver Sylvia Earle. Finally, there are the treasures of the heart. <P><P>When a Danish family saves a Jewish friend during World War II, readers realize what a priceless treasure friendship is. Books, stories, and poems themselves can be treasures, because they give meaning and enjoyment to our lives. We hope that Timeless Treasures will provide you with many types of reading experiences to treasure for years to come.
Timeline Of The Civil War (Americans At War: A Gareth Stevens Timeline Series)
by Charlie SamuelsPresents a timeline of the Civil War, including causes of the conflict, the life of soldiers on both sides, and the end of the war.
Timelock (The Caretaker Trilogy)
by David KlassIn Timelock, the thrilling finale to the Caretaker Trilogy, the end of life as we know it has arrived, and history will be made -- or lost -- at the hands of one young hero.Jack Danielson has spent the last year saving the oceans and the Amazon, attempting to fulfill a prophecy that was written before his birth. Now he's more than ready to get back to life as a typical teenager and spend some quality time with his girlfriend, P.J. Too bad the world has other plans. Wrenched away once more from those he knows and loves, Jack is thrust through time to the fiery deserts of the future and the frozen tundra of the Arctic, battling cyborgs, zombie warlocks, and scorpions the size of tanks. At least he has Gisco -- everyone's favorite surly telepathic canine -- to keep him company, not to mention the Ninja Babe, Eko. And he will finally be reunited with the parents who abandoned him so long ago, in order that he might save their dying planet. But it isn't only a race to save Earth. As the clock ticks down before the final confrontation with the dreaded Dark Lord, Jack must decide once and for all who he really is -- prince of the future or humble human of the present -- and choose between the two women who love him.
Timescape (Dreamhouse Kings #4)
by Robert LiparuloWhich door would you go through to save the world? David, Xander, and Toria King never know what new adventures and dangers await them beyond the mysterious portals hidden on the top floor of their new house. They have battled gladiators and the German army, dodged soldiers on both sides of the Civil War, and barely escaped a fierce attack in their own home. Still they are no closer to finding their mother, who was pulled by powerful forces through a portal and lost in time. Their only hope is to turn the tables on Taksidian, the menacing stranger who wants them out of the house so he can use it for his own twisted purposes. But everything changes when a trip into the near future reveals the devastating outcome of Taksidian's schemes--a destroyed city filled with mutant creatures. It is only then that the Kings realize what they're really fighting for--the fate of humanity itself.
Tin Heart: A Novel
by Shivaun PlozzaBestselling author of All the Bright Places Jennifer Niven calls emerging talent Shivaun Plozza’s charming and romantic second YA novel, Tin Heart, “from cover to cover swoon-worthy, moving, deep, and funny”!When Marlowe gets a heart transplant and a second chance at life, all she wants to do is to thank her donor’s family. Maybe then she can move on. Maybe then she’ll discover who she is if she’s no longer The Dying Girl.But with a little brother who dresses like every day is Halloween, a vegan warrior for a mother, and an all-out war with the hot butcher’s apprentice next door, Marlowe’s life is already pretty complicated. And her second chance is about to take an unexpected turn...