The Bunker Diary

The Bunker Diary
Author: Kevin Brooks
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab& 8482
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1541577604

A dark, fast-paced, and disturbing story of humans stripped to their essential beings from a beloved YA master.

Clara's War

Clara's War
Author: Clara Kramer
Publisher: Emblem Editions
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2010-04-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1551993686

“You lose your loved ones, and still you want to live.” On 21 July 1942, the Nazis reached the small Polish town of Zolkiew. Life for fifteen-year-old Clara Kramer would never be the same. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, three families found perilous refuge in a hand-dug cellar. Hers was one of them. Living above and protecting them were the Becks. Mrs. Beck had been the families’ maid. Mr. Beck was alcoholic and a self-professed anti-Semite, yet he risked his life to keep his charges safe. But survival under his protection proved to be anything but predictable. Whether it was his nightly drinking sessions with officers of the SS in the room just above or his torrid affair with one of the hiding women, it seemed that Clara and the others often had as much to fear from Beck as they did from the war. Clara’s mother told her to keep a diary while they lived in the bunker in order to fill her time and “so the world would know what happened to us.” Over sixty years later, Clara Kramer has finally turned those diaries into a compelling and heartbreaking memoir — a story of love and memory and survival.

Bunker 10

Bunker 10
Author: J. A. Henderson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152062408

When a scientific experiment goes haywire, a hidden military base is thrown into chaos and its up to a small group of genius teens that lives there to find a way out of certain destruction.

Egg Drop

Egg Drop
Author: Mini Grey
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2012-06-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375985492

Now for something completely different from Mini Grey! A mother hen tells her chicks about the egg that wanted to fly. “The egg was young. It didn’t know much. We tried to tell it, but of course it didn’t listen.” The egg loves looking up at the birds (yes, it has eyes). It climbs 303 steps (yes, it has legs) to the top of a very tall tower—and jumps. It feels an enormous egg rush. “Whee!” it cries. “I am flying!” But it is not flying, it is falling. Hold your tears, dear reader—there is a sunny ending for this modern-day Humpty Dumpty. Impossible to categorize, Egg Drop is Mini Grey at her zaniest.

Felix Yz

Felix Yz
Author: Lisa Bunker
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 042528851X

“If it wasn’t for the fused-with-Zyx thing, I suppose I would just be normal—whatever that means.” When Felix Yz was three years old, a hyperintelligent fourth-dimensional being became fused inside him after one of his father’s science experiments went terribly wrong. The creature is friendly, but Felix—now thirteen—won’t be able to grow to adulthood while they’re still melded together. So a risky Procedure is planned to separate them . . . but it may end up killing them both instead. This book is Felix’s secret blog, a chronicle of the days leading up to the Procedure. Some days it’s business as usual—time with his close-knit family, run-ins with a bully at school, anxiety about his crush. But life becomes more out of the ordinary with the arrival of an Estonian chess Grandmaster, the revelation of family secrets, and a train-hopping journey. When it all might be over in a few days, what matters most? Told in an unforgettable voice full of heart and humor, Felix Yz is a groundbreaking story about how we are all separate, but all connected too.

Strange Alchemy

Strange Alchemy
Author: Gwenda Bond
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1630790761

When 114 people go missing on Roanoke Island in what seems like an eerie repeat of what happened hundreds of years before, seventeen-year-olds Miranda and Grant may be the key to the mysteries past and present.

The Bunker

The Bunker
Author: James P. O'Donnell
Publisher: Da Capo
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780306809583

A compulsively readable account of Hitler's last days, written by one of the first Americans to enter Hitler's bunker after the fall of Berlin

Hostage Three

Hostage Three
Author: Nick Lake
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2013
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408838370

A taut, emotionally loaded, devastatingly powerful thriller from the acclaimed, Carnegie-longlisted author of In Darkness and Blood Ninja.

Born Scared

Born Scared
Author: Kevin Brooks
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2018-09-11
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 153620403X

Elliot has lived his first thirteen years confined to his home, incapacitated by fear. Now he’s out of pills, snow is falling, and his only safe person is missing. A terrifying thriller from Carnegie Medalist Kevin Brooks. From the moment of his birth, Elliot’s life has been governed by fear of almost everything, even of his own fear — a beast that holds him prisoner in his room. The beast is kept at bay, though not eliminated, with a daily regimen of pills. But on Christmas Eve, a mix-up at the pharmacy threatens to unleash the beast full force, and his mother must venture out in a raging snowstorm to a store that should be only minutes away. Hours later, when she still hasn’t returned, Elliot sees no choice but to push through his terror, leave the house, and hunt for her. What happens if the last of his medication wears off and the beast starts scratching at the doors of his mind? Everyone has a breaking point — will Elliot come to his? With plot twists and turns that keep readers on the edge of their seats, multi-award-winning author Kevin Brooks offers a high-suspense exploration of fear and what it means to truly be afraid.

Zenobia July

Zenobia July
Author: Lisa Bunker
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0451479408

The critically acclaimed author of Felix Yz crafts a bold, heartfelt story about a trans girl solving a cyber mystery and coming into her own. Zenobia July is starting a new life. She used to live in Arizona with her father; now she's in Maine with her aunts. She used to spend most of her time behind a computer screen, improving her impressive coding and hacking skills; now she's coming out of her shell and discovering a community of friends at Monarch Middle School. People used to tell her she was a boy; now she's able to live openly as the girl she always knew she was. When someone anonymously posts hateful memes on her school's website, Zenobia knows she's the one with the abilities to solve the mystery, all while wrestling with the challenges of a new school, a new family, and coming to grips with presenting her true gender for the first time. Timely and touching, Zenobia July is, at its heart, a story about finding home.