The much anticipated second book in the Black City series

• A Booklist Top Ten First Novel for Youth KEPLER'S DREAM by Juliet Bell, about a girl sent to live with her difficult grandmother while her mother undergoes a bone marrow transplant during a harrowing battle with leukemia and a very valuable book in her grandmother's library goes missing.

• NYT Bestselling Rosalind Wiseman's BOYS, GIRLS & OTHER HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, in which high school freshman Charlie Healy is just trying to have a drama-free school year, but mean boys make it impossible.

• Jennifer Banash's WHITE LINES, set in New York City in the 1980s and centered around the club kid scene, and EDGE OF SEVENTEEN, about a girl whose bullying ways come full circle when she wakes up from an accident in the body of the very girl she'd tormented.

• Heidi R. Kling's debut SEA, about a California teen who travels with her father and his volunteer organization to a post-tsunami Indonesian orphanage and falls for a charismatic, haunted boy during a three-week life-changing adventure.

• WHAT YOU WISH FOR: A BOOK FOR DARFUR, a collection of YA short stories about the double-edged power of wishes, to benefit the Book Wish Foundation, which provides books for Darfur refugees in Chad, with contributions by worldwide bestsellers Alexander McCall Smith, Cornelia Funke, Meg Cabot, Ann M. Martin, John Green, Francisco Stork, Karen Hesse, Nikki Giovanni, Jane Yolen, Marilyn Nelson, Jeanne DuPrau and others to be named.

• An ALA Best Fiction for Young Adult title, Kristin Levine's THE LIONS OF LITTLE ROCK, the story of two girls who though separated by race form an unbreakable bond during the tumultuous integration of Little Rock schools in 1958.

• Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honoree, ELLEN'S BROOM by Kelly Starling Lyons, illustrated by Daniel Minter, in which a young girl learns a new meaning for freedom during the time of Reconstruction.

• 2012 Winner of the IRA Children's and Young Adult's Book Award for Intermediate Fiction, Sheila O'Connor's SPARROW ROAD, where 12-year-old Raine is uprooted from her home and taken to a mysterious artists' mansion in the country; she sets out to uncover secrets about its haunted history and the cast of quirky characters who inhabit it--but it's an unexpected secret from her own past that she must face during one life-changing summer.

• NYT Bestselling ASK ELIZABETH: Real Answers to Everything You Secretly Wanted to Ask About Love, Friends, Your Body…And Life in General by Saved By the Bell actress Elizabeth Berkley.

• Popular DRAMA HIGH series by L. Divine, featuring a quick-witted, 15-year-old AP student from Compton who is bussed to a predominately white high school, and the clique of friends she hangs out with.

• American Ballet Theatre soloist Misty Copeland and illustrator Christopher Myers's FIREBIRD, the original, illustrated story of a young girl, guided by the mystical Firebird, who discovers the magic of ballet for the very first time in the sky of a cityscape.

• Walter Jury and S.E. Fine's SCAN and a sequel, BURN, a high-action thriller about a 16-year-old boy who has been prepared his whole life for "something important," only to discover it means he's one of the last humans left on earth.

Kensington Books; HarperCollins; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Lee & Low Multicultural Children's Book Publisher