Hawthorn wasn't trying to insert herself into a missing person's investigation. Or maybe she was. But that's only because Lizzie Lovett's disappearance is the one fascinating mystery their sleepy town has ever had. Bad things don't...
Young adult fiction
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Author:Sedoti, ChelseaSummary: - Author:Skrypuch, Marsha ForchukSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Paula’s perfectionism drives every facet of her life, from her marks in Grade 10 to the pursuit of a "perfect body." A history project brings her face to face with her grandmother’s early life and, as she...
- Author:Collins, SuzanneSummary:
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between...
- Author:Martin, George R. R.Summary:
The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land. But Adara was not afraid. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst...
- Author:Baer, MariannaSummary:
Quinn Cutler is sixteen and the daughter of a high-profile Brooklyn politician. She's also pregnant, a crisis made infinitely more shocking by the fact that she has no memory of ever having sex. Before Quinn can solve this deeply...
- Author:Brashear, AmySummary:
In 1984, while grappling with her parents' divorce and her mother's remarriage to an African-American man, sixteen-year-old Laura wins a walk-on role in the nuclear holocaust movie being filmed in her Arkansas town, but when the...
- Author:Saenz, Benjamin AlireSummary:
"Friendships, family, grief, joy, rage, faith, doubt, poetry, and love-this complex and sensitive book has room for every aspect of growing up!"-Margarita Engle, Newbery Honor-Winning author of The Surrender Tree Sal used to...
- Author:McGinnis, MindySummary:
Tress Montor's family used to mean something, until she didn't have a family anymore. Felicity Turnado has a secret: she was with the Montors the night they disappeared. Now she can't look at Tress without feeling shame...
- Author:Roth, VeronicaSummary:
More Four! Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by The Initiate, the second of four new short stories told from Four's perspective. Each brief story explores the world...
- Author:Kowalski, WilliamSummary:
The year is 2147. Chago, twenty-four, is a prisoner in a world made up only of prisoners and those who guard them. The only bright spot in Chago’s life is his son, Jim-Jim, whose mother is a guard. In an effort to resolve overcrowding...
- Author:Kwaymullina, AmbelinSummary:
They're known as Firestarters. Boomers. Skychangers. The government calls them Illegals -- children with inexplicable abilities -- and detains them in menacing facilities so that society is kept out of harm way. Ashala Wolf and her...
- Author:Mahoney, KarenSummary:
When she was seven, a horrific fey attack killed Donna Underwood’s father and drove her mother mad. Her own nearly fatal injuries were fixed by alchemy—the iron tattoos branding her hands and arms. Now seventeen, Donna feels like a...
- Author:Hughes, MonicaSummary:
The Keeper of the Isis Light is the first book in Monica Hughes' acclaimed trilogy, and it is the story of Olwen Pendennis, the Keeper of the Isis Light. She and her companion, Guardian, have lived alone on the remote planet Isis since...
- Author:Donovan, LoisSummary:
Lois Donovan’s new historical fiction, The Journal, begins in 2004 when thirteen-year-old Kami receives a bizarre offer involving a historic house in Edmonton, from her estranged grandfather. A move to Edmonton was definitely not part...
- Author:Peck, Michael AllenSummary:
"Paul Reid died in the snow at seventeen. The day of his death, he told a lie— and for the rest of his life, he wondered if that was what killed him." And so begins the battle for the afterlife, known as The Commons. It's been taken...
- Author:Betcherman, MichaelSummary:
High-school football star Matt Barnes was on the top of the world until a freak snowboarding accident ended his promising sports career and left him with a permanent limp. As he struggles to accept his changed body, Matt becomes...
- Author:Korman, GordonSummary:
Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the law, must find a way to keep their halfway house open in order to stay out of juvenile detention.
- Author:Kloss, BarbaraSummary:
Winter has fallen upon Valdon. It's been five months since Daria Regius arrived at the castle, and her grandfather, the king, has stripped her of all freedoms, building even more barriers around her lonely life. But darkness moves....
- Author:Foon, DennisSummary:
Two years have passed since Roan fled the destruction of his village. He has survived the polluted wilds of the Devastation, escaped the lethal mind traps of the Dreamfield, and infiltrated the heart of the sinister City. Through it all...
- Author:DunsanySummary:
When his people tell him that they want a magic lord to rule them, the Lord of Erl sends his son Alveric to retrieve Lirazel, daughter of the King of Elfland, to be his wife. At first, the King was angered and sent guards to kill...
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