A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
Young adult fiction
- Author:Cooney, Caroline B.Summary:
- Author:Hamilton, KikiSummary:
The year is 1871, and Tiki has been making a home for herself and her family of orphans in a deserted hideaway adjoining Charing Cross Station in central London. They survive by picking pockets. One December night, Tiki steals a ring,...
- Author:Schraff, Anne E.Summary:
Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
- Author:Fladmark, C.R.Summary:
Alternate worlds. Venomous lizard-men. Japanese schoolgirl-warriors. Family expectations. Being a teenager with a destiny is hard work.It’s been months since sixteen-year-old Junya survived his savage battle with the Evil Ones, but now...
- Author:May, ElizabethSummary:
The long-awaited final book in the Falconer trilogy is an imaginative tour-de-force that will thrill fans of the series. Aileana Kameron, resurrected by ancient fae magic, returns to the world she once knew with no memory of her past...
- Author:Sorensen, JessicaSummary:
For eighteen-year-old Gemma, life has never been normal. Up until recently, she has been incapable of feeling emotion. And when she's around Alex, the gorgeous new guy at school, she can feel electricity that makes her skin buzz. Not to...
- Author:Sherman, GiselaSummary:
Six girls just out of high school live together during the summer of 1943 on a farm as part of the Farm Services - doing the work of the men who are off fighting the war in Europe. We follow the stories of Helene, who sends her wages...
- Author:Eliopulos, AndrewSummary:
A magic-infused YA novel about friendship, first love, and feeling out of place that will bewitch fans of Rainbow Rowell and Maggie Stiefvater. Living in a small town where magic is frowned upon, Sam needs his friends James and Delia--...
- Author:Roth, VeronicaSummary:
The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The fates, once determined, are inescapable. Akos is in love with Cyra, in spite of his fate: He will die in service to Cyra’s...
- Author:Cass, KieraSummary:
While America Singer's heart was torn between Aspen and Prince Maxon, her friend Marlee knew exactly what she wanted--and paid the price. Revisit the captivating world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection...
- Author:Whitcomb, LauraSummary:
After 350 years as a Fetch, or death escort, Calder breaks his vows and enters the body of Rasputin, whose spirit causes rebellion in the Land of Lost Souls while Calder struggles to convey Ana and Alexis, orphaned in the Russian...
- Author:Philippe, BenSummary:
Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian, he knows moving to Austin, Texas won't be easy. He decides to label people before they can label him, but he may have more in...
- Author:Monir, AlexandraSummary:
Set in the near future, this action-packed YA novel-already optioned by Sony Pictures-will take readers out of this world and on a quest to become one of six teens sent on a mission to Jupiter's moon. This is the next must-read for fans...
- Author:Oppegaard, DavidSummary:
A firebug has woken inside my heart. Dark times have fallen on remote Balrog County, and Mack Druneswald, a high school senior with a love of arson, is doing his best to deal. While his family is haunted by his mother's recent death,...
- Author:Kinch, MichaelSummary:
Under siege in the harsh African desert. Their only choice: rise up against ruthless renegades ... or die. After weeks of suffering from exhaustion and starvation, Jaym and D'Shay, conscripted NorthAm Blenders, have helped dozens...
- Author:Kinch, MichaelSummary:
Under siege in the harsh African desert. Their only choice: rise up against ruthless renegades... or die. After weeks of suffering from exhaustion and starvation, Jaym and D’Shay, conscripted NorthAm Blenders, have helped dozens of...
- Author:Goobie, BethSummary:
It's 1977, and Mary-Eve Hamilton (Mary for the Mother of God, Eve for the mother of mankind) is plodding through her final year at Eleusis High School. Mary-Eve's mother, famed prophetess at the Waiting for the Rapture End Times...
- Author:Wong, TaoSummary:
Long Wu Ying never expected to join a Sect or become a real cultivator. His days were spent studying, planting rice on the family farm and spending time with his friends. Fate, however, has different plans for Wu Ying and when the army...
- Author:Kostakis, WillSummary:
Life is made up of three parts: in The First Third, you're embarrassed by your family; in the second, you make a family of your own; and in the end, you just embarrass the family you've made. That's how Billy's...
- Author:An, NaSummary:
Korean American high school student Joyce Kim feels like a nonentity compared to her beautiful older sister, and when her aunt offers to pay for plastic surgery on her eyes, she jumps at the chance, thinking it will change her life for...