Laci Green brings her signature style and voice to a comprehensive guide for teens that is not only about sex but also about the multitude of issues that go along with sexuality: from healthy relationships and consent to LGBT issues and...
Young Adult
These 70 audiobooks -- purchased and produced thanks to funding from the BC government's Libraries Branch -- were added to NNELS in early 2017. BC librarians had a hand in choosing some of the books so you'll find some books recorded in this collection that you won't find anywhere else. For more information, see the news release.
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Author:Green, LaciSummary: - Author:Nix, GarthSummary:
In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no human shall live a day past their fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the children of the Dorms are taken to the Meat Factory, where they will be made into...
- Author:Kinsella, W. P.Summary:
More than just another baseball story, this soul-stirring novel on which the movie Field of Dreams is based is about love and the power of dreams to make people come alive.
- Author:St. James, SimoneSummary:
In 1919, Kitty Weekes obtains a nursing position at a remote hospital for soldiers shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. But something more is going on at Portis House; the former occupants left abruptly, and all the patients...
- Author:Kendi, Ibram X., Reynolds, JasonSummary:
Race has always been used to gain and keep power, creating dynamics that separate and silence. This exploration reveals the history of racism in America and inspires hope for an antiracist future.
- Author:Myers, SuzanneSummary:
After a hurricane, Eliza Elliot is cleaning up an old lighthouse and finds a letter confessing to a decades-old murder. She’s soon involved in an investigation.
- Author:Braswell, LizSummary:
What if Wendy first traveled to Never Land with Captain Hook? When Wendy finally gets to the magical place she'd always wanted to visit, she finds unsettling evil lurking in its depths. Forging an unlikely bond with Tinker Bell, Wendy...
- Author:Peevyhouse, ParkerSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Lake spends her days searching a strange, post-apocalyptic landscape for people who have forgotten one very important thing: this isn't reality. It's a simulation.
- Author:Colfer, ChrisSummary:
Cash Carter is the young, world famous lead actor of the hit television show Wiz Kids. When four fans jokingly invite him on a cross-country road trip, they are shocked that he actually takes them up on it.
- Author:McCarthy, Cori, Capetta, Amy RoseSummary:
Ari Helix may have won her battle against the tyrannical Mercer corporation, but the larger war has just begun. Ari and her cursed wizard Merlin must travel back in time to the Middle Ages and steal King Arthur's Grail, the very...
- Author:Jones, Monique L.Summary:
There's more than one way to make a difference: The achievements of the Black Americans included in this book range from athletic to artistic, literary to scientific. Their biographies vary greatly, but each one contributes to the...
- Author:Lewis, C. S.Summary:
This definitive collection of short fiction explores enduring spiritual and science fiction themes such as space, time, reality, fantasy, God, and the fate of humankind.
- Author:Thomas, AngieSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor black neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal...
- Author:St. James, SimoneSummary:
London, 1925. Glamorous medium Gloria Sutter has been murdered at one of her own séances, after leaving a final message requesting the help of her former friend and sole rival, Ellie Winter. But as Ellie delves into Gloria’s secrets, an...
- Author:Lore, PittacusSummary:
There are six left. They're in hiding ... but their legacies are developing, and soon they'll be equipped to fight. They caught Number One, Number Two, and Number Three. They tried to catch Number Four--and failed. Number Seven is ready...
- Author:Black, HollySummary:
Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is...
- Author:Harrison, A. S. A.Summary:
Jodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life they lead in their beautiful waterfront condo in Chicago, as she, the killer, and he, the victim, rush haplessly toward the main event....
- Author:Mayrock, AijaSummary:
Aija Mayrock shares the different approaches and strategies that helped her survive her own experience with bullying. She speaks the same language as her peers, making the book very relatable for kids and teens.
- Author:Cotter, CharisSummary:
In 1960s Toronto, two girls retreat to their attics to escape the loneliness and isolation of their lives. Polly lives in a house bursting at the seams with people, while Rose is often left alone by her busy parents. Soon they discover...
- Author:Pearson, KitSummary:
In 1932, after the death of their father, ten-year-old Polly and her older sister Maud must leave their home in Winnipeg and begin a new life with their grandmother on a remote island off the coast of B.C. Maud goes off to boarding...
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