Best Teen & Young Adult Books

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A threetime winner of Goodreads Choice AwardsSixteenyearold Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor 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 shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer....

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Harriet the Spy has a secret notebook that she fills with utterly honest jottings about her parents, her classmates, and her neighbors. Every day on her spy route she "observes" and notes down anything of interest to her:I BET THAT LADY WITH THE CROSSEYE LOOKS IN THE MIRROR AND JUST FEELS TERRIBLE.PINKY WHITEHEAD WILL NEVER CHANGE. DOES HIS MOTHER...

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“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Teen, Young, Adult, Children's lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more though she never gives a single one of t...

Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all.Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he?s seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephan...

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Magic, adventure, mystery, and romance combine in this epic debut in which a young princess must reclaim her dead mother’s throne, learn to be a ruler—and defeat the Red Queen, a powerful and malevolent sorceress determined to destroy her.On her nineteenth birthday, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, raised in exile, sets out on a perilous journey back...

The war against Voldemort is not going well: even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of The Daily Prophet looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet …As in all wars, life goes on. Sixthyear students learn to ...

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Sixteenyearold Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least make it out of her neighborhood one day. As the daughter of an underground rap legend who died before he hit big, Bri_x0092_s got big shoes to fill. But now that her mom has unexpectedly lost her job, food banks and shutoff notices are as much a part of Bri_x0092_s life as be...

From #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called ?Devil Boy? by his classmates; ?God?s will? is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered, buoyed by his mother?s devout faith...

In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of selfdiscovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut.In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate th...

Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal The New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of 2016 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2016 Named to KirkusReviews Best B...

"Too few things in our world are worth a seventeenyear wait: The Book of Dust is one of them." The Washington PostPhilip Pullman returns to the parallel world of his groundbreaking novel The Golden Compass to expand on the story of Lyra, "one of fantasy's most indelible characters" (The New York Times Magazine).Malcolm Polstead is the kind of bo...

A timely and powerful story about a teen girl from a poor neighborhood striving for success, from acclaimed author Renée Watson.Jade believes she must get out of her neighborhood if she_x0092_s ever going to succeed. Her mother says she has to take every opportunity. She has. She accepted a scholarship to a mostlywhite private school and even Saturday m...

My disease is as rare as it is famous. It_x0092_s a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, but basically, I_x0092_m allergic to the world. I don_x0092_t leave my house, have not left my house in fifteen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.But then one day, a moving truck arrives. New next door neighbors. I look out the window, and I s...

Now a major motion picture starring Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton! The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist from the bestselling author of Everything, Everything will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with each other! Natasha: I'm a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not ...

A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, gameloving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger?and a possible murderer?to inherit his vast fortune, one thing's for sure: Sam Westing may be dead ... but that won't stop him from playing...

Eleanor is the new girl in town, and with her chaotic family life, her mismatched clothes and unruly red hair, she couldn't stick out more if she tried.Park is the boy at the back of the bus. Black Tshirts, headphones, head in a book he thinks he's made himself invisible. But not to Eleanor... never to Eleanor.Slowly, steadily, through latenigh...

Poetry Speaks Who I Am is filled with more than 100 remarkable poems about you, who you are, and who you are becoming. Dive infind the poem you love, the one that makes you angry, the one that makes you laugh, the one that knocks the wind out of you, and become a part of Poetry Speaks Who I Am by adding your own inside the book. Poetry can be life...

It's the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won't stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn't sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and ...

Daelyn Rice is broken beyond repair, and after a string of botched suicide attempts, she?s determined to get her death right. She starts visiting a website for ?completers?? www. throughthelight.com.While she?s on the site, Daelyn blogs about her life, uncovering a history of bullying that goes back to kindergarten. When she?s not on the Web, Dae...

warning: this book contains situations which might be triggers for some people. Please see the bottom of this description to see if this is the kind of book that you'll love or piss you offFor Luisa Chavez, a twentythree year old former beauty queen, a better life has always been just out of her reach. Sure, she?s had men at her feet since she...

When Neil survives a deadly plague and plunges into solitude, he must question everything in this gripping adventure from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.Neil_x0092_s world is shattered when he and his family are involved in a horrible car accident that leaves him an orphan. He is sent to live in a small village with his grandparents...

For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it?s just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it?s her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn?t be any stricter?but that doesn?t seem to stop all kinds of men from coming into her life.Caught between the oldworld values of her Italian grandmother, the nononsense wisdom...

To Janey Larkin, the blue willow plate was the most beautiful thing in her life, a symbol of the home she could only dimly remember. Now that her father was an itinerant worker, Janey didn't have a home she could call her own or any real friends, as her family had to keep moving, following the crops from farm to farm. Someday, Janey promised the wi...

When Chloe Pierce_x0092_s mom forbids her to apply for a spot at the dance conservatory of her dreams, she devises a secret plan to drive two hundred miles to the nearest audition. But Chloe hits her first speed bump when her annoying neighbor Eli insists upon hitching a ride, threatening to tell Chloe_x0092_s mom if she leaves him and his smelly dog, Geezer, ...

I was in an accident. I got out. I_x0092_m safe now.An alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, where a damaged clock can fracture time_x0097_and a destroyed one can stop it completely.A prodigy mechanic who can repair not only clockwork but time itself, determined to rescue his father from a Stopped town.A series of mysterious bombings that could...

Three friends, two love stories, one convention: this fun, feminist love letter to geek culture is all about fandom, friendship, and finding the courage to be yourself.Charlie likes to stand out. She?s a vlogger and actress promoting her first movie at SupaCon, and this is her chance to show fans she?s over her public breakup with costar Reese Rya...

Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromata girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van Helsing lineage, she has trained since childhood to destroy monsters both corporeal and spiritual: the corporeal undead go down by the bullet, the spiritual undead by the lens. With an analog SLR camera as h...

@doctorfusionbebop: Some 17 y. o. chick named Dee Guerrera was just sent to Alcatraz 2.0 for killing her stepsister. So, how long do you think she'll last @morrisdavis72195: I hope she meets justice! She'll get what's coming to her! BWAHAHA!@EltonJohnForevzz: Me I think Dee's innocent. And I hope she can survive.WELCOME TO THE NEAR FUTURE, where ...

Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father_x0092_s ship, sailing across the centuries, across the world, across myth and imagination.As long as her father has a map for it, he can sail to any time, any place, real or imagined: nineteenthcentury China, the land from One Thousand and One Nights, a mythic version of Africa. Along the way they have fou...

A twentyfirstcentury corporation invades the domain of a warlike sixteenthcentury Scottish clan in this "brilliantly imagined" timetravel adventure (Philip Pullman). The miraculous invention of a Time Tube has given Great Britain's mighty FUP corporation unprecedented power, granting it unlimited access to the rich natural resources of the past...

Nadia Conrad has big dreams, and she's determined to make them come true_x0097_for her parents' sake as well as her own. But between maintaining her college scholarship and working at the local day care to support herself, she barely has time to think, let alone date. Then she moves into a new apartment and meets the taciturn yet irresistible guy in 1B_x0085_....

Vince Luca is just like any other high school guy. His best friend, Alex, is trying to score vicariously through him; his brother is a giant pain; and his father keeps bugging him to get motivated. There is just one thing that really sets him apart for other kidshis father happens to be the head of a powerful crime organization. Needless to say, w...

A funny young Adult, novel about a KoreanAmerican girl who uses KDrama techniques to snag the boyfriend of her dreams.One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2017One of Seventeen.com's Best YA Books of 2017Hilarious. Publishers Weekly, starred reviewPowerful messages of inclusion and acceptance. Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewDesi Lee knows ho...

Collected together for the first time are Patricia C. Wrede's hilarious adventure stories about Cimorene, the princess who refuses to be proper. Every one of Cimorene's adventures is included in its paperback edition"Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, " and "Talking to Dragons"in one handsome package that's perfect...

Survive. At any cost.10 concentration camps.10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly.It's something no one could imagine surviving.But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face.As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been sn...

In Loteria, the spellbinding literary debut by Mario Alberto Zambrano, a young girl tells the story of her family's tragic demise using a deck of cards of the eponymous Latin American game of chance. With her older sister Estrella in the ICU and her father in jail, elevenyearold Luz Castillo has been taken into the custody of the state. Alone in ...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Teen, Young, Adult lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the Adult,s who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged...

He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne.Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to. Jude learned that 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 left reeling from Cardan's betrayal. She bides he...

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereSophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her o...

2015 Newbery Medal Winner 2015 Coretta Scott King Honor Award Winner"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I?m delivering," announces dreadlocked, 12year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. But Josh has more than basketball i...

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST"Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soulhealing." Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT "A singular voice in the world of literature." Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down A powerful comingofage story about grief, guilt, and the risks a FilipinoAmerican teenager takes to uncover the truth ...

Before Josh and Jordan Bell were streaking up and down the court, their father was learning his own moves. In this prequel to Newbery Medal winner The Crossover, Chuck Bell takes center stage, as readers get a glimpse of his childhood and how he became the jazz music worshipping, basketball star his sons look up to....

If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has PurelyObsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries t...

A sexy standalone novel from New York Times and international bestselling author Elle Kennedy. THE RISK takes you back to the world of hot hockey players, feisty heroines, bro banter, and steamy scenes... Everyone says I_x0092_m a bad girl. They_x0092_re only partly right_x0097_I don_x0092_t let fear rule me, and I certainly don_x0092_t care what people think. But I draw the li...

While the Titanic and Lusitania are both welldocumented disasters, the single greatest tragedy in maritime history is the littleknown January 30, 1945 sinking in the Baltic Sea by a Soviet submarine of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German cruise liner that was supposed to ferry wartime personnel and refugees to safety from the advancing Red Army. The s...

Despite her outgoing demeanor, Olivia is painfully insecure around the opposite sex_x0097_usually, she can_x0092_t get up the nerve to approach guys she_x0092_s interested in. But moving to Edinburgh has given her a new start, and, after she develops a crush on a sexy postgrad, she decides it_x0092_s time to push past her fears and go after what she wants.Nate Sawyer is a...

Hannah wants to spend her senior year of high school going to football games and Mardi Gras parties with her tightknit group of friends. The last thing she wants is to fall in love with a girlespecially when that girl is her best friend, Baker. Hannah knows she should like Wally, the kind, earnest boy who asks her to prom. She should cheer on he...

Twelveyearold Percy Jackson is on the most dangerous quest of his life. With the help of a satyr and a daughter of Athena, Percy must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original weapon of mass destruction ? Zeus? master bolt. Along the way, he must face a host of mythological enemies determined to stop him. Most ...

JASON HAS A PROBLEM. He doesn?t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They?re all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for ?bad kids," as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here And where is here, exactly J...

Stay up all night with the sexy rockers in Stage Dive, the epic New Adult, series from New York Times bestselling author Kylie Scott, author of Lick and Play.As the lead singer of Stage Dive, Jimmy is used to getting whatever he wants, whenever he wants it, whether it's booze, drugs, or women. However, when a PR disaster serves as a wakeup call abo...

This gorgeous gift setavailable for a limited time onlyincludes paperback editions of Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner with exclusive white covers, making it the perfect gift for fans of the bestselling series.Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, The Twilight Saga captures the stru...

When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government _x0093_rehabilitation camp._x0094_ She might have survived the mysterious disease that_x0092_s killed most of America_x0092_s children, but she and ...

The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heartwrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning! Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matt...

Chase's memory just went out the window.Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't remember hitting his head. He doesn't, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name.He knows he's Chase. But who is Chase When he gets back to school,...

What happened in high school stayed in high school. Until now. Five years ago, Michael Graham betrayed the only person who ever really knew him. Since then, he_x0092_s made an art of hiding his sexuality from everyone. Including himself. So it_x0092_s a shock when his past strolls right into the Harkness College locker room, sporting a bag of hockey gear and t...

Here is what happens when your mother dies.It_x0092_s the brightest day of summer and it_x0092_s dark outside. It_x0092_s dark in your house, dark in your room, and dark in your heart. You feel like the darkness is going to split you apart.That_x0092_s how it feels for Tiger. It_x0092_s always been Tiger and her mother against the world. Then, on a day like any other, Tiger_x0092_s m...

A New York Times Bestseller!Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She's thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose's rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands Rose's obsessions, her rules, and the other things that make her differe...

As the Spook's apprentice Tom's first duty is to protect the County from the dark. But now Mam needs his help in her homeland of Greece. One of the most dangerous of the old gods, the Ordeen, is about to return there, bringing slaughter and devastation. Meanwhile, the Devil himself is still loose and if he and the Ordeen join forces, a new age of d...

Her story is a phenomenon. Her life is a disaster.In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, and friendless. Online, she_x0092_s LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of the wildly popular webcomic Monstrous Sea. Eliza can_x0092_t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves the online one, and she has no desire to try.Then Wallace Warland, Monstr...

When seventeenyearold Katy Swartz moved to West Virginia right before her senior year, she'd pretty much resigned herself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring, but then she spotted her hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up . . . until he opened his mouth. Daemon Black is i...

This compelling story of adventure, romance, and intrigue, set in ancient Egypt, was written by the threetime Newbery Honor and Edgar Award winning author Eloise Jarvis McGraw.Mara is a proud and beautiful slave girl who yearns for freedom in ancient Egypt, under the rule of Queen Hatshepsut. Mara is not like other slaves; she can read and write, ...

He_x0092_s a player in more ways than one_x0085_College junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hookups, but behind his killer grins and easygoing charm, he hides growing despair about the deadend road he_x0092_ll be forced to walk after graduation. A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the di...

Cimorene is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart and bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for.Cover illustrator: Peter de Sève...

Based on the experience of reallife Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.Fourteenyearold Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjus...

The emotional and unforgettable new romance from the New York Times bestselling author of the On Dublin Street series.Alexa Holland_x0092_s father was her hero_x0097_until her shocking discovery that she and her mother weren't his only family. Ever since, Alexa has worked to turn her life in a different direction and forge her own identity outside of his terri...

Seventeen is nothing like Codi Teller imagined.She?s never crashed a party, never stayed out too late. She?s never even been kissed. And it?s not just because she?s gay. It?s because she and her two best friends, Maritza and JaKory, spend more time in her basement watching Netflix than engaging with the outside world.So when Maritza and JaKory sugg...

In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his ...

Drew Evans is a winner. Handsome and arrogant, he makes multimillion dollar business deals and seduces New York_x0092_s most beautiful women with just a smile. He has loyal friends and an indulgent family. So why has he been shuttered in his apartment for seven days, miserable and depressed He_x0092_ll tell you he has the flu.But we all know that_x0092_s not really...

A startling, fiercely feminist reimagining of Cinderella from the bestselling, awardwinning author Jennifer Donnelly.An instant New York Times bestseller!Don't just fracture the fairy tale. Shatter it.Isabelle should be blissfully happyshe's about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn't the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and ...

The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi pure bloods have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortalswell, not so much. Halfbloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures.Seventeenyearold Alexandria would rather ri...

It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeenyearold sister Penryn will do anything to get her back.Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel.Raffe i...

A wrong number is supposed to be just that_x0097_a wrong number.Delete. Done.Do not continue to text. Do not flirt.A wrong number shouldn't be the first person on your mind in the morning, or the last at night...and you're definitely not supposed to talk them into buying a baby goat.Because that would be weird.When Zach Hastings and I get into a wrongnu...

Jancsi is overjoyed to hear that his cousin from Budapest is coming to spend the summer on his father's ranch on the Hungarian plains. But their summer proves more adventurous than he had hoped when headstrong Kate arrives, as together they share horseback races across the plains, country fairs and festivals, and a dangerous runin with the gypsies...

That's what Macy has to look forward to while her boyfriend, Jason, is away at Brain Camp. Days will be spent at a boring job in the library, evenings will be filled with vocabulary drills for the SATs, and spare time will be passed with her mother, the two of them sharing a silent grief at the traumatic loss of Macy's father.But sometimes, unexpec...

Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird.Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family ...

Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm (and Grimminspired) fairy tales. An irreverent, witty narrator leads us through encounters with witches, warlocks, dragons, and the devil himself. As the siblings roam a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind the famous tales, as well as ...

Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's BoyLife as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenthcentury London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor as the crew pursues pirate...

A missing girl on a journey of revenge. A Serial like podcast following the clues she's left behind. And an ending you won't be able to stop talking about.Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.But...

A new kind of bighearted novel about being seen for who you really are.Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she's determined not to get too close to anyone. But when she meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda can't help but start to let him into her...

Kerri Maniscalco introduces her next series, a dark tale of a beautiful young witch, a troubled demon, and their epic romance, set against a 19th century Italian backdrop.Emilia and her twin sister Victoria are streghe witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Victoria misses dinner service at the family'...

She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.If anyone had told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined Please. But that's all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she...

This is the way the world ends not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.Nineteenyearold Remy King is on a mission to get across the wasteland left of America, and nothing will stand in her way not violent marauders, a spoiled rock star, or an army of flesheating zombies....

"I won't tell anyone, Echo. I promise." Noah tucked a curl behind my ear. It had been so long since someone touched me like he did. Why did it have to be Noah Hutchins His dark brown eyes shifted to my covered arms. "You didn't do thatdid you It was done to you" No one ever asked that question. They stared. They whispered. They laughed. But the...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Romance, Fiction, Teen, Young, Adult lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

The #1 Bestseller!Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat along with aspirations of leading his team all the way to the Little League World Series. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his daytoday life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family's escape from Cuba, Michael's only family is his...

From the bestselling and awardwinning author of The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen, comes her first Holocaust novel in nearly thirty years. Influenced by Dr. Mengele's sadistic experimentations, this story follows twins as they travel from the Lodz ghetto, to the partisans in the forest, to a horrific concentration camp where they lose everything...

From the founding member of We Need Diverse Books comes a powerful novel about identity, betrayal, and the meaning of family.By day, seventeenyearold Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Sou...

Steffi doesn't talk, but she has so much to say.Rhys can't hear, but he can listen.Their love isn't a lightning strike, it's the rumbling roll of thunder.Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge o...

Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map the key to a legendary treasure trove seventeenyearold pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her enemies, giving her the perfect opportunity to search their ship.More than a match for the ruthless pirate crew, Alosa has only one thing standing between her and t...

The passionate romance of Twilight meets Greek mythology in this dazzling debut about starcrossed demigods.How do you defy destinyHelen Hamilton has spent her entire sixteen years trying to hide how different she is no easy task on an island as small and sheltered as Nantucket. And it's getting harder.Nightmares of a desperate desert journey ha...

It_x0092_s graduation day for sixteenyearold Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating. All Cia can think about_x0097_hope for_x0097_is whether she_x0092_ll be chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalizing postwar...