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I Hunt Killers
by Barry Lyga
Jazz, son of a notorious serial killer, uses his knowledge to help the police catch a new killer. But can he escape his own dark past?
What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dad? Jasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for ... (Goodreads)
Such a Pretty Girl
by Laura Wiess
A young girl must confront her mother's abuser as he is released from prison.
They promised Meredith nine years of safety, but only gave her three. Her father was supposed to be locked up until Meredith turned eighteen. She thought she had time to grow up, get out, and start a ... (Goodreads)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
A young Native American boy's struggles to survive in a difficult world.
The book follows a fourteen-year-old boy living with his family on the Spokane Indian Reservation near Wellpinit, Washington for a school year. It is told in episodic diary style, moving from the ... (Wikipedia)
Crank
by Ellen Hopkins
A teenage girl's descent into addiction and the consequences it has on her life and relationships.
Crank takes place the summer before and during the protagonist Kristina's junior year of high school. She is a straight-A honor roll student and decides to visit her father for three weeks. Her ... (Wikipedia)
Living Dead Girl
by Elizabeth Scott
A haunting story of a kidnapped girl forced to live with her captor for years, struggling to find a way to escape.
Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared. , , Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. , , Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was. When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her ... (Goodreads)
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
by Mary E. Pearson
A young girl's struggle to uncover her past and find her identity amidst a future of genetic engineering.
Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was ... (Barnes & Noble)
Wintergirls
by Laurie Halse Anderson
A teenage girl struggles with anorexia and the lingering trauma of her best friend's death.
Lia Overbrook, an 18-year-old girl, just found out that her ex-best friend Cassie has died. Cassie had called Lia 33 times the night of her death. However, Lia never answered the phone. Cassie was ... (Wikipedia)
And I Darken
by Kiersten White
A young woman's quest for power and revenge in a world of political intrigue and warfare.
No one expects a princess to be brutal. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their ... (Goodreads)
Cry to Heaven
by Anne Rice
An opera singer's passionate story of love, tragedy and revenge set in 18th century Venice.
Set in eighteenth-century Italy, Cry to Heaven focuses on two characters, peasant-born Guido Maffeo, who is castrated at the age of six to preserve his soprano voice, and fifteen-year-old Tonio ... (Wikipedia)
Things Not Seen
by Andrew Clements
A young boy wakes up invisible and must navigate the challenges of being unseen while trying to find a cure.
Robert Phillips, known by his nickname "Bobby," wakes up one day to find that he can no longer see himself. Then, to make sure he was right he looked in the mirror and could not see himself. Upon ... (Wikipedia)
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
by Matthew Quick
A teenage boy's plan to take revenge on those he feels have wronged him, and his journey to self-forgiveness.
Today is Leonard Peacock’s birthday. It is also the day he hides a gun in his backpack. Because today is the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather’s P-38 ... (Goodreads)
American Born Chinese
by Gene Luen Yang
Three seemingly unrelated stories converge to explore themes of identity, assimilation, and acceptance in the American-born Chinese experience.
All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he's the only Chinese American student at his school. Jocks and bullies pick on him constantly, ... (Goodreads)
Feed
by M.T. Anderson
In a future where everyone is connected to the internet through their brains, a group of teenagers rebel against the system.
The novel portrays a near-future in which the feednet , a huge computer network (apparently an advanced form of the Internet), is directly connected to the brains of about 73% of American citizens by ... (Wikipedia)
Warm Bodies
by Isaac Marion
A zombie's story of overcoming his undead state to find true love.
Now a major motion picture from Summit Entertainment. R is having a no-life crisis—he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He ... (Goodreads)
Tears of the Giraffe
by Alexander McCall Smith
A humorous and heartwarming story of the lives of the inhabitants of a Botswana village.
Newly engaged Mma Ramotswe is not impressed with Mr JLB Matekoni's maid, Florence Pena. Unknown to him, she has been sleeping in his bed with her men friends. Obvious to Mma Ramotswe is that she does ... (Wikipedia)
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials: The Official Graphic Novel Prelude
by Jackson Lanzing
A group of teenagers must navigate a post-apocalyptic world filled with deadly diseases and sinister forces.
Escaping the Maze was only the beginning. The world thought it had seen the worst after the Sun Flares struck the Earth’s surface, and millions of people were killed. But then an unstoppable illness ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Last Little Blue Envelope
by Maureen Johnson
Ginny receives a final envelope from her deceased aunt, leading her on a journey to find closure and love.
Ginny Blackstone thought that the biggest adventure of her life was behind her. She spent last summer traveling around Europe, following the tasks her aunt Peg laid out in a series of letters before ... (Goodreads)
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
by Maurene Goo
Desi Lee, a high school senior, uses her father's K-drama formula to win over her crush. But will her plan work?
A funny young adult novel about a Korean-American girl who uses K-Drama techniques to snag the boyfriend of her dreams., One of, Publishers Weekly',s Best Books of 2017 One of, Seventeen.com,'s Best ... (Barnes & Noble)
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
A young girl's journey of self-discovery, navigating the transition from childhood to adolescence.
Margaret Simon is just eleven going on twelve when her family moves from New York City to Farbrook, New Jersey. Margaret's mother is Christian and her father is Jewish . Margaret has been raised ... (Wikipedia)
Before I Fall
by Lauren Oliver
A high school student relives the same day over and over, learning to appreciate life.
The story begins on a seemingly normal day for the popular 17-year-old Samantha "Sam" Kingston. On February 12, known as " Cupid's Day ," Sam goes about her day as normal with her three best ... (Wikipedia)
The Reader
by Traci Chee
In a world where reading is forbidden, a girl discovers a mysterious book and embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the truth about her past.
An instant New York Times Bestseller, this is a stunning debut set in a world where reading is unheard-of. Perfect for fans of Inkheart and Shadow and Bone Finalist for the Kirkus Prize and nominated ... (Goodreads)
Odd Child Out
by Gilly Macmillan
A boy drowns in a Bristol canal, and his best friend is the only witness. Secrets and lies unravel as the truth is sought.
How well do you know the people you love…? Best friends Noah Sandler and Abdi Mahad have always been inseparable. But when Noah is found floating unconscious in Bristol's Feeder Canal, Abdi can't–or ... (Goodreads)
Some Girls Are
by Courtney Summers
A high school queen bee becomes the target of bullying after being ousted from her popular clique.
Climbing to the top of the social ladder is hard—falling from it is even harder. Regina Afton used to be a member of the Fearsome Fivesome, an all-girl clique both feared and revered by the students ... (Goodreads)
The Safest Lies
by Megan Miranda
A teenage girl's life is turned upside down when her mother is attacked, leading her to question everything she thought she knew about her family.
Can fear be inherited? Kelsey has lived most of her life in a shadow of fear, raised to see danger everywhere. Her mother hasn’t set foot outside their front door in seventeen years, since she ... (Goodreads)
Ender's Shadow
by Orson Scott Card
A boy competes in a battle school to save humanity from a deadly alien race.
Welcome to Battleschool. Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to ... (Goodreads)
Time Between Us
by Tamara Ireland Stone
A teenage girl falls in love with a boy who can time travel, but their relationship is threatened by the consequences of altering the past.
Anna and Bennett were never supposed to meet: she lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett has the unique ability to travel through time and space, which brings him into ... (Goodreads)
Infamous
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
A young woman with supernatural powers must navigate a dangerous world of gods, demons, and vampires to uncover the truth about her past.
The world has fallen in love with Nick Gautier and the Dark-Hunters. Now Nick's saga continues in the next eagerly anticipated volume... Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That's the ... (Barnes & Noble)
Uprooted
by Naomi Novik
A young woman's battle to save her home from a magical force, while uncovering secrets of her past.
“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human ... (Goodreads)
The Girl Before
by Rena Olsen
A young woman's life is shattered when she discovers her parents have been involved in a child trafficking ring.
In this powerful psychological suspense debut, when a woman’s life is shattered, she is faced with a devastating question: What if everything she thought was normal and good and true . . . wasn’t? ... (Goodreads)
The Arrival
by Shaun Tan
A thought-provoking story of a man's journey to an unknown land in search of a new home.
In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to cross the ocean. He's embarking on the most painful yet important journey of his life—he's leaving ... (Goodreads)
