Grades 9-12
Grace, Leigh, Camille, Wilhelmina and Monica are 5 gymnasts and friends who are currently battling it out for the top spots for the US Olympic team. Who will succeed and who will fail? Read this fast-paced book to find out!
Category: YA Fiction
The Lost and Found by Katrina Leno
Grades 9-12
Frannie and Louis have never met each other, but they have been talking online since they met in a support group when they were younger. Then they each receive mail that leads them to take a road trip to Austin, Texas to find each other. Along the way, Frannie and Louis find things that the other has lost, as if by magic. What will happen when they finally meet in person?
Things We Know by Heart by Jessi Kirby
Grades 9-12
Quinn Sullivan is heartbroken when she loses her boyfriend Trent in a tragic car accident. Then she reaches out to those who received his organs as a result of it, in hopes to heal. She hears back from some of them, but the person who received his heart doesn’t respond. She finally figures out that he is a 19-year-old named Colton Thomas. Quinn meets him, and then realizes that she has feelings for him as they spend more time together. What will happen when Colton finds out he’s been tricked into meeting Quinn?
Will & Whit by Laura Lee Gulledge
Grades 9-12
Wilhelmina “Will” Huckstep loves creating and fixing lamps, first because she feels like she was born in the wrong time, and has an old soul, and second because she’s secretly afraid of the dark. She lives with her aunt since her parents have passed, and they run an antiques shop together. Then one day there is a blackout, and Will has to face her fears, as well as come to terms with her parents’ deaths.
Doctor Who: 100 Scariest Monsters by Justin Richards
Ages 8+
This book is a must read for Doctor Who fans! It gave a description of the scariest monsters in the series, and rated each with a fear factor out of 10. The pictures were really creepy, too!
Delirium Stories by Lauren Oliver
Grades 9-12
This book is a collection of short stories. A handful of characters in the Delirium series got their own stories, and they come together in this one volume. Read the stories of Hana, Annabel and Raven in Delirium Stories.
Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson
Grades 9-12
Scarlett’s family owns the Hopewell, a small hotel in New York City. When she and her siblings each turn 15, they are expected to care for a suite. Mrs. Amberson is the permanent guest that Scarlett inherits along with her suite, the Empire Suite. On top of that, Scarlett meets a gorgeous actor who is new to the city whom she falls hard for. Will she be able to handle it all?
Oceanborn by Amalie Howard
Grades 9-12
In this sequel to Amalie Howard’s Waterfell, Nerissa Marin has her crown, and she is now struggling to keep it. She is torn between her ties to the human realm and that of her people. Nerissa’s part-human prince consort, Lo has been poisoned, so she goes back to land to save him. However, when she gets there, she finds out that he has no memory of who she is. Will Lo ever remember Nerissa and help her be the queen she was meant to be?
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
Grades 9-12
Burn Baby Burn is Meg Medina’s latest novel. It takes place in 1977 in New York, among Son of Sam, constant arson and a blackout. Nora Lopez and her friend Kathleen MacInerney try to stay out of trouble dying their senior year in high school, because Nora’s single mother surely can’t manage if something happened to Nora in these crazy times, so her curfew is “before dark.” On top of that, Nora’s older brother is spinning out of control and her father is so busy with his new family that he only remembers to call on national holidays (which of course don’t include Nora’s birthday). Medina captures 1977 so that those who grew up in the 70s will be nostalgic and those who were born after will get a clear picture about what life was like then.
Waterfell by Amalie Howard
Grades 9-12
Waterfell is the first book in Amalie Howard’s Aquarathi series. Meet Nerissa Marin, AKA Rissa, AKA The Girl Who Would Be Queen. She hides in human form among kids her age so that she can plan how she will claim what she lost the day her father died – her right to the under water kingdom. Will she be able to pull it off?
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