Teen Reads

Clem is a would-be poet who has been in "training school" ever since he caused the accident that maimed the nice lady who says she only wants him to do something fine with his life. Then Clem meets Finn, whose history is even more traumatic. Clem tries to help Finn adjust to prison, but when the boys are placed in solitary confinement, euphemistically called "administrative segregation," Finn deteriorates, both physically and mentally. He's ranting, saying he's found a portal in his cell and a way to change their lives -- past, present and future. And then he disappears. Clem is interrogated by prison officials, a social worker, a doctor and a mysterious man in a suit, who ask him about the days leading up to Finn's disappearance. As he tells them the story, he puzzles over what really happened to Finn, and the unexpected clues he's left Clem to find a better future.

In a world where everyone knows the date they will die, wild-child Regan works at a luxury resort as a "Juliet" for the Romeo & Juliet Service, promising to provide the illusion of star-crossed romance to rich boys on end-of-life retreats. She gets to live life on the edge, then moves on to her next client. But when world-famous Death Date researchers the Dalys arrive, she's tasked with her hardest client yet, their overachieving, stone-faced son. Jude Daly sees right through the setup; he thinks she's a parasite, and, frankly, she thinks he's an entitled jerk. They agree to fake romance for the sake of Jude's parents and Regan's job, but as contempt turns into something else, will Regan ignore her ironclad rules so she and Jude can take on Fate together? Or will his impending Death Date catch up with them first?

Alex used to be a witty, sarcastic kid with unusually good crossword skills and a penchant for astronomy. But he's also a victim of Munchausen by proxy. He's recovered from years of illness induced by his mother, but he has to figure out who he is all over again. And he'll have to decide if he can testify against the woman who gave birth to him. As Alex awaits the trial, his friends convince him to start a podcast as a way to tell his story. They create "Lethal Lullaby," which brings Alex closer to his old life: hanging out with friends, cracking jokes, having fun. But new memories surface and disturbing revelations come out, forcing Alex to acknowledge that the podcast could be making things worse. It seems like he's got deeper issues than he'd like to admit, and he can't blame them on his mom. As Alex's mental health crumbles, he can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction. Should he trust himself to testify? And if he gets up there, what version of the truth will he share?

Amity Callaway is sick of being known as the weird girl, and annoyed that her recently divorced mom moved them across the country to Harlow’s Rest, Massachusetts, even if it could be the fresh start she needs. Then Amity discovers their absolute disaster of a new house is supposedly haunted. Theo Hargrave, amateur ghost hunter and son of the local general contractor, is a believer, and shows up on their property with his EMF reader in hand. Amity is ready to debunk all his theories, but she can admit their home renovation is doomed. The paint that refuses to dry and the fixtures that keep coming loose. So Amity and Theo strike a deal: his family’s construction expertise for her help investigating the house’s supernatural secrets.

There are three things Jayshree Devi knows will happen at her annual family reunion: 1. her cousins will forget she exists, 2. her aunts will try to set her up, and 3. her uncles will get into a fight. Then an accident lands her grandmother in a coma, throwing the family, and their matriarch’s sizeable fortune, into chaos. When Jay discovers the “accident” might not have been so accidental after all, she has to dig through decades of secrets to find the truth. With the help of her cousins and one of their friends, Jay finds herself knee-deep in a mystery that’s even more tangled than her family tree. The closer she gets to answers, the closer she gets to finding her place amongst the relatives who once felt so distant.

Persephone Green doesn't have a heartbeat. In a country where the dead has eerily lurked among the living for nearly two decades, even she knows its absence is not normal. In place of her heart, something inhuman stirs, an ancient ocean she discovers twinned in the chest of Sebastian, the bizarre new student. When they're together, they attract ghosts like a beacon, and when they kiss, white flowers bloom in the autumn ground. To exhume the truth, Persephone and Bas travel across the Midwest to the deserted facility where it all began. Pursued across state lines by writhing swarms of ghosts, militant government agents, and her mother, they unspool a tangled web of conspiracies, and at the center, a devastating truth. Forced to choose between an imperfect life that's wholly hers or an otherworldly responsibility older than time, Persephone's decision will alter the fates of all souls, living and dead, forever.

Seventeen-year-old Isadora is reeling after the sudden loss of her older sister, Eleni, to a pulmonary embolism. Her grieving parents can't offer much support, so her only reprieve is her close friend Ani, but lately the intensity of her feelings for Ani have been more confusing than comforting. Then Isadora discovers secret letters in Eleni's belongings that suggest her artist sister was hiding more from her family than Isadora ever expected. Isadora travels to her uncle's apartment in New York City, where Eleni lived, determined to unravel the threads of her sister's life. As she searches for clues, Isadora embraces her own sexuality and begins to fall in love. But can she learn to live when Eleni will never have the same chance?

Edie Birch needs an escape from her crumbling life. When a death in the family leaves Edie the inheritor of a strange, towering house in the small town of Hart Creek, she doesn't look back. While she tries to connect with her estranged aunt and learn more about her mysterious family history, she uncovers a shocking truth. She comes from a long line of witches. The heir to her grandmother's powers, Edie is Hart Creek's only hope to keep away the beasts lurking at the forest's edge. As she struggles to master her magic, she'll enlist the help of local folklore nerd Leander and discovers secrets that will leave her questioning who the true monsters are.

Elle Fields comes from a long line of thieves who specialize in breaking into the Afterlife to steal secrets, and magic, from the dead. But after her parents’ disappearance and her brother’s death, Elle is left adrift, without even her crew to rely on. Until a mysterious stranger offers her a job she can’t refuse: stealing a soul from the Afterlife. If Elle can get it done, it could be the key to restoring the life she lost. The problem is getting her crew back together. Oh, and the fact that the job’s impossible, but Elle is confident that she’ll be able to work it all out. After all, how hard could it be to raise the dead?

One morning, Mikaela Broussard receives the shock of her life. At a customer’s tarot reading in the family’s occult shop, she flips the Death card and has a vision of the stranger stabbing her in the heart. To find out why this person, Joelle, would kill her, she has to keep her close. But the more time Mikaela spends with her soon-to-be murderer, the more irresistible she finds her. And fellow witches are turning up with their magic stolen. It’s clear dark magic is at work, and as the next Witch Queen of her coven, Mikaela is tasked with figuring out who or what is behind it all.

One hot dog with banana peppers, that's all Hot Dog wants. As an invisible teenage ghost, she haunts a food cart outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Then one night she gets summoned by Ouija board to a party in Florida. And--finally!--people can see her. Unsurprisingly, the party guests flee. Except for Logan, the girl who doesn't just see Hot Dog, she wants to talk to her. She isn't scared of the ghost's stitched mouth or chattering dress. She was grieving her dead BFF and called Hot Dog by mistake. But Hot Dog wants to prove it's not, and she can be Logan's new best friend. She's sure she can smile without scaring people, like a real, human girl! But she's not a real, living human girl, and something in Logan's sprawling house knows it, scratching like rats in the walls. Opening a secret door in Logan's attic, it seeks to drag Hot Dog into the nothingness--where all dead things are supposed to go.

Lucia Sorenson holds on hard to the things she loves. Her tiny hometown clings to the bluffs above the Mississippi River, threatened by weather and time. Unlike most people her age, Lucia plans to stay after graduation and help her grandfather run the Viking Museum of Black Point. Maybe then she can keep everything her ancestors built from washing away. When the Black Point Hotel, a supposedly haunted local landmark, is bought by an outsider, the town is shaken--and for Lucia, fresh changes arrive in the form of the owner's nephew, Max. As Lucia gets to know Max, she begins to question her role in the town's rituals and to see the place, and herself, with new eyes. But the town is flooding, and old secrets are rising to the surface. Soon Lucia will have to choose between the home she thought she knew and the hideous truths hidden underneath.

Every month, the kingdom of Florent braces for the Ignition: a solar event that turns ordinary humans into vicious dragon shifters, and anyone can be a dragon's next victim. For Claire, it has consumed her and her father, her town, and the life she thought she'd have. She's scraping by on her wits as part of a sisterhood of thieves until she tracks down a disgraced dragon slayer could be the one to get her back the life she once had. Abel has been shunned by the prestigious Slayers Guild for conducting research that's too unorthodox. But Claire trusts rulebreakers, so when Abel reveals he is hunting again, Claire tries to hire him under false pretenses. He's reluctant to accept a job from a criminal, but he really needs the money. They will race through Florent to uncover the most dangerous secrets in their quests.

Teen influencers Jen and Dante post wild videos of themselves doing extreme sports. But when they jump out of a helicopter to ski down a mountain, the stunt goes way wrong. Dante's ankle gets slashed, and the helicopter crew who were supposed to be waiting at the bottom of the mountain are nowhere to be found. As the confused teens seek answers from some locals, they all find themselves flesh-to-fang, trapped in an isolated cabin surrounded by frost vampires.

When Sabrina and Tyler meet by accident outside the football locker rooms, it’s not a big deal. Sabrina is focused on leading the Spirit Committee, while Tyler is eager for a second chance playing football as a transfer. As the team’s newest athlete, Tyler is the center of attention. Sabrina is dodging Ryan, her flirtationship who is want to take her to the homecoming dance. Eager to avoid trouble she doesn’t want, Sabrina asks Tyler instead, and to fend off unwanted advances, Tyler accepts. They’re just friends, so everything should be fine. Tyler finds it hard to ignore the connection he feels, but needs to keep his past buried. When the chemistry between them becomes obvious, can their separate plans survive?