Teen Reads

Despite being valedictorian of her high school class, Jaliya is used to fading into the background. But this summer, Jaliya is visiting her uncle and his family in Jamaica. Under the guise of one last vacation before college, she plans to find out more about her estranged mother, whose absence has remained an unspoken mystery. But things have changed in the seven years since Jaliya last visited. Her cousin has his own life and is reluctant to let Jaliya in, her childhood crush has only gotten more unavailable, and her aunt and uncle aren’t everything she remembered, either. Then she meets India, who’s vibrant, gorgeous, and free-spirited. While searching for traces of her mother across the island, Jaliya finds herself entangled in complicated relationships, tricky secrets, and a passionate new love.

Lizzie Wei is a huge book nerd, and proud of it. When she realizes there is a mysterious reader who has been checking out all of her favorite books from the library, she can’t help but get a crush on someone she’s never even met. Her friends make it their mission to find Lizzie’s long lost book soulmate and convince her to leave notes for her crush. But what if this person isn’t at all what she expects? Dylan Lin loves reading, but secretly. He’s hidden his love of fantasy novels, instead being the perfect jock. When he decides to start volunteering at a kitten nursery, and his co-volunteer Lizzie asks if he likes reading, he says no. But when he accidentally makes an obscure reference to her favorite book during their volunteer shift, Lizzie begins to wonder if this is her book crush.

The magical underbelly of London is no longer under threat from the malevolent daughter of Death after she was vanquished during an epic nine-night. But in her wake, certain truths have been unearthed that have left Malcolm, Eli, Sunny, and their friends fractured and desperate to lay the past to rest. For Malcolm, grappling with his inherited death magic, confronting his past means facing heartbreak, realities he isn’t yet ready to acknowledge. Eli, a silver-tongued thief with no memories of his past, is determined to uncover his lost identity. But something is lurking in Eli’s dreams, giving teeth to his nightmares. When Malcolm finds a letter in the ruins of a former magical sanctuary full of its own secret histories, the friends set out to find a hidden key that may just be the answer to all their problems.

Savannah, Georgia, with its mossy trees and ornate old homes, is a place rich in history and ghosts. Ghosts are what pique Harmony Roundtree's interest. Still reeling from her losses back home, Harmony wants to believe in ghost stories, but isn't sure what's real. When she goes on one of the many ghost tours around town, she takes a photo of what might be a ghost. Or is it a hoax? With two new friends, Harmony sets out to investigate and stumbles upon clues leading to an unsolved murder. The deeper she digs, the more Harmony realizes that what she saw on the ghost tour might be connected to a shocking crime. But making connections can be dangerous--even more dangerous than ghosts.

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?

As Filipino vampires known as manananggal, Lily and her brother Caleb understand the value of a secret. After all, to hide is to survive. They'd never harm another person, but people only believe their worst fears around creatures of myth. So the siblings stay quiet and follow their community's rules. Until a monster hunter turns up and kills a fellow manananggal, anyway. And until Caleb is marked as the hunter's next prey. Suddenly, he and Lily realize there's always been more at stake than the lives of their people. As the hunter nears, the siblings must decide if they'll be driven from the only home they've ever known, if they'll or fight to protect a community that may already be lost.

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 s he 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.