Teen Reads

School is everything to Murphy--she's missed out on all of the Traditional High School Things in pursuit of academic success. Her senior year is going to be perfect, and so is she, because she's pushing herself to her physical and mental limit. All she needs to do is ignore her mounting anxiety. Which is probably clinical. But Hayes, the ultrasmart rival for valedictorian, is making her year far less perfect. He's after that top spot, and he doesn't care who he has to shove outside. When Murphy and Hayes are paired up for a group project on student mental health, she discovers that he might be the only one who understands what she's going through. The burnout, and the self-doubt, and the unrelenting grind. Together, they can stand up to the pressures of academia, family, and the way most traveled--if they partner up.

Kit may be a princess, but her life is no fairy tale. Chronically ill and abused by her new stepfather, she finds solace in her kind stepsister, Catharine. Yet the sisters may not be together for long. Catharine is intended to be wed to a prince of the Northern Isles. Kit's mother strikes a bargain with the fae to free her daughter from the king's abuse and give Kit a happier ending, but the fae swaps Kit's ailing body for Catharine's before Catharine can depart. Horrified, Kit and Catharine abandon their home and travel north to find the fae who cursed them. The sisters soon discover the prince is under his own fae curse. He offers to help, but Kit finds herself unsure she wants to switch back if it means she can't be with the prince--and worse, must return to her own suffering body.

Kiara is a long way from Washington Heights. She's at Phillips Academy Andover, the prestigious school of her dreams. But her bulky financial aid laptop in a room full of brand-new Macs, her classmates' endless chatter about overseas vacations, and everyone's pristine North Face jackets have her feeling like she'll never fit in. Then she discovers the all-star step team, SLAM. Kiara will gladly endure long practices, sore muscles, and chafed palms to finally find her place on campus. That is, until tragedy strikes and those closest to her are hurt, and she realizes exactly what it means to be an Andover student. Because at a school where her wealthy white classmates can get away with almost anything and students like her are made to feel lucky to even be at the academy to begin with, is belonging really what Kiara wants? And is she brave enough to step up--for herself and her friends?

Amelia Wu is great at relationships. So great, in fact, that she’s in three of them: the debate team captain, the filmmaker, and the tennis star. But none of them know about each other, so it works perfectly for her! They’re in love with her, or at least versions of her: Amy. Ellie. Mia. And she’s in love with the lavish dinners, fancy yacht trips, and expensive gifts. But schemes always get complicated, don’t they? When Amelia's best friend ends up dead, the death shocks their beachside city. And Amelia's carefully planned relationships start to unravel. Desperate, she teams up with her academic nemesis Jackie, editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, to get to the bottom of this. Because she needs to keep her boyfriends close and her enemies closer if she wants to keep her scam—and herself—afloat.

Harper grew up with her grandma Gigi’s stories about pretty brown girls with magic from the stars, but they were just stories. When a tragedy awakens a dangerous power building beneath Harper’s skin, she is desperate for answers, and finds herself drawn to Black Mountain Academy in the Appalachian Mountains. Gigi herself attended it, and it's rumored to be haunted by spirits of witches past. Harper arrives determined to learn, but it means dealing with Kai, her ex-best friend who seems hellbent on getting her to leave, and his cousin, Lucas, who won’t let her forget the almost-kiss from last summer. The school was built on dark secrets, and as Harper digs, the more rot she finds. When she learns of a grisley legend about twelve witches from the campus' past, she's drawn to their story. But someone doesn’t want her exposing the school’s sordid past, and it becomes clear they're willing to kill.

At over six feet tall, Nokes Lasley dominates on the right wing, and her no-nonsense approach and fiery temper make her a hockey superstar. She dreams of the Olympics, proving that she can compete in the big leagues. Everything changes when her father is arrested for murder and she enters the foster care system, bouncing from home to home. Nokes decides to go to Minnesota, where a friend with hockey connections seems much better than Ontario. With the help of her friend Aidan and some careful lies, she starts a new life in a new country. But the past catches up, and Nokes has to make a terrible choice: keep running or face her past head-on.

The Hadley sisters of Mystic Hollow are magic. But Kat swears her gift is that she's invisible to boys. When she learns that her older sister, Harriet, cast a curse to protect her from heartbreak, Kat is furious and loses control, and it's not just sisterhood that shatters. Suddenly, every spell a Hadley witch has ever cast starts reversing. Spells for good start bringing evil, curses to repel now attract, and the veil between worlds begins to thin. If the sisters don't do something, this Halloween might be Mystic Hollow's last. In the midst of trying to repair magic--and their relationship--Kat notices that every crush who's ever rejected her is now lovesick. For the first time, she feels really magic, so who cares if it's a spell?

Ava Quirk hoped getting into fine arts private school Faraday could be a fresh start. But her grades have tanked and her scholarship hangs by a thread. Her student advisor, local legend Peter Barden, agrees to pass her if she befriends Love Solt and get him a copy of the top-secret novel she's writing. And Ava can absorb Love's academic prowess. Luckily, friendship comes easy, trust is built, and she's ready to deliver on Barden's ask. Then she realizes she's falling for Love, and the idea of betraying her is awful. But when she reads Love's novel, she sees that if what Love has written gets out, lives will be ruined. Yet if it stays hidden, lives will be at risk.

Minerva Treviño has grown up in a city full of political violence, and home is where she'll probably get a beating instead of a meal. Cowardice has kept her safe, but she has a limit. She manages to run away, and gets a job as lady’s maid to a wealthy widow. She's happy serving Encarnación del Valles; there's food and a warm house lit by magical chispa. When the old viceroy sweeps back into power, Minerva travels with her employer to a stronghold, la Casa de las Gardenias, to wait out the slaughter of rebels. There, she faces haughty servants, and del Valles has turned cruel. But Minerva finds the estate is home to forces older and more bloodthirsty than she could ever imagine.

The Harrow Home for Wayward Girls has stood as a place of secrets, housing hundreds of young women during their pregnancies. Grace Harrow has heard their homesick cries throughout her childhood. Now, in the summer of 1947, the Home has been sold to a hotelier. She expects the new owner's daughters to be spoiled, but Rose, the eldest, is jealous of Grace's confidence, and as they're drawn together, a friendship forms. Together they find out not all the wayward girls left. One remains in the shadows, seeking vengeance. Grace and Rose work to unravel a past of cruel secrets. But someone seeks to keep the past hidden--because if the truth comes out, both families may be destroyed.

Vesper Evans resents Basalton’s high society, and the sorcery that wraps them in luxury. Rescued by the editor of The Basalton Globe as an orphan, Vesper is now a reporter, and has vowed to keep the paper afloat. While covering a gala, she finds the murdered body of a man she had spoken with minutes before. Some of the magical elite may want the man dead, but the prime suspect is Maximilian Kite. He makes Vesper an offer: find the true culprit in exchange for a substantial fee--enough to save the Globe--and the scoop of a lifetime. But to infiltrate society, they must pose as a couple. Unearthing the city’s secrets, Vesper is in real danger. Along with one of the most infuriating men she has ever met.

Selma Wijnberg is a criminal because she is Jewish. She is deported to the Sobibor death camp, sentenced to sort the clothes of the dead under smoke made of thousands. One day, at the end of a Nazi pistol, she's ordered to dance. The hand that offers to dance with her belongs to Chaim Engel, a Polish Jew. Chaim and Selma don't speak the same language, and who falls in love in hell? Chaim and Selma do. When the prisoners of Sobibor hatch a plan of escape, Chaim and Selma vow to go out on their feet, or out with the smoke. In the terror and panic, bullets and bloodshed, they discover that hope can be the key to keeping two people alive.

Ellison College freshman Raina is shocked to learn that thirty years ago the week after Halloween, on Mischief Night, three students walked into the woods and only one came out. The killer of the Mischief Girls wasn't caught, and no one knows what happened. Now, Anika, a classmate of Raina's, has gone missing. She was looking into the Mischief Girls' murders before she vanished, and Raina may be the last person to have seen her. With the help of Anika's stepbrother, Rohan, Raina begins to dig into the truth. She finds herself starting to wonder whether what happened to Anika really began the night she disappeared, or if it goes back much further.

East Phoenix deals in secrets and stealth, West Dragon in fists and fear. Both empires are bleeding money, and the truce between them frays daily. As the daughter of Chinatown's most powerful crime boss, Alexis Sung can do almost anything, except join the family business. When her first job for East Phoenix goes wrong because of Zachary Ren, her father shuts her out for good. Zachary, an orphan raised by West Dragon, is desperate to escape a life he never chose. He destroyed Alexis's chance to prove herself, and assumed they'd never cross paths again. Then a daring heist surfaces with a business-saving bounty. Alexis needs s second chance, so strikes an uneasy alliance with Zachary.

Del is secretly Adeleine Ventris, runaway princess. When her sister died at the hand of her lover, Del fled her family and the throne. Not before faking her death and constructing a mirrorwoven face. She’s just Del, a musician who can disappear to the lagoon-city of Salato. The enchantment hiding her identity can be unraveled by true love’s kiss, but Del’s had enough of love. When she becomes court bard to the new First of Salato, she resolves to keep her head down and stay out of politics. But Clara, the young figurehead, trusts too easily, and may be the one person less prepared to govern than Del herself. If Clara loses her throne, Del loses her new life. As her deceptions grow precarious, she also grows closer to both Clara and Nasca, Clara’s brilliant, dangerous sister.

When Emery steps foot onto Dartmouth's campus, she's focused on keeping her scholarship, taking her meds, and praying no one finds out about her past. It all changes when she meets a girl named Roux, her stepbrother named Eli, and a band of girls called "The Sirens." Each Siren is gorgeous, and their lives on campus are shrouded in extravagance and secret parties. Before the girls became Sirens, they were outcasts, yet under Roux, their wildest dreams come true. When Roux offers Emery the chance to join them, Emery will do whatever it takes to make it in.

When two best friends are attacked on graduation night, only one makes it out alive. Left for dead but determined to find out who killed her best friend, Rose is rescued by former high school quarterback, Jake, who becomes an unexpected ally. When she learns that fifteen years ago, another girl suffered the exact same fate in the exact same place, she wonders if a murderer might be back--or is a copycat killer on the loose? Whoever the killer is, they're eager to correct the mistake of letting Rose live. As she follows the trail of evidence, she discovers medical horrors that threaten to expose the dark secrets of the most powerful institution in her town.

After Bramble Falls’ Falling Leaves Festival, Sloane Sullivan is looking forward to kicking back and marathoning movies with her best friend, Asher. Then her mom calls and informs her it’s all hands on deck; Bramble Falls is having its first ever Falling Snow Festival! Though still recovering from exhaustion, Sloane is also excited. She’ll have her whole crew, her cousin Ellis, and Asher. But when hockey-playing Micah catches her attention, she finds herself distracted. Her unexpected flirtation is confusing; and what about Asher? He's always been her best friend, but if she's seeing Asher in a new light, what does that mean for her and Micah?"--Amazon.