Teen Reads

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?

Uyai and Fiyin may be roommates at Blue Waters Secondary School, but they are not friends. Uyai is popular and fierce, Fiyin is nerdy and quiet. Anyone who knows them would argue that, besides that shared dorm room, the two girls have absolutely nothing in common. But they do. Because both girls have been hurt. Humiliated. Taken advantage of. And both girls have just one boy to blame for it. Fiyin thinks Uyai is an irresponsible mean girl, and Uyai thinks Fiyin is an uptight loser. But they both think the boy that hurt them deserves to suffer. Taking down one of the most popular guys in school isn’t a one-woman task. If they want to get their revenge before graduation, Uyai and Fiyin will need each other’s help, regardless of how they feel about each other. After all, you don’t need to be friends to be teammates.

Raised in the world of fey, Rosefinch has the ability to lift curses with nothing but a twist of her fingers. But when a witch's magic is left long enough in the fey realm, it becomes supercharged, painful to use, and maybe even dangerous. Following a rumor that the village of Harp has a witch who could help her control her magic, she discovers an ancient ruined castle with the inhabitants long gone. The only remaining soul is Thierry, a knight cursed to stand guard. The magic she uses to free them melts more than just the ice, and Rosefinch starts falling for this stranger. But Thierry has secrets of their own, as do other members of the Harp family still hidden within the castle walls. The Harp witch's wicked magic ripped this family apart for a reason, and Rosefinch must find a way to stop the curse or she'll lose Thierry, and the chance to learn the truth about her magic.

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.