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Dead Boy Detectives Vol. 1: Schoolboy Terrors
Dead Boy Detectives Vol. 1: Schoolboy Terrors

Toby Litt · Vertigo
Format: Book

From the pages of THE SANDMAN, Neil Gaiman's intrepid dead schoolboys head back to the horror that is St. Hilarions School; the place where they both were murdered. While trying to protect their new acquaintance, techno-savvy sleuth Crystal, from suffering the same fate at the hands...
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So Close
So Close

Emma McLaughlin · Sparkpress
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From international #1 best-selling authors Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus comes a story about a girl from the trailer parks of central Florida and the two powerful men who shape her life -- one of whom will raise her up to places she never imagined, the other of whom will threaten to destroy...
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Seven Black Diamonds
Seven Black Diamonds

Melissa Marr · Harper
Pages: 381
Format: Print book

Melissa Marr returns to faery in a dramatic story of the precarious space between two worlds - and the people who must thrive there. The combination of ethereal fae powers, tumultuous romance, and a bloodthirsty faery queen will have longtime fans and new readers alike at the edge of their...
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Black Friday
Black Friday

Robert Muchamore · Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Book

Book three of the second Cherub series, featuring a new cast of characters—just as compelling as the first, which has sold millions of copies worldwide Ryan is about to board a plane, knowing that the next twenty-four hours will change everything. His mission is to stop...
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Goodbye, Rebel Blue
Goodbye, Rebel Blue

Shelley Coriell · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Book

Rebecca Blue is a rebel with an attitude whose life is changed by a chance encounter with a soon-to-be dead girl. Rebel (as she’s known) decides to complete the dead girl’s bucket list to prove that choice, not chance, controls her fate. In doing so, she unexpectedly opens her mind...
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My Brilliant Idea
My Brilliant Idea

Stuart David · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 238
Format: Print book

Meet the man Jack "The Jackdaw" Dawson. Jack is a man with a plan, a serious plan. Always on the lookout for a get-rich-quick scheme (essentially, a get-me-away-from-the-life-my-parents-live one) , he thinks he has come up with the perfect solution an app which stops you from...
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Now
Now

Morris Gleitzman · Square Fish
Format: Print book

Set in the current day, this is the final book in Morris Gleitzman's series that began with Once, continued with Then and is . . . Now.Felix is a grandfather. He has achieved much in his life and is widely admired in the community. He has mostly buried the painful memories of his childhood,...
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Summer of Moonlight Secrets
Summer of Moonlight Secrets

Danette Haworth · Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback

At The Meriwether, Floridas famous antebellum hotel, nothing is quite as it seems and since shes lived there all her life, nothing surprises Allie Jo Jackson until she spots the enigmatic, beautiful Tara emerging from the springs--once Allie Jo and her Title The Summer of Moonlight SecretsAuthor...
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What we saw at night
What we saw at night

Jacquelyn Mitchard · Soho Teen
Pages: 13
Format: Print book

After glimpsing an older man in a room with a dead girl, sixteen-year-old Allie, who has a life-threatening allergy to sunlight, discovers she is the lone key to stopping a serial killer.
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Invision
Invision

Sherrilyn Kenyon · Griffin
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Think you have a lot of pressure on your shoulders? Nick Gautier was born to bring about the end of the world . . . it's not easy being the heir of a demon overlord. But Nick is determined to thwart his destiny and get into a good college. To be more than his genetics and prophecy foretell....
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The Color of Rain
The Color of Rain

Cori McCarthy · Running Press Kids
Format: Paperback

If there is one thing that seventeen-year-old Rain knows and knows well, it is survival. Caring for her little brother, Walker, who is "Touched," and losing the rest of her family to the same disease, Rain has long had to fend for herself on the bleak, dangerous streets of Earth...
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The Rise of Aurora West
The Rise of Aurora West

Paul Pope · First Second
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary world introduced in Paul Pope's Battling Boy is rife with monsters and short on heroes... but in this action-driven extension of the Battling Boy universe, we see it through a new pair of eyes: Aurora West, daughter of Arcopolis's last great hero, Haggard West.A...
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Hidden
Hidden

Helen Frost · Faber And Faber
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

When Wren Abbott and Darra Monson are eight years old, Darra's father steals a minivan. He doesn't know that Wren is hiding in the back. The hours and days that follow change the lives of both girls. Darra is left with a question that only Wren can answer. Wren has questions, too. Years...
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Speed of Life
Speed of Life

J M Kelly · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Twins Crystal and Amber have the same goal: to be the first in their family to graduate high school and make something of their lives. When one gets pregnant during their junior year, they promise to raise the baby together. It's not easy, but between their after-school jobs, they're...
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