Back Teens | May Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Teens  
Other Words for Smoke

Sarah Maria Griffin · Greenwillow Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Twins Mae and Rossa's summer away from home becomes life altering when they discover a house full of witches, experience devastating first love, and face a dark power beyond any imagining.Sarah Maria Griffin's haunting and literary sophomore novel explores the balance between love...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Art of Starving

SAM J MILLER · HarperTeen
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2017 Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book!"Funny, haunting, beautiful, relentless, and powerful, The Art of Starving is a classic in the making." - Book RiotMatt hasn't eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Two Can Keep a Secret

Karen M McManus · Delacorte Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying is back with an all-new, page-turning mystery perfect for fans of Riverdale!Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Consent

Nancy Ohlin · Simon Pulse
Pages: 269
Format: Print book

In this sexy and intriguing novel, an intense - and passionate - bond between a high school senior and her music teacher becomes a public scandal that threatens the reputation of both.Bea has a secret. Actually, she has more than one. There's her dream for the future that she can't tell...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Librarian of Auschwitz

Antonio Iturbe · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Price of Duty

Todd Strasser · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Jake Liddell is a war hero. The military is considering awarding him a Silver Star, a huge honor for any soldier -- especially for the son of a military family. Only Jake's questioning everything his family brought him up to believe.Now at home, recovering from his physical wounds, the memories...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Looking Glass

Janet McNally · HarperTeen
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Sarah Dessen, Janet McNally's imaginative story of sisterhood shows that the fiercest of loves are often the ones that exist outside of happily-ever-afters.GIRLS IN TROUBLE. That's what Sylvie Blake's older sister Julia renamed their favorite fairy tale...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Bridge of Clay

RANDOM HOUSE. · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 544
Format: Library Binding

An unforgettable and sweeping family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be lifechanging." The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Sucktown, Alaska

Craig Dirkes · Switch Press
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover

Freshman year, Eddie Ashford had it all. Friends, parties, Taco Bell. He enjoyed it, reveled in it even. And he flunked out. Now he wants to redeem himself. Has to. He takes a job in tiny Kusko, Alaska, and promises to stay a year. His intentions are pure, but soon he's lonely, low on cash,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
This Raging Light

Estelle Laure · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 277
Format: Print book

For fans of Jandy Nelson and Rainbow Rowell comes a gorgeous debut novel about family, friends, and first love. Lucille Bennett is pushed into adulthood after her mom decides to "take a break" ... from parenting, from responsibility, from Lucille and her little sister, Wren....
Read More check catalog
 
 
At the Edge of the Universe

Shaun David Hutchinson · Simon Pulse
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

From the author of We Are the Ants and The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes the heartbreaking story of a boy who believes the universe is slowly shrinking as things he remembers are being erased from others' memories.Tommy and Ozzie have been best friends since the second grade, and boyfriends...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Taxonomy of Love

RACHAEL ALLEN · Amulet Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The moment Spencer meets Hope the summer before seventh grade, it's . . . something at first sight. He knows she's special, possibly even magical. The pair become fast friends, climbing trees and planning world travels. After years of being outshone by his older brother and teased because...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Revenge Playbook

Rachael Allen · Harper Teen
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Don't get mad, get even! In this poignant and hilarious novel, Rachael Allen brilliantly explores the nuances of high school hierarchies, the traumas sustained on the path to finding true love, and the joy of discovering a friend where you least expect.In the small town of Ranburne,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Last Time We Say Goodbye

Cynthia Hand · HarperTeen
Pages: 390
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Hand comes a gorgeous, heart-wrenching novel of love and loss, which ALA BOOKLIST called "both shatteringly painful and bright with life and hope" in a starred review.Since her brother, Tyler, committed suicide, Lex has been trying...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Into the Hurricane

NEIL CONNELLY · Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

TWO PEOPLE WITH LOSSESEli and Max both have good reasons to go to the lighthouse on Shackles Island. For Max, it's an old vacation spot, the rare location where she has only good memories -- so it's the right place to scatter her dad's ashes. For Eli, it's the highest point near his Louisiana...
Read More check catalog