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Bewitching (Kendra Chronicles)

Alex Flinn - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

School Library JournalGr 810Flinn's latest fairy-tale mash-up revisits the witch from Beastly (HarperTeen, 2007). The story jumps right in with Kendra explaining how she came to be a witch. In 1666, she fled her plague-ridden village in England with her little brother (and only surviving...
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Debating Darcy

Sayantani DasGupta - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Hardcover

This Pride & Prejudice retelling brings New York Times bestselling Sayantani DasGupta's trademark wit and insight to her bright and funny YA debut!It is a truth universally acknowledged that Leela Bose plays to win.A life-long speech competitor, Leela loves nothing more than crushing...
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Idol Gossip

Alexandra Leigh Young - Walker Books US
Format: Hardcover

Every Friday after school, seventeen-year-old Alice Choy and her little sister, Olivia, head to Myeongdong to sing karaoke. Back in San Francisco, when she still had friends and earthly possessions, Alice took regular singing lessons. But since their diplomat mom moved them to Seoul, her only...
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This Adventure Ends

Emma Mills - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Sloane isn't expecting to fall in with a group of friends when she moves from New York to Florida -- especially not a group of friends so intense, so in love, so all-consuming. Yet that's exactly what happens. Sloane becomes closest to Vera, a social-media star who lights up any room,...
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Viva Lola Espinoza

Ella Cerón - Kokila
Format: Hardcover

A debut young adult novel that's Pride & Prejudice with a dash of magic, about a booksmart teen who spends the summer in Mexico City, meets two very cute boys, attempts to learn Spanish, and uncovers a family secret that changes her life forever.. Lola Espinoza is cursed in love. Well,...
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Gimme Everything You Got

Iva-Marie Palmer - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

"One part Judy Blume, one part Amy Schumer, Gimme Everything You Got is incredibly warm, bracingly frank, and laugh-out-loud hilarious. I didn't want the game to end." - Katie Cotugno, New York Times bestselling author of 99 Days It's 1979 - the age of roller skates and feathered...
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Fateful

Claudia Gray - HarperTeen
Format:  eBook : Document : Fiction : Secondary (senior high) school : English : 1st edView all editions and formats

When seventeen-year-old Tess Davies, a ladies' maid, meets handsome Alec Marlow aboard the RMS Titanic, she quickly becomes entangled in the dark secrets of his past, but her growing love puts her in mortal peril even before fate steps in.
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Sirens: The End of the World has a Sound.

Braden Cawthon - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback

A thrilling, apocalyptic horror debut from Braden Cawthon, perfect for fans of KR Alexander and Joe Hill!Joel Walker wakes up to a world suddenly and frighteningly changed. In the wake of a massive power outage, an otherworldly siren begins to blare, changing all that listen to it for too long...
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Allegedly

Tiffany D Jackson - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myer's Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by Tiffany D. Jackson about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home.Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview...
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