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There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
A teen psychopath; a football-mad midwestern farm town and Halloween coming up on the calendar suggests one thing: a classic slasher novel. Adding to the reader’s entertainment, this novel by Stephanie Perkins is that, and so much more. Makani Young has been exiled from paradise, that is to say, Hawaii, where she was involved in […]
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
Joan Skraggs is a heroine who siezes her destiny with both hands. At the beginning of the story, set in 1911, Joan’s mother has been dead for three years. Joan believes that her mother, a delicate woman, died of overwork on the farm. Joan has a sense that if she, too, remains on the farm, […]
Bingo Love
When “happily ever after” is more like unhappily ever after, how long does “ever after” really need to last? Is it ever too late to find your way back to that one true love? Bingo Love, the first in a series, is the epic love story of Hazel Johnson and Mari McCray told in flashback […]
The Avant-Guards Volume 1
Charlie has just transferred to an arts school. She doesn’t know anyone and she’s not even sure she made the right choice switching schools. During an activity fair she starts getting hounded by a girl at one of the booths who is trying to start a basketball team at the school for the first time. […]
Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon
What would you do to impress your crush? What lengths would you go to? Sunny Dae never thought he would be the type of guy to change anything, but when he met Cirrus Soh for the first time it ends with Sunny telling her that he is the frontman for a metal band instead of […]
Witch Hat Atelier
“Witches are born, not taught.” But is this really true? In this fast-paced adventure, Coco, a young girl with an obsession with magic, will stop at nothing to find out! When Coco spies on a real witch casting a spell, she learns spells are not told or written – They are drawn. Trying some for […]
Dustborn by Erin Bowman
I’ve always been a fan of Erin Bowman. She writes amazing science fiction and some of the only historical fiction (westerns) I actually enjoy reading. Dustborn combines all of the world building and action from her previous books into one story. Delta, lives in a world where everything is sun scorched and desert. Rivers and […]
Firekeeper’s Daughter Angeline Boulley
In this YA thriller with a Native teen at its center, Firekeepers Daughters opens upon a small Canadian town over the border from the U.S., embedded with indigenous culture, yet still discriminatory and separate, and above all a small town hiding dark secrets. Daunis, a fierce hockey player, sister and friend, bridges the divide in […]