, R.J. Anderson
In a dying faery realm, only the brave and rebellious faery Knife persists in trying to discover how her people’s magic was lost and what is needed to restore their powers and ensure their survival, but her quest is endangered by her secret friendship with a human named Paul.
The Gathering, Kelley Armstrong
Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a relationship between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets.
Sometimes It Happens, Lauren Barnholdt
With help from her best friend Ava, and Ava’s boyfriend Noah, Hannah is recovering from being dumped by her boyfriend Sebastian, but on the first day of their senior year in high school, Ava learns that Hannah and Noah betrayed her while she was away.
Flip, Martyn Bedford
A teenager wakes up inside another boy’s body and faces a life-or-death quest to return to his true self or be trapped forever in the wrong existence.
Small Persons With Wings, Ellen Booraem
When Mellie Turpin’s grandfather dies and leaves her family his run-down inn and bar, she learns that for generations her family members have been fairy guardians, and now that the fairies want an important ring returned, the Turpins become involved in a series of magical adventures as they try to locate the missing ring.
Bitter End, Jennifer Brown
When seventeen-year-old Alex starts dating Cole, a new boy at her high school, her two closest friends increasingly mistrust him as the relationship grows more serious.
Trackers:Book One, Patrick Carman
Adam, Finn, Lewis, and Emily use their computer coding skills and hi-tech equipment to catch criminals, but when they begin to track Shantorian, a dangerous hacker, things do not play out as easily as the four trackers predict.
Little Black Lies, Tish Cohen
Starting her junior year at an ultra-elite Boston school, sixteen-year-old Sara, hoping to join the popular crowd, hides that her father not only is the school janitor, but also has obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Phantoms in the Snow, Kathleen Benner Duble
In 1944, fifteen-year-old Noah Garrett, recently orphaned, is sent to live at Camp Hale, Colorado, with an uncle he has never met, and there he finds his pacifist views put to the test.
Haunting Violet, Alyxandra Harvey
Sixteen-year-old Violet Willoughby has been part of her mother’s Spiritualist scam since she was nine, but during an 1872 house party in Hampshire, England, she is horrified to learn that she can actually see ghosts, one of whom wants Violet to solve her murder.
Paper Covers Rock, Jenny Hubbard
Alex Stronn writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover things up.
Claire De Lune, Christine Johnson
On her sixteenth birthday Claire discovers strange things happening and when her mother reveals their family secret which explains the changes, Claire feels her world, as she has known it to be, slowly slipping away.
Invincible, Sherrilyn Kenyon
Teenager Nick Gautier, having survived the zombie attack, deals with the principal who does not like him, a coach who is trying to recruit him, and a girl with secrets, while struggling to raise the dead before his soul is claimed by demons and shape-shifters.
Forgotten, Cat Patrick
Sixteen-year-old London Lane forgets everything each night and must use notes to struggle through the day, even to recall her wonderful boyfriend, but she “remembers” future events and as her “flashforwards” become more disturbing she realizes she must learn more about the past lest it destroy her future.
The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills, Joanna Pearson
Aspiring anthropologist Janice Wills reports on the socio-cultural ordeals of being an almost-seventeen-year-old in Melva, North Carolina, including “Beautiful Rich Girls,” parties, and the Miss Livermush pageant.
Illusions, Aprilynne Pike
As her senior year of high school starts, Laurel is just beginning to adjust to Tamani’s absence when he suddenly reappears, telling her he must guard her against the returning threat of the trolls that pose a danger both to her and to Avalon.
Die For Me, Amy Plum
After their parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year-old Kate Mercier and her older sister Georgia, each grieving in her own way, move to Paris to live with their grandparents and Kate finds herself powerfully drawn to the handsome but elusive Vincent who seems to harbor a mysterious and dangerous secret.
Never Sit Down In A Hoopskirt (and Other Things I Learned in Southern Belle Hell), Crickett Rumley
After being ousted from yet another elite boarding school, Jane returns to her Alabama hometown, where her grandmother persuades her to enter the Magnolia Maid pageant.
Small Town Sinners, Melissa Walker
High school junior Lacey finds herself questioning the evangelical Christian values she has been raised with when a new boy arrives in her small town.
Pink, Lili Wilkinson
Sixteen-year-old Ava does not know who she is or where she belongs, but when she tries out a new personality–and sexual orientation–at a different school, her edgy girlfriend, potential boyfriend, and others are hurt by her lack of honesty.
Published on July 27, 2011.
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