Category Archives: Teens

New Teen Books – Week of May 28th

, Carrie Ryan Alone and listening to the moaning of the Dark City dying around her, Annah wants to find her way back home, to her sister and family and their village in the Forest of Hands and Teeth.   Early to Death, Early to Rise, Kim Harrison When Madison Avery, seventeen, spunky, and technically […]

New Teen Books – Week of May 21st

, Lisa Mantchev Bertie thinks that to complete her quest to have a true family she need only reunite her father, the Scrimshander, with her mother, Ophelia, but complications arise and she is torn between her responsibilities and the dream of flying free, just as she is torn between Nate and Ariel. Tunnel Vision, Susan […]

New Teen Books – Week of May 7th

, Cassandra Clare When Jace vanishes with Sebastian, Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and Clary infiltrates the group planning the world’s destruction. He’s So Not Worth It, Kieran Scott Told in two voices, Allie and Jake continue to be bombarded by family issues and pressures from the “Cresties” and […]

New Teen Books – Week of Apr 23rd

, Robin Wasserman While working on a project translating letters from sixteenth-century Prague, high school senior Nora Kane discovers her best friend murdered with her boyfriend the apparent killer and is caught up in a dangerous web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all searching for a mysterious ancient device purported to allow direct communication […]

New Teen Books – Week of Apr 16th

, Abby McDonald On prom night, Bliss, Jolene, and Meg, students from the same high school who barely know one another, band together to get revenge against Bliss’s boyfriend and her best friend, whom she caught together in the limousine they rented. Croak, Gina Damico A delinquent sixteen-year-old girl is sent to live with her […]

New Teen Books – Week of April 2nd

, Jennifer A. Nielsen In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king’s long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war. The List, Siobhan Vivian Every year at Mount Washington High School somebody posts a list of the prettiest and […]

New Teen Books – Week of Mar 19th

(Book Two), Brandon Mull (2012 Teen Book Festival Author) Jason, having returned home, finds a way to cross back over into Lyrian to tell his friends the information he learned from Maldor and he and Rachel uncover the roles they have to play in the fight against the evil emperor while trying to convince a […]

New Teen Books – Week of March 12th

Angelfire, Courtney Allison Moulton A seventeen-year-old girl discovers she has the reincarnated soul of an ancient warrior destined to battle the reapers–monstrous creatures who devour humans and send their souls to Hell.

New Teen Books, Feb 21st

Bewitching, Alex Flinn Tells the story of Kendra, a witch, and the first three-hundred years of her life, including takes on a classic fairy tale, the 1666 plague in Britain, the Titanic disaster, and the story of a modern-day, plain stepsister. The Boy on Cinnamon Street, Phoebe Stone Since a tragedy she cannot remember, thirteen-year-old […]

New Teen Books, Week of Feb 13th

, Beth Revis When Elder discovers shocking news about Godspeed, he and Amy race to discover the truth behind life on the space ship. They must work together to unlock a puzzle that was set in motion hundreds of years earlier, unable to fight the romance that’s growing between them and the chaos that threatens […]