|
|
|
#MurderTrending
by Gretchen McNeil
In a near future world, where good and honest citizens enjoy watching the executions of society's most infamous convicted felons streamed live on The Postman app, 17-year-old Dee Guerrera and her newly formed posse, the Death Row Breakfast Club, must prove that she's innocent of committing a heinous crime before she ends up being wrongfully put to death for the world to see.
|
|
|
Things I'd rather do than die
by Christine Hurley Deriso
When the two most mismatched seniors at Walt Whitman High School find themselves locked in an aerobics room overnight, their confinement forces them to push past the labels they've assigned each other and they share a night they'll never forget.
|
|
|
Rebel Rising
by Beth Revis
Follows the adventures of Jyn Erso as she trains under Saw Gerrera and learns how to become a proper rebel, preparations that come in handy when she is asked by the Rebellion to find out about the weapon that her father is helping the Empire construct.
|
|
|
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband -- these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see that these dreams aren't too far out of reach. But the girl's dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night.
|
|
|
The spaceship next door
by Gene Doucette
Three years after a spaceship landed in Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts, a government operative comes to investigate and finds that Annie Collins, sixteen, might have the answers he seeks.
|
|
|
Screenshot
by Donna D. Cooner
Sixteen-year-old Skye Matthews is always careful with her social media accounts, but when her friend Asha posts an embarrassing video of Skye at a sleepover her perfect reputation and her dream of a summer internship with the Colorado senator is endangered--someone took a screenshot before the video was deleted and is threatening to share the photo online, unless Skye does whatever they ask.
|
|
|
The state of Grace
by Rachael Lucas
A teen with Asperger's navigates family troubles, her first kiss with a crush and the challenges of pretending to be ""normal"" in a world where she does not understand the social rules of conduct.
|
|
|
Marcus Vega doesn't speak Spanish
by Pablo Cartaya
When a fight at school puts him on probation, Marcus reluctantly accompanies his mother and younger brother to Puerto Rico to spend a week with relatives he has never met, a situation that is complicated by his awareness of his absent father's presence on the island.
|
|
|
The agony house
by Cherie Priest
Seventeen-year-old Denise Farber, her mom, and her stepfather are moving back to New Orleans, into the Argonne house, which is over 100 years old, and really showing its age, but which her mother plans to turn into a bed-and-breakfast--but old houses have histories, and sometimes ghosts, and a mysterious old comic book that Denise finds in the attic may hold the answer to a crime and the terrifying things that keep happening in what she thinks of as the "Agony" house
|
|
Contact your librarian for more great books for age 14 and up!
|
|
|
If you are having trouble unsubscribing to this newsletter, please contactthe Winfield Public Library 630-653-7599, 0S291 Winfield Rd.
Winfield, IL 60190
|
|
|