Teen Scene
October 2025
Recent Releases
Sisters in the Wind
by Angeline Boulley

When Lucy meets someone who claims to help Native American foster kids reconnect with their communities, she’s skeptical. She’s also pretty busy trying to outwit a violent stalker. Fans of Angeline Boulley’s Firekeeper’s Daughter and Warrior Girl Unearthed will recognize familiar characters in this powerful mystery.
That devil, ambition by Linsey Miller
That devil, ambition
by Linsey Miller

"There is only one school worth graduating from, and it creates as many magicians as it does graves...First in his class and last in his noble line, Fabian Galloway's only hope of a good future is passing his elite school's honors class. It's only offered to the best thirteen students, and those students have a single assignment: kill their professor. If they succeed, their student debt is forgiven. However, if an assassination attempt fails or the professor is alive at the end of the year, the students'lives are forfeit. And dealing with the professor, a devil summoned solely to kill or be killed, is no easy task. Fabian isn't worried, though. He trusts his best friends--softhearted math genius Credence and absent-minded but insightful Euphemia--to help. After all, that's why he befriended them. As the months pass and their professor remains impossibly alive, the trio must use every asset they have to survive. Or else failure will be on their academic records--and their tombstones--forever"
Kill creatures by Rory Power
Kill creatures
by Rory Power

One year after Nan's three best friends disappear, no one is more surprised than her when one of them returns--because she is the one who killed them
This Place Kills Me
by Mariko Tamaki

Elizabeth, beloved member of the Wilberton Academy’s exclusive Theatrical Society, is found dead after her premier performance as Juliet. New girl Abby, perhaps the last to see Elizabeth alive, doubts the authorities who rule the death a suicide. Read-alikes: Karen M. McManus’ Nothing More to Tell; Christopher Sebela’s Pantomime.
The House of Quiet
by Kiersten White

Impoverished children who fail to adjust to the Procedure meant to give them supernatural powers end up at the House of Quiet. Birdie gets a job there in order to find her missing sister, but instead she finds aristocratic teens who pull her into a dangerous conspiracy. Read-alikes: Ginny Myers Sain’s Dark and Shallow Lies; Quinn Diacon-Furtado’s The Lilies.
 
Horror Round-Up
The Bad Ones
by Melissa Albert

Before Becca disappeared, she left clues only her former best friend Nora could decode. Now Nora must figure out how Becca’s disappearance ties to a childhood game of theirs. Fans of urban legends will enjoy this creepy supernatural horror laced with mystery.
 
Aisle Nine
by Ian X. Cho

Two years ago, demon-spewing portals to hell opened all over the world, which are now managed by the Vanguard Corporation. When a portal opens in the discount store where Jasper works, he decides to take action and save the world himself. Read-alikes: Alex Brown’s Damned If You Do; Lorence Alison’s Solstice.
Horror hotel by Victoria Fulton
Horror hotel
by Victoria Fulton

Chrissy has always been able to see ghosts, and when her friend Chase realized it he turned her affliction into an internet sensation, with the help of Emmaline, the technology expert and Kiki, the presenter; now they are planning to film an episode in an infamously haunted hotel in Los Angeles, but they may be tackling something really dangerous because Chrissy is seeing the terrifying shadow man who started appearing to her when her mother was dying of cancer--and there is an internet troll who keeps sending death threats to the group
Immortal Dark
by Tigest Girma

Hoping to locate her kidnapped sister, Kidan enrolls in Uxlay Academy, where she can get close to the suspect, a vampire named Susenyos. She’s supposed to hate Susenyos, but she finds herself fascinated with him instead. Read-alikes: Sharina Harris’ Sign of the Slayer; Jenni Howell’s Boys With Sharp Teeth.
The monstrous kind by Lydia Gregovic
The monstrous kind
by Lydia Gregovic

When her father, the Manor Lord of Sussex, dies suddenly, Merrick is torn from her New London society life and must travel back to her childhood home where monstrous creatures stalk its borders, and when her sister goes missing, she discovers the Phantoms aren't the only monsters in her world. Simultaneous eBook.
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