| Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace FlemingIn 1978, cult leader Jim Jones led over 900 people to their deaths in a tragic massacre in Guyana. This richly detailed and thoughtful nonfiction account tracing the rise and fall of the Peoples Temple draws from survivors’ stories, including interviews author Candace Fleming conducted herself.
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Sea Change
by Susan Fletcher
Born with a genetically modified set of lungs and gills, fifteen-year-old Turtle faces a difficult choice between her life with the Mer community and life on land with a Normal named Kai.
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Embrace the Serpent
by Sunya Mara
In this sweeping romantic fantasy, a dangerous deal binds a young jeweler's apprentice to the mysterious Serpent King, thrusting her into a deadly game.
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Latina Superheroes (Volume 1) : Jalisco & Santa
by Kayden Phoenix
Jalisco is looking for her mother who disappeared mysteriously. Santa is fighting corrupt politicians in her hometown. Both must defy the odds to forge a brighter future in this series starting full-color graphic novel.
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The Grove
by Brooks Whitney
Set in a struggling 1960s Florida town, two sisters, fifteen-year-old Pip and seventeen-year-old Sissy, share a close bond, but after the annual carnival leaves, Sissy grows distant and reveals a shocking secret, thrusting the sisters and their friend Silas into a life-changing, desperate situation.
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What I Saw and How I Lied
by Judy Blundell
When Joe Spooner brings an old buddy back home with him from the battlefields of World War II, Evie finds herself in a complicated situation that becomes even more dangerous when their family's guest suddenly drowns as dark family secrets are revealed.
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The Reappearance of Rachel Price
by Holly Jackson
Bel wishes everyone could move past her mother Rachel’s mysterious disappearance sixteen years ago. But then Rachel reappears, perfectly timed with the filming of a true crime documentary, and Bel realizes it’s time to uncover the truth.
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Truly Devious
by Maureen Johnson
What it's about: Sixteen-year-old true crime enthusiast Stevie Bell arrives at Ellingham Academy (an unusual school for exceptional students) with one goal: to solve a kidnapping that took place there in 1936. Cracking the cold case proves complicated, however, when a present-day murderer begins targeting Ellingham students.
Series alert: Hold on tight and prepare for some cliffhangers in this atmospheric, multilayered mystery: Truly Devious is just the 1st in a trilogy.
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We Were Liars
by E Lockhart
Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
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Such Charming Liars
by Karen M. McManus
Former stepsiblings Kat and Liam find each other at a billionaire’s birthday party. Kat’s there to steal jewelry; Liam’s father is trying to con an heiress. Things take a deadly turn, forcing Kat and Liam into a cat-and-mouse game with a killer.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for age 14 and up!
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