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The singular life of Aria Patel
by Samira Ahmed
Struggling to cope with her father's death and a recent breakup, eighteen-year-old Aria's life becomes infinitely more complicated when she falls through the multiverse, and with the help of a poem, she discovers truths about herself as she journeys through different universes to find her way back home.
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| Codebreaker by Jay MartelMia usually spends her birthday solving puzzle-filled scavenger hunts designed by her father. This year, the stakes are sky high, because she must unravel the government conspiracy that has sent her father on the run. This suspenseful thriller will draw fans of code-cracking mysteries. |
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Of flame and fury
by Mikayla Bridge
When seventeen-year-old Kel Varra and her phoenix, Savita, join the Crimson Howlers racing team, they must navigate fierce rivalries, a mysterious tech mogul with his own hidden agenda, and a dangerous romance with Kel's arrogant rival, Warren "Coup" Coupers.
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| Very Dangerous Things by Lauren MuñozAlthough the criminology-focused J. Everett High School always fakes crimes for its students to solve, this year’s game ends with an actual poisoning. Can top student Dulce set aside her grudge to clear her ex-best friend Sierra’s name? Read-alikes: Lauren Munoz’s Suddenly a Murder; Kara Thomas’ The Champions. |
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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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Man Made Monsters
by Andrea L. Rogers; illustrated by Jeff Edwards
What it is: a horror story collection that spins haunting and suspenseful tales of one Cherokee family from 1839-2039.
How it's told: in chronological order, with eerie illustrations that incorporate the Cherokee writing system.
Why you might like it: This enthralling anthology from a Cherokee author delivers classic creatures like vampires and werewolves, plus figures from Cherokee legend like Deer Woman. Alongside these monsters, the book reveals the horrors of forced relocation, intimate partner violence, and generations of trauma.
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Dead Flip
by Sara Farizan
Halloween night, 1987: Twelve-year-old Sam, one of a trio of inseparable friends, disappears. Cori thinks he's dead, but Maz thinks an evil pinball machine took him.
Six years later: Maz, a track star with a drinking problem, and Cori, a closeted lesbian, aren't speaking. When Sam suddenly returns, still 12 years old, the two must reconcile to solve this creepy mystery.
For fans of: bittersweet, nostalgic depictions of the literal horror of adolescence, like It and Stranger Things.
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You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight
by Kalynn Bayron
At Camp Mirror Lake: attendees pay to live out the plot of a 1980s slasher movie.
The final girl: Charity, who decides if anyone “wins” this immersive terror game. When some coworkers are mysteriously absent, she realizes it’s no longer a game at all. And she’s unwilling to submit to the horror trope of the Black person dying first.
Who it’s for: fans of cult horror movies and author R.L. Stine’s Fear Street series.
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Ruin Road
by Lamar Giles
When football player Cade Webster buys a replica Super Bowl ring at a mysterious pawn shop, he hopes to inspire his fellow teammates. Instead, people lose all fear around him, forcing Cade to find the supernatural entity who unleashed this chaos. Read-alikes: Vincent Tirado’s Burn Down, Rise Up; Jamison Shea’s I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me.
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Katzenjammer
by Francesca Zappia
Living in her high school, Cat watches as things start horrifically transforming, including herself, and must find a way out from her school's upside-down world as she desperately tries to remember what put her there in the first place. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 14 and up!
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Grand Ledge Area District Library
131 E Jefferson St
Grand Ledge, Michigan 48837
(517) 627-7014https://gladl.org |
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