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.
Keep your friends close by Cynthia Murphy
Keep your friends close
by Cynthia Murphy

When members of her school's secret society are murdered, second-year Chloe connects the victims to a ledger of misdeeds recorded by vengeful classmates and searches for the killer before she becomes the next target.
Fake skating by Lynn Painter
Fake skating
by Lynn Painter

In this heartfelt rom com, childhood best friends Dani and Alec reunite in their hockey-obsessed hometown, and as they fake a relationship for convenience, old wounds, family secrets and lingering feelings surface -- threatening to turn their pretend romance into something real.
Grave flowers by Autumn Krause
Grave flowers
by Autumn Krause

When her murdered twin sister's ghost appears to her, begging to be freed, Princess Madalina poses as Inessa, her more ruthless sister, to marry and assassinate Prince Aeric and solidify a pact between her family and his uncle.
Hollow by Taylor Grothe
Hollow
by Taylor Grothe

While navigating a recent Autism diagnosis, teenage Cassie gets separated from her friends on a camping trip and meets a mysterious wood carver who brings her to his artists' compound where she feels an eerie sense of belonging.
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.
 
The dark becomes her by Judy I. Lin
The dark becomes her
by Judy I. Lin

When a ghost from the spirit world transforms her sister, Ruby Chen confronts the dark upheaval in Vancouver's Chinatown as she enters into an ancient battle over the gateway to the underworld as she attempts to save her sister and her community.
The Losting Fountain by Lora Senf
The Losting Fountain
by Lora Senf

Ember, Miles and Sam are all from different times, and what starts as a journey to take control of their lives becomes a quest to either restore a cosmic balance or destroy the dams that separate two worlds, ending both. Simultaneous and eBook.
Our wicked histories by Amy Goldsmith
Our wicked histories
by Amy Goldsmith

Spending the weekend at Wren Hall, her last, and only, chance to save her spot at an exclusive British art school and make amends with her former friends, Meg instead must fight for her survival when dark secrets and a tainted legacy come to light. 
The restless dark by Erica Waters
The restless dark
by Erica Waters

When a true-crime podcast hosts a contest to find the Cloudkiss Killer's bones, three girls seek answers, new identities and a place to bury their secrets, discovering that sometimes the darkness inside is more frightening than anything the dead leave behind.
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