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| True Life in Uncanny Valley by Deb CalettiEleanor, curious about the tech genius father who abandoned her, sneakily becomes the nanny for her own half-brother. While spinning a web of lies, she questions the ethics of her father’s artificial intelligence work. At the heart of this thoughtful story is Eleanor’s search for a true family. |
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While we're young
by K. L. Walther
Grace, Isa and Everett used to be inseparable before their love lives became a tangled mess, and with graduation fast approaching, Grace decides an unsanctioned senior skip day in Philadelphia might be what they need to fix things.
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Every borrowed beat
by Erin Stewart
After receiving a heart transplant, 17-year-old Sydney wants to learn as much as she can about Mia, the person whose heart she inherited, and falls deeply into Mia's world, in a romantic story about looking at memory, grief and guilt.
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After life
by Gayle Forman
Amber bikes home one spring, seven years after she died after being hit by a car while riding that bike, and her return impacts those around her as she struggles to learn how and why she got a second chance.
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Sunrise on the reaping / : A Hunger Games Novel
by Suzanne Collins
It's the 50th annual Hunger Games and as the games begin, District 12 tribute Haymitch Abernathy realizes he's been set up to fail, but something in him wants to fight, in the fifth book in the Hunger Games series.
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| Artifice by Sharon CameronTo keep her family afloat during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Isa sells a forged Rembrandt to the Nazis, pulling her into dangerous work smuggling Jewish babies to safety and forging more art. This immersive historical thriller is ideal for fans of Ruta Sepetys and Elizabeth Wein. |
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Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
by Robin Ha
Moving abruptly from Seoul to Alabama, a Korean teen struggles in a hostile blended home and a new school where she does not speak English before forging unexpected connections in a local comic drawing class.
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Punching the air
by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
A young artist and poet's prospects at a diverse art school are threatened by a racially biased system and a tragic altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood.
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The art of insanity
by Christine Webb
Keeping her Bipolar disorder a secret from her classmates, artist Natalie Cordova finds her plan to self-treat shattering the perfect façade she's been hiding under as she juggles all kinds of emotions and responsibilities.
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The greatest thing
by Sarah Winifred Searle
A young adult graphic novel about the life-saving power of teen friendships finds Winifred starting her first day of sophomore year without her two best (and only) friends, who have transferred to a private school, but she soon bonds with two offbeat students, Oscar and April, and must learn to navigate a secret that threatens to destroy her newfound friendships.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 14 and up!
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Albert Lea Public Library
211 E Clark St.
Albert Lea, Minnesota 56007
(507) 377-4350alplonline.org |
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