Seventeen-year-old Blaze, a Rain Singer, endeavors to master her powers as she competes in a series of deadly trials that decide the future rulers of the four elemental kingdoms
Tabitha dreams of working as a princess during her summer at Sommerland theme park. Her reality? Working at the nacho stand. But character attendant James’ belief in Tabi changes everything. This upbeat graphic novel by the author of the popular Lunar Chronicles and Renegades series will draw fans of Disney magic.
Xavier went to sleep at a lake house with his family, and woke up on a farm under an impenetrable dome. He’s surviving just fine until another family shows up, who may pose a greater threat than whoever put them all in this predicament. Read-alikes: Marieke Nijkamp’s At the End of Everything; Laura Bates’ No Accident.
A story of our deepest inhumanity-one that confronts the history of violence against children, and through its young narrator attempts to find a way out.
Retro Reads
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Moonlighting as the Crimson Moth, a witch vigilante who rescues her kind from being purged, Rune courts Gideon Sharpe, an unforgiving witch hunter, while pretending to be a vapid young socialite during the day in order to gain the intel she desperately needs, but she can't help falling for him.
In 1918, phone line operator Edda forgot a secret code, and 34 United States soldiers perished. Back home, an anonymous phone caller reciting the code prompts Edda and her neighbor Theo to uncover what the caller wants. This suspenseful mystery sheds light on a little-known aspect of World War I history.
After starting at a new school, high school junior Quinn joins a D&D group to make friends but finds herself torn between her feelings for a charming yet annoying teammate and the drama stirred up by ex-friends from a previous campaign.
Revive, a wilderness therapy program, promises to rehabilitate the so-called “troubled teens” taken there without consent. The mysteriously missing counselors could be part of the therapy, but the monsters lurking in the woods are definitely not. Read-alikes: C.G. Drews’ Don’t Let the Forest In; Sarah Hollowell’s What Stalks Among Us.
Contact your librarian for more great books for age 14 and up!