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.
Try Your Worst by Chatham Greenfield
Try Your Worst
by Chatham Greenfield

Seniors Sadie Katz and Cleo Chapman, who have been rivals since birth, are neck-and-neck for valedictorian, but when increasingly serious pranks take over their high school and all signs point to Sadie and Cleo as the perpetrators, they must team up to clear their names and find out who is framing them.
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
by Cynthia Leitich Smith, editor

Sandy June’s Legendary Frybread Drive-In is a food truck that appears wherever Indigenous people across North America need to meet. It provides the setting for the linked stories in this touching and magical anthology that takes readers from Hawai’i to Alaska to Manitoba and many liminal places in between.
Joy to the girls by Alyson Derrick
Joy to the girls
by Alyson Derrick

During a festive holiday trip, Molly and Alex try to play matchmaker for their friend Cora while grappling with post-college fears and secrets they have been keeping from each other.
This Place Kills Me
by Mariko Tamaki

Elizabeth, beloved member of the Wilberton Academy’s exclusive Theatrical Society, is found dead after her premier performance as Juliet. New girl Abby, perhaps the last to see Elizabeth alive, doubts the authorities who rule the death a suicide. Read-alike: Karen M. McManus’ Nothing More to Tell.
A beautiful and terrible murder by Claire M. Andrews
A beautiful and terrible murder
by Claire M. Andrews

Irene Adler is no ordinary young lady. She's at the top of the ranks in the All Souls cohort, a competitive preparatory class reserved for Oxford's brightest minds. But her peers and professors don't know she's a lady at all. To them, she is Isaac Holland. Keeping up her disguise gets trickier when All Souls students start dying, one by one. Determined to find out who's responsible for the deaths, Irene--as Isaac--teams up with fellow classmate and roommate Sherlock Holmes to track down clues. 
Horror Round-Up
The whisperings by Joel A. Sutherland
The whisperings
by Joel A. Sutherland

Burn our bodies down meets delicious monsters in this terrifying new young adult horror by acclaimed Canadian master of the macabre Joel A. Sutherland. Joana and her younger brother Peter aren't used to setting down roots. Ever since the violent murder of their mother, their father can't stay in one place for long, haunted by the literal ghosts of the past. He has what he calls "the whisperings," and will do anything to protect his children from the horrors that torment him. But a near-death experience awakens the whisperings in Joana, and she soon realizes her family isn't the only family living in the house. Suddenly, Joana is forced to protect the ones closest to her from a supernatural threat, in this horrifying haunted house story.
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 Others by Cheryl Isaacs
The Others
by Cheryl Isaacs

In a haunting sequel to "The Unfinished," Avery must confront her darkest self and the lingering trauma of the past, relying on her Kanyen'keha:ka (Mohawk) roots to protect her town, her family and her first love before darkness resurfaces and consumes everything she holds dear. 
Stranger things : Six by Jody Houser
Stranger things : Six
by Jody Houser

A prequel comic from Netflix' award-winning series delves into the mysterious workings of Project MKUltra and the weird science that opened the door to the Upside Down. 
Immortal Dark
by Tigest Girma

Hoping to locate her kidnapped sister, Kidan enrolls in Uxlay Academy, where she can get close to the suspect, a vampire named Susenyos. She’s supposed to hate Susenyos, but she finds herself fascinated with him instead. 
The Haunted Blizzard by Aviaq Johnston
The Haunted Blizzard
by Aviaq Johnston

A teenage girl walks home in a burgeoning blizzard, happy to have an unexpected snow day. Ignoring an Elder's warning about the terror the blizzard holds, she finds herself alone in her home with an unseen presence stalking and tormenting her. What does it want? And will she survive?
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