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1) RECKLESS
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Paedyn and Kai battle with duty and desire in this highly anticipated second installment in the sizzling and epic romantic fantasy trilogy that's packed with spicy tension and edge-of-your-seat betrayal.
The kingdom of Ilya is in turmoil...
After surviving the Purging Trials, Ordinary-born Paedyn Gray has killed the King and kickstarted a Resistance throughout the land. Now she's running from the one person she had wanted...
The kingdom of Ilya is in turmoil...
After surviving the Purging Trials, Ordinary-born Paedyn Gray has killed the King and kickstarted a Resistance throughout the land. Now she's running from the one person she had wanted...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Temple Baker, the daughter of a well-known serial killer, assumes the role of a camp counselor at a camp for true crime enthusiasts while she attempts to unearth the truth surrounding her mother's murder, but becomes embroiled in a disturbing series of events when a girl is found dead in the woods.
3) YOUNG BLOOD
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The teenaged Hargreeves siblings, craving normalcy after Five's disappearance, embark on a seemingly ordinary night out that spirals into a chaotic adventure involving newfound foes, unexpected missions, and the eternal quest for their adoptive father's approval.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
At the elite Essex Academy Cal Ware, a poor, queer kid from Mississippi, is an outsider, but when he learns about a secret society on campus, he thinks that he may have found a way to reinvent himself--but as the initiation rituals grow riskier he must decide who to trust and how far he is willing to go to belong.
5) Lockdown
Author
Series
Escape from Furnace volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Get ready for a new series that brings readers deeper into the lush, romantic, and puzzle-filled world of the #1 bestselling Inheritance Games series (over 3 million copies sold!), set a year after we last saw Avery and the Hawthornes.
Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime.
Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose...
Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime.
Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The newest mystery from the author One of Us Is Lying, the Queen of thrillers, Karen M. McManus! When mother-daughter grifters set out on their final job, the heist gets deadly and dangerously personal.
For all of Kat’s life, it’s just been her and her mother, Jamie—except for the forty-eight hours when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in an epic divorce, and Kat and Liam haven’t...
For all of Kat’s life, it’s just been her and her mother, Jamie—except for the forty-eight hours when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in an epic divorce, and Kat and Liam haven’t...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers, Deja a "barrel girl" and Gabriel a gang member desperate to get out, become inextricably involved in a complex web of tragedy and danger when Deja finds herself with $500,000 of drug money that Gabriel is tasked with collecting.
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
High school senior Magdalena Herrera already has adult responsibilities and a deadly secret hidden in the dark of the basement, one that drains her of energy and leaves her bleeding--until the return of her childhood friend, Nessa, forces her to face hersecrets.
10) A GAME MOST FOUL
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jules Montgomery, navigating London with a recent hearing loss, joins forces with detectives Watson and Holmes to uncover the truth behind a missing classmate, and fidns that her unique powers of observation may hold the key to solving both the case and the mystery of the detectives' presence in the 21st century.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Jordyn Jones transfers to Edgewood High, she sees it as a chance to start over and get away from what happened at her old school--but soon an anonymous podcast begins revealing humiliating secrets about the other students, and threatening to expose Jordyn's secret.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
What If It's Us meets They Both Die at the End in this sequel to the beloved postapocalyptic queer YA adventure romance All That's Left in the World by USA Today bestselling author Erik J. Brown.
Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera, Alex London, and Heartstopper by Alice Oseman.
After a long and treacherous journey south, Andrew and Jamie have finally found safety in the Florida Keys. But they soon learn
...14) EYES OPEN
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Living under the Salazar dictatorship in 1960s Portugal, Saonia must find her voice as a poet and an activist after the government arrests her boyfriend and shuts down her family's business.
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