Category Archives: YA Fiction

After Obsession – by Carrie Jones & Steven E. Wedel Y/Fiction/Jones, Carrie When Alan, a half-Navajo in touch with the spiritual mysticism of his ancestors, meets Aimee, a gifted psychic in his new high school, they realize they’ve had precognitive … Continue reading →

She Loves You, She Loves You Not – by Julie Anne Peters Y/Fiction/Peters, Julie Anne When seventeen-year-old Alyssa is disowned by her father for being a lesbian, she’s sent off to a small town in Colorado to live with the … Continue reading →

The Lost Gate – by Orson Scott Card Y/Fiction/Card, Orson Scott Danny North knew from early childhood that his family was different, and that he was different from them. While his cousins were learning how to create the things that … Continue reading →

Rotters – by Daniel Kraus Y/Fiction/Kraus, Daniel Sixteen-year-old Joey’s life takes a very strange turn when his mother’s tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he’s never known, and who’s the town pariah. … Continue reading →

Abandon – by Meg Cabot Y/Fiction/Cabot, Meg A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce’s life upside-down, but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there, helping … Continue reading →

Anya’s War – by Andrea Alban Y/Fiction/Alban, Andrea In 1937, the privileged and relatively carefee life of a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, whose family emigrated from Odessa, Ukraine, to Shanghai, China, comes to an end when she finds an abandoned baby, … Continue reading →

I’ll Be There – by Holly Goldberg Sloan Y/Fiction/Sloan, Holly Goldberg Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam … Continue reading →

Forgotten – by Cat Patrick Y/Fiction/Patrick, Cat Sixteen-year-old London Lane forgets everything each night and must use notes to struggle through the day, even to recall her wonderful boyfriend, but she “remembers” future events and as her “flashforwards” become more … Continue reading →

Tighter – by Adele Griffin Y/Fiction/Griffin, Adele Based on Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw,” tells the story of Jamie Atkinson’s summer spent as a nanny in a small Rhode Island beach town, where she begins to fear that … Continue reading →

The Amazing Spider-Man: The Complete Clone Saga Epic Volume 1 The Amazing Spider-Man: The Complete Clone Saga Epic Volume 2 The Amazing Spider-Man: The Complete Clone Saga Epic Volume 4 The Amazing Spider-Man: The Complete Clone Saga Epic Volume 5 … Continue reading →

On the Volcano- by James Nelson Y/Fiction/Nelson, James Katie and her widowed father have always lived on their own, high up in a place few intruders would dare approach: alongside the crater of a collapsed volcano. They’ve built a simple … Continue reading →

Perfect – by Ellen Hopkins Y / Fiction / Hopkins, Ellen Northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre, tell in their own voices of their very different paths toward perfection and how their goals change when tragedy strikes.

Father of Lies – by Ann Turner Y / Fiction / Turner, Ann In 1692 when a plague of accusations descends on Salem Village in Massachusetts and “witch fever” erupts, fourteen-year-old Lidda, who has begun to experience visions and hear … Continue reading →

The Iron Thorn – by Caitlin Kittredge Y/Fiction/Kittredge, Caitlin In an alternate 1950s, mechanically gifted fifteen-year-old Aoife Grayson, whose family has a history of going mad at sixteen, must leave the totalitarian city of Lovecraft and venture into the world … Continue reading →

Y/Fiction/Jones, Carrie When evil pixies invade Bedford, capturing more teens every day, sixteen-year-old Zara’s quest to bring Nick back from Valhalla becomes more urgent, but she fears he will not return with her since she has been pixie kissed and … Continue reading →

Y/Fiction/Smith, Alexander Gordon Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, fourteen-year-old Alex Sawyer thinks that he has escaped the hellish Furnace Penitentiary, but instead he winds up in solitary confinement, where new horrors await him. 232 Pages.

Y/Fiction/Kephart, Beth Set against the backdrop of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Katherine cannot forgive herself when her beloved twin sister dies, and she feels that her only course of action is to follow suit. 176 Pages.

Y/Fiction/Meyerhoff, Jenny Fifteen-year-old Essie Green, an orphan who has been raised by her secular Jewish grandparents in Michigan, experiences conflicting loyalties and confusing emotions when her aunt, uncle, and cousin move back from New York, and her very religious cousin … Continue reading →

Y/Fiction/De La Cruz, Melissa Presents three tales of love, passion, and heartbreak featuring various Blue Blood vampires and the Red Blood humans who keep them alive, including Oliver, Allegra, and Schuyler. 147 Pages.

Y/Fiction/Baccalario, Pierdomenico In their continuing adventures, Elettra, Sheng, and Minstral meet Harvey and Ermite in New York City and follow the clues to find the mysterious Star of Stone. 290 Pages.

Y/Fiction/Balog, Cyn Eron, a supernatural being known as a Sandman whose purpose is to seduce humans to sleep, falls in love with a sad teenaged girl who is mourning her boyfriend’s death. 215 Pages.

Y/Fiction/Lancaster, Mike A. Twenty-first century fourteen-year-old Kyle was hypnotized when humanity was upgraded to 1.0 and he, incompatible with the new technology, exposes its terrifying impact in a tape-recording found by the superhumans of the future. 231 Pages.

Y/Fiction/Holt, Simon As the summer solstice approaches, fifteen-year-old Reggie, horrified to learn that the Vours are still intent on harming her family and her best friend Aaron, finds help from an unlikely source. 266  Pages.

Y/Fiction/Harland, Richard Sixteen-year-old Col Porpentine is being groomed as the next Commander of Worldshaker, a juggernaut where elite families live on the upper decks while the Filthies toil below, but when he meets Riff, a Filthy girl on the run, … Continue reading →

Y/Fiction/Maurer, Shari When sixteen-year-old Emmi Miller learns she will die without a heart transplant, she becomes aware of all she has been taking for granted, from her parents’ love to her soccer ability, but gains strength from new friend Abe. … Continue reading →

Y/Ficiton/Blundell, Judy When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, … Continue reading →

Y/Fiction/Biederman, Lynn In their separate voices, three morbidly obese New York City teens relate their experiences participating in a clinical trial testing lap-band surgery for teenagers, which involves a year of weekly meetings and learning to live healthier lives. 317 … Continue reading →

Y/Fiction/Dunkle, Clare B. Eleven-year-old Tabby Aykroyd, who would later serve as housekeeper for thirty years to the Brönte sisters, is taken from an orphanage to a ghost-filled house, where she and a wild young boy are needed for a pagan … Continue reading →

T/Fiction/Muller, Rachel Dunstan On a caving trip with his older brother, Byron discovers a new cave but has to make some life or death decisions when his brother is seriously injured.  166 Pages.

Y/Fiction/Bennett, Sophia Three fourteen-year-old friends, with very different interests, befriend a twelve-year-old Ugandan refugee whose gift for design takes off in the high-fashion world of twenty-first-century London. 281 Pages.

Y/Fiction/Frank, Hillary Anabelle and her fellow high school graduates navigate their way through a disastrous summer of love and friendship in the small coastal town of Normal, Maine. 232 Pages

Y/Fiction/Lore, Pittacus In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde … Continue reading →

Y/Fiction/Nelson, R.A. Seventeen-year-old Emma, having always felt cursed by her epilepsy, comes to realize that it is this very condition that saves her when she is mysteriously attacked and left with all the powers but none of the limitations of … Continue reading →

Y/Fiction/Strasnick, Lauren Struggling with family problems but determined to make new friends after moving and missing Evie her best friend since childhood, Alex is attracted to Fred and he to her despite the jealous meddling of Fred’s twin sister Adina. … Continue reading →

Y/Fiction/Hand, Elizabeth Teenage cousins Madeleine and Rogan, who share twin souls, are cast in a school production of Twelfth Night that forces them to confront their respective strengths and future prospects. 135 Pages.

Y/Fiction/Scott, Elizabeth Sixteen-year-old Grace travels on a decrepit train toward a border that may not exist, recalling events that brought her to choose life over being a suicide bomber, and dreaming of freedom from the extremist religion-based government of Keran … Continue reading →

Y/Fiction/Benway, Robin Recovering supernatural powers from their childhoods in the aftermath of their parents’ divorce, three sisters respectively use their foretelling, invisibility and mind-reading abilities to tackle school and family challenges before discovering the power of their relationship with each … Continue reading →

Y/Fiction/Fill, David McInnis On the planet Mars, 16-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders. 340 Pages.

Y/Fiction/Brennan, Sarah Rees Discovering that her brother has secretly manifested magical powers and is being recruited into a sinister magician’s circle, Mae turns to her friends for help only to land them in the magician leader’s dangerous trap. 440 Pages.

Y/Fiction/Oppel, Kenneth In 1973, as part of an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills, a renowned behavioral psychologist brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his son to treat Zan like a little brother. … Continue reading →

Y/Fiction/North, Pearl A sequel to Libyrinth finds precarious peace overtures between the Singers and Libyrarians threatened by dwindling food resources, a challenge that places the world’s fate in the hands of young Ilysian misfit Po, who is cruelly exiled and … Continue reading →