Boarding school has never been more dangerous.What if your roommate is a murderer? Or what if he's being framed and only you can save him?Luke Chase made history as a child when he escaped a kidnapping. Now, all he wants is to be a normal teenager. So when he sneaks out to the woods one night to drink with friends and flirt with the new British girl at school, he's excited to feel some freedom.Except the next morning, one of their teachers is found murdered—in the exact same spot where they had...
After a fire kills Josie's family, she is living on the streets while she finds a way to bring her family's killer to justice.
You don’t mess with Atlanta Burns. Everyone knows that. And that’s kinda how she likes it—until the day Atlanta is drawn into a battle against two groups of bullies and saves a pair of new, unexpected friends. But actions have consequences, and when another teen turns up dead—by an apparent suicide—Atlanta knows foul play is involved. And worse: she knows it’s her fault. You go poking rattlesnakes, maybe you get bit. Afraid of stirring up the snakes further by investigating, Atlanta turns her...
“Trell is an appealingly gutsy heroine whose belief in her father is strong enough to drag an attorney and a down-on-his-luck journalist into her orbit.” — School Library Journal On a hot summer night in Boston in the late 1980s, a twelve-year-old African-American girl was sitting on a mailbox talking with her friends when she became the innocent victim of gang-related gunfire. An immediate manhunt was on to catch the murderer, and a young African-American man was quickly apprehended, charged,...
The third title in this thrilling new crime series that puts young people at the heart of the action. Strong characters, believable dialogue, authentic locations and compelling plots delivering maximum excitement for the young adult market. Danny, Maddie and Alex are trainee special agents with Police Investigation Command. When they're briefed on an 'ice-cream war' at first they think it's some kind of joke. But when they hear that thugs and enforcers are moving in on legitimate licen...
Second title in this cutting-edge crime series for teenage readers. Three teenage protagonists in the elite PIC unit of Special Branch, fight crime on the streets of London. The tennis championships at Wimbledon and something horrible is about to happen to Will Anderson, the British Number One. During the course of a murder investigation, police find photos of Will in a derelict London flat, and in all of them, his eyes are missing. The police to realise with horror that Will is about...
“A frank view of life in a juvenile detention center. . . . Absorbing and wrenching.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Sadie has always been the responsible one. Not like her older sister, Carla, who leaves her three-year-old daughter, Lulu, with Aunt Sadie while she parties and gets high. But when both sisters are caught up in a drug deal — wrong place, wrong time — Sadie does the responsible thing and confesses to a crime she didn’t commit. Her choice keeps Carla out of jail and Lulu out...
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
The sixth title in this thrilling adventure series about three teenagers tackling crime on the streets of London. A city-wide crime ring, a hidden and deadly enemy and a threat to every officer in the team: Danny, Alex and Maddie face their most challenging mission yet. A hidden enemy with a secret and deadly aim… While working on a drug-dealing case, Maddie Cooper is dismayed to be herself falsely accused of drug dealing and suspended from Police Investigation Command. Her t...
A stunning coming-of-age tale from poet and writer Savannah Brown.Sydney's dad is the only psychiatrist for miles around in their small Ohio town.He is also unexpectedly dead.Sydney believes the crash was anything but an accident. And when the threatening texts begin, and June Copeland - homecoming queen and golden child - appears at his funeral out of nowhere, she's sure of it.But through Sydney's newfound relationship with June, she's given a glimpse of a life without the darkness of an unreso...
In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant – even though she is still a virgin.In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition.And in cities all around the world, medical authorities are overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods and worse. It all feels like a sign that something awful is coming.Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private investigator, is hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate the immaculate conceptions. Even as she com...
Briar Academy senior Luke prefers avoiding conflict and letting others make his decisions, but he is compelled to choose whether or not to stand by the best friend whose reckless behavior has endangered Luke and may have caused another student's death.
The Edge of Nowhere (Edge of Nowhere, #1)
by Elizabeth George
Becca King and her mother are on the run from her stepfather who has used Becca's talent for hearing 'whispers' to make a large and illegal sum of money. Now their options for safety are running out. In the town of Langley on Whidbey Island, Becca finds refuge in the home of her mother's childhood friend while her mother continues on to Canada in search of safety. But on her first day in town Becca meets sixteen years old Derric Mathieson, a Ugandan orphan who was adopted as a ten-year-old by t...
Sienna has always had an easy life...until her parents are caught stealing art from a museum. Now she is stuck in a place she never wanted to be, apart from the only two people she ever loved. Can a series of mysterious messages and some unlikely friends help her come to terms with her new situation? --- This book in one in a growing collection of Relevant Reads, stories that are "easy to read and hard to put down." This new genre of literature is intended to improve teen and young adult liter...
The Bloods are in control and they’re desperate to turn Britain into the world they want to see: right, white, Christian supremist. Anyone who they call abnormal is a target. Amidst the chaos of civil war the country is on the move as small militia groups fight each other and a sea of refugees escapes the cities and the pursuing Bloods. When her home is destroyed in a bombing raid, Marti must strike out on a mission of her own - to save her father and get his vital software into the ri...
Bailey never meant to be the bad guy in the bulletproof robotic suit, but with every mission he gets closer to finding his father . . . and he can't stop now. Bailey is a pretty average sixteen-year-old in a pretty average town. He runs track, gets decent grades, and has an unrequited crush. So what is a super-powered flying suit of computerized armor doing twenty feet under his boring suburban home? Bailey needs to know where it came from, if it belonged to his long-missing father, and most...
Sixteen-year-old Neva has been trapped since birth. She was born and raised under the Protectosphere, in an isolated nation ruled by fear, lies, and xenophobia. A shield "protects" them from the outside world, but also locks the citizens inside. But there's nothing left on the outside, ever since the world collapsed from violent warfare. Or so the government says...Neva and her best friend Sanna believe the government is lying and stage a "dark party" to recruit members for their underground reb...
Naked Eye (Fearless FBI (Paperback), #4) (Fearless FBI, #4)
by Francine Pascal
Heiress Takes All (Heiress Takes All, #1)
by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
The Inheritance Games meets Ocean's 11 in this thrilling YA adventure about a vengeful daughter determined to pull off the perfect heist in the midst of her father's wedding.Seventeen-year-old Olivia Owens isn't thrilled that her dad's getting remarried...again. She's especially not thrilled that he cheated on her mom, kicked them out of their Rhode Island home, and cut Olivia out of her rightful inheritance.But this former heiress has a plan for revenge. While hundreds of guests gather on the g...
Panic grips the city! There is a killer loose in New York City, and Carver Young is the only one who sees the startling connection between the recent string of murders and the most famous serial killer in history: Jack the Ripper. Time is winding down until the killer claims another victim, but Carver soon sees that, to The Ripper, this is all a game that he may be destined to lose. “Petrucha’s story hits the ground running and doesn’t let up…”—Publisher’s Weekly “A rollicking story full o...