Everything Leads To
You by
Nina LaCour
“While working as a film production
designer in Los Angeles, Emi finds a mysterious letter from a silver screen
legend which leads Emi to Ava who is about to expand Emi's understanding of family,
acceptance, and true romance.” –WorldCat
Fiendish by Brenna Yovanoff
”Clementine DeVore, seventeen, is
determined to learn what happened ten years ago that led to her magical
imprisonment and problems in her town, but a dangerous attraction to Fisher,
the boy who freed her, town politics, and the terrifying Hollow get in the
way.” –WorldCat
The Invention of
Wings
by Sue Monk Kidd
"The story follows Hetty
"Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the
wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she
is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention
of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in
part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and,
importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go beyond the record
to flesh out the inner lives of all the characters, both real and
imagined." –WorldCat
The Kept by James Scott
“In
the winter of 1897, a trio of killers descends upon an isolated farm in upstate
New York. Midwife Elspeth Howell returns home to the carnage: her husband, and
four of her children, murdered. Before she can discover her remaining son
Caleb, alive and hiding in the kitchen pantry, another shot rings out over the
snow-covered valley. Twelve-year-old Caleb must tend to his mother until she
recovers enough for them to take to the frozen wilderness in search of the men
responsible.” –Publisher
Man Made Boy by Jon Skovron
“Tired of being sheltered from humans,
seventeen-year-old Boy, son of Frankenstein's monster and the Bride of
Frankenstein, runs away from home and embarks on a wild road trip that takes
him across the country and deep into the heart of America.” –WorldCat
The Museum of
Intangible Things
by Wendy Wunder
“Best friends Hannah and Zoe,
seventeen, leave their down-and-out New Jersey town and drive west chasing
storms, making new friends, and seeking the intangibles--audacity, insouciance,
happiness--that their lives have lacked.” –WorldCat
Period 8 by Chris Crutcher
"Period
8 has always been a safe haven and high school senior Paulie "The
Bomb" Baum a constant attendee, but as Paulie, Hannah, their friends, and
a sympathetic teacher try to unravel the mystery of a missing classmate, the
ultimate bully takes aim at the school." –Publisher
The Promise of
Amazing
by Robin Constantine
“When the passive strategy she has
always adopted proves injurious to her heart's goals, ordinary girl Wren
inadvertently saves the life of expelled lacrosse player Grayson and embarks on
an awkward romance that compels both to start over.” –WorldCat
Since You’ve Been
Gone
by Morgan Matson
“Quiet Emily's sociable and daring
best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of
bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular
classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.” –WorldCat
Two Girls Staring At
The Ceiling
by Lucy Frank
”This
novel-in-verse follows the unfolding friendship between two very different
teenage girls who share a hospital room and an illness. Chess, the narrator, is
sick, but with what exactly, she isn't sure. And to make matters worse, she
must share a hospital room with Shannon, her polar opposite. Where Chess is
polite, Shannon is rude. Where Chess tolerates pain silently, Shannon screams
bloody murder. Where Chess seems to be getting slowly better, Shannon seems to
be getting worse.” –Publisher