The Chaos of Stars by Kiersten White
“Sixteen-year-old
Isadora, the mortal daughter of Isis and Osiris, is sick of being in the middle
of family drama so she jumps at the chance to leave Egypt and start a new life
in San Diego with her brother.”—WorldCat
Dusk by Eve Edwards
“When Helen, a young hard-working nurse, meets aristocratic
artist Sebastian, she doesn't expect to even like him, let alone fall in love.
But against the troubled backdrop of wartime London, an unlikely but
intense romance blossoms. And even bloody trenches of the Somme, where they are
both posted, cannot diminish their feelings for each other.”—WorldCat
Endangered by Eliot Schrefer
“Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer,
but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her
mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked,
it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the
jungle.”—WorldCat
Game Changer by Margaret Peterson Haddix
“While playing in the championship softball game, star
pitcher KT Sutton blacks out and awakes to a changed world where the roles of
academics and sports at her middle school have flipped, making talented
athletes, such as KT, outcasts and brainy nerds popular.”—WorldCat
The Lucy Variations by Sara Zarr
"Sixteen-year-old
San Franciscan Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert
pianist. Her chance at a career has passed, and she decides to help her
ten-year-old piano prodigy brother, Gus, map out his own future, even as she
explores why she enjoyed piano in the first place."—WorldCat
The Milk of Birds by Sylvia Whitman
“When
a nonprofit organization called Save the Girls pairs a fourteen-year-old
Sudanese refugee with an American teenager from Richmond, Virginia, the pen
pals teach each other compassion and share a bond that bridges two
continents.”—WorldCat
Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier
Shadowfell;
Book One
“Fifteen-year-old
Neryn is alone in the land of Alban, where the oppressive king has ordered
anyone with magical strengths captured, but when she sets out for Shadowfell, a
training ground for a rebel group, she meets a mysterious soldier and the Good
Folk, who tell her that she, alone, can save Alban.”—WorldCat
The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron
The Dark Unwinding; Book One
“In 1852, when seventeen-year-old Katharine is sent to her
family's estate to prove that her uncle is insane, she finds he is an inventor
whose work creating ingenious clockwork figures supports hundreds of families,
but strange occurrences soon have her doubting her own sanity.” —WorldCat
Whatever by Ann Walsh
“After
she pulls a fire alarm that results in an injury to an older woman, Mrs.
Johnson, Daraah must assist Mrs. Johnson two days a week and discovers that she
enjoys it, but she is unprepared when she discovers a secret that Mrs. Johnson
is hiding.”—WorldCat
When You Were Here by Daisy Whitney
“When
his mother dies three weeks before his high school graduation, Danny goes to
Tokyo, where his mother had been going for cancer treatments, to learn about
the city his mother loved and, with the help of his friends, come to terms with
her death.”—WorldCat