New Arrivals for Teens! | August 2024
The Grandest Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes | 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 family fortune she inherited. Designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, this year’s game requires one of seven golden tickets to enter. With millions on the line, those seven players will do whatever it takes to win. (Mystery)
Under the Surface by Diana Urban | On her senior French trip, seventeen-year-old Ruby follows her classmates into the Paris catacombs to attend an exclusive party, but they quickly become entangled in a sinister pursuit underground and uncover dark secrets about the catacombs and each other. (Thriller)
Stay Dead by April Henry | Entrusted with a key by her dying mother, sixteen-year-old Milan pretends she perished along with her mother as she navigates freezing conditions, outsmarts assassins, and unravels a deadly conspiracy to save herself and others. (Thriller)
Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson | From the bestselling author of the Truly Devious books, Maureen Johnson, comes a new stand-alone YA about a teen who uncovers a mystery while working as a tour guide on an island and must solve it before history repeats itself. (Mystery)
Our Shouts Echo by Jade Adia | Sixteen-year-old Niarah's perspective on life changes when she joins a hiking/camping club and befriends Mac Torres and his wanderlust-driven friends, but as summer draws to a close and her new friends leave, existential dread challenges her new outlook. (Fiction)
Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay | Set in the 1930s to today, four generations of Filipino American boys grapple with identity, masculinity, and father-son relationships. (Fiction)
The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky by Josh Galarza | Perfect for fans of Mark Oshiro and Adam Silvera comes a fiercely funny and hopeful story of one boy's attempts to keep everything under control while life has other plans. (Fiction)
With Love, Echo Park by Laura Taylor Namey | Cuban American teenagers Clary, seventeen, and Emilio, eighteen, grew up together in the Echo Park community of Los Angeles clashing over their visions for the future of the neighborhood, but they find there is something stronger than local history tying them together. (Romance)
This Night Is Ours by Ronni Davis | On the longest day of the year, eighteen-year-old Brandy makes life-changing decisions about her future, her family, and a budding romance with one of her best friends. (Romance)
This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings | The first book in a decadent fantasy duology set in Jazz Age Harlem, where at night the dance halls come to life—and death waits in the dark. (Historical Fantasy)
The Girl with No Reflection by Keshe Chow | Selected by the royal matchmaker to marry the crown prince, Ying Yue finds her husband-to-be stoic and infuriating, leading her to escape into a secret parallel world through palace mirrors where a kinder prince awaits, but the two worlds have a long and bloody history and Ying has a part to play in the future of both. (Fantasy)
Castle of the Cursed by Romina Garber | After losing her parents in a mysterious attack, seventeen-year-old Estela suffers from survivor's guilt and is sent to live with her Aunt in their ancestral Spanish castle, where she uncovers family secrets and meets a supernatural, silver-eyed boy who claims he is trapped in the castle. (Fantasy)
Our Wicked Histories by Amy Goldsmith | After a disastrous accident at her school's Midsummer Ball leads to Meg's suspension, she agrees to attend a Halloween party at her old friends' ancestral home in Ireland in order to make amends, only to discover that the estate has a sordid past of its own. (Horror)
The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington | Seventeen-year-old Devon, her twin sister, and her friends face a demonic force who seemingly follows horror movie tropes, propelling the group to flip the script and use their horror movie knowledge in order to survive. (Horror)
Ghostsmith by Nicki Pau Preto (House of the Dead #2) | Wren grapples with the revelation that her mother is the Corpse Queen, and must navigate treacherous alliances and the return of her long-lost twin brother in order to stop her father and mother and prevent war in the Dominions. (Fantasy)
A Thousand Broken Pieces by Tillie Cole (A Thousand Boy Kisses #2) | After losing her beloved sister three years ago, Savanna Litchfield has been living half a life. When Savannah's therapist suggests joining a trip around the world for grieving teens, she agrees to go, clutching tightly to the unread journal her sister left behind. Seventeen-year-old Cael Woods is angry. One year after losing his older brother, his life has spiraled. Once the most promising hockey player in the junior league, Cael can no longer step onto the ice. When his parents sign him up for a trip abroad, no part of him wants to go. As Cael and Savannah embark on a journey, they begin to find solace in each other. As they start to heal piece by broken piece, could this be the start of a love they never thought they'd feel again? (Romance)
The Reckoning of Roku by Randy Ribay (Chronicles of the Avatar #5) | A young Avatar Roku has only just commenced his training at the Southern Air Temple when his erstwhile friend, Prince Sozin, requests his aid in preventing the Earth Kingdom from claiming a remote Fire Nation island. Despite his inexperience, Avatar Roku slips away with the help of an irritating young Airbender named Gyatso. As the reluctant companions delve deeper into their wayward mission, they begin to realize that even greater threats lie ahead. (Fantasy)
Age 16 by Rosena Fung | A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about three generations of mothers and daughters passing down and rebelling against standards of gender, race, beauty, size, and worth, for fans of Mariko Tamaki. (Graphic Novel)
The Ghostkeeper by Johanna Taylor, letters by Micah Myers | A gothic graphic novel that follows a young medium with the gift--or curse, as some might say--to communicate with the dead. (Graphic Novel)
Full Shift by Jennifer Dugan, illustrations by Kit Seaton | Tessa, a reluctant seventeen-year-old werewolf on a desperate quest for a cure, accidentally attracts the attention of werewolf hunters, endangering her loved ones, and the only way to save them is to embrace the things inside her that are howling to get out. (Graphic Novel)
Gachiakuta, Vol. 1 by Kei Urana, graffiti design by Hideyoshi Andou, translated by Jennifer Ward | Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, where the poor scrape by under the shadow of the rich who live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. Then one day, he's falsely accused of murder, and his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment--exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash. (Manga)
The Enneagram for Teens: A Complete Guide to Self-Discovery and Spiritual Growth by Ainsley Britain | From author and Enneagram coach Ainsley Britain comes a fun and informative introduction to the Enneagram personality test, specially crafted for teens and young adults. In The Enneagram for Teens, readers will discover their type and gain valuable insights into their relationships, faith, future selves, and more. (Nonfiction)
A Greater Goal: The Epic Battle for Equal Pay in Women’s Soccer—and Beyond by Elizabeth Rusch | A history of the more than 250 women who have played for the U.S. National Soccer Team and their battle for equal pay. (Nonfiction)
Whose Right Is It?: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equality by Hana Bajramovic | Discover the truth about the Fourteenth Amendment, civil rights, and the United States' continued fight for equality in this singular nonfiction book for young readers. (Nonfiction)