Staff Picks Young Adult Fiction
November 2020
City of Ghosts
by Victoria Schwab
Cassidy has the ability to ‘lift’ the veil between the living and the dead. When her parents take her to Edinbugh to research ghosts, she and her best friend, Jacob, find out how dangerous it is to slip back and forth between the veil. This title is also available on OverDrive.
Recommended by: Becky McCormack, Youth Services Assistant Manager
Posted in: Young Adult Fiction
Truly Devious
by Maureen Johnson
Stevie Bell is obsessed with solving crimes and the 80-year-old unsolved Ellingham murders/kidnapping are on the top of her list. Millionaire Albert Ellingham left behind a school for gifted students high up in the mountains of Vermont and Stevie was accepted. Knowing that this could be her only chance to solve the Ellingham murders, Stevie gets right to work collecting any information she can. When danger comes back to the Ellingham estate, Stevie now has two mysteries to solve. Johnson reveals details from Ellingham’s story with flashbacks to his life and police interviews after the Ellingham kidnapping. Truly Devious is the first book in this teen mystery series and is available in hardcover and on OverDrive as an ebook and e audiobook.
Recommended by: Brandi Smits, Youth Services Manager
Posted in: Young Adult Fiction
The Ravens (The Ravens, #1)
by Kass Morgan
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The Girl Who Wasn’t There
by Penny Joelson
Kasia spends much of her time looking out her bedroom window as she tries to recover her strength from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She is so certain that she has seen another young girl in the window in the house across the street, but the couple who live there say there is not. Is it a ghost? Or is something more sinister going on in the house, and can Kasia and her new friend, Nav, discover the truth before it is too late for any of them? This is a crime-thriller that keeps the pages turning.
Recommended by Joan Stoiber, Youth Services Reference Librarian 1
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Kingdom of the Wicked
by Kerri Maniscalco
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October 2020
Magic Dark and Strange
by Kelly Powell
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We Were Restless Things
by Cole Nagamatsu
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These Vengeful Hearts
by Katherine Laurin
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Five Total Strangers
by Natalie D. Richards
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Thoughts and Prayers: a novel in three parts
by Bryan Bliss
Claire, Eleanor, and Brezzen are three high school students, who each in their own way, try to come to terms with the aftermath of a school shooting that threw them together for the first and only time as they hid under the stairs. Each tells of their process in stand-alone parts as they work through the trauma in their unique way. Thought-provoking as to what happens after the news people and concerned others move on after a couple of days and take their platitudes our “thoughts and prayers” are with you.
Posted in: Young Adult Fiction