Staff Picks Young Adult
November 2020
The Ravens (The Ravens, #1)
by Kass Morgan
Posted in: Young Adult Fiction
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
Posted in: Young Adult Fiction
Kingdom of the Wicked
by Kerri Maniscalco
Posted in: Young Adult Fiction
October 2020
Crash: The Great Depression and the Fall and Rise of America
by Marc Favreau
This nonfiction book of the history of the United States from 1929 –1945 is very readable. It includes many pictures depicting those times.
Recommended by: Becky McCormack, Youth Services Assistant Manager
Posted in: Young Adult Nonfiction
Magic Dark and Strange
by Kelly Powell
Posted in: Young Adult Fiction
We Were Restless Things
by Cole Nagamatsu
Posted in: Young Adult Fiction
These Vengeful Hearts
by Katherine Laurin
Posted in: Young Adult Fiction
Five Total Strangers
by Natalie D. Richards
Posted in: Young Adult Fiction
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
September 2020
Horrid
by Katrina Leno
Posted in: Young Adult Fiction