Teen Books, New Books Archive

In the summer of 1956 while her mother is in Florida searching for a job, fourteen-year-old April Garnet Rose, who has never met her father, stays with her terminally ill aunt in Virginia and accompanies her as she visits different churches, looking for God. 

When Marisol Garcia, a new student at a competitive performing arts high school, is chosen to take part in a dance contest, she becomes obsessed with winning and risks losing her friends, her good grades, and her place at the school. 

Heartbroken after her best friend and soul mate, Fang, leaves her flock, Maximum Ride begins to believe the evil scientists trying to convince her she needs to save the world, and that Dylan, the newest member of her flock, is her perfect mate.

Locked away at Pecan Place, Jessie struggles to stay safe and sane while Pietr, although fighting to keep their relationship alive, makes a deal he dare not tell Jessie about in hopes of saving his mother. 

A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.

Tells the story of Kendra, a witch, and the first three-hundred years of her life, including takes on a classic fairy tale, the 1666 plague in Britain, the Titanic disaster, and the story of a modern-day, plain stepsister. 

Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.

When she is left with relatives in rural Minnesota for the summer, Sadie meets Allie, a spiky-haired off-road biker, and Joe, who team up to train for a race, but when they find a priest badly beaten and near death in the woods, Allie mysteriously disappears leaving Sadie and Joe to discover the dangerous secrets she is hiding. 

As mysterious murders threaten the new peace between Shadowhunters and Downworlders, only Simon, the Daylighter vampire, can help bring both groups together.

Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.

With a smash album and her own reality show, Sunday Tolliver has finally arrived. But success brings a whole new set of challenges including a diva cousin and a bad-boy rapper who are trying to get payback by wrecking her reputation, a gifted new collaborator who is trying to sabotage her follow-up album, and a more complicated love life. 

In the virtual world of Edda, ruler Scanthax decides he wants to invade another virtual world, embroiling the universes of Edda, Saga, and Epic in war, with only three teenagers to try to restore peace.

When thirteen-year-old Avery LaDuke is put in charge of the eighth-grade charity project, an on-line matchmaking service, and tampers with the program to try to match her new stepsister and best friend, Blake, with the most popular boy in school, things quickly go awry. 

In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in. Told in episodic verse, [this] is a fictionalized exploration of cult dynamics, loosely based on the Manson Family murders of 1969.

Legally-blind college reporter Mike Mavic hopes to get a story about a body found in Steepleton, believed to be that of long-missing teen Christopher Creed, but finds something odd about the town, including Justin Creed's obsessive drive to learn what really happened to his older brother. 

In 1960, thirteen-year-old Sophie isn't happy about spending the summer at ther grandmother's old house in the Bayou until she finds a maze with a secretive and mischievious inhabitant. Bored and lonely, Sophie makes an impulsive wish and finds herself in 1860 at her family's home, where she is mistaken for a slave. What will happen to her?

A collection of thirteen short stories about the ups and downs of being thirteen years old.Contents:The campus tour -- Twin stars -- A simple plan -- Musical lives -- A very short romance -- Finding religion -- Celebrities -- It's not nice to stare -- Whose bedroom is this? -- Two girls, best friends & a frog -- Altar boys -- Romancing the diary -- Dirty talk . 

Sixteen-year-old Aggie feels compelled to investigate rumors that her cancer-stricken mother, principal of her small Minnesota high school, has rigged the prom queen election to keep Aggie's best friend Sylvia, a pregnant Goth, from winning.

While on a school trip to Edinburgh, Scotland, sixteen-year-old Scarlett is reunited with Callum McAndrew, as well as her former St. Tabby's cohorts, providing plenty of suspects when she is targeted in a series of attacks. 

High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new student joins the football team and forms an unlikely friendship with Danny. 

When three fifteen-year-old Austin, Texas, girls who met in group therapy discover that they are all dating the same boy, they first get revenge and then start a wildly successful relationship consulting business.

The House of Night series is set in a world very much like our own, except in 16-year-old Zoey Redbird's world, vampires have always existed. In this first book in the series, Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become an adult vampire--that is, if she makes it through the Change. Not all of those who are chosen do. It's tough to begin a new life, away from her parents and friends, and on top of that, Zoey finds she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampire Goddess, Nyx. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite club, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny--with a little help from her new vampire friends.

Two teenagers--a heavy-metal-music-loving boy who is still mourning the death of his mother years earlier, and a beautiful, popular girl whose parents divorced because her father is gay--try to negotiate the complications of family and peer relationships as they get to know each other after learning that their father and mother are marrying each other. 

High schooler Ben Bancroft, a budding filmmaker with cerebral palsy, struggles to understand his relationship with drug-addict Colleen while he explores a new friendship with A.J., who shares his obsession with movies and makes a good impression on Ben's grandmother. 

In the 1870s, sixteen-year-old Katie has grown up in a remote cabin on the edge of a volcano with her father and their friend Lorraine, the only people she has ever seen, but, after eagerly anticipating it for so long, her first trip into a town ultimately brings tragedy into their lives. 

Average human teenager Tsukune accidentally enrolls at a boarding school for monsters--no, not jocks and popular kids, but bona fide werewolves, witches and unnameables out of his wildest nightmares! On the plus side, all the girls have a monster crush on him. On the negative side, all the boys are so jealous they want to kill him! And so do the girls he spurns, because he only has eyes for one of them--the far-from-average vampire Moka. On the plus side, Moka only has glowing red eyes for Tsukune. On the O-negative side, she also has a burning, unquenchable thirst for his blood...

Twelve-year-old Abby must deal with her feelings about her father's cancer and its aftermath while simultaneously navigating the difficult problems of growing up. 

Here is a look at the life and influences of Charles Schulz, creator of the beloved comic strip Peanuts.Contents:Always drawing -- Winning and losing -- "Do you like to draw"? -- Becoming a man -- Getting down to work -- Losing the red-haired girl -- Growing Peanuts -- They like me! -- Ice skating in sunny California -- Staring out the window -- Drawing on the wall. 

A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, set in the age of steam engines and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.Contents:Some fortunate future day / Cassandra Clare -- The last ride of the Glory Girls / Libba Bray -- Clockwork Fagin / Cory Doctorow -- Seven days beset by demons / Shawn Cheng -- Hand in glove / Ysabeau Wilce -- The ghost of Cwmlech Manor / Delia Sherman -- Gethsemane / Elizabeth Knox -- The summer people / Kelly Link -- Peace in our time / Garth Nix -- Nowhere fast / Christopher Rowe -- Finishing school / Kathleen Jennings -- Steam girl / Dylan Horrocks -- Everything amiable and obliging / Holly Black -- The oracle engine / M. T. Anderson. 

A collection of nineteen short stories about vampires features tales from Cassandra Clare and Holly Black, Neil Gaiman, and Melissa Marr.Contents:Introduction / Terri Windling & Ellen Datlow -- Things to know about being dead / Genevieve Valentine -- All smiles / Steve Berman -- Gap year / Christopher Barzak -- Bloody sunrise / Neil Gaiman -- Flying / Delia Sherman -- Vampire weather / Garth Nix -- Late bloomer / Suzy McKee Charnas -- List of definite endings / Kaaron Warren -- Best friends forever / Cecil Castellucci -- Sit the dead / Jeffrey Ford -- Sunbleached / Nathan Ballingrud -- Baby / Kathe Koja -- In the future when all's well / Catherynne M. Valente -- Transition / Melissa Marr -- History / Ellen Kushner -- The perfect dinner party / Cassandra Clare & Holly Black -- Slice of life / Lucius Shepard -- My generation / Emma Bull -- Why light? / Tanith Lee. 

Larkin Pace, a film-obsessed high school freshman, chronicles his experiences as he tries to raise money for a new camcorder and get a date with the girl who has been his best friend since third grade. 

Three fourteen-year-old best friends experience the joys and heartbreaks of first love. 

Cara's mother is missing and the rest of her family is ignoring the problem or is busy with other things. But when a watery spector begins to haunt the family's Cape Cod home, Cara and her brothers realize their scientist mother may not have been who they thought she was. With the help of Cara's best friend Hayley, the brothers and sisters embark on a quest that will lead them from Cape's hidden, ancient places to a shipwreck at the bottom of the sea. They're soon on the front lines of an ancient battle between good and evil, with the terrifying Pouring Man close on their heels.

She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah!When Regina Bloomsbury’s band, the Caverns, breaks up, she thinks it’s all over. And then she makes a wish ”“I wish I could be as famous as the Beatles.”The Beatles are her music idols. The next day, she gets up to find that the Caverns are not just as famous as the Beatles, they have replaced them in history! Regina is living like a rock star, and loving it. There are talk shows, music videos, and live concerts with thousands of screaming fans. And Regina is the star of it all. But fame is getting the better of Regina, and she has a decision to make. Does she want to replace the Beatles forever?Here is a rocking novel about the good and the bad of Hollywood, fame, and rock ’n roll.

When Dr. Warthrop goes hunting for the "Holy Grail of Monstrumology" in 1888, twelve-year-old orphan Will Henry follows him to Socotra, plunging into depths of horror worse than anything he has experienced so far. 

When unpopular freshman Gabe Messner and his best friend Dover crack the code to the forbidden laboratory of Gabe's father, they unwittingly unleash T.R.I.N.A., a beautiful blonde robot programmed with a mission that the two boys must put to a stop.

During a trouble-filled school field trip to Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Fern finds and tries to rescue fellow Unusual Miles Zapo, who is imprisoned at the National Zoological Park, using her abilities with teleportation and telekinesis. 

Missy and her cousin Claire are best friends who finish each other’s sentences and practically read each other’s minds. It’s an eerie connection-so eerie that Missy has questions she wants to put to her parents. But she’s afraid to ask. So when Missy hears an expert discussing newborn babies on the radio, it makes her wonder about her family.

Missy just can’t let go of those nagging questions, and decides to use a school project about scientific hoaxes to try to uncover the answers. She enlists Claire to help. As part of the project the girls perform a dramatic scene that is captured on video at school. After the video is posted on YouTube, Missy and Claire realize that they’ve opened Pandora’s box and much more than they ever imagined has come out. Not only are their identities called into question, but so is the future of everyone involved.

In this riveting, heartrending story by thriller author Caroline B. Cooney, the truth changes the lives of three families-as the bonds of blood must withstand the strains of long-hidden secrets that are at last revealed.

Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the "Cleopatra Emerald" from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while a former love of her Uncle Eddie tries to get the gem for herself. 

Insecure about the changes high school brings, Abby ignores advice from her parents and her only friend to "make an effort" and, instead, withdraws from everyone but with Luke, who she met online. 

After her family moves to Alaska for her father's job, sixteen-year-old Aggie feels extremely cut off from her old life and friends when she loses her cell phone.