New YA books

For generations, the Slayer was supposed to be the chosen, the one girl in all the world with the power to stand against the vampires, demons, and forces of darkness. When Willow used the scythe to call up all the potential slayers at once, it changed everything. For years, the slayers have been ...

Graduation can't come soon enough. Desperate for a fresh start, Quinn is eager to escape to her aunt's house on the New Jersey shore for the summer...away from teenage drama and having to answer everyone's questions about "what comes next" after high school. Quinn can't bear to focus on the futur...

Dancer... you should call me by my true name. I'm an executioner. Aasira can remember little of her life before the Temple, a school for dancers deep in the desert. Selected for her ability to harness magic through dance, she is one of the Temple's elite students. Not only a dancer but the queen'...

Eleanor Jones is adjusting to her new normal: friends, school, and volunteering at the local old age home. Just as things feel calm, a series of events once again rock Eleanor's world: Troy's ex-girlfriend is back in Cooinda, there's a spate of farmhouse robberies, and Eleanor's nursing home budd...

Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are beautiful. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick and you can't get older. In Elsewhere, death is only the beginning ... Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she is killed in a hit-and-run accident. I...

Finn has always loved Autumn. She's not just the girl next door or his mother's best friend's daughter, she is his everything. But she's not his girlfriend. That's Sylvie, and Finn would never hurt her, so there's no way Autumn could know how he truly feels. Jack, Finn's best friend, isn't so sur...

Natalie and Imogen are inseparable, and wildly different. Imogen is infuriatingly humble and incredibly intelligent, while Natalie is brave, jumping into danger and new adventures. Still, one thing ties them together: their love of the supernatural. Every summer, they vacation with their parents ...

Iris lives on the run with her mother, Rohan. They're travelling to escape the earthquakes, though of course that's impossible. And they're being followed. One day, Rohan insists Iris repeat the phrase "In bocca al lupo": into the mouth of the wolf. The next day, Rohan's vanished, leaving no clue...

Bell Silverleaf is a liar. It's how she's survived. It's how all Treesingers have survived since they were invaded by the Risen and their fickle gods. But now Bell is in the Queen's Test--she's one of seven girls competing in deadly challenges to determine who will rule for the next twenty-five y...

Looking for Alibrandi meets Arrested Development in this YA screwball comedy about a student exchange gone hilariously, criminally wrong. Maria Petranelli will do anything to get away from her overbearing Italian-Australian family. She's over their constant heckling about getting a boyfriend, t...

After an accident that leaves her with partial amnesia, Naomi tries to piece together the fragments of the last three-and-a-half years of her life. She discovers that she has a tennis-champion boyfriend but can't remember him, is co-editor of the yearbook with a quirky guy who wears a smoking jac...

Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on; the financial stability she yearned for as a kid; and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, ...

Jo was the perfect popular high-school girl -- until nude photos of her were shared online. Now she's failing in class, her friends have deserted her, her admirers have turned their backs. She's become an outcast. Then her former friend Maddie disappears. Everyone says she's run away, but Jo is n...

The fog is coming. And when it does, everything disappears . . . One girl. Two identities. Three friends. One disappears. One forgets. One remembers. There is truth in every tale . . . Find it! A frighteningly creepy supernatural YA thriller that chills to the bone.

When Tess's decision to get an abortion goes public, she is rejected and harassed by people in her community, but she soon finds solace in her music and uses her voice to end the cycle of abuse in her small town.

Seventeen-year-old musician Xue faces a lifetime of servitude until Duke Meng offers her freedom in exchange for serving as a musician in residence, but Xue soon discovers the Duke is a celestial ruler with ulterior motives and she must unlock her past to prevent an impending war in the Six Realms.

Zephyr, now a god in a warrior's body, faces challenges as she strives to support her lordess Xin Ren in a tumultuous political landscape, and is determined to overcome fate and make her enemies pay, even when confronting a revelation about Crow's true allegiance.

Marco's always done the right thing. But now it's time for wrong answers only. Marco should be at university, studying biomedicine. Instead, he's been sent to live on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean with his estranged uncle, all because of a 'blip' everyone else is convinced was a panic attack...

When her best friend disappears in the summer of 1942, Liza resolves to rescue her no matter the cost, entangling herself in an increasingly dangerous web with two former classmates, one a member of the militia and the other forced to live in Leningrad's tunnels.

Seventeen-year-old Audrey Cameron has lost her spark. After an embarrassing run-in with her ex-boyfriend, she's told that she needs to get back out there and take risks. What she doesn't expect is to be transported to Regency England! Lucy Sinclair has her own problems - stifled by her father and...

Six fun facts about Penny and Tate: 1. They've known each other their whole lives; 2. Their moms are best friends; 3. They are DEFINITELY NOT friends 4; They keep almost kissing; 5. They don't talk about it; 6. Thanks to their mums, they're moving in together. But when an almost-kiss goes from 'a...

Meet Nora. Also known as Rebecca, Samantha, Haley, Katie and Ashley - the girls she's been. Nora didn't choose a life of deception, she was born into it. As the daughter of a con artist who targeted criminal men, Nora always had to play a part. But when her mother fell for one of the men instead ...

For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in happily ever after. Until she learns that the love of her life is about to marry another, and her dreams are shattered. Desperate to stop the wedding, and heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic, but wi...

Three former friends ditch school for old time's sake - with horrible and deadly consequences. Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close - best friends back in middle school. So, when Cal pulls into campus late for class, and runs into Ivy and Mateo, they decide to ditch school. Just like old times. B...

Emma is torn between her passion for Julian and her need to protect him from the consequences of a forbidden romantic partnership, a situation challenged by her relationship with Mark and his efforts to regain his Shadowhunter capabilities.