Collection: Young Adult Fiction

Orphaned as a baby, nineteen-year-old Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well-being and each has met an untimely end. Her remaining relatives are the elusive Hawthornes, an eccentric family living at Thorn Grove, an estate both glittering a...

Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his daemon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm often navigates using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of La Belle Sauvage) is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns they have a ...

In a world where Beauty is a commodity only a few control, one Belle will learn the dark secrets behind her powers, and rise up to change the world.

Liv Fleming's father went missing more than two years ago, not long after he claimed to have been abducted by aliens. Though Liv has long accepted he's dead, she hasn't given up all of their traditions. Every Sunday, she and her childhood friend Doug Monk trudge through the woods to check the tra...

Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Remy Tsai's boyfriend, Jack, is shot by her best friend, Elise, and while police investigate, Remy probes her memories for the truth of their friendship.

A would-be queen. A handsome king. A perfect match... or is it? When King Jameson declares his love for Lady Hollis Brite, Hollis is shocked -- and thrilled. She's grown up vying for the king's attention, hoping one day to become Queen of Coroa. Then Hollis meets a stranger who seems to see right...

Evelyn Peters is desperate. Desperate for a way out of McNair Falls, the dying southern town that's held her captive since the day she was born. Desperate to protect her little sister from her mothers terrifying and abusive boyfriend. And desperate to connect with anyone, even fallen golden boy A...

Emily Emerson is finally a senior at the Wildsmoor Facility. Here, the students live each day as shadows, one day blurring into the next while the symptoms of the Grimm-Cross Syndrome are trained out of them. For Emily, the Grimm means strange dreams and hallucinations that can be set free into t...

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he's back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar and maybe snag him as a prom date, even befriend Wes Bennet. The a...

When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see an old acquaintance is one of her coworkers. Bailey met Charlie a year ago on the long flight to Omaha, where she moved after her parents' divorce. Charlie's cynicism didn't mix well with Bailey...

Laterre is on the brink of war. The Third Estate is rioting against the injustices of a corrupt system. The Patriarche, reeling from the murder of his only heir, makes brutal attempts to quash the unrest, while a new militant faction launches a series of deadly attacks. And three outlaws find the...

Emeline's quiet village has three important rules: Don't look at the shadows. Don't cross the river. And don't enter the forest. When Emeline's little brother breaks all three of their village's rules, she is forced to use her family's forbidden magic to rescue him from the dark things he awakens...

Is it possible for two very different teenagers to fall in love despite high barbed-wire fences and a political wilderness between them?Anahita is passionate, curious and determined. She is also an Iranian asylum seeker who is only allowed out of detention to attend school. On weekdays, during sc...

Seventeen-year-old Tara Maclay is at the center of a slew of unsolved murders in her new town and when the suspicion falls on her, she must find a way to reconnect with her absent magic and team up with the mysterious and distractingly cute, Daphne Frost who is hiding more than one secret.

Everyone you know has disappeared. What would you do? Nox, Taylor and Lizzy are desperate to uncover the secret of their entrapment. But there is more to the new world than they ever suspected, and the danger is only just beginning. In a city full of shadow, they quickly learn they are not the on...

Above, in the cloudlands, Nimh has no memory of her past, only an aching, undying certainty that she has left something, someone, behind. But while she struggles to recall her identity, an imposter wields her name with deadly purpose. Below, on the surface, North looks to the sky, desperate to jo...

"After Emanuela Ragno kills the one person in Occhia who can create water, she must find a way to save her city from dying of thirst"--

After her parents' divorce, city girl Lori Palmer has been dragged across the country to start a new life without her dad. Lori is the new girl at Bay Water High, where students prize glossy hair, beach bodies and thigh gaps above all else. All of the things that are so not her -- at her old scho...

Meet River Langston-Lee. In the past 24 hours, he's dumped his girlfriend, walked out of his SATs, and quit his job at his parents' Seattle cafe in spectacularly disastrous fashion -- even for him. Somehow, he manages to talk his way into a job at a failing Korean cafe, Bingsu for Two. This could...

Seventeen-year-old Grace, a high school senior with plans of studying in New York, faces an unplanned pregnancy with limited options due to Texas's abortion laws, but with help from her friends, they devise a risky plan to cross state lines for assistance.

In this poignant mixed voice, mixed form collection of interconnected prose, poems and stories, teen characters, their families, and their communities grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Seventeen-year-old Lacey Burke responds to the failure of her school's abstinence-only sexual education curriculum by handing out advice and contraceptives in the girls' bathroom, even as her own life gets complicated.

Maddy is mute. Since the Incident she has barely spoken. And now she and her mother and brother are staying in a farmhouse on an old apricot orchard not far from town. It's a chance to rest and recuperate - or a way to hide further away from the world. Alice is waiting. Since Birdy, her darling d...

They've always shared this one day together, but as they grow up they begin to grow apart. Everyone expects Eric to get a football scholarship, but no one knows he's having second thoughts. Former quarterback Morgan feels utterly alone, as she wrestles with the difficult choice to live as her tru...

Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus on her painting surrounded by other creative teens. But outside this haven, the streets are filled with protests against the deep injustices that grip the town of Lucille. Bitter's instinct is to sta...

Rural Caball Hollow, surrounded by the vast National Forest. Like her sisters, Linden James was born with an unusual ability: she can taste what others are feeling. But this gift soured her relationship with Cole Spencer one night a year ago... the same night Linden vanished into the depths of th...

Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild wood lives a monstrous Witch. Once a generation, she comes to claim a companion to return with her, never to be seen again. Now that time is drawing near once more. Mina, daughter of the duke, is g...

Angie can tell that inhuman school athlete Reece is unique, and when something supernatural tries to attack her and she engages in a battle between good and evil, she must ensure that she does not fall in love with Reece, who signals death.

Michael waits in the stage wings, wearing a pink wig, pink fluffy coat and black heels. One more step will see him illuminated by spotlight. He has been on a journey of bravery to get here, and his is almost ready to show himself to the world in bold colours... can her emerge as The Black Flamingo?

Ryan is about to board a plane, knowing that the next twenty-four hours will change everything. His mission is to stop the biggest terrorist attack America's ever seen. Ryan works for CHERUB, a secret organisation with one key advantage: even a trained terrorist won't suspect that a teenager is s...