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TITLE: The Institute
AUTHOR: Stephen King WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kin - HORROR SUMMARY: A supernatural thriller finds an abducted youth imprisoned in an inescapable institute, where teens with psychic abilities are subjected to torturous manipulation. |
TITLE: Becoming
AUTHOR: Michelle Obama WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Oba SUMMARY: An autobiography of lawyer and American First Lady Michelle Obama. |
TITLE: As Brave As You
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rey - NOVELS SUMMARY: When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires -- literally. |
TITLE: Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
AUTHOR: Edited by Ibi Zoboi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bla - NOVELS SUMMARY: A collection of coming-of-age short stories that reflect on the African American teenage experience in America. |
TITLE: Fangirl
AUTHOR: Rainbow Rowell WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Row - NOVELS SUMMARY: Feeling cast off when her twin sister outgrows their shared love for a favorite celebrity, Cath, a dedicated fan-fiction writer, struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words, and worrying about her fragile father. |
TITLE: Frankly in Love
AUTHOR: David Yoon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Yoo - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Torn between his love for his white girlfriend and his sense of duty to the matchmaking parents who made hard sacrifices to move to the United States, a Korean American teen looks for solutions along with a friend who has a similar problem. |
TITLE: Gone
AUTHOR: Michael Grant WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gra - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not. |
TITLE: His Hideous Heart: Thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined
AUTHOR: Edited by Dahlia Adler WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F His - HORROR SUMMARY: An anthology of modern tales, written by leading young adult authors and inspired by favorite Edgar Allan Poe stories, includes Tiffany D. Jackson's reimagining of "The Cask of Amontillado" and Stephanie Kuehn's adaptation of "The Tell-Tale Heart." |
TITLE: Monday's Not Coming
AUTHOR: Tiffany D. Jackson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Jac - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Claudia's friend Monday goes missing and she is the only one who seems to care. |
TITLE: On the Come Up
AUTHOR: Angie Thomas WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tho - NOVELS SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother. |
TITLE: Bridge of Clay
AUTHOR: Markus Zusak WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Zus - NOVELS SUMMARY: Upon their father's return, the five Dunbar boys, who have raised themselves since their mother's death, begin to learn family secrets, including that of fourth brother Clay, who will build a bridge for complex reasons, including his own redemption. |
TITLE: People Kill People
AUTHOR: Ellen Hopkins WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hop - NOVELS SUMMARY: Follows six teenagers as they are brought into close contact over the course of one tense week, in a town with political and personal tensions that build until one fires a fatal gunshot. |
TITLE: The Poppy War
AUTHOR: R. F. Kuang WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kua - FANTASY SUMMARY: A war orphan rises from her humble beginnings to become a powerful military commander, and perhaps her country's only hope for survival. |
TITLE: Rebound
AUTHOR: Kwame Alexander WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - NOVELS SUMMARY: In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past. |
TITLE: Caraval
AUTHOR: Stephanie Garber WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gar - FANTASY SUMMARY: Two sisters, Scarlett and Tella, leave their cruel father to attend Caraval--a faraway once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show--and, along the way, Tella is kidnapped and Scarlett is aided by a mysterious sailor and finds herself enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic. |
TITLE: The City of Brass
AUTHOR: S. A. Chakraborty WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cha - FANTASY SUMMARY: Nahri, a young con artist, inadvertently summons a mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, revealing the existence of true magic before the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom falls into her hands. |
TITLE: The Good Daughter
AUTHOR: Karin Slaughter WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sla - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Decades after an attack on her family that left her mother dead and her sister traumatized, a New York-based lawyer returns to her hometown to help her father save the life of a young woman accused of a school shooting. |
TITLE: Red Sister
AUTHOR: Mark Lawrence WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Law - FANTASY SUMMARY: Entering a convent at nine years old to be trained for combat, Nona begins learning the ways of blade and fist, but when her violent past is revealed, she finds herself at the center of a battle for a crumbling empire in a dying universe. |
TITLE: Children of Blood and Bone
AUTHOR: Tomi Adeyemi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ade - FANTASY SUMMARY: Zâelie, her brother Tzain, and princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy. |
TITLE: Americanah
AUTHOR: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Adi - NOVELS SUMMARY: A young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, moves to the United States for school, leaving behind her boyfriend, Obinze, and her family. It's a story of relocation, far-flung love and life as an alien, spread across three continents. It's also about the lonely but privileged perspective a stranger gains by entering a new culture. Indeed, it's more powerful than that in Americanah, because Ifemelu experiences America both as a black woman and as an African woman. In the U.S., those two identities combine for experiences dark and light that Adichie skillfully renders in gray scale. |
TITLE: The Problem with Forever
AUTHOR: Jennifer L. Armentrout WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Arm - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Diligently practicing silence to shield herself from the traumas of her past, Mallory is forced to enroll in public school after years of homeschooling with loving adoptive parents, a challenge that is complicated by her reunion with Rider Stark, the friend and protector from her early childhood who is also grappling with lingering scars from the past. |