High School Historical Fiction

📘 Expanded Edition — Now Includes Book 7, The Dark Savage - The complete conclusion to the Savage saga in one volume. 🔥Save 25% over individual purchase!🔥 ✨ Why Readers are Obsessed: Edge-of-your-seat action, tangled loyalties, and searing passion fuel this addictive saga. Perfect for fans of OUTLANDER, THE BLACK DAGGER BROTHERHOOD, and dark historical fantasy. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Addictive, dark, and beautifully written...” — Reader Review Step back into the unforgiving world of The Savage Series—a dark historical fantasy bestselling series with love, power and survival. ...

The New York Times bestselling author of All the Stars and Teeth brings to life a highly romantic, Gothic-infused world of wealth, desire, and betrayal. ​ Nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow, orphaned as a baby, has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her...

Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: “the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you’re a teenager...

This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something...

One young woman’s summer of infinite possibility takes a turn she never saw coming in “this 1980s coming-of-age tale [that’s] chillingly compelling. Get ready to be transported.”—People (Best Books of the Month) “I haven’t felt this kind of excitement reading a story set in the...

Her life is a perfect lie. The only truth is hidden in an AIM chat window. Maya Rodriguez has her life perfectly mapped out: straight A’s, a seat at the popular table, and a one-way ticket to Cornell. Her Abercrombie polo is armor, her AIM screen name is a costume, and her only rule is to never, ever let anyone see the real her. But her carefully constructed world is thrown into a tailspin when she’s partnered with Sloane Kim for a history project—a cynical, combat-boot-wearing punk who sees right through Maya’s pastel-colored camouflage. Sloane is everything Maya is supposed to ...

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and...

This anthology contains five short stories previously published in READING for Christian Schools Grade 6 (Bob Jones University Press 1988), updated for a new generation of readers, with plenty of new illustrations. Black and White interior and a full-cover cover. “Val is For Valiant” - An ordinary boy has an extraordinary dream that changes his life. “The Monument” - A game of tag turns into a journey of discovery and danger “Brethren Nisei” - A white American boy watches his Japanese friends undergo persecution during the war “Antarctica” - Two brothers help their uncle ...

“[A] striking debut. . . funny, heartbreaking, and real.”––SAM LANSKY, author of Broken People Prep meets The Secret History in this searing debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American prep school, told in the form of a literary investigation through a distinctly...

Internationally best-selling inspirational author Janette Oke is beloved for her novels of faith. Winter Is Not Forever is the continuation of the touching Seasons of the Heart saga begun in Once Upon a Summer and continued in The Winds of Autumn. Featuring a folksy narration by Johnny Heller, this tale of a young man ready to graduate from high school and begin his adult life is touching and poignant.

Billy Esposito, the son of two college professor poets, has been living a quiet, nerdy life in an upstate New York college town. In the summer of '79, his life is turned upside down when, due to family circumstances, he and his mother move to the south shore of Long Island a few miles east of Queens. When the school year starts in September, Billy is thrust into a new world and must learn to navigate his way in huge, overcrowded Seaview High School. By rushing to the aid of a classmate who is being attacked, he falls into the strange, often violent subculture of high school fraternities or,...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane comes a chilling mystery—Prep meets The Crucible. It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts...

During the 2016 election, high school sophomores Roman Sheffield and Julia Walsh started dating, the first serious relationship for both of them. But their fathers were radical ideologues, believing candidates from the opposing party would destroy democracy. Bret Sheffield zealously supported Donald Trump. Ted Walsh supported Hillary Clinton with equal fervor. Their fathers began to feud about the election and forbade their children to date. Despite their fathers' wishes, Roman and Julia kept meeting secretly. Their lives became more complicated, leading to unexpected consequences for them ...

A satire of teenage life follows cynical soon-to-graduate Flannery Culp on a raucous journey through high school in the 1990s, covering SATs, college applications, friends, boyfriends, tabloid journalism, and TV talk shows. A first novel.

Imburt’s life was not going according to plan. It was never gonna be easy, of course, not with a name like Imburt, but now, out of the blue, his parents were moving from Colorado to Virginia. The South! And before he could wrap his mind around it, he and his brother were in a strange religious boarding school. He wants to stay out of trouble; he doesn't want to disgrace the family, but damn, these people think that rock 'n roll is the devil's music! Well, it's the 70's, man, and rock 'n roll is far out! So, Lord knows it's gonna be tricky navigating the rules around here. Still, he just ...

WINNER OF THE CHIRBY FICTION AWARD From the co-editor of the bestselling anthology Never Whistle at Night, a semi-autobiographical novel that follows a group of teenage gang members as they trek across Chicago to a momentous meeting, inspired by the cult classic The Warriors “Cool and real...

Excerpt: “Oh, hey, here comes your mom.” Anna pointed to a dark red Chrysler Cordoba as it drove past on the street beyond the fence. “Already,” Jillian said. “We've been here a while,” Anna said. “Give me some gum,” Jillian said. She tossed her half-full beer cup into the wire mesh trash can. She turned to me and we kissed. I wrapped my arms around her. She slipped me the tongue. We Frenched. “Okay, give Jillian her tongue back now, Billy,” Anna said. “We need to go.” Jillian and I stepped apart. Anna went, “ahhh.” Jillian stuck out her tongue. Anna placed a ...

Life is progressing normally for sixteen-year-old Dan Renfrew when he accidentally transports himself to England in the year 1066. He soon realizes that he’s trapped there, and that’s not his only astonishing discovery. Dan learns that he’s descended from a long line of time jumpers—secret heroes who travel to the past and resolve glitches in the time stream that threaten to alter subsequent history. The only way Dan can return home is to set history back on its proper course in the Anglo-Saxon age. This is no easy task.

Based on a remarkable true story, an unforgettable Somali girl risks her life on the migrant journey to Europe to run in the Olympic Games At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, who appoints himself her "professional coach."...

In this high-stakes heist novel, an alchemologist and a con man team up to steal a rare necklace—but complicated feelings of attraction and deception threaten to destroy everything and everyone they love—for fans of Alexandra Bracken and Judy I. Lin. Within the dazzling halls of London’s...