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Eighteen-year-old Brenna Whit is entering college as a freshman and starting to meet new people, but she hides a dark secret. Because of an accident that happened three years ago, her spirit wanders the Fade whenever she falls asleep. It's something she wants to keep hidden from the world, but when she sees someone watching her in spirit form, she fears the secret's out.

If Indie had it her way, she would never choose to river raft with three other high school seniors, mostly strangers to each other, from her journalism class. A loner, a jock, an outsider, an Instagram influencer. As the trip unfolds, the unpredictable river forces them to rely on each other. Social masks start to fall as, one by one, each teen reveals a deep secret. One is harboring immense grief, unwilling to forgive after the death of a loved one. One is dealing with a new disability and an uncertain future. One is fearful of the repercussions of coming out....

The only thing worse than the first day of senior year at a new high school is reliving it over, and over again. This ?Groundhog Day? meets Pretty in Pink mashup has Andie using all of her film knowledge to find out how to break the curse. Could it be true love's first kiss? Or is it reconciling...

The worst thing that ever happened to Craig is also the best: Amy. Amy and Craig never should've gotten together - Craig is an awkward Dungeons & Dragons-playing geek, and Amy is the beautiful, fiercely intelligent student-body president of their high school. Yet somehow they did - until Amy dumped him. Then got back together with him. Then dumped him again. Then got back together with him again. Over and over and over. Unfolding over their senior year, Amy and Craig's relationship is a kaleidoscope of joy, pain, and laughter as an uncertain future looms on the horizon.

"I loved this author's style. The short stories evoke a beautiful sense of place and a feeling of wistfulness." - S.C. Langgle, bestselling author of Alice in Everville A teenage boy struggles in relationships with girls and navigates the widening divide between him and his father. The short story collection includes a suspenseful military thriller that later developed into the author's debut crime thriller novel, Decaying Orbit. In My Father's Shadow is a collection of young adult short stories that provide a powerful kaleidoscope of growing up, courage, raw emotion, relationships, and ...

Pen's life is about secrets: the secret of the city's spirits, deities and monsters, living just beyond the notice of modern Londoners; the secret of Pen's intricate scars that disfigure her so cruelly; and the most closely guarded secret of all: Parva, her mirror-sister, forged from her reflections in a school bathroom mirror.

Evil has been unleashed on the world and only five children - with special powers - can save it. Matt and the other three desperately need to find Scar, the final gatekeeper, who has been trapped in Hong Kong, where puddles of water turn into puddles of blood, where ghosts, demons and hideous creatures stalk the streets. Matt has no choice but to follow her. Now, both imprisoned, their only hope of survival is to reach a secret door in the Man Ho temple. But even if Scar can find her psychic power, it may already be too late.

There are Rules! Andrea Cox heads into her Senior Year of High School at Evergreen High, just outside of Seattle, on top of the world. Her initiation into the Empresses is a foregone conclusion. The Empresses are at the top of the food chain of the eight different cliques. Andrea’s ambition may get the better of her as she tries to outshine the clique's president, Charlotte Davis.

Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words, but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows that words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters in tucked-away places: railway waiting rooms, fish-and-chips shops, quiet corners. Manny is sixteen, with a scar from shoulder to elbow.

The third novel by the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, the author of the 2021 YA Book Prize winning Loveless, Solitaire and graphic novel series Heartstopper – now a major Netflix series. For Angel Rahimi life is about one thing: The Ark – a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are taking...

"A meandering read which perfectly portrays the solipsism of youth." - Kirkus Reviews A restless 19-year-old Pennsylvania boy, hiding a painful past and unsure of what lies beyond the horizon, takes a wayward backpacking journey across Europe and meets a beautiful Irish girl with secrets of her own. Tony Schiavone is an adventurous young man who has embarked on a backpacking journey across Europe. His travels take him to the scenic, wind-swept, and snow-covered northern shores of Ireland. There, in the cozy confines of a quaint neighborhood pub, he is introduced to the inquisitive and ...

At sixteen, Gwen knows exactly one thing about her dad: he must have existed. Though her mom confirms this rather obvious conclusion, she refuses to add anything else about him. Annoying certainly, but honestly, Gwen is fine with it. Really, what would be the point of digging up a past that’s never been part of her present?

My name is Julianne Ivy Stearns. This is my second attempt at writing my story. My mother destroyed the memory stick of the first one and confiscated my laptop because I made the mistake of keeping them in my room. I know better now. Like in that familiar story, The Emperor's New Clothes, sometimes, the people, who don't want to hear the truth, make the deliverer of the truth the scapegoat. In the event that this one is lost or taken, or in case, as I suspect, I don't survive to the end, I have placed a second copy in my locker at school. Not the most secure location, but she can't get to ...

The Dreaded Summons and Other Misplaced Bills investigates seven unfortunate accounts piled together to make you laugh. The collection opens with Tina Teatree, who has a compulsion for weeding that soon digs up the root of her problem. The title story is "The Dreaded Summons", about an introvert and his friendship with a lost manatee. Other stories reveal the Breakfast Hunter, J.J. Whitweather, Shirley Short, and Fig B. Willingsbee.

In Jet Black and the Ninja Wind, Volume I of the Kuroi Clan trilogy, teenage ninja Jet uncovered an ancient secret in her ancestral land of Japan. In this long-awaited sequel, Jet--a beautiful half-Japanese warrior from a Navajo reservation--retreats to the remote village of Kanabe with her cousin Hiro and ninja dog Aska, but all is not well. Watched by shadowy fighters who are just as skilled and dangerous as they are, a sudden tragedy puts the young ninjas on the move again. Back in the USA, the discovery of a teenage girl wandering in the desert brings an encounter with a man holding a ...

After recovering from an emotional breakdown, a scrappy high school student dares to be happy and disrupt the social scene. Margaret "Cuckoo" Clarke recently had a brief stay in a mental institution following an emotional breakdown, but she's turning over a new leaf with her "Operation Happiness...

Mary Beth Johnson has never felt at home—not in the settlement, not with the guards, and not even in her own skin. Since the bombs fell and left strange mutations behind, she's been marked—literally. The turquoise bumps that appeared after puberty set her apart, making her an outcast and a target.

Connor Coineagan is 24, drifting through life with a dead-end bookstore job, a stalled novel, and a circle of friends as lost as he is. Cynical, witty, and haunted by the ghosts of relationships past, Connor is determined to avoid adulthood at all costs—even as the world around him demands he grow up. Between late-night bar debates, the search for meaning in music, and the ache of unrequited love, Connor navigates a decade of change, heartbreak, and hope. When his closest friendships are tested and the lines between ambition and apathy blur, Connor must decide what it means to truly live...

An ostracized indigenous teen. A shocking secret revealed. A mother’s startling prediction. A teen boy longs to be accepted into his mother’s indigenous people. Superstition has always prevented the two of them from belonging. Now, as shocking truths are revealed, he questions his true birthright. Will the boy find the community acceptance he desperately seeks or will his mother’s revelations put his life in danger?

Hansel and Gretel meets Five Survive in this pulse-pounding YA paranormal thriller romance. When eleven delinquent teens get sent to the deep Maine woods to film a reality TV show, they never expect that their audience will change. One day they’re recording for national viewers, the next...