Young Adult / Child
Books in this category is considered appropriate for young adults. Included are books for younger children. Of course, most of these books are enjoyable for readers of all ages.
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In A Clockwork Fairytale (Taylor) plucky, seventeen-year-old Melba was raised like a boy to pick pockets and run messages in the poor outer circles of Royal Malverne Isle, but she longs to move up the criminal hierarchy and become a spy . . .Read a sample chapter here.
In Artemis Rising (Lasota) torn between her father’s Catholicism and her mother’s Pagan beliefs, Eva finally chooses Paganism. She accepts the name of Arethusa but learns too late that her life will mirror the Greek nymph’s tragic fate. When they sail to the Azores Islands, her mother tells . . .Read a sample chapter here.
ASD and Me (DeMars) is written from the point of view of Eli, a seven-year-old boy who has high functioning ASD. Through the story, Eli explains how he was diagnosed, and how ASD affects the way he thinks and interprets the world . . .
In Becoming Edward (Meredith) Rachel’s hooked on Twilight and is in love with Edward Cullen. Clive is obsessed with Rachel but he’s no Edward. Lewis is in love with himself until he meets Rachel . . .
In Cage of Bone (Beattie) Ronnie Campbell thinks she’s handling her sister Katherine’s suicide just fine. Grade 10 has started and while there are lots of whispered rumors in the hall, Ronnie tries to ignore them. But it’s hard living in the shadow of a dead girl, especially one who had it all: popularity, good looks and a promising future. Even though she tries to hide it, Ronnie is lost and struggles to find out why . . .
In Cloud Nine (Smith) Claire Grayson is a seventeen year old girl on the verge of graduating high school. Sterling Warde is a Guardian. He helps people in need and helps them get on in life with a better understanding of living. While with a charge that was almost ready to take back his own life, Sterling catches a glimpse of Claire and is startled by his reaction to her . . .
In Coexist (Crane) sixteen-year-old Keegan is struggling to keep her huge secret from her friends—she’s an elf, descended from a long line of elves that live in secrecy alongside humans . . .
In Dark Before Dawn (Juba) psychic chills and thrills in a deserted Maine beach town. Dawn Christian has been psychic since she was seven years old and has always considered herself an outcast. Even her own mother discourages her talent, so Dawn has kept her abilities quiet and feared . . .
In Dark Side of the Mirror (Austin) Emily has just turned fifteen when her family relocates from New York to San Francisco. She isn’t thrilled when they move in with her uncle to save money, but she is determined to cope. Emily’s new life, however, quickly spirals . . .Read a sample chapter here.
In D.N.A. (Wade) Debney Nichole Armstrong thought she knew everything about her family. She knew her dad worked hard at everything, except building a relationship with his family. She knew her younger brothers were typical little kids, and she knew her mother, for some unknown reason, disliked her . . .Read sample chapter here.
In Freaks of Greenfield High (Anderson) Jay’s a cyborg who looks just like normal teenage girl. She’s super-strong, super-smart, and she can even appear to grow and age like a human. When a covert organization intent on using Jay as a weapon comes after her . . .Read a sample chapter here.
In Gerald and the Wee People (Burroughs) Gerald and his best friend, Vernon literally fall into a new world when responding to a plea for help. A few years prior to that, the boys had discovered an unusual clearing in the woods where only Gerald had the ability to watch the daily activities that took place in a miniature village . . .Read Sample Chapter here
Hidden (Boland) is a paranormal adventure that spans the centuries from modern England to 19th century Paris and ancient Cappadocia. Madison Greene is in foster care until one day she . . .
In Hook Island (Mathieson) Becky Bing, a Chinese American teen, comes across an underground crime ring. Quietly hidden, she discovers that one of the members is her favorite high school teacher. She struggles with reporting her discovery, especially when one of the criminals is found murdered . . .Read a sample chapter here.
House of Silver Magic (Booth) The death of a father is never easy to cope with. The world isn’t being kind to the Grange family, evicting them from their home and taking everything they own. But a strange bequest brings a new roof over their head, even if the house in question is haunted . . .Read a sample chapter here.
Mungai and the Goa Constrictor (Curzon) Set in a rainforest of an unspecified continent, Mungai and the Goa Constrictor abounds with colourful and enjoyable characters, conspiracies and unlikely friendships between species . . .Read a sample chapter here.
In Patchwork Dog and Calico Cat (Burroughs) Patchwork Dog has a knack for getting into trouble and his best friend, Calico Cat usually winds up right in the middle of the mess with him. Calico would rather spend her days sleeping . . .Read a sample chapter here.
Phoebe Leda and the Time Lockers (Hooper) Poised to start a new school year, Phoebe watches her world dismantle before her eyes. A future, hundreds of years beyond her time, has come to throw her fragile life into turmoil. Rescued by friends from a hidden enemy . . .Read a sample chapter here.
Pride’s Run (Kalen) Seventeen year old Pride is a tracker - a werewolf with a hunger for blood. Taught to trick and to lure, she is the perfect killing machine. Kept leashed in the cellar by a master who is as ruthless as he is powerful, Pride dreams of . . .
Puttypaw (North) is a book about cats; man-sized, talking cats. (One of which specialises in casual malevolence and unspeakable sarcasm.) It is also about gods and their slippers. It is about growing up and friendship and loss and adventure. It is about rats and . . .Read a sample chapter here
In Raven (Turner) after her parents mysteriously disappear without a trace, Lilly Taylor is sent to Canada where she finds a whole new way of life filled with love and people who care for her. But that’s not all she discovers, Lilly also finds out that she isn’t who, or what, she thinks . . .Read a sample chapter here.
Sail to Italy and Sail from Italy (Knauss) Both books in the Sailing Italy Series in one handy volume! What if the Princess of Italy had only the help of her friends to solve the mystery of her father’s murder? What if the Prince of Germany wanted to marry the Princess of Italy in a coldhearted grab for power?Read a sample here.
School of the Ages: The Ghost in the Crystal (Posner) America’s greatest magic school is New York City’s School of the Ages. Simon is a teen from Queens, New York. When he answers an advertisement in a magazine, the South Wind shows up at his door to introduce him to a world . . .Read a sample chapter here.
In Sea Cutter (Davis) when 14-year-old Nathaniel Childe decides to search the South Atlantic for a legendary island where he feels convinced his ship-wrecked father is marooned, the adventure never lets up. Nat, no goody-two-shoes, tricks his old friend Wayland into the voyage . . .Read a sample chapter here.
In Six Moon Summer (Reine) Rylie Gresham hates everything about summer camp: the food, the fresh air, the dumb activities, and the other girls in her cabin. But the worst part is probably being bitten by a werewolf . . .Read a sample chapter here.
Temperature: Dead and Rising (Santo) is a wildly creepy fantasy and a corpse of a good time. When Sally Mertill is driving a carload of her friends back to Green Mountain Falls after visiting Pike’s Peak they’ll careen off the side of the mountain. With no guardrails it’s not surprising . . .
In Tenderfoot (Tupper) Jules is running. With the death of her mother behind her, she arrives at college in Chapel Hill ready to focus on friends, classes, and Andrew, the sweetest guy a girl could crush on. But Nick, the campus rock star, is always around, pressing every last one of her buttons. Things get strange . . .Read a sample chapter here.
Terry Trackhoe Goes Missing (Miller) is a fictional early chapter book geared for read-aloud to the youngest readers up to self-reading by third- or fourth-graders (8- to 9-years-old). It’s supplemented with a glossary and a non-fiction essay about wastewater treatment for advanced readers . . .
In The Between (Cohen) High school senior, Lydia Hawthorne, is less than grateful when Oberon has her snatched from the mortal world and she finds out she’s actually Fae. And not just any Fae, but a trueborn with enough inherent magic to tip the balance between . . .Read a sample chapter here.
In The Ghost in Me (Wenger) Myri Monaco has problems she doesn’t know how to deal with: a crush on her best friend’s boyfriend, a mother who’s dating her science teacher, and a “punishment” for a science project that lands her in auditions for the school play. But most girls don’t have a ghost. . .
The House in Windward Leaves (Holmes) At this Halloween party, costumes make the child. Transformed during an enchanted journey, Lushina children try out their dreamed identities. Halloween night, the wayward Sadie leads her friends past cardboard cut-outs of the painter Mistral and a lady at the leaf-covered house on Windward Road . . .Read a sample chapter here.
In The Ultimate Sacrifice (Jager) a much darker world is only known to a select few. Some are identified as “gifted” and brought to a special institute where they develop their own unique talent and understanding of this world within our world . . .
Wizards (Booth) is about Jake, a teenager wizard, whose life is about to get interesting . . .Read a sample chapter here.
