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Ordinary Hazards
In this memoir in verse, award-winning writer Nikki Grimes shares the story of her difficult childhood as the daughter of a paranoid...

Suzanne Severns
Feb 20, 20221 min read


Horrid
In this atmospheric thriller, Jane North-Robinson moves from beautiful California with her mother Ruth to the family's ancestral home in...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 30, 20221 min read


Moxie
Junior Vivian Carter is fed up with boys in her high school getting away with wearing t-shirts with lewd expressions while girls are...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 22, 20221 min read


Slay
Kiera is a seventeen-year-old student at a private school who creates an action video game called Slay in which contestants duel each...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 15, 20221 min read


Panic
Each year in the small town of Carp, seniors compete in a game called Panic, but the stakes are high. The winner could take home $67,000,...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 9, 20221 min read


Dune
Yes, I know Dune was published decades ago but, despite impassioned pleas from my sister to read it when I was a teenager, I never...

Suzanne Severns
Dec 6, 20211 min read


I Killed Zoe Spanos
When Anna Cicconi arrives in the Hamptons for a summer nanny job, everyone is shocked by her resemblance to Zoe Spanos, a college student...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 28, 20211 min read


Concrete Rose
Seventeen-year-old Maverick "Mav" Carter is facing a lot of challenges. His dad was known as Big Don in Garden Heights but he's in prison...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 14, 20211 min read


The Haunted
When Hendricks and her family move to a small town to leave a troubling incident behind in the city, they get more than they bargained...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 7, 20211 min read


Five Total Strangers
Mira is desperate to get home and spend Christmas with her mother, but when her connecting flight gets canceled due to an incoming...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 24, 20211 min read


If You're Out There
When Zan's best friend Priya moves to California, she suddenly ghosts her, not responding to her texts and breaking off her relationship...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 17, 20211 min read


The Body in the Woods
In this first book in the Point Last Seen duology by renowned suspense writer April Henry, friends Alexis, Nick, and Ruby have joined...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 3, 20211 min read


Cracking the Bell
Isaiah's life resolves around football. It has since his sister Hannah was killed in a wreck involving a drunk driver, and Isaiah began...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 19, 20211 min read


Tweet Cute
Pepper, a transplant to New York from Nashville, is having a rough senior year. She's a perfectionist, hoping to go to Columbia in the...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 19, 20211 min read


Mongrels
He's hoping he's like his Aunt Libby and his Uncle Darren. He wants their passion, their attitude, and their fangs; that is, he wants to...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 15, 20211 min read


The Grace Year
Tierney James is about to start her grace year, a year when all sixteen-year-old girls in Garner County must fend for themselves in the...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 6, 20211 min read


Warrior of the Wild
When eighteen-year-old Rasmira fails the warrior trial due to sabotage, she is banished to the wild where she must not only survive...

Suzanne Severns
Aug 12, 20211 min read


Norse Mythology
If you're a fan of mythology or of Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline and The Graveyard Book, you should definitely consider reading his...

Suzanne Severns
Jul 13, 20211 min read


Aurora Rising
If you've read The Illuminae Files series, then you know how amazingly talented Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff are when they team up to...

Suzanne Severns
Jul 8, 20211 min read


The Only Good Indians
In this gritty novel from Stephen Graham Jones, four young Blackfeet tribesmen set out to hunt elk on property reserved for the elders....

Suzanne Severns
Jul 8, 20211 min read
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