Teen Book Lists

"Dee returns to her small hometown in New Jersey to see if she can help her father and the local police find her missing twin sister Beth, who was a leader in fighting the threat of a pipeline gutting the pinelands, but only finds more mysterious questionswhile discovering signs of the supernatural in the surrounding woods." (description from catalog)

"Told in alternating voices, years after it began, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her mom Dana's shared story comes down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should have messed with." (description from catalog)

"Prudence Perry is a legacy Ladybird Scout, born to a family of hunters sworn to protect humans from mulligrubs...Masquerading as a prim and proper ladies' social organization, the Ladybirds brew poisons masked as teas and use knitting needles as daggers...Three years ago, Prue's best friend was killed during a hunt, so she kissed the Scouts goodbye...But old monster-slaying habits die hard and Prue finds herself falling back into the fold...When her town is hit with a mysterious wave of demons, Prue knows it's time to confront the most powerful monster of all: her past" (description from publishers)

"Wren Warren is the heir to Rainbow Fields, a farm famously known for its healing, multicolored wheat fields. But after 150 years of agricultural success, their small town suffers a moldy, silvery blight whose spores decimate crops, and turn humans and animals alike into zombified, night-wandering versions of themselves. Wren works to keep the mold at bay in Rainbow Fields, especially when her parents suddenly disappear, but in her haste to hold off the blight, Wren is infected. With her body rapidly decaying, she and her ex, Derek, race against the clock to find her parents." (description adapted from Publisher's Weekly)

Eighteen-year-old Ava Perry leaves the safety of her foster care home and joins a troupe of vampire-hunting magicians, believing that she finally has her chance to discover the truth behind her mother's death.

"As an undocumented immigrant on the run from her father's Argentine crime-family, Manuela Azul is confined to a small apartment and a small life in Miami, Florida. Then her surrogate grandmother is attacked, lifelong lies are exposed, and her mother is arrested by ICE. Without a home, without answers, Manu investigates the only clue she has about her past: a mysterious "Z" emblem. It leads her to a secret world connected to her dead father and his criminal past. A world straight out of Argentine folklore, where the seventh consecutive daughter is born a bruja and the seventh consecutive son is a lobizón, a werewolf. A world where her unusual eyes allow her to belong. It's not just her U.S. residency that's illegal-- it's her entire existence." (description adapted from jacket)

Nineteen-year-old orphan Signa Farrow confronts Death--and her own deathly powers--when she investigates the mysterious murder of a relative at the Thorn Grove estate.

"It starts when Claudia offers her a yellow rose. Immy has been in love before--many times, across many lifetimes. But never as deeply, as intensely as this. Claudia smells like paint and peppermint tea. She wears her hair in a plait, and has a green thumb, and Immy is utterly besotted. Claudia has never been in love like this either. But then, this is her first time with a vampire. But a love like this can't last. The forbidden thirst for blood runs deep in Immy. And within her mind clamour the voices, of all the others she has been, their desires, and their wrongs" (description from publisher)

"Seventeen-year-old Aziza El-Amin, the only hedgewitch in Blackthorn, Massachusetts, teams up with a cursed boy looking for answers and a young necromancer in order to eradicate a new threat in the woods and take back her hometown." (description from catalog)

"After his twin sister Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars takes her place at the elite Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where he finds himself hunted by something toying with his mind that leads him to the Honeys, a group of beautiful--and terrifying--girls." (description from catalog)

Seventeen-year-olds Kat Finn and Taylor Sanger, two queer bloodsuckers at an elite vampire-only boarding school, must go up against all of Vampirdom when they uncover a frightening conspiracy on campus.

When a girl goes missing in her secluded Appalachian town, seventeen-year-old Linden, who can taste other people's emotions, recovers haunting memories of her own disappearance and explores the legend of the Moth-Wigned Man, leading her to wonder if thereare some secrets best left buried. - Published from Catalog.

The Shadowhunter Chronicles meets Chinese diaspora folklore in Darker by Four, the first in an epic contemporary fantasy duology from Jade Fire Gold author June Tan. Published from Amazon Books.

"Felicity Morrow returns to the Dalloway School after her girlfriend's tragic death, only to meet Ellis Haley--a new student and a teenage literary prodigy--who enlists Felicity's help in researching the school's bloody, occult history for her new book." (description from catalog)

"Joan has just learned the truth: her family are monsters, with terrifying, hidden powers. And the cute boy at work isn't just a boy: he's a legendary monster slayer, who will do anything to destroy her family. To save herself and her family, Joan will have to do what she fears most: embrace her own monstrousness. Because in this story... she is not the hero." (description provided by publisher)

"Grey returns every summer to La Cachette, the “Psychic Capital of the World,” to help run her grandmother’s spiritualist bookstore. One of 10 Summer Children born in one year, Grey is determined to uncover what happened to best friend and fellow Summer Child Elora, who’s been missing for several months. Though many suspect Dempsey Fontenot, believed to have killed four-year-old twins and Summer Children Ember and Orli years ago, others think a rougarou, or werewolf, is to blame. When a mysterious stranger begins asking questions about the twins’ suspected killer, Grey’s latent psychic abilities activate—but though she experiences flashes through Elora’s eyes, she cannot decode them, or understand why the other Summer Children want her to leave. With a hurricane barreling toward La Cachette, Grey’s investigation into Elora’s disappearance soon turns deadly." (description adapted from Publisher's Weekly)

"After a con goes wrong, nineteen-year-old Ness finds herself at the center of a criminal syndicate conspiracy, in a city where dreaming means waking up as your worst nightmare"-- Provided by publisher.