The Rig

by Joe Ducie

Call Number: DUC

Genre: Realistic Fiction

The Rig, a juvenile prison in the middle of the Arctic Ocean holds a secret that just might change everything. Will Drake, a kid in the prison likes challenges and he is determined to escape from the Rig. This is the biggest challenge he will face. Everything the prisoners do is tracked and every door is locked, none of the kids know what dark secret the Rig is holding. Will, Will Drake be the one to figure it out while trying to escape or will he get caught and be stuck at the prison even longer?

Gabby B.

The tales of Beedle the bard

by J.K. Rowling

Call Number: F ROW Genre: Fantasy

Thanks to the Hermione Granger translation, the muggles can have an inside look at the wizardly world of Harry Potter. Would you like to read everything about the wizardly world?

• Justin B.

Eleanor & Park

by Rainbow Rowell

Call Number: F ROW Genre: Romance

Have you ever felt out of place like you didn’t belong? Eleanor felt this way. She had no friends. Then Eleanor meets Park. Set over the course of one school year this is the tale of 2 people who were destined to meet but smart enough to know first love never lasts. In the course of this book you will fall in love with the characters. Will there love last or will it crash?

Taylor J.

Marked

by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

Call Number: F CAS Genre: Horror & Suspense

Zoey Redbird thinks she has a normal life, right up until she sees a creepy vampire in the hallway at school. He tells her that she is marked as a fledgling and is in transition to becoming a vampire, just like himself. What’s a fledgling? What’s going on? She enrolls in a vampire school and learns exactly who she is and who she can be. When a group called the Dark Daughters at the school starts misusing her gifts, Zoey must find herself and take control of her gifts and powers, but how will she fight against the most elite vampire group at the school?

Megan F.

Messenger

by Carol Lynch Williams

Call Number: F WIL Genre: Horror & Suspense

We all think it would be cool to have a special gift revealed to us on our 15th birthday, Evie did too, until she found out her gift. Evie sees and  talks to dead people, and doesn’t like it. It interferes with her life and bothers her at school, especially a dead girl named Tommie. Tommie won’t leave her alone and Evie does everything she can to block her out but she just keeps coming back. Evie thinks that Tommie has something to do with her family or new changes in her life and she doesn’t want her to interfere. What will Evie have to do to get control of her life back?

Megan F.

Simon vs. The Homo-sapiens Agenda

Simon vs. The Homo-sapiens Agenda

by Becky Albertalli

Call Number: F ALB Genre: Realistic Fiction

How would you feel to not be able to tell your parents or your friends who you love? That’s how Simon feels. Simon is gay but not openly. Then he is blackmailed when an email gets out and threatens to put his sexuality out there. Everything is on the line for Simon and it’s only his junior year of high school how much more complicated can things get?

Megan F.

More happy than not

More Happy Than Not

by Adam Silvera

Call Number: F SIL Genre: Science Fiction

Have you ever felt like your world has fallen apart and couldn't get any better? That’s exactly how Adam feels. After his dad’s suicide in their one-room apartment, things just keep getting worse. He grew up poor and now he lives with his brother and his overworked mother and things couldn’t get worse. He finds out about Leteo Institute which will help you forget your memories and start over. To good to be true, right? Well when Aaron decides life is too much to handle what will he do?

Taylor J.

The Shack

The Shack

by W. Paul Young

Call Number: F YOU Genre: Mystery

“Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.”

What would you do if you thought your daughter was dead? Mackenzie (Mack) Allen Phillips’s was a man of faith but when his youngest daughter, Missy was taken and might have been killed, his faith was lost. Years later when a note comes in the mail asking him to go back to the shack where everything went wrong; Mack is first angry, but then decides to go back. Going back to the shack could be Mack's biggest revelation or his biggest nightmare.

Shauncey T.

Saint Anything

by Sarah Dessen

Call Number: F Des Genre: Realistic Fiction

“The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.”

What would you do if the focus was never on you, what if you were invisible? Invisible to people, invisible to your parents, would you feel okay? For Sydney Stanford, she has always been in the her brother’s shadow but when an unfortunate event happens and her brother is sent to jail, her invisibility is tested as things begin to change around her. Going to a new school, meeting new people and facing problems that she has never encountered with love and even herself. Just because you think you’re invisible doesn’t mean you really are.

- Shauncey T.

Kiss of Life- A Generation Dead Novel

by Daniel Waters

Call Number: F WAT Genre: Horror & suspense

Love, a powerful emotion but in this case, it’s worse. High school senior, Phoebe thought this year would be great, prom, graduation, college...but it turned out to be the opposite. Tommy, a zombie but one she loves shoots Adam her other lover, killing him to earn her love, but Adam comes back to life and it changes everything. In a town full of zombies, Adam is just another body, but to Phoebe he isn’t. As the three try to stop the war between the living and dead, Phoebe’s feelings increase for both Tommy and Adam. She loves both of them but who will she choose to be with forever?

- Megan F.