Category: Children + YA
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Comets Fade with Summer by Amber Lambda: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2024 Blurb: High school is hard enough without an imaginary friend you’re falling in love with… Social chameleon Halley Brighton thought she’d already found a way to shine in this world—by adjusting herself to reflect everyone else. But when a cross-country move leaves her ghosted by all…
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Swimming in a Sea of Stars by Julie Wright: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2023 Blurb: Addison is no stranger to feeling stressed, insecure, and sad. Her therapist recommended she keep a journal to help her understand those feelings better, which she really needs today. It’s her first day back to school, several weeks after she survived her suicide attempt. She…
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Ground Zero by Alan Gratz: Content Guide
Publication Date: Feb 2021 Blurb: It’s September 11, 2001. Brandon, a 9-year-old boy, goes to work for the day with his dad . . . at the World Trade Center in New York City. When two planes hit the towers, Brandon and his father are trapped inside a fiery nightmare…
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Eva Underground by Dandi Daley Mackall: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2006 Blurb: The year 1978 has been a pretty good one for Eva Lott. She has a terrific best friend, she’s dating the best-looking guy in school, and she just made the varsity swim team. So when her widowed dad says it’s time for them to move,…
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Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman: Content Guide
Publication Date: April 2015 Blurb: Caden Bosch is on a ship that’s headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behaviour. Caden Bosch is designated the…
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Eyes Wide Open (The Outlaw Chronicles #1) by Ted Dekker: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2013 Blurb: Who am I? My name is Christy Snow. I’m seventeen and I’m about to die. I’m buried in a coffin under tons of concrete. No one knows where I am. My heart sounds like a monster with clobber feet, running straight toward me. I’m lying…
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The Delusion by Laura Gallier: Content Guide
Publication Date: Oct 2012 Blurb: By March of Owen Edmonds’s senior year, eleven students at Masonville High School have committed suicide. Amid the media frenzy and chaos, Owen tries to remain levelheaded–until he endures his own near-death experience and wakes to a distressing new reality. The people around him suddenly…
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The Kremlin Conspiracy by Joel C. Rosenberg: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2018 Blurb: Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs… With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president…
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Recruit (Bodyguard #1, Part 1) by Chris Bradford: Content Guide
Publication Date: May 2017 Blurb: As the son of a bodyguard who sacrificed his life in the line of duty, teenage kickboxing champion Connor Reeves is determined to do his father proud and follow in his footsteps. Recruited into the ranks of a top-secret young bodyguard squad, Connor embarks on…
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The Art of Us by Julie Wright: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2024 Blurb: On the surface, everything seems perfect for high school senior Ireland Raine. She’s intelligent and artistically talented, and her natural beauty and quiet charm are enviable. However, Ireland harbors a secret she’ll guard at any cost—she’s homeless. When her crush, Kal Ellis, invites her on…
