Illuminae By: Amie Kaufman This is a book that you'll either love or hate. It's told entirely in emails, schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports and interviews. It takes a little getting used to but the story really won me over. It's an action-packed, sci-fi, thriller with a...
Wolf by Wolf By: Ryan Graudin This book begins with two big "what ifs". What if Germany and Japan won WW2? What if the horrible experiments the Nazis conducted on concentration camp inmates actually resulted in giving these prisoners powers? Useful powers. Yael is one of those prisoners who...
An Ember in the Ashes By: Sabaa Tahir If you don't like cliffhangers, don't read this book! The sequel is coming this August. If you're a little impatient, you may want to wait until then to read this first installment of the series. Either way, my advice...
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B By: Teresa Toten Adam, or Batman as his friends from his therapy group call him, is a 14 year old dealing with crippling OCD. He also has all the other problems teens face like divorced parents, a little stepbrother and a mother...
Everything, Everything By: Nicola Yoon There's been a lot of buzz about Everything, Everything. It's even been rumored that it will be turned into a motion picture in the near future. It didn't disappoint! If you like John Green, Rainbow Rowell or Gail Forman novels, this is the...
The Witch Hunter By: Virginia Boecker Elizabeth hunts witches. She's one of the best hunters that her king employs despite being a petite, blonde sixteen year old. Witchcraft is forbidden and those who are brought in by Elizabeth and her best friend Caleb are swiftly burned at the stake....
The Kiss of Deception By: Mary E. Pearson Princess Lia's life has been planned out for her from the day she was born. As the first daughter, she's expected to have the gift of sight and her hand has been promised to a prince she has never met....
Since You've Been Gone By: Morgan Matson This book is a 2015 nominee for YALSA's Teen Top Ten award. Sloane and Emily are an unlikely pair of best friends. Sloane is outgoing and adventurous while Emily is quiet, shy and, well, non-adventurous. Right before what was supposed to be an...
Dark Lord: The Early Years By: Jaime Thomson [blockquote text='"Only by reading my tale will you learn the truth behind the cataclysmic defeat that left me stranded on this accursed planet, Earth. But make no mistake, revenge will be mine...
If We Survive By: Andrew Klavan [blockquote text='"What do you do when a mission trip suddenly leaves you caught in the middle of a revolution?"' text_color='#8dc63f' width='' line_height='undefined' background_color='' border_color='' show_quote_icon='no' quote_icon_color=''] That's what happens to sixteen year old Will Petersen when his youth church group goes down to...
