Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros
Category: Teen/Young Reader
Frankenstein meets Inglourious Basterds in this stunning Jewish historical horror novel from the award-winning author of The City Beautiful Vera was made for vengeance. Lithuania, 1943. A father drowns in the all-consuming grief of a daughter killed by the Nazis. He can't bring Chaya back from the dead, ...Show more
Silver Linings by Katrina Nannestad
Category: Teen/Young Reader
A new heartwarming novel set in 1950s Australia from bestselling author Katrina Nannestad Nettie Sweeney has a dad, three big sisters, a farm full of cows and a cat called Mittens. But it's not enough. She longs for a mother. One with a gentle touch and sparkles in her eyes. Instead, she has Aunty Edit ...Show more
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
Category: Teen/Young Reader
It was a very fine day, until something tried to eat him. A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the no ...Show more
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (#1 Harry Potter) by J.K. Rowling
Category: Teen/Young Reader | Series: Harry Potter | Reading Level: very good
Strange things always seem to happen when Harry Potter is around. Things that unsettle his guardians, the Dursleys. They strongly disapprove of strangeness. It's only when a letter arrives, delivered by a shaggy giant of a man called Hagrid, that Harry learns the truth that will transform his entire fut ...Show more
The Storyteller by Kathryn Williams
Category: Teen/Young Reader
A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year pick for 2023! With the mystery of Maureen Johnson and Brittany Cavallaro and the historical intrigue of Romanov, this genre-bending YA will pull readers into one girl's journey of discovering the impossible tale of a long-lost aunt--and through her, the i ...Show more
Secret Sparrow by Jackie French
Category: Teen/Young Reader
This is the story of women who fought during WW1, but not as nurses or ambulance drivers. In 1917 sixteen-year-old Jean McLain is working as a Post Office assistant in England. But when she wins a national Morse code competition, the British army makes a request Jean cannot refuse – to take a secret pos ...Show more
Tonight I Burn by Katharine J. Adams
Category: Teen/Young Reader
Thorns, Tides, Embers, Storms, and Ores. All five covens are bound in servitude to the tyrant High Warden of Halstett.Penny Albright is a daughter of the thorn coven, forced to patrol the veil between the realms of Life and Death, keeping it safe and whole. Each night, one thorn witch - and only one - m ...Show more
I Loved You In Another Life by David Arnold
Category: Teen/Young Reader
A sweeping romantic novel from New York Times bestselling author David Arnold about the power of soulmates and love. Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his brother and single mother are taken care of, and continue therapy to process his father's departure. But after his mum's unex ...Show more
In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen (Geomancer #1) by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Category: Teen/Young Reader | Series: Geomancer
From bestselling, award-winning author Kiran Millwood Hargrave comes an epic new fantasy about the magic of nature, the lure of power and the strength of love. In the lakes, the wolf queen sharpens her spear. In the mountains, an ancient girl opens an eye. In the forest, an orphan is summoned by the tre ...Show more
Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven
Category: Teen/Young Reader
A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensation and author of The Society for Soulless Girls... Penny Paxton is the daughter of an icon. Her supermodel mother has legions of adoring fans around the world, and Penny is ready to begin her journey to i ...Show more
Falling Into Rarohenga by Steph Matuku
Category: Teen/Young Reader | Reading Level: near fine
It seems like an ordinary day when Tui and Kae, fourteen-year-old twins, get home from school - until they find their mother, Maia, has disappeared and a swirling vortex has opened up in her room. They are sucked into this portal and dragged down to Rarohenga, the Maori Underworld, a shadowy place of in ...Show more
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Category: Teen/Young Reader | Series: Harry Potter 5 | Reading Level: very good
'This is the weapon he has been seeking so assiduously since his return: the knowledge of how to destroy you' - Albus Dumbledore. Harry Potter is furious that he has been abandoned at the Dursleys' house for the summer, for he suspects that Voldemort is gathering an army, that he himself could be attack ...Show more