Our teen book spotlight this week is all about Possibilities into the Unknown!!! We are exploring books that have an element of unknowing what is going to happen so we have a great mixture of mysteries, suspense, thrillers, plot twists, and horror because who doesn’t love a good edge of your seat storyline every now and then to keep us on our reading toes. These elements can be found in so many different stories so there are a lot of cross genres as well which are so much fun to read and explore. Hopefully these books and others will keep you guessing right with the main characters and leaving you wanting to know what is coming next. These books and more can be found by searching the catalog using the search tags #yamysteries, #yathriller, #yaedgeofyourseat, #yascary, and #yaplottwist as well as on Libby and Hoopla.
The 2022 Summer Reading Program Oceans of Possibilities is taking place from June 4th-August 10th with a new theme and badge activities every week. Make sure to watch the Teen Book Spotlight book talk video for this week as it counts towards your badge activities for the week; if you read one of the titles featured or on the tagged list, that counts as another activity as well!!! Earn the weekly themed badges to get your virtual tickets which can be turned into opportunities to win prizes! For more information--such as to sign up or to sign in to your account in order to track your books and activities--visit our Summer Reading page and click “LOG IN NOW”.
Check back next week for a new teen book spotlight and if you have any book suggestions, please let us know!!
Hold Back the Tide by Melinda Salisbury--When Alva was nine, her father killed her mother, but lack of evidence prevented him from being convicted. Alva has kept a low profile around her father until she can run away, helping him with his duties monitoring the water levels of Loch Lake. When water levels drop too low, deadly creatures emerge from the caves, and her father does nothing to stop them, leaving Alva to warn the villagers and find a way to destroy them.
These Deadly Games by Diana Urban--Soon after receiving an anonymous message stating that she has twenty-four hours to play a game by the sender's rules or he will kill her sister, sixteen-year-old Crystal Donovan realizes that cooperating will destroy her friends' lives and she must figure out a way to beat the kidnapper at his own game before she loses everything.
#murdertrending by Gretchen McNeil--When Dee Guerrera is sentenced to death for killing her step-sister, she finds herself a pawn in the latest reality show craze that live streams the cat-and-mouse deaths of convicted killers. But Dee swears she's innocent and refuses to go down without a fight. And when she kicks off her prison term by killing the guy who was supposed to kill her, the stakes are raised even higher. Dee's only goal is to survive long enough to prove her innocence.
Alone by Cyn Balog--Seda, sixteen, feels her invisible childhood nemesis, Sawyer, growing stronger just as a group of stranded teens takes shelter from a blizzard in the dilapidated mansion Seda's mother inherited.
Bluebird by Sharon Cameron--In 1946, Eva Gerst and her sister Brigit arrive in New York City as German refugees with one mission: find their father and turn him over to the United States government. Eva and Brigit's father was the head of a cruel Nazi program that carried out medical experiments on Sachsenhausen concentration camp prisoners. Though Eva has intimate details of the program, she isn't interested in sharing them with anyone. Her personal mission, unbeknownst to government authorities, is to kill her father in an act of revenge on behalf of his victims.
The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros--Seventeen-year-old Jewish typesetting apprentice Alter Rosen works hard with the hope that one day he'll save enough money to bring his mother and sisters to Chicago from Romania. His goal is disrupted when his roommate and best friend Yakov is murdered and Yakov's dybbuk possesses him. His only hope of putting Yakov's spirit to rest is to find his killer, putting him in the path of an old boyfriend, Frankie. Together, Frankie and Alter traverse the streets of Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair and hope they can reveal the killer before they become the next victim.