NEW YA BOOKS
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In 2029, hoping to bypass the exams and training that might lead to a comfortable life, Susan, her almost-boyfriend Derlock, and seven fellow students stow away on a ship to Mars, unaware that Derlock is a sociopath with bigger plans.
Sixteen-year-old Guy Langman, his best friend Anoop, and other members of the School Forensics Club investigate a break-in and a possible murder, which could be connected to the mysterious past of Guy's recently-deceased father.
Madison Parker, who after making a name for herself as a reality star Jane Roberts "frenemy," Madison Parker steps into the spotlight and finds her own celebrity more challenging than expected. A companion to the L. A. Candy novels.
Fifteen-year-old Willo Blake, born after the 2059 snows that ushered in a new ice age, encounters outlaws, halfmen and an abandoned girl as he searches for his family, who mysteriously disappeared from the freezing mountain that was their home.
Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear. Part of the Gone series.
Told from various viewpoints, Gabie and Drew set out to prove that their missing co-worker Kayla is not dead, and to find her before she is, while the police search for her body and the man who abducted her.
Spending his days in a zoo beside his volatile animal wrangler father, Wahoo Cray struggles to control his father's temper when the latter take a job with an egocentric nature show host.
A fifteen-year-old high school student becomes involved with an evangelical Christian girl in spite of his father's adamant atheism and his own confusion about life.
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad." Believing he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist." In doing so, he discovers that he may have more in common with his father than he thought.
Daniel simply wants to spend one last summer with his grandfather, Da, before his move to college and Da's dementia pulls them apart, but when Da starts to let things slip about a secret life, Daniel must protect him from his old "friends" who intend to make sure Da stays quiet.
Fiercely loyal to the Queen and Finnikin, Froi has been taken roughly and lovingly in hand by the Guard sworn to protect the royal family but is soon sent on a secretive mission to the kingdom of Charyn where he must unravel both the dark bonds of kinship and the mysteries of a half-mad princess. Book two of the Lumatere Chronicles.
To support herself and her younger brother in a future Beverly Hills, sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it.