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It’s officially fall which means we are ready for all things spooky, scary, and creepy. And just in time for Halloween, Netflix has released a new Fear Street trilogy based on the super creepy books by master of horror R.L. Stine.
Check out our collection of Fear Street books in the YA Room.
Registration has begun for the YA Summer Reading Program. Log your reading online throughout the summer and win prizes and raffle prizes.
The Girl Who Wasn’t There is about a girl who has ME or myalgic encephalomyelitis, a disease that causes profound fatigue, sleep abnormalities, pain, and other symptoms that are made worse by exertion. She is stuck at home watching the world from her window. One day, when she looks through the window, she witnesses what looks like a kidnapping. She cannot believe what she is seeing. She spots a girl in the opposite house window watching the events. When venturing out to find the girl she is surprised with what she finds. The Girl Who Wasn’t There is an action packed mystery book.
Tara, Grade 8.
Inherit Midnight is about a girl who has to solve clues to inherit her family business. She lives with her grandmother who runs the competition. She is competing against her other relatives. Her relatives want to sabotage her chances of winning the competition. On her journey she learned about her family’s past. In the end she may or may not get what she wants but, the greatest outcome of this competition was that she learned about herself. I liked this book because it has adventure and mystery combined into one book. A similar book would be 39 clues. I would recommend this book to middle schoolers.
-Tara, 8th grade.
Registration has begun for our children’s and Young Adult Summer Reading programs. Log your reading online and you will be entered into weekly raffles to be picked at the end of the summer. The more you read, the more chances you have to win!
Visit the summer reading registration page here and select the right reading program for your age.
A journey with a sophisticated history, backwards through time. Luce searches the past to find the true meaning of reality. While exploring her previous reincarnations she yearns to define how her past lives ended so abruptly and why, now she is able to do so much more.
Passion is a beautifully written story with a sophisticated history, filled with adventure and love. The entire space time continuum can be altered at any moment and there is no clear path to finding answers, this book ties so much together. It is a wonderful book that I recommend to YA readers.
Rina- Grade 9
Muiriel grew up in the foster care system and is about to age out when she turns 18. Having lived in many homes over the years, she is fiercely independent because she knows she will be on her own when the foster system is finished with her. When she is placed in her final foster home, a small island community outside of Seattle, she tries hard not to get attached to anyone because she knows her time there is limited. As hard as she tries to build walls around herself, it is here where she encounters everything she has always wanted and has been afraid to find.
This is a beautiful story about family, friendship, and loving yourself. Switching between present time and flashbacks to Muir’s years in previous foster homes, we get insight into her past and the foster system. This book will capture you from the first page and you may find yourself reading it in one sitting like I did. Recommended for grades 9 and up. It is available as an E-Book through Nassau Digital Doorway.
Don’t miss out on some of these new and exciting YA reads.
Theodora has spent her life longing to become a treasure hunter like her father. She’s read every book in his library, is full of ambition, and has the knowledge to back it up. But instead of her, he’s chosen Theodora’s ex, Huck Gallagher, to be his protégé. But when her father goes missing, Huck come to Theodora for help in finding him. Their search takes them to the Carpathian Mountains in Romania as they uncover her father’s secret research into a magical ring that supposedly belonged to Vlad the Impaler—the inspiration for Dracula—himself. But with a dangerous occult society also searching for the ring, Huck and Theodora will have to work harder and faster than ever before if the want to escape with not only the treasure but also their lives.
The last thing Naima Rodriguez wants is your sympathy as she grieves for her father, a fallen Marine. Everyone wants her to try to remember him “as he was” to help manage her OCD and Generalized Anxiety Disorder, but Naima just wants to be left alone. Then she meets Dew, a boy struggling with a surge of new anxieties after the loss of both his parents. He could really use a friend. And even if Naima won’t admit it, she could too. It’s not a love story—maybe not even a like story—but between the two of them maybe Naima and Dew can figure out some way to cope with unimaginable loss.
What if George Washington hadn’t turned down the monarchy? What if the United States of America had a royal family of its own? Meet the Washingtons, America’s royals. There’s Princess Beatrice, the heir apparent, and her wild twin siblings, Samantha and Jefferson, always at the heart of some scandal. But with a stringent social hierarchy, strict royal expectations, and tangled love lives, the three siblings—along with Sam’s best friend and Jeff’s ex—have to ask themselves what they’re willing to do—and what they’re willing to sacrifice—to be American royals.
By day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the only Black kids at Jefferson Academy. But at home, she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game, SLAY. No one knows Kiera is the game developer, not her friends, her family, not even her boyfriend, Malcolm, who believes video games are partially responsible for the “downfall of the Black man.”
But when a teen in Kansas City is murdered over a dispute in the SLAY world, news of the game reaches mainstream media, and SLAY is labeled a racist, exclusionist, violent hub for thugs and criminals. Driven to save the only world in which she can be herself, Kiera must preserve her secret identity and harness what it means to be unapologetically Black in a world intimidated by Blackness. But can she protect her game without losing herself in the process?
Seventeen-year-old Alaine, a Haitian American from Miami, finds herself shipped off to Haiti after a school report gone disastrously awry. Now she has to write a report in what her school is calling a “spring volunteer immersion project,” working for her Tati Estelle’s new nonprofit. But between flirting with Estelle’s cute new intern, actually getting to spend some time with her mother, and learning more about her family’s history, maybe a trip to Haiti is exactly what she needs.
As far as Frank Li’s parents are concerned, there’s only one rule when it comes to romance: “Date Korean.” Which makes things complicated when he falls for Britt Means, who just so happens to be white. Fortunately, his classmate Joy Song is in a similar predicament so they come to an agreement: pretend to date each other to keep their parents happy. The only problem is, the more Frank and Joy spend time together, the more he begins to wonder if he’s ever really understood love at all.
We have a program for everyone this summer. Sign up for the appropriate program online and log your books throughout the summer.