Recommendations from Katie
We Were Liars meets Riverdale with a supernatural twist in this timely #metoo thriller about mean girls, murder, and race in a quiet Midwestern suburb.
Violet Choudhury may be part of the popular clique at school, but as one of a handful of brown girls in a small Illinois town, all she really wants to do is blend in and disappear.$10.99ISBN: 9780062865687Availability: On Our Shelves Now (Subject to Availability)Published: Balzer + Bray - March 3rd, 2020“Funny, engrossing, and one-of-a-kind. If You’re Out There completely swept me away.” —Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Leah on the Offbeat
$10.99ISBN: 9780062422682Availability: On Our Shelves Now (Subject to Availability)Published: Katherine Tegen Books - April 23rd, 2019"Jackson’s characters and their heart-wrenching story linger long after the final page, urging readers to advocate for those who are disenfranchised and forgotten by society and the system." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List")
$12.99ISBN: 9781534426146Availability: On Our Shelves Now (Subject to Availability)Published: Simon Pulse - February 18th, 2020“Enough plot twists to give a reader whiplash.” —Cosmopolitan
From New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young comes the start of a thrilling, subversive new series about a girls-only boarding school with a terrifying secret and the friends who will stop at nothing to protect each other.
Some of the prettiest flowers have the shar$10.99ISBN: 9780385741279Availability: On Our Shelves Now (Subject to Availability)Published: Ember - May 29th, 2018A New York Times Bestseller
One of James Patterson's "Favorite Thrillers for the Beach" (New York Times)
"Haunting, sophisticated . . . a novel so twisty and well-told that it will appeal to older readers as well as to adolescents." —Wall Street Journal$19.99ISBN: 9781524714727Availability: On Our Shelves Now (Subject to Availability)Published: Delacorte Press - January 8th, 2019"When it comes to YA suspense, Karen M. McManus is in a league of her own. Fresh off her best-selling breakout One of Us Is Lying . . . the author has returned with a juicy second novel. It's even better than what came before." --EW
The "must-read YA thriller" (Bustle) from #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying!$17.99ISBN: 9781524714680Availability: On Our Shelves Now (Subject to Availability)Published: Delacorte Press - May 30th, 2017FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, KAREN McMANUS
“Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club” (Entertainment Weekly) in this “flat-out addictive” (RT Book Reviews) story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive.
$10.99ISBN: 9780385744782Availability: BackorderedPublished: Ember - May 7th, 2019"A brilliant, twisty thriller--I loved it!" —KAREN M. MCMANUS, bestselling author of One of Us is Lying
From the author of We Were Liars, which John Green called "utterly unforgettable," comes a mind-bending, New York Times bestselling thriller told in reverse.
"Compulsively readable." —Entertainment Weekly$10.99ISBN: 9780451478757Availability: On Our Shelves Now (Subject to Availability)Published: Penguin Books - February 19th, 2019"Like Inglourious Basterds for tweens, this clever YA title features Sarah, a blond, blue-eyed Jewish girl in 1939 Germany."--The New York Post
$9.99ISBN: 9781423152880Availability: On Our Shelves Now (Subject to Availability)Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - May 7th, 2013The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, a "fiendishly plotted" (New York Times) "heart-in-your mouth adventure" (Washington Post), that "will take wing and soar into your heart" (Laurie Halse Anderson).$10.99ISBN: 9780142420591Availability: On Our Shelves Now (Subject to Availability)Published: Penguin Books - April 3rd, 2012An international bestseller, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and now a major motion picture! Ruta Sepetys's Between Shades of Gray is now the film Ashes in the Snow!
"Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both." --The Washington Post$9.99ISBN: 9780062660268Availability: On Our Shelves Now (Subject to Availability)Published: HarperTeen - May 14th, 2019Now in paperback, this surprising and gripping sci-fi thriller with a killer twist that Entertainment Weekly called “compulsively unpredictable” will have readers hanging on until its shocking finale.