Ages 15 & Up

★"An emotionally layered book with accurate insight into mental illness, ideal for reluctant readers."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review Seventeen-year-old Penny is struggling to balance caring for Jude, her sister with mental health challenges,...

To honor the death of her best friend, teen Sienna signs up to do a triathlon and finds a connection with an unexpected training partner in this body-positive romance exploring first love, grief, perseverance and trusting in yourself. Five months ago,...

Seventeen-year-old Michael goes to visit his eccentric mad-scientist uncle while he's busy working on yet another time-travel experiment. In the cluttered lab, Michael's uncle barely notices him. And he keeps muttering things like "quantum multiverse...

Seventeen-year-old Jo McNair is one minute late for her curfew, and thanks to her controlling father, she's now locked out, cold and wandering the streets. She has no money and nowhere to sleep. Halfway through the night she meets someone who says...

After three years abroad, sixteen-year-old Blake Pendleton returns to his old high school and is shocked to find that the world he knew has turned upside down. Everyone at school wears a military-style uniform now and Blake soon learns the hard way that...

It's the first week of summer and former army brat Jake Ballard is spending it alone at his uncle's cottage while his mom gets treatment for PTSD. Jake's boring day gets flipped upside down when a beautiful stranger asks him to help play a prank on her...

When a flash flood leaves Zack and his younger foster brother stranded at home, it's up to Zack to make sure they survive. Seventeen-year-old Zack has been living with his foster parents, the Tates, for three years. He used to be an angry mess with a...

Jaylin is studying for a stressful English exam when she receives a message from her best friend, Fatima. The thing is, Fatima died a year ago in a terrible traffic accident. At first, Jaylin thinks someone is playing a horrible prank, but as the texts...

After her parents are deported, Maria's life is not only upended, it's in danger. Jake's friend Maria is the daughter of undocumented immigrants who have been living and working in the country for a long time. But the new government has implemented a...

Locked In Escape Rooms has a new owner. He's offering prize money for whoever can successfully escape the room. Four very different teenagers answer the call. Tony is a star athlete and honor-roll student. Bea has social anxiety and uses puzzles to tune...

High school junior Alia is good at sports but struggles with schoolwork, hindered by her learning disabilities. The latest history assignment on genocide is just more homework to be endured. That's until a troubling conversation with her beloved...

Ashley didn't mean to get pregnant her senior year in high school. She didn't mean to scare her hardworking and financially struggling mom, or to hide the truth from her awkward ex, Danny. She also didn't mean to illegally take her well-off friend Madi's...

In seventeen-year-old Hannah Dresher's world, every dollar counts. When Hannah comes home to find that her alcoholic mom is wasted, she's not surprised. But when she discovers that her younger brother, Seth, has disappeared with the overdue rent money,...

Sixteen-year-old Poppy doesn't mind responsibility. So when Poppy's widowed dad leaves her and her brother while he helps fight a distant wildfire, she's confident she can manage. Her brother Jed has a disability and sometimes needs support, but there's...

Michael has been getting into trouble lately. As a consequence, his mom is making him look after his grandfather for the summer. The thing is, Gramps isn't your average senior citizen: he's a retired burglar with a lifetime of criminal knowledge. When a...

Bran's taking the recycling down to the basement when the lights go out and the elevator stalls. Bran's phone's dead, he can hear screaming, but he can't get out. Eventually, he manages to pry the doors open to find that something's very wrong. His own...

A true magician never reveals their secrets or takes "you can't" as an answer. Fourteen-year-old Kylie really wants to be a part of the magician's showcase. The problem is, the director has already decided that, because she's a girl, Kylie would be...

Dex is dropped onto a deserted tropical island to be a player in a social media competition. Dex is one of six contestants on Dropped!, an internet reality show. He's glad to escape his real life after being dumped by his girlfriend, Lola, and destroying...

After his younger sister dies, 17-year-old Jean-Luc goes into a downward spiral. He is sent away for the summer to live with his uncle in a small town on the coast of France. On his first day there he meets the beautiful Selina and decides that this...

Mike is in love with his best friend, Lindsay. And he's pretty sure she feels the same way...until a misunderstanding destroys Lindsay's trust. Devastated, Lindsay leaves town for the summer. When she returns in the fall, she has reinvented herself,...