Book Scavenger, by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman.
For twelve-year-old Emily, the best thing about moving to San Francisco
is that it's the home city of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, book
publisher and creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger (a game
where books are hidden in cities all over the country and clues to find
them are revealed through puzzles). Upon her arrival, however, Emily
learns that Griswold has been attacked and is now in a coma, and no one
knows anything about the epic new game he had been poised to launch.
Then Emily and her new friend James discover an odd book, which they
come to believe is from Griswold himself, and might contain the only
copy of his mysterious new game.
Racing against time, Emily and
James rush from clue to clue, desperate to figure out the secret at the
heart of Griswold's new game—before those who attacked Griswold come
after them too.
The Night We Said Yes, by Lauren Gibaldi.
The Notorious Pagan Jones, by Nina Berry.
Pagan Jones went from America's sweetheart to fallen angel in
one fateful night in 1960: the night a car accident killed her whole
family. Pagan was behind the wheel and driving drunk. Nine months later,
she's stuck in the Lighthouse Reformatory for Wayward Girls and
tortured by her guilt--not to mention the sadistic Miss Edwards, who
takes special delight in humiliating the once-great Pagan Jones.
But
all of that is about to change. Pagan's old agent shows up with a
mysterious studio executive, Devin Black, and an offer. Pagan will be
released from juvenile detention if she accepts a juicy role in a comedy
directed by award-winning director Bennie Wexler. The shoot starts in
West Berlin in just three days. If Pagan's going to do it, she has to
decide fast--and she has to agree to a court-appointed "guardian," the
handsome yet infuriating Devin, who's too young, too smooth and too
sophisticated to be some studio flack.
The offer's too good to be
true, Berlin's in turmoil and Devin Black knows way too much about
her--there's definitely something fishy going on. But if anyone can take
on a divided city, a scheming guardian and the criticism of a world
that once adored her, it's the notorious Pagan Jones. What could go
wrong?
Powerless (Hero Agenda #1) by Tera Lynn Childs and Tracy Deebs.
The Revenge Playbook, by Rachael Allen.
The Stars Never Rise, by Rachel Vincent.
Sixteen-year-old
Nina Kane should be worrying about her immortal soul, but she's too
busy trying to actually survive. Her town's population has been
decimated by soul-consuming demons, and souls are in short supply.
Watching over her younger sister, Mellie, and scraping together food and
money are all that matters. The two of them are a family. They gave up
on their deadbeat mom a long time ago.
When Nina discovers that
Mellie is keeping a secret that threatens their very existence, she'll
do anything to protect her. Because in New Temperance, sins are
prosecuted as crimes by the brutal Church and its army of black-robed
exorcists. And Mellie's sin has put her in serious trouble.
To
keep them both alive, Nina will need to put her trust in Finn, a
fugitive with deep green eyes who has already saved her life once and
who might just be an exorcist. But what kind of exorcist wears a hoodie?
Wanted
by the Church and hunted by dark forces, Nina knows she can't survive
on her own. She needs Finn and his group of rogue friends just as much
as they need her.
Tiger Boy, by Mitali Perkins.
When a tiger cub goes missing from the reserve, Neil is determined to
find her before the greedy Gupta gets his hands on her to kill her and
sell her body parts on the black market. Neil's parents, however, are
counting on him to study hard and win a prestigious scholarship to study
in Kolkata.
Neil doesn't want to leave his family or his island home
and he struggles with his familial duty and his desire to maintain the
beauty and wildness of his island home in West Bengal's Sunderbans.
The Truth About My Success, by Dyan Sheldon
Paloma Rose is sixteen and already a major TV star. She has money,
franchises, adoring fans—and an agent and parents who are dependent on
her success to sustain their very comfortable lives. But all that could
come to an end when Paloma becomes more famous for her bad behavior than
for her acting and her show's sponsors threaten to cancel the upcoming
season if things don't improve.
Meanwhile, Paloma's worried agent
happens upon Oona Ginness working in a coffee shop. Maybe she's not as
tall or as blond as Paloma, but details aside, they really might be
twins. So a plan is born: What if they send Paloma to a brat camp to
become a better person and put the malleable and much nicer Oona in her
place?
Oona thinks it's a stupid idea, but the money is hard to resist,
given her family's dire circumstances. What does she have to lose? Of
course, plans don't always work out the way they're supposed to. . . .
(All descriptions from OverDrive.)
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