It's his senior year and Will Shea has conned his way
into one of the country's most elite prep schools. But he soon runs
into Andrea, a fellow con-artist. With the school not big enough for the
both of them, they make a bet that whoever can con Brandt Rush, the
richest, most privileged student in the school out of $50K, gets to stay
at the school.Will starts setting up his con (an online poker scam) with his uncle who's one of the best grifters in the business, but also with the unwanted help of his father.. The plot thickens as Will starts falling for fellow student Gatsby, and some of Will's lies start to catch up with him.
In this twisty tale of scams, secrets, lies and deception, it hard to figure out who's conning who!
Goodbye Stranger, by Rebecca Stead. (Also available in audio, narrated by Kimberly Farr.) Bridge is an accident survivor who's wondering why she's still alive. Emily has new curves and an almost-boyfriend who wants a certain kind of picture. Tabitha sees through everybody's games--or so she tells the world. The three girls are best friends with one rule: No fighting. Can it get them through seventh grade?
This year everything is different for Sherm Russo as he gets to know Bridge Barsamian. What does it mean to fall for a girl--as a friend?
On Valentine's Day, an unnamed high school girl struggles with a betrayal. How long can she hide in plain sight?
Each memorable character navigates the challenges of love and change in this captivating novel.
Never Always Sometimes, by Adi Alsaid.
Best friends Dave and Julia were determined to never be cliché high school kids--the ones who sit at the same lunch table every day, dissecting the drama from homeroom and plotting their campaigns for prom king and queen. They even wrote their own Never List of everything they vowed they'd never, ever do in high school.
Some of the rules have been easy to follow, like #5, never die your hair a color of the rainbow, or #7, never hook up with a teacher. But Dave has a secret: he's broken rule #8, never pine silently after someone for the entirety of high school. It's either that or break rule #10, never date your best friend. Dave has loved Julia for as long as he can remember.
Julia is beautiful, wild and impetuous. So when she suggests they do every Never on the list, Dave is happy to play along. He even dyes his hair an unfortunate shade of green. It starts as a joke, but then a funny thing happens: Dave and Julia discover that by skipping the clichés, they've actually been missing out on high school. And maybe even on love.
The Tea Party in the Woods, by Akiko Miyakoshi.
Kikko sets out after her father with a forgotten pie for Grandma. When
she arrives at a strange house in the wintry woods, a peek in the window
reveals that the footprints Kikko had been following did not belong to
her father at all, but to a bear in a long coat and hat! Alice in
Wonderland meets Little Red Riding Hood in this charmed tale.Thirteen Chairs, by Dave Shelton.
A spine-tingling collection of ghost stories! When a boy finds himself
drawn into an empty house one cold night, he enters a room in which
twelve unusual-looking people sit around a table. And the thirteenth
chair is pulled out for him. One by one, each of those assembled tells
their own ghost story: tales of doom and death; of ghostly creatures and
malevolent spirits; of revenge and reward. It is only at the end of the
night that the boy starts to understand what story he must tell...Trouble is a Friend of Mine, by Stephanie Tromly. (Also available in audio, narrated by Kathleen McInerney.)
Sherlock meets Veronica Mars meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off in this story of a wisecracking girl who meets a weird but brilliant boy and their roller-coaster of a semester that's one part awkward, three parts thrilling, and five parts awesome.When Philip Digby first shows up on her doorstep, Zoe Webster is not impressed. He's rude and he treats her like a book he's already read and knows the ending to. But before she knows it, Digby—annoying, brilliant and somehow attractive?—has dragged her into a series of hilarious and dangerous situations all related to an investigation into the kidnapping of a local teenage girl. A kidnapping that may be connected to the tragic disappearance of his own sister eight years ago.
When it comes to Digby, Zoe just can't say no. Digby gets her, even though she barely gets herself. But is Digby a hero, or is his manic quest an indication of a desperate attempt to repair his broken family and exercise his own obsessive compulsive tendencies?
A romance where the leading man is decidedly unromantic, a crime novel where catching the crook isn't the only hook, a friendship story where they aren't even sure they like each other—this is a contemporary debut with razor-sharp dialogue, ridiculously funny action, and the most charismatic dynamic duo you've ever met.
(All descriptions from OverDrive.)
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