Emma Galvin
1) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
2) Allegiant
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. But will she be prepared to face impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love?
3) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other's lives once and for all. Time apart has done them good. Theo has found confidence as a hustling bartender by night and aspiring sommelier by day, with a long roster of casual lovers. Kit, who never returned to America, graduated...
7) Graveminder
Author
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville, the town where Bek spent her adolescence. Now Maylene is dead and Bek must go back to the place, and the man, she left a decade ago. But what she soon discovers is that Maylene was murdered and that there was good reason for her odd traditions. It turns out that in placid Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in an institution for disabled juveniles, Susan Nussbaum writes an unflinchingly honest story about the residents' mistreatment, the way they forge friendships and love affairs, their ability to trust one another, and how they ultimately fight back against their oppression.
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2017
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1979, fifteen-year-old Dana Scully has bigger problems than being the new girl in school. Dana has always had dreams. Sometimes they've even come true. Until now, she tried to write this off as coincidence. But ever since her father's military career moved the family across the country to Craiger, Maryland, the dreams have been more like visions. Vivid, disturbing, and haunted by a shadowy figure who may be an angel ... or the devil....
13) Trial by fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In her hometown of Salem Lily Proctor endures not only life-threatening allergies but humiliation at her first high school party with her best friend and longtime crush, Tristan. But in a different Salem -- one overrun with horrifying creatures and ruled by powerful women called Crucibles, she is Lillian, the strongest and cruelest Crucible ... Lily's other self in an alternate universe that Lily suddenly finds herself where she is torn between responsibilities...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Struggling with the loss of her parents, who helped haunted souls find peace, Sylvie Mason pursues the mystery, moving closer to the truth of what happened that night as she comes to terms with her family's past.
15) Firewalker
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Back in her own universe and ready to start a new life with Rowan by her side, Lily finds she has more difficulties ahead than just keeping her magic hidden since Lillian, ruthless ruler of the Thirteen Cities, is determined that Lily will come back to the alternate Salem, no matter what it takes.
16) Strings attached
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A mystery writer's daughter sets out to find her missing father and, along the way, begins to understand the loneliness that has gripped them both since her mother abandoned them years before.
18) Down a dark hall
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected.
19) Firstlife
Author
Series
Everlife volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Tenley "Ten" Lockwood has spent the past thirteen months locked inside an asylum-- because of her refusal to let her parents choose where she'll live after she dies. In the Everlife, two realms are in power: Troika and Myriad, longtime enemies and deadly rivals. Ten is caught in a wild tug-of-war between the two realms, who will do anything to win the right to her soul. But what if the realm she's drawn to isn't where the boy she's falling for lives?...
20) Sinner
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cole St. Clair has come to California for one reason: to get back Isabel Culpeper.

