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) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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"--
3) Allegiant
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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?
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Newly turned vampire Bree Tanner lives in terror — and must find her way out of untold danger — in this pulse-pounding novella, a companion to Eclipse.
Bree Tanner, a self-described "vampire nerd" first introduced in Eclipse, lives in terror in a coven of newborn vampires. She is a member of Victoria's vampire army, and as that army closes in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, she finds her first friend and discovers a truth about...
Bree Tanner, a self-described "vampire nerd" first introduced in Eclipse, lives in terror in a coven of newborn vampires. She is a member of Victoria's vampire army, and as that army closes in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, she finds her first friend and discovers a truth about...
6) Tiger eyes
Author
Language
English
Description
Davey has never felt so alone in her life. Her father is dead—shot in a holdup—and now her mother is moving the family to New Mexico to try to recover.
Climbing in the Los Alamos canyon, Davey meets the mysterious Wolf, who can read Davey’s “sad eyes.” Wolf is the only person who seems to understand the rage and fear Davey feels.
Slowly, with Wolf’s help, Davey realizes that she must get on with her life....
Climbing in the Los Alamos canyon, Davey meets the mysterious Wolf, who can read Davey’s “sad eyes.” Wolf is the only person who seems to understand the rage and fear Davey feels.
Slowly, with Wolf’s help, Davey realizes that she must get on with her life....
7) Graveminder
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
"No one builds worlds like Melissa Marr."
-Charlaine Harris
"Welcome to the return of the great American gothic."
-Del Howison, Bram Stoker Award-winning editor of Dark Delicacies
"A deliciously creepy tale that is as skillfully wrought as it is spellbindingly imagined."
-Kelley Armstrong
Anyone who adores dark fantasy, horror, and paranormal suspense is going to love Graveminder, a hauntingly atmospheric tale of the walking dead-and...
8) Girl Mans Up
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
p2016
Language
English
Description
All Pen wants is to be the kind of girl she's always been. So why does everyone have a problem with it? They think the way she looks and acts means she's trying to be a boy-that she should quit trying to be something she's not. If she dresses like a girl, and does what her folks want, it will show respect. If she takes orders and does what her friend Colby wants, it will show her loyalty.
But respect and loyalty, Pen discovers, are empty words....
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....
Author
Language
English
Description
Bellwether Award winner Susan Nussbaum's powerful novel invites us into the lives of a group of typical teenagers-alienated, funny, yearning for autonomy-except that they live in an institution for juveniles with disabilities. This unfamiliar, isolated landscape is much the same as the world outside: friendships are forged, trust is built, love affairs are kindled, and rules are broken. But those who call it home have little or no control over their...
Author
Series
Confessions (James Patterson) volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tandy Angel is, along with her brothers, a suspect in their parents' murder but having grown up under Malcolm and Maud Angel's perfectionist demands, Tandy decides she must clear the family name no matter what.
14) 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...
15) 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.
17) 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.
18) 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.
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) Countdown
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The story of a formative year in 12-year-old Franny Chapman's life, and the life of a nation facing the threat of nuclear war.
Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just...