Teen | 2018 Best Books
|
|
Dread NationBy Justina Ireland Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville. Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems
|
|
And The Ocean Was Our SkyBy Patrick Ness With harpoons strapped to their backs, the proud whales of Bathsheba’s pod live for the hunt, fighting in the ongoing war against the world of men. As their relentless Captain leads the chase, they embark on a final, vengeful hunt, one that will forever change the worlds of both whales and men |
|
|
Children of Blood and BoneBy Tomi Adeyemi Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy |
|
The Hazel WoodBy Melissa Albert Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when her grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get.
|
|
|
The BellesBy Dhonielle Clayton In the opulent world of Orléans, Belles are revered, for they control Beauty, and Beauty is a commodity coveted above all else. Camellia Beauregard wants to be the Belle chosen by the Queen and to be recognized as the most talented Belle in the land. But she soon finds that behind the gilded palace walls live dark secrets. |
|
The Prince & the DressmakerBy Jen Wang Paris, at the dawn of the modern age: Prince Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm.Sebastian’s secret weapon Frances, the dressmaker. But Frances dreams of greatness, and being someone’s secret weapon means being a secret. Forever.
|
|
|
PrideBy Ibi Zoboi Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. Zuri fights to find her place in Bushwick’s changing landscape, or lose it all. I |
|
Truly DeviousBy Maureen Johnson When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder’s wife and daughter shortly after the school opened. But the past has crawled out of its grave: Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits |
