Collection: Young Adult

I swear Connor looks over at me. My heart skips a beat again. I'm not quirky like Ruby, or confident like Cher-why would Connor like me anyways?

Emma Bishop is your typical 14-year-old girl. She's got besties, a major crush, zits (don't use the P-word), an annoying younger sister, an embarrassing mom, and no boobs. Luckily, her best friends Ruby and Cher are there to pull off fun sleepovers, try new makeup trends, deal with bullies, and survive embarrassing interactions with cute boys.

Things change for Emma when Connor finally notices her and wants to be her partner for a science project. As things get serious between Emma and Connor, Cher and Ruby don't react in the way Emma expected or hoped. She never thought she would have to choose between her crush and her friends-all before puberty!

Why Won't My Boobs Grow...and Other Annoyances is a contemporary young adult novel by Rebecca Garner that explores friendship, first love, and self-confidence. This book is a must read if you are wondering who you are (even before your boobs arrive) or if you're a grown-up who loves the nostalgia of a coming-of-age story.

Hope Lives. Now they must find him.

Upon discovering their true purpose, Sovereign Prince Calden and his Bind turn their efforts toward finding the lost Empyreal Guardian who can save their self-destructing world. Only, without any clear direction of where to start, Calden must rely on fragments of information buried deep within his subconscious-information only found through his violent episodes in the other mind.

When he fails to trigger an episode, Calden enlists Elias's help on a quest back to the crypt where they almost lost Norielle to the Blood Wardens. But instead of finding what he seeks, Calden unearths a long-buried secret that challenges everything he believes about the Wardens, Silvirdia's Empyreal Guardian, and even his own mother.

Reeling from the betrayal and following his only lead on the missing Guardian, Calden steers his Bind across perilous seas toward the enemy kingdom of Raevre. However, with Norielle's Warden training incomplete, Calden beset by doubts, and distrust rising about the Sovereign Prince's rebellious methods, the bonds between the Bind will be tested like never before.

The magic continues in THE HAT DIARIES Escape From the Adventure, the action-packed third book in the THE HAT DIARIES(TM)️trilogy. As Ryan tells us about the characters he meets while trying to escape from his last Adventure, Violet and Merlo embark on a wild quest to find him-one that leads them to a mysterious house filled with dangerous secrets. While Ryan wonders if anyone is coming to help, Violet and Merlo must ask themselves: how far will they go to save him? Are they ready to risk everything? Hold onto your hats as the adventure builds to the series' most gripping chapter. This imaginative novel from award-winning author Nadine Haruni will continue to captivate readers of all ages who believe in the unbelievable."Escape From the Adventure is the most thrilling installment in Nadine Haruni's Hat Diaries series yet..." -Readers' Favorite 5-star review "Ryan is stuck. It's World War II in Nazi Germany and he's in the middle of a battle that could take his life and the lives of two soldiers he loves. And he's just met them! Follow the journey across time with Ryan, Merlo, Amanda, and Violet as they struggle to meet each other again and rescue Ryan from his ultimate adventure. Book 3 of The Hat Diaries is a thrilling conclusion to the series, bringing a stunning conclusion to the magic of the Portal. A terrific read for all ages, historical fantasy at its best." -Stacey McMackin, National Board Certified Library Media Specialist

Rosie Peters has always felt like a girl caught between the lines of a storybook. Raised by three great-aunts in the small town of Harpersgrove, Maryland, while working at Hap-PIE-ly Ever After, the pie shop that's always felt like home.

When her estranged mother dies suddenly, everything unravels. The father she's never met shows up out of nowhere. Fashion school starts to feel like a fantasy meant for someone braver. Even her strongest friendships with the girls at the shop begin to fracture under the weight of grief, change, and things that should never have been said. Beneath it all, something darker stirs. It's a feeling Rosie can't shake, like deep dark water rising, waiting to pull her under. Then comes Joshua, the boy who makes Rosie's heart sing. Is he the answer, or could he be another riptide?

As secrets begin to break the surface and everything familiar slips through her fingers, Rosie must decide whether to be the person everyone has always known or rewrite the story on her own terms.

Touched with modern fairytale magic, Blackberry Pie is a story about loss, love, and learning to believe you're strong enough to save yourself.

Kingdom of Chaos is the highly-anticipated second installment of the romantic urban fantasy sensation, Creatures of Chaos, where the dangers are real, the stakes are high, and survival isn't guaranteed.

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I made it through Chaos with my life, but Becks may have paid the ultimate price. Even though there's only a slim chance he's still alive, I'm not giving up on the dragon shifter who holds my heart. Not while there's still breath in my lungs.

To save him, I'll have to navigate a world I don't understand, face enemies more dangerous than ever before, and master the unpredictable power rising inside me. But perhaps the greatest risk of all? Relying on Talon-my former Chaos rival who lied and deceived me.

Trusting him might be a mistake.

Falling for him could be deadly.

The games are over, but the chaos has only just begun.

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Perfect for fans of slow burn romance, high-stakes adventure, and everything supernatural. Creatures of Chaos is a fast-paced urban fantasy series that's being called The Serpent and the Wings of Night meets Crave.

2025 IngramSpark(R) Editorial Selection - Young Adult

Most people fear Death. But Samarra feels safest by his side.

Grief is drowning Samarra's mind. Her sister's death was too sudden, too senseless. No one will even speak of the night she died, leaving Samarra silenced and alone as her sanity begins to fracture.

That's when she meets Death himself.

With piercing white eyes and a voice that sedates her spiralling thoughts, Death becomes her only comfort. He quiets her pain, offers relief from the unbearable weight of the world, and whispers secrets about her sister's final moments, tempting Samarra with the vengeance she craves.

But when Death vanishes without warning, Samarra is left desperate to feel his presence again. She doesn't know if he was real or a hallucination of her unraveling mind. All she knows is that she needs his peace once more.

And she'll do whatever it takes to bring him back.

When Amelia's father disappears during an archaeological dig in the Welsh village of Capshore, she's devastated. A year later, she discovers a mysterious amulet hidden among his possessions. The amulet is broken, but she soon finds out that it can transport her back in time to the 1500s, to a very same village where her father went missing.

Driven to find out what happened to him, Amelia befriends William, a local peasant boy. Together two teenagers and a beagle named Princess Bob explore the past and the present, forging a friendship that runs deep. But what the two teenagers don't know is that the amulet's owner is a dangerous member of the Knights Templar. And he wants his magic back...

Amelia and the Amulet is a quick-paced, funny adventure story for teen readers. With daring action scenes and an engaging mystery, it invites viewers to glimpse what life was like in the Middle Ages... and just how far a person might go to escape into the future.

TORN BETWEEN WORLDS. TORN BETWEEN LIVES.

Juliet Barrows, the Otherworlder, has survived the Uprising, even though betrayal has torn her apart. Tristan is captured, Saya has escaped, Adnan is missing, and Juliet is back home. But echoes of her encounters with Natsumi remain, along with her warning, "Beware the pretender!"

Home is not what Juliet remembers. Her brother returns to haunt her as she strives to act the part of an amnesiac and live a normal life. But it's not so easy to forget the past five months. Her parents demand normalcy, Cam doubts the truth, and Juliet doesn't know what she wants. Her heart and her mind are at odds as she longs for what she lost. Realizing she is fighting a losing battle, she leaves her parents to find Adnan and seek peace.

What happened in Ryujin is not over: Tristan must be dealt with, Natsumi must answer questions, and new leadership must prove itself under the threat of war. Worlds clash as Juliet faces tests of her will and endurance. Torn between who she is versus who others want her to be, she must take the final step to overcome her past and present fears.

This pacy urban thriller is the US debut for an award-winning Irish author.

Joey's stepdad, Vinnie, ran away from Dublin over a year ago. Now he's back, and everyone wants to know if he's still a wolf.

Joey wants to believe Vinnie has given up his dodgy ways and returned to be near his family. But he's in no hurry to meet him. With his girlfriend going to Trinity College and his new start living with his aunt, Joey is trying to move on.

But fate doesn't sit on a fence and Joey will have to confront his own painful past and the role his stepdad played in it.

A full accounting of five incredibly talented Black ballerinas from The Dance Theater of Harlem, founding members among them, that illuminates their hard-fought, historic, and overlooked contributions to the world of classical dance at a time when racism shut out Black dancers from major dance companies.

It was true until only recently, their past achievements had been erased--that's what happened to five Black ballerinas, members of the groundbreaking Dance Theater of Harlem. At the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, Lydia Abarca, who dance critics praised effusively, was the first Black prima ballerina of this major dance company, performing lead roles in the most iconic ballets. She was also the first Black ballerina to grace the cover of Dance magazine.

Alongside fellow founding members Sheila Rohan and Gayle McKinney-Griffith, and first-generation dancers Karlya Shelton and Marcia Sells, these swans of Harlem shone a bright light on the depth of Black professional classical dancers. Their grit, determination, and exquisite artistry propelled them to dizzying heights, but over the decades, their trailblazing and triumphs were largely forgotten. Now these ballerinas and longtime friends are giving voice to their stories on and off stage--reclaiming a past so that it is finally recorded and acknowledged.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends comes another heartbreaking, emotional and timely page-turner that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center is ironically named. No one has hope for the delinquent teenagers who have been exiled there; the world barely acknowledges that they exist.

Then the guards at Hope start acting strange. And one day...they don't show up. But when the teens band together to make a break from the facility, they encounter soldiers outside the gates. There's a rapidly spreading infectious disease outside, and no one can leave their houses or travel without a permit. Which means that they're stuck at Hope. And this time, no one is watching out for them at all.

As supplies quickly dwindle and a deadly plague tears through their ranks, the group has to decide whom among them they can trust and figure out how they can survive in a world that has never wanted them in the first place.

Also by Marieke Nijkamp:

This Is Where It Ends

Even If We Break

Before I Let Go

Praise for Marieke Nijkamp:

"Immersive and captivating. Thrilling in every sense of the word."--Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us is Lying on Even If We Break

"With exceptional handling of everything from mental illness to guilt and a riveting, magic realist narrative, this well wrought, haunting novel will stick with readers long after the final page."--Booklist on Before I Let Go *STARRED REVIEW*

"A compelling, brutal story of an unfortunately all-too familiar situation: a school shooting. Nijkamp portrays the events thoughtfully, recounting fifty-four intense minutes of bravery, love, and loss."--BookRiot on This Is Where It Ends

It is no secret that planet Earth is home to the notoriously greedy species known as humans. What remains a secret to these humans is the community of aliens who live hidden under invisible force fields across neighboring planets and moons. They eat fried butterflies for lunch, travel through interplanetary vortexes, and coexist with giant bees, solar dragons, and hairy one-hundred-legged spiders-peacefully, for the most part.

Eighteen-year-old Truman Howard is not like his classmates. While they roll around in their parents' riches and travel the globe, Truman takes care of himself, working part time as a ski instructor and thrifting his clothes. He has no family, no friends, and a roommate who gives donkeys a bad rep.

But everything changes the day Truman meets a mysterious woman who invites him to an unforgettable place that will make him and anyone who reads his story feel like they belong. For it is there, among the stars, where Truman embarks on a remarkable voyage filled with new friends, fantastic creatures, and a dangerous destiny that's been brewing for him for many, many moons!

"A spunky and jubilant love letter to superhero fans."

-Kirkus Reviews

Power. Courage. Invincibility. The marks of a true hero.

Meg Sawyer has none of these things.

Meg has never stopped a moving bus with her bare hands, been bitten by a radioactive insect, or done anything moderately resembling saving the world. She doesn't have to. She's a background citizen, a nobody-one of the swarms of faceless civilians of Lunar City, where genetically enhanced superhumans straight out of the comics have thwarted evil for years.

For as long as the Supers have existed, Meg has had one goal: to not become a casualty in their near-daily battles for justice. And for the last seventeen years, she's managed to do just that. Sure, her minimum-wage job at the local coffee shop isn't great, she can't even leave her apartment without loading herself up with protective gear, and her car was just hijacked to throw at a supervillain (again), but she's not dead yet.

But when Meg accidentally finds one of the city's perfect, invincible protectors murdered under extremely suspicious circumstances, her whole strategy falls apart. After being coerced by his determined girlfriend into a mission to help prevent the deaths of the remaining Supers, Meg finds herself forced into the foreground of a story she never wanted to be part of-one that challenges everything she thought she knew about both her city and herself.

NINTH HOUSE meets TEEN WOLF with the social bite of GOSSIP GIRL in this haunting dark academia tale set in the coastal town of Driftmoor, where old money families guard darker secrets than anyone realizes.

Dorothy arrives at Driftmoor Academy desperate to leave her past behind and become someone new. But when a car crash leaves her suspended between life and death, something ancient inside her awakens. Whispers stalk her through the night. Nightmares claw at her sleep. And death follows wherever she goes.

As she becomes entangled in the gilded world of Driftmoor's elite, Dorothy uncovers the truth: the founding bloodlines made a bargain long ago, binding their descendants to a curse that's beginning to unravel.

There's the boy touched by the sea, who's drawn to a song no one else can hear. The socialite carved from gold and expectation, clinging to perfection before it shatters. And the son born in shadows, raised by a family that never intended to keep him.

Linked by the bargains of their ancestors, the heirs of Driftmoor must decide whether to break the curses that shaped them or become the monsters their ancestors bargained for.

Because in Driftmoor, tradition is suffering. And every curse demands a price.

The Monsters They Made Us is a haunting debut that blends the supernatural, dark academia, and magic on the rocky coast of Massachusetts.

Seven days to decide if life is worth living.

At fifteen, Sammy is drowning in grief and abuse. Convinced the only way out is to end her life, she sets a seven-day countdown.

But when a new friend enters her life and she receives a mysterious invitation to Heaven, everything begins to change. What she discovers there challenges her despair, reshapes her faith, and forces her to choose between giving up or embracing a future filled with hope.

Blending contemporary realism with spiritual themes, A Glimpse of Glory is a Christian young adult novel that explores depression, suicide, grief, and redemption. Written for teens and crossover adult readers, it offers encouragement to those navigating life's hardest questions and reminds readers that even in the darkest moments, there is light, faith, and a reason to keep living.

The Game Owes Me follows Lenny Chase, a former high school basketball star who returns to his alma mater, Martin Luther King High School (MLK) in Memphis, TN, to coach a struggling boys' basketball team. Once a rising talent with NBA dreams, Lenny's career never took off, and he's been drifting ever since, battling his inner demons and alcoholism. Now in his mid-30s, he's back in Memphis to rebuild not just the team, but his life.

At the heart of the team is Stephon Johnson, a gifted junior who has the potential to be the best player in the Country. When Stephon's father dies in a car wreck during a road trip to take him to prep school, Stephon vows never to play the game again and transfers to MLK. Stephon's talent, however, is overshadowed by the threat of a career-ending gun charge and the threat of violence by local gang members.

The season begins with MLK, as underdogs, written off by the city's basketball community. MLK's principal (Katrina Davenport) selects Lenny as MLK's new head coach, despite their romantic history as estranged high school sweethearts. Lenny's coaching style, inspired by his former MLK coach, galvanized the players, and they rallied under his leadership. As they grow as a team, they also face increasing personal challenges. Stephon is trying to escape street life, Tavon's reckless playing style threatens his scholarship hopes, and Lenny finds it harder to keep his own addiction at bay. Alongside their on-court battles, the team contends with issues of poverty, broken families, and the systemic disadvantages that define their community.

The tension escalates as the team makes an unexpected run to the state playoffs, where they face their toughest competition yet. In a heart-wrenching state quarterfinal game.

The Game Owes Me is a story of second chances and the power of mentorship, set against the backdrop of high school basketball in Memphis, TN. This honest and realistic story explores themes of self-worth, community, and personal growth, offering an honest portrayal of life's challenges for young athletes navigating their futures.