Vendetta

Vendetta by Catherine Doyle

First in a new series, Vendetta tells a complex story of revenge and love. Sophie has been mourning the loss of her father and learning to accept that her life will never be the same. But things become even more complicated with five brothers move into a house in her neighborhood, bringing with them an air of mystery and danger. Despite her efforts not to, Sophie falls for Nicoli, sending her life down a dangerous path. Nicoli has a secret...and it involves a threat to Sophie's family...one that just might kill Sophie if she gets in the way.

Nigthmares!

Nightmares! by Jason Segel

Charlie Laird can't sleep. His new step-mother is a witch who has forced his father to move into her purple mansion...and Charlie can't sleep at all. When he does sleep, his dreams turn into nightmares, and when those nightmares become daytime reality, Charlie is going to need all the help he can get to survive his worst nightmares.

SYLO Chronicles (Trilogy)

SYLO Chronicles by D. J. MacHale

Tucker Pierce is content with his quite life on Pemberwick Island in Maine. But that all changes when the mysterious SYLO comes to town. As a branch of the US military, SYLO takes over the island and quarantines it due to some suspicious  deaths. But all is not as it seems, as Tucker and his friends Quinn and Tori begin to uncover the real reason SYLO has come to shatter the peace of their tiny island. This fast-paced trilogy is full or action, adventure, and mystery, following Tucker's quest to save the entire country from an unexpected threat.

  

Girl Stolen

Girl Stolen by April Henry

Waiting for her step-mother to fill her antibiotic prescription for her case of pneumonia, Cheyenne Wilder is just hoping that the medicine will make her feel better. But when the car she is resting in is stolen, and the thief doesn’t realize she’s in the backseat, Cheyenne is sure that she is going to be able to talk her captor into letting her go, especially since she hasn’t seen his face. But the thief panics, plunging Cheyenne into a nightmare that she might not wake up from. With twists and turns, April Henry tells a suspenseful tale with characters that make you see both sides of the story.

Nightmare Affair

Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett

Dusty Everhart is a nightmare, breaking into houses at night to invade people’s dreams. The only one of her kind at the Arkewll Acadamy, a boarding school for magical beings, is bad enough. But when she breaks into Eli Booker’s house and enters his dream, her nightmare becomes real when the murder he was dreaming about happens to a fellow student of Dusty’s. Dusty and Eli have to find the clues in his dream and out of them to stop the killer before he makes her the next target.

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In the follow-up, Nightmare Dilemma, Dusty and Eli are embroiled in two more mysteries that prove to be connected in ways she couldn’t dream of.

The Here and Now

Here and Now by Ann Brashares

Prenna James is an immigrant, but not in the traditional sense. Jenna has traveled from the future into the past. In Prenna’s future, an epidemic has left her world in ruins. Prenna’s escape to the safety of the past comes with a price…she can never involve herself with anyone in the world she now lives in. But when she falls for Ethan Jarvis, everything changes. Drawn into a world she doesn’t belong in, Prenna has to make the difficult choice to protect her past or follow her heart. A great read for fans of Divergent.

In the After & In the End

In the After & In the End by Demtria Lunetta

When the Florae took over Earth, everything in Amy Harris’s life changed. Her parents are gone, she has to scrounge for food while avoiding the Florae, who are attracted by noise and have a taste for human flesh. Amy manages to stay alive and even rescues a toddler who has been left behind. Amy finally finds a haven at New Hope…but all is not as it seems, and the secrets could end the life she’s fought so hard to protect. This two book series is a fast-paced, tale of a post-apocalyptic world where nothing is as it seems.

Rooftoppers

Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell

Sophie is the only survivor of a shipwreck…or so the world believes. Found floating in a cello case, she is given to Charles Maxim to raise. Charles allows Sophie to grow up as she pleases, despite the social conventions of the time. Deemed an unfit parent, Charles and Sophie escape to Paris, where Sophie discovers Matteo and the secrets of the rooftops of Paris. There Sophie searches for her mother, determined to discover where she came from. Realistic historical fiction with just a touch of fantasy, Rooftoppers is the story of one girl’s magical journey to reclaim her past.

Boy on the Porch

Boy on the Porch by Sharon Creech

Jacob appears on John and Marta’s porch one day, unable to speak. They open their home and their hearts to Jacob, and delight in his company. The more attached they become to Jacob, the more afraid they become that whoever abandoned him will return to take him back. The sense of dread builds with each page, as the novel builds to a satisfying end.

Devil's Kiss

Devil’s Kiss by Sarwat Chadda

Billi is the youngest and only female member of the Knights Templar, so instead of doing normal teenage girl things like going to the mall, she trains as a soldier for an ancient battle with the Unholy. When her friend Kay comes back from a trip to the Holy Land, Billi has to choose between him and a new boy in town…Michael. When an ancient enemy returns looking for a cursed mirror, Billi has to make sacrifices in order to save her city.

Billi is tested again in the sequel, Dark Goddess, when the Templars are called upon to battle werewolves who are searching for an Oracle that will help them wipe out mankind for good.

When the Butterflies Came

When the Butterflies Came by Kimberly Griffiths Little

Tara’s life is in chaos. Her beloved grandmother had died, her mother is depressed, and she and her sister Riley are arguing about everything. But following her grandmother’s funeral, butterflies begin to follow Tar around. The butterflies, Tara is sure, are the key to a mystery left behind by her grandmother. After finding a stack of letters and keys from her grandmother, Tara must travel to a distant island and face danger to uncover the secret her grandmother wanted her to know.

Archived

Archived by Victoria Schaub

The Archive is a special library containing the Histories of everyone who has ever died. Mackenzie Bishop, a Keeper, must return those Histories who occasionally slip and escape into the Narrows before they can get back into the real world. When her family moves to an apartment in an old hotel, Mac faces more Histories than she ever has before. She also meets another keeper, Wes, and together they try to solve the mystery of the Coronado, return wandering Histories and ultimately defend their lives.

The follow-up, The Unbound, finds Mac defending herself when people connected to her start disappearing. 

Pivot Point & Split Second

Pivot Point & Split Second by Kasie West

Hidden deep in the mountains in Texas is the Compound, a place where Paranormals live and develop their talents undetected by Normals. Addison Colman’s gift makes her a Searcher, able to see two paths to the future when faced with a decision. But she never guessed she would have to make a choice between staying in the Compound with her mother or moving Outside with her father when her parents separate. In Pivot Point, Addie is faced with two impossible choices as she searches six weeks into the future, neither one a choice she wants to make. Told in alternating chapters of her two search paths, West has put together an outstanding first installment in Addie’s story.

In the follow-up, Split Second, Addie has made her choice and her friend Leila has Erased all memories of her path not chosen. Winter break finds Leila trying to learn how to restore Addie’s memories, while Addie is trying to connect with a boy on the Outside while visiting her father. Unlikely partnerships form as both Addie and Leila, in alternating chapters, attempt to master new abilities and find their own paths to happiness.  

Hostage Three

Hostage Three by Nick Lake

The last thing Amy wants is to spend time with her father and step-mother on a yacht sailing around the world. But she doesn't realize how much the trip will change her life forever. Set upon by Somali pirates, Amy becomes Hostage Three, her family and the crew at the mercy of their captors. But being held hostage is not what she thinks it will be, and her growing friendship with one of the pirates further complicates things. By the time this ordeal is over, Amy will have learned more about herself than she ever thought possible.

Forevermore

Forevermore by Cindy Miles

Ivy's is not happy to be moving from Charleston to Scotland to live in her new step-father's drafty old family castle. She is even less happy when strange things start to happen to her, like her violin floating in the air. Until she discovers Logan. Logan's ghost has been haunting the castle since his death two hundred years before. Ivy knows falling in love with a ghost is not a good idea, but she can't help herself where Logan is concerned. But Logan's spirit is not the only one haunting Ivy's new home. And the other spirit is not nearly as friendly; in fact, the other spirit wants Ivy gone for good. With all of the atmosphere an old castle in the Scottish country-side can provide, Ivy's battle with the forces at work in the castle make for a chilling read.

Far, Far Away

Far, Far Away by Tom McNeal

Jeremy Johnson Johnson has a problem. He carries around in his head the ghost of Jacob Grimm, one half of The Brothers Grimm fairy-tale writing duo. But Jeremy has a bigger problem. His father is about to lose their house, Ginger Boultinghouse falls in love with him after taking a bite of Prince Cake, and in the village he’s grown up in, Never Better, children have been disappearing for decades. Jacob’s ghost tries as hard as he can to protect Jeremy, but even he doesn’t see the danger lurking right in front of them until it is too late. This story of a boy and a girl, told by a ghost, will captivate and haunt the reader at the same time. 

The Girl is Murder & The Girl is Trouble

The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines

World War II is raging, and Iris’s world will never be the same. With her Pop back from the war missing a leg, he needs help to run his detective business. Iris wants to help, but her father thinks girls should be girls. But when a boy from Iris’s new school goes missing, Iris puts her detective skills to work to find out what happened to Tommy. 

The Girl is Trouble by Kathryn Miller Haines

In Iris's second case, her Pop has finally agreed to let her help out with his detective agency. But this case becomes personal when Iris begins to find out details about her mother’s supposed suicide.

Theodore Boone series

Theodore Boone by John Grisham

The law is in Theodore Boone’s blood. His mother is a divorce lawyer, his father does real estate law, and his Uncle Ike used to practice tax law before he got disbarred. So it’s no surprise that Theo has an office out of which he helps friends with their legal troubles, has a dog named Judge, and would rather be in a courtroom than in a classroom. Theo’s adventures with the law make for fascinating reading as he gets involved in a local murder trial and the disappearance of his best friend. 

Theodore Boone Site

Books in the Series:

1 - Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer

2 - Theodore Boone: The Abduction

3 - Theodore Boone: The Accused

4 - Theodore Boone: The Activist

Escape From Furnace series

Escape from Furnace by Alexander Gordon Smith 

When Alex and his friend Toby start bullying kids in school for their money, it starts him down a path to more serious crimes. But when a burglary goes wrong, Alex ends up framed for Toby’s murder and gets sent to the Furnace, an underground prison where he is supposed to spend the rest of his life. In Furnace Alex encounters creatures that seem to come out of a horror movie: men with gas masks permanently sown into their faces, dogs with no skin or fur. Alex knows he can’t spend the rest of his life underground in constant fear that he will be taken away in the night and never returned to his cell.

The series begins with Lockdown, with Alex and his friends planning their escape, and continues in Solitary, Death Sentence, Fugitives, and Execution.

If the Witness Lied

If the Witness Lied by Caroline B. Cooney

With their parents gone, the Fountain children are under the care of their "aunt" Cheryl. Jack Fountain tries hard to be a good brother to his youngest sibling Tris, while Madison and Smithy have abandoned the family in an attempt to deal with their grief. Sound like a boring read so far? Well what if you knew, as the world is about to, that Tris Fountain, who is almost three, has already caused the deaths of two people -- his parents? Or has he? When Jack discovers that Cheryl is about to turn Tris into a reality television star for a show that will portray him as a monster, he knows he has to stop it. His sisters become his unexpected allies, and together they discover that their father's death may not have happened as they had been led to believe, that in fact, the only witness to his death may have lied. This book is a slow, methodical unraveling of a mystery that brings a family together against a common enemy in order to protect the one that cannot protect himself.