Nova Ren Suma
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Orianna and Violet are ballet dancers and best friends, but when the ballerinas who have been harassing Violet are murdered, Orianna is accused of the crime and sent to a juvenile detention center where she meets Amber and they experience supernatural events linking the girls together.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Teenage Bina runs away to New York City's Catherine House, a young women's residence in Greenwich Village with a tragic history and dark secrets, where she is drawn to her mysterious downstairs neighbor Monet.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Two years after sixteen-year-old Chloe discovered classmate London's dead body floating in a Hudson Valley reservoir, she returns home to be with her devoted older sister Ruby, a town favorite, and finds that London is alive and well, and that Ruby may somehow have brought her back to life and persuaded everyone that nothing is amiss.
4) 17 & gone
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Lauren has visions of girls her own age who are gone without a trace, but while she tries to understand why they are speaking to her and whether she is next, Lauren has a brush with death and a shocking truth emerges, changing everything.
5) Dani noir
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Imaginative thirteen-year-old Dani feels trapped in her small mountain town with only film noir at the local art theater and her depressed mother for company, but while trying to solve a real mystery she learns much about herself and life.
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
History is filled with stories of women accused of witchcraft, of fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure - and to kill. ... This collection reveals a universal truth: there's nothing more powerful than a teenage girl who believes in herself.
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Presents an anthology of thirteen short stories by contemporary young adult authors, ranging from fantasy to the experience of Mexican Americans living in border cities. Each story is followed by an author's note, commentary by one of the editors on such topics as voice, imagery, and mood, and some, with story prompts.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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The Jewish Experience - Teens
Jewish American Heritage Month: Kids and Teen Titles
The Jewish Experience - Teens
Description
"From stories of confronting their relationships with Judaism to rom-coms with a side of bagels and lox, It's a Whole Spiel features one story after another that says yes, we are Jewish, but we are also queer, and disabled, and creative, and political, and adventurous, and anything we want to be"--