young adult fiction

Tom has been invited to spend spring break with his girlfriend and her family at an idyllic resort on the Mayan Riviera. But tragedy propels Tom into the dark side of paradise and headlong into the world of the Mexican drug cartel.

When Megan is detained by a police officer after an out-of-control protest, she learns that her mother has been living under a fake name, and her father is a convicted terrorist. As rumors spread and accusations rise all around her, Megan worries that her father's destructive legacy will become hers, too.

Seventeen-year-old Penny tries to balance her last year of high school, working part time, taking care of her sister with mental health issues, and a new romance.

When Cameron discovers a baby abandoned in the woods, he tries to discover whether his sister is the mother.

When Essie Tomasi, a teenage genius, descends into a gambling addiction, her twin sister, Aggie, becomes involved in a dangerous game that neither of them may survive.

When an accident kills a close friend and puts her brother in a coma, Scotty blames herself and has a hard time moving on. Although friends and family try to help, Scotty must find the power to forgive herself to be able to move on.

When seventeen-year-old Frankie Skinaway's incarcerated father and cousins try to get him involved in the First Nations Mafia, even after his mother enrolls Frankie in an alternative high school to keep him safe, Frankie has a hard choice to make.

In this novel in verse, teen Jamie has a secret--she binds her chest every day to feel less like a girl. She questions why she feels drawn to do this, why she can't tell her friends, and if she could be genderqueer.

"Average Loser" Scott Tyler meets the mysterious and pretty Aubrey Jones, and his entire world changes. Aubrey reveals that Scott is a "Shifter," a being with the power to undo any and every decision that he ever had to make. At first Scott has great fun with his power--until the unintended, time-space-dimensional paradoxes start to rip his world apart.

Lucas dreams of getting a basketball scholarship and helping his mom out of poverty. But when his older brother lures him toward a life making "easy" money on the street, Lucas must decide what he wants.