YA FICTION

Little Big by John Crowley

This is a story that unfolds across four generations and countless boundaries in an old house called Edgewood, where a young man named Smoky Barnable comes to fulfill his destiny and marry Daily Alice Drinkawater. However, their destinies are entwined with the faeries who also live on the border of Edgewood, and as the worlds combine and collide, an epic Tale is told. If you liked the Artemis Fowl series but are ready for a more challenging read, this epic book is for you. Powerful and beautifully written.




The Luxe by Anna Godbersen

Fan of the Gossip Girl series? Have a taste history, ball gowns, and mystery? The Luxe is the book for you. Set at the turn of the century (by which we mean 1899) this story unravels the events leading up to the suspicious death of Elizabeth Holland, a young and beautiful society woman recently drowned in the Hudson river. Betrayal, secrets, yearning across the great class divide between high society and low: everything you love, cinched into a corset and high button boots make this a fun summer page-turner.




Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson

If modern Manhattan is more your style, check out Suite Scarlett, the story of a small family-run hotel in the heart of the city…it should be a tourist destination that lives up to its Jazz-Age decoration, but the hotel and family have fallen on hard times. For Scarlett’s 15th birthday her family gives her the Empire Suite, and its eccentric inhabitant. Can former leading lady and constant diva Mrs. Amberson help reverse the family’s fortune? Can Scarlett keep up with Mrs. A., help her brother’s acting career take off, deal with her rebellious younger sister, and manage to fall in love all in a single summer? By the author of The Keys to the Golden Firebird and 13 Little Blue Envelopes.


Tunnels by Riderick Gordon and Brian Williams

Will Burrows doesn’t fit in with the rest of his family. But when his father disappears, Will embarks on an amazing adventure to find him using their shared passion for archeology as his guide. What Will discovers is an unbelievable and highly dangerous society that time forgot, trapped under ground. Will he be able to free his father? This dark book and suspenseful book with have you on the edge of your seat.


Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonneblick

San Lee has moved so many times by eighth grade that when he gets to his newest school he decides he’s not going to bother to make friends. Then in a fateful World Zen class San answers a few too many questions, and suddenly everyone thinks he’s a Zen Master! But will everyone, including the girl San has a crush on, eventually figure out he’s a fake? And will San ever be Zen enough to forgive his father?