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• Ten

  McNeil, Gretchen

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  Suspenseful and gruesome mystery. Ten teens are invited to an exclusive house party on a private island. But what is supposed to be fun and luxurious ends up deadly. The teens are cut off from the outside world as an unknown killer starts picking…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unwind

  Shusterman, Neal

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  Bleak and disturbing dystopia. In a terrifying dystopian future, parents may choose to belatedly "abort" their children between the ages of 13 and 18 if they become a problem, in a process called "unwinding." Three teens fight for their lives when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lord of the Fly Fest

  Moldavsky, Goldy,

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  Satirical and offbeat thriller. Influencers are invited to a luxury tropical island for a exclusive music festival, Fly Fest. Once they arrive, they realize the festival was a sham, and there may be a murderer among them.

• I Must Betray You

  Sepetys, Ruta,

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  Suspenseful historical fiction. Cristian dreams of becoming a writer, but living in Romania in 1989, under a tyrannical dictatorship, that isn't an option. Instead, he's blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, and must decide to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dread Nation

  Ireland, Justina,

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  Intense historical fantasy. In an alternate version of history, the American Civil War is derailed when the dead begin to walk again. Racist laws are enacted to force certain children to attend combat schools to learn to protect society from this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eat Your Heart Out

  deVos, Kelly,

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  Darkly humorous zombie apocalypse. This satirical blend of horror, body positivity, and humor features a weight-loss camp with a supposed "miracle cure" that has very unexpected results.

• The Canyon's Edge

  Bowling, Dusti,

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  Suspenseful survival adventure. While Nora and her father are exploring a slot canyon in the Arizona desert, a flash flood carries away her father and all of their supplies. Now Nora has to rescue herself and try to find her father as she's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dead Flip

  Farizan, Sara, 1984-

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  Creepy retro horror. Five years ago, Sam mysteriously disappeared. Now he returns, but he's still 12 years old. His former best friends are pulled into the mystery of what happened to Sam, but is Sam telling them everything?

• The Clackity

  Senf, Lora,

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  Action-packed ghost story. To rescue her aunt, Evie has to make a deal with a shadowy creature in an abandoned slaughterhouse, which involves 7 strange houses and the ghost of a notorious serial killer.

• And the Trees Crept in

  Kurtagich, Dawn,

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  Creepy atmospheric horror. When Silla and Nori visit their aunt's home, it becomes clear that something isn't right. There's a mysterious boy appearing in the woods, there's a man that only Nori can see, and the trees in the surrounding words seem…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Scythe

  Shusterman, Neal,

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  Dystopian science fiction. Two teens are chosen, against their will, to become apprentice scythes. They are tasked with taking lives to keep the population under control, because humanity has conquered death.

• The Lonely Dead

  Henry, April,

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  Suspenseful supernatural mystery. Adele comes cross her ex-best friend Tori in a shallow grave and realizes that Tori is actually dead and she's speaking to her ghost. Adele becomes the prime suspect and must work with Tori's ghost to find the real…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Honeys

  La Sala, Ryan,

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  Creepy and intensifying horror. At a secluded summer retreat, Mars tries to learn about his mysterious twin sister and her death. But the beautiful fairytale setting appears to be hiding something terrifying and twisted.

• The Weight of Blood

  Jackson, Tiffany D.,

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  Gruesome revenge horror. In a small Georgia town with a legacy of racism, the high school hosts its first integrated prom to promote unity and change the town's image. But there are some students who just won't let the racism and bullying go, and it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brother's Keeper

  Lee, Julie (Children's fiction writer),

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  Moving survival adventure. When war and tragedy strike, a brother and sister must walk hundreds of miles from North Korea to South Korea while avoiding frostbite, border guards, napalm, and enemy soldiers.

• Pan's Labyrinth

  the Labyrinth of the Faun

  Toro, Guillermo del, 1964-

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  Dark faerie realm fantasy. A girl flees the home of her cruel stepfather into an underground fantasy world with strange creatures and a terrifying battle between good and evil.

• Two Can Keep a Secret

  McManus, Karen M.,

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  Complex crime thriller. Five years ago, the homecoming queen was murdered. Now, another girl goes missing. If Ellery doesn't uncover some deadly secrets, nobody will be safe at homecoming this year.

• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

  Riggs, Ransom

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  Illustrated creepy fantasy. A chilling, wondrous novel about a crumbling, abandoned orphanage on a remote island, what happened to the people there, and whether they could still be alive. somehow. Eerie photographs add to the creep-factor.

• Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

  McBride, Lish

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  Offbeat and gruesome urban fantasy. In this darkly humorous book, an intensely violent necromancer who raises the dead for cash wants to join forces with Sam, who is only just realizing he has some latent necromancy powers too.

• A Face Like Glass

  Hardinge, Frances,

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  Lyrical fantasy fiction. The people in the underground city toil in darkness to make disturbingly magical items. The people on the surface have blank faces and must learn facial expressions by Facesmiths. Then a girl arrives whose face is so…Read moreRead more of this annotation