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With a suspect who has confessed to the murder of the Peach Blossom Queen behind bars, the cloud over Paradiso, California, has lifted. Along with everyone else, high school senior and part-time sleuth Hope Hubbard is relieved to move on from the tragedy and flurry of false accusations. When the new Peach Blossom Queen is announced, the longshot winner realizes that it’s no fun being celebrated by the town when someone you’ve known your whole life is behind bars.

Luke Chase made history as a child when he escaped a kidnapping. Now, all he wants is to be a normal teenager. So when he sneaks out to the woods one night to drink with friends and flirt with the new British girl at school, he's excited to feel some freedom. Except the next morning, one of their teachers is found murdered—in the exact same spot where they had been partying. Soon, Luke's roommate and best friend Oscar is the #1 suspect.

The new homecoming queen is dead . . . and she's not the first unsolved murder at Seaview High. From the critically acclaimed author of The Ivies comes a nonstop YA thriller about a decades-old mystery, a copycat killer, and the teen who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth. "Utterly savage...

Newly escaped from the stifling boredom of a small town, college freshman Laura is ready for her first great adventure. But when her roommate, Betty, vanishes, and a sarcastic, nocturnal philosophy student named Carmilla moves into Betty's side of the room, Laura decides to play detective. Turns out, Betty isn't the first girl to go missing - she's just the first girl not to come back. As Laura closes in on answers, tensions rise with Carmilla. Is this just a roommate relationship that isn't working out, or does Carmilla know more than she's letting on about the disappearances? 

That's the question that has haunted 14-year-old Ezekiel Blast all his life. But he's not a thief, he just has a talent for finding things. Not a superpower - a micropower. Because what good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies, especially when you return them to their owners and everyone thinks you must have stolen them in the first place? If only there were some way to use Ezekiel's micropower for good, to turn a curse into a blessing. His friend Beth thinks there must be, and so does a police detective investigating the disappearance of a little girl.

Everyone on campus hates Doctor Stark, the severe woman who seems to take sadistic pleasure from doling out D’s and F’s on her infamous chemistry exams. Never before has Shea had so much trouble in school, and never before has she considered something so awful as cheating, but this time she has no choice. Her scholarship is riding on the class, and losing the scholarship would ruin her. Shea sneaks into Stark’s classroom and, terrified, makes a copy of tomorrow’s exam.

Sawyer Dodd is a star athlete, a straight-A student, and the envy of every other girl who wants to date Kevin Anderson. When Kevin dies in a tragic car crash, Sawyer is stunned. Then she opens her locker to find a note: "You're welcome".

A Jewish girl turned spy must infiltrate an elite Nazi boarding school in this highly commercial, relentlessly nail-biting World War II drama! After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, 15-year-old Sarah - blonde, blue-eyed, and Jewish - finds herself on the run from a government that wants to see every person like her dead. Then Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment and a lockbox full of weapons....

From Jennifer Donnelly, the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Northern Light and Revolution, comes a mystery about dark secrets, dirty truths, and the lengths to which people will go for love and revenge. For fans of Elizabeth George and Libba Bray, These Shallow Graves...

A teen navigates questions of grief, identity, and guilt in the wake of her sister's mysterious disappearance in this breathtaking novel-in-verse from the author of 500 Words or Less--perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo. Rowena feels like her family is a frayed string of lights that someone...

A new romantic thriller—with a dash of horror—from Natalie D. Richards, the New York Times bestselling author of YA psychological thriller books. Theo's always been impulsive. But telling Paige how he feels? He's obsessed over that decision. And it's time. Tonight. At the party on the...

Jaycee and Rachel were best friends. But that was before. Before that terrible night at the old house. Before Rachel shut Jaycee out. Before Jaycee chose Skyler over Rachel. Then Rachel is found dead. The police blame a growing gang problem in their small town, but Jaycee is sure it has to do with that night at the old house. Rachel's text is the first clue--starting Jaycee on a search that leads to a shocking secret. Rachel's death was no random crime, and Jaycee must figure out who to trust before she can expose the truth.

When eleven-year-old Finn notices that his shadow no longer follows the rules, his ordinary days in a quiet town unravel into something extraordinary. What begins as a trick of light soon becomes a secret friendship—and a dangerous curiosity. Each time Finn trades shadows with the creatures around him, he borrows a piece of their life: a sparrow’s flight, a lion’s courage, a cat’s grace, a fisherman’s patience. But every borrowed gift leaves his own shadow thinner, until one morning, it disappears completely.

In this propulsive new thriller, a dream summer in Italy turns into a harrowing ordeal for an American exchange student. Tess Alessandro is living a dream: she was selected for an incredible exchange program in Rome, where she's spending the summer taking in the beautiful sights and sounds and...

The town of Paradiso, California, is abuzz during the lead-up to its annual Peach Blossom Festival. This year, the theme is the 1950s, so the locals are already calling the soon-to-be-named queen, “Peggy Sue” after the Buddy Holly song. The four finalists are all seniors at the high school, with an equal chance of winning the crown—or dying . . .

Senior year isn’t supposed to end like this—with the death of a fellow student. Now, instead of fun times with good friends, there is fear and mourning. The girl who was to be crowned queen of the annual Peach Blossom Festival has been brutally murdered, leaving behind a trail of broken bonds and malicious rumors in her wake . . .

Lanternes allumées, costumes chuchotants… Ava pressent que cet Halloween ne sera pas ordinaire. Quand l’univers des Supranormaux frôle la fête, les apparences se fendent et l’inattendu s’invite à chaque porte. Entre frissons et mystère, elle devra écouter son instinct, rassembler son courage et choisir en qui avoir confiance.

Was steckt wirklich hinter dem Verbrechen in der Wohnanlage der Elderly Flowers? Sky und Connor ermitteln und suchen dabei Hilfe bei den Ghost Reapers. Doch ihre Ermittlungen sind alles andere als ungefährlich und was sie dabei herausfinden, legt einen grausamen Verdacht nahe. Als die Unheilige Nacht anbricht, geraten jedoch alle Ermittlungen in den Hintergrund.

Die 17-jährige Toni reist nach Schottland, um am Workshop eines Bestsellerautors teilzunehmen. In dem abgelegenen Herrenhaus eröffnet der kauzige Schriftsteller den Teilnehmenden: Er will dem größten Nachwuchstalent sein Vermögen vermachen! Die Jugendlichen stürzen sich in die Textarbeit. Doch während ein Sturm sie von der Außenwelt isoliert, geschehen rätselhafte Dinge: Das Personal verhält sich seltsam, jemand geistert durch die Gänge, und es kommt zu einem Einbruch.

Quando Pietro apprende della morte di Aurora Felce, astro nascente dello streaming di videogiochi, decide di indagare, pur sapendo, con i suoi tredici anni e senza poter raggiungere il luogo del delitto a Roma, di avere le mani legate. Pietro però non si arrende. Detective dilettante ed esperto di videogiochi, cercherà online un nesso tra la vita da streamer e quella reale della ragazza.