This summer settle in for some twists and turns that will leave you breathless. From crime adventures to fantasy-filled adventures, these young adult novels are just the page-turners you’re looking for.
All We Lost Was Everything by Sloan Harlow
Small-town girl River Santos is ostensibly orphaned. With her mother missing, her father having recently died in a house fire, and a crazy ex, the only people River can rely on are her best friend Tawny and a new admirer, Logan. But love with him will have to wait when River gets some intel that the fire and her mother’s disappearance might not have been an accident after all.
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When We Go Missing by April Henry
Aspiring teen photographer Willow finds a mysterious camera memory card while volunteering at an animal shelter. Though initially innocuous, Willow finds hundreds of nonconsensual photos of teenage girls. The police are unconcerned, though one of the photos is of Willow herself. So, she teams up with fellow volunteer, Dare, to track down the card’s owner. With the disappearance of several of the girls on the card, it’s up to Willow to find the photographer before he finds her.
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Up in Smoke by Nick Brooks
Cooper King finds himself in trouble when he and his friends are caught on camera looting during a local march. The one who pressured them to loot in the first place is Jason, the main suspect of a murder that happened the same day. But his sister Monique will do whatever it takes to clear his name and she’s enlisting Cooper to help. Can Cooper and Monique unravel themselves from the web of intrigue, or will they be caught in the cross fire?
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Watch Me by Teherah Mafi
James Anderson returns in the latest installment of the Shatter Me series. All grown up in a time of uncertain peace, James finds and intends to dismantle the last remnants of the Reestablishment as they regenerate on Ark Island. He is unknowingly hunted by Rosabelle Wolff, a ruthless assassin under emotional surveillance. Any sign of hesitation would be the end of her, but unexpected feelings threaten to compromise the operation.
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Out of Air by Rachel Reiss
Six months ago, scuba diver Phoebe Ray becomes an internet sensation when she and a few friends discover gold coins at the bottom of the ocean. Now, the friends set out for Australia on a final diving trip before college pulls them apart. But when they are kidnapped by treasure hunters and held for ransom, the secrets of the sea bubble up to the surface.
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Death in the Cards by Mia Manansala
Danika Dizon is a prolific tarot reader at her high school. But when she draws the death card for one of her classmates, even she did not expect the girl to go missing soon after. The girl’s sister, Gaby, begs Danika to uncover what really happened to her, and the two take on the case. Part of it is to find the truth, the other is to prove to Danika’s mother that she has what it takes to become a private investigator too. But as Danika overturns a network of secrets, her own future starts to look grim.
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The Otherwhere Post by Emily J. Taylor
Still running from her father’s life of crime, Maeve Abenthy has escaped her old life and name. Seven years after going into hiding, she receives a letter claiming her father to have been innocent all along. In order to find out more of her father’s past, she trains in the art of scriptomancy, a skill that allows her to send letters to other worlds. But when her mentor grows suspicious of her and threatening letters arrive, she must sacrifice all she has to uncover the truth.
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Where Shadows Meet by Patrice Caldwell
A long time ago, Favre made herself flightless for Thana, and Thana threw that sacrifice away for power. Transformed into a creature of hate, Favre waits for a millennia to resurrect her lover and betrayer. In the present, Princess Leyla is desperate to save her captured best friend. Along with a beautiful seer named Najja, the two travel further from home and closer to destruction. An ancient evil lurks within, waiting for its moment to upend everything Leyla is fighting for.
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Lady or the Tiger by Heather M. Herrman
Belle King has just turned herself in for murder. But when her abusive husband shows up to her jail cell very much alive, Belle risks winding up back where she started. To keep her husband at bay and win the freedom she was willing to kill for, she resolves to become “The Wickedest Woman in the Wild West” even if she has to sink lower and lower to fit the bill.
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We Won’t All Survive by Kate Alice Marshall
Survivor and hero of a mall shooting, Mercy Gray became famous two years ago and all she has to show for it is a bullet in the back and hospital debts she can’t pay off. When billionaire Damien Dare recruits Mercy for a survivalist reality TV show, she had no intentions of turning him down. But when the casts shows up at the lot, the set is empty, the gates close, and they are trapped inside. Then, the first person dies. It’s more than an accident, its a plot, and Mercy is right at the heart of it.
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