Spydus Search Results - New YA Fiction

Damsel / Evelyn Skye ; based on a screenplay by Dan Mazeau ; dragon lannguage by Reese Skye.

A price must be paid. Elodie never dreamed of a lavish palace or a handsome prince. Growing up in the famine-stricken realm of Inophe, her deepest wish was to help her people survive each winter. So when a representative from a rich, reclusive kingdom offers her family enough wealth to save Inophe in exchange for Elodie's hand in marriage, she accepts without hesitation. Swept away to the glistening kingdom of Aurea, Elodie is quickly taken in by the beauty of the realm--and of her betrothed, Prince Henry. But as Elodie undertakes the rituals to become an Aurean princess, doubts prick at her mind as cracks in the kingdom's perfect veneer begin to show: A young woman who appears and vanishes from the castle tower. A parade of torches weaving through the mountains. Markings left behind in a mysterious "V." Too late, she discovers that Aurea's prosperity has been purchased at a heavy cost--each harvest season, the kingdom sacrifices its princesses to a hungry dragon. And Elodie is the next sacrifice. This ancient arrangement has persisted for centuries, leading hundreds of women to their deaths. But the women who came before Elodie did not go quietly. Their blood pulses with power and memory, and their experiences hold the key to Elodie's survival. Forced to fight for her life, this damsel must use her wits to defeat a dragon, uncover Aurea's past, and save not only herself, but the future of her new kingdom as well.
Author: Skye, Evelyn
Published: London : Gollancz, 2024.
Published: ©2023
356 pages ; 20 cm

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T SKY - Available - 011001590

Your blood, my bones / Kelly Andrew.

Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she's just inherited -- to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement -- Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and left for dead. Unbeknownst to Wyatt, Peter has suffered hundreds of ritualistic deaths on her family's property. Semi-immortal, Peter never remains dead for long, but he can't really live, either. Not while he's bound to the farm, locked in a cycle of grisly deaths and painful rebirths. There's only one way for him to break free. He needs to end the Westlock line. He needs to kill Wyatt. With Wyatt's parents gone, the spells protecting the property have begun to unravel, and dark, ancient forces gather in the nearby forest. The only way for Wyatt to repair the wards is to work with Peter -- the one person who knows how to harness her volatile magic. But how can she trust a boy who's sworn an oath to destroy her? When the past turns up to haunt them in the most unexpected way, they are forced to rely on one another to survive, or else tear each other apart.
Author: Andrew, Kelly
Published: London : Gollancz, 2024.
Published: ©2024
356 pages ; 24 cm
1 reserve

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T AND - Available - 011022304

How you grow wings / Rimma Onoseta.

"Sisters Cheta and Zam's paths to break free of their oppressive home diverge wildly--one moves into an aunt's luxurious home and the other struggles to survive on her wits alone--and when they finally reunite, Zam realises how far Cheta has fallen, leaving Cheta's fate in Zam's hands"--OCLC.
Author: Onoseta, Rimma
First trade paperback edition.
Published: New York : Algonquin Young Readers, Workman Publishing, [2024]
Published: ©2024
330 pages ; 21 cm

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T ONO - Available - 011017874

Darker by four / June CL Tan.

A girl who lost her magic. The boy who found it. And a city having one Hell of a time . . . Rui is an Exorcist-in-training with one goal in mind - honing her magic to avenge her mother's death. Yiran is the black sheep of an illustrious family. The world would be at his feet - had he been born with magic. But when an accident causes Rui's power to transfer to Yiran, everything turns upside down. Without her magic, Rui has no tool for vengeance. With it, Yiran finally feels like he belongs. As dangerous monsters overrun the city, Rui will do whatever it takes to regain her power. Even if that means making a deal with a shadowy stranger to track down a god who does not wish to be found . . .
Author: Tan, June CL
Published: London : Hodderscape, 2024.
Published: ©2024
395 pages ; 24 cm.
Darker by four (Series) ; 1.

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T TAN - Available - 011022298

Wrong answers only / Tobias Madden.

Marco's always done the right thing. But now it's time for wrong answers only. Marco should be at university, studying biomedicine. Instead, he's been sent to live on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean with his estranged uncle, all because of a 'blip' everyone else is convinced was a panic attack. (Which it most definitely was not.) And even though Marco's trip is supposed to provide answers - about himself, about his family - all he finds on board the Ocean Melody are more and more questions. But then his best friend CeCe proposes a new plan- for someone who has always done the right thing, in every possible way, it's time for Marco to get a few things wrong. And hooking up with a hot dancer from the ship is only the beginning . . .
Author: Madden, Tobias
Published: [Southbank, VIC] : Penguin Books, 2024.
Published: ©2024
374 pages ; 20 cm
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Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T MAD - Available - 010996057

Deep is the fen [Paperback] / Lili Wilkinson.

Merriwether Morgan doesn't need a happily-ever-after. Her life in the idyllic town of Candlecott is fine just as it is: simple, happy, and with absolutely no magic. Magic only ever leads to trouble. But Merry's best friend, Teddy, is joining the Toadmen - a secret society upholding backward thinking and suspiciously supernatural traditions - and she is determined to stop him. Even if it means teaming up with her academic arch-nemesis, Caraway Boswell, an ice-cold snob who hides his true face behind a glamour. An ancient Toad ritual is being held in the nightmarish Deeping Fen, and if Merry doesn't rescue Teddy, she'll lose him forever. But the further she travels into Deeping Fen's foul waters, the more Merry wonders if she can possibly save her friend - or if she's walking straight into a trap. Because there's nothing the Toadmen love more than a damsel in distress . . .
Author: Wilkinson, Lili, 1981-
Published: Cammeraygal Country ; Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2024.
Published: ©2024
396 pages ; 24 cm

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T WIL - Onloan - Due: 08 Jun 2024 - 011021901

Kate Forsyth's long-lost fairy tales / illustrated by Lorena Carrington.

Long, long ago, storytellers all around the world told tales of wonder both to enchant and entertain us, and also to teach us that - if we are good and kind and courageous enough - we can change the world for the better. For this is what fairy tales do. They give us hope. As we travel through the dark and dangerous world of the fairy tale, as we fight dragons and outwit ogres and save our sisters and brothers, we learn that we are capable of anything. And then we return to our own world with all that we have learned along the way, stronger and braver than before. The stories in this book come from all the corners of the world. Some were told in deep time before history was recorded, and some were written not so long ago. All of them have been unjustly forgotten. In this collection of long-lost fairy tales, author Kate Forsyth and illustrator Lorena Carrington work together to bring tales of wisdom, compassion, and courage to life for the modern-day reader. This enchantingly beautiful book will transform the way you think about fairy tales.
Author: Forsyth, Kate, 1966-
Published: [Perth, Western Australia] : New Dawn Publishing, 2024.
v, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T FOR - Onloan - Due: 28 May 2024 - 010995999

Powerful / Lauren Roberts.

Adena and Paedyn have always been inseparable. Fate brought them together when they were young, but friendship ensured they'd always protect each other and the home they built in the slums of Loot. But now Paedyn - an Ordinary - has been selected for The Purging Trials, which means almost certain death. ' Now alone in Loot, Adena must fend for herself. After attempting to steal, it's a mysterious man from the market who comes to her rescue. Mak's shadowy past and secretive power set him apart from the other low-level Elites of Loot. And as the pair team up to see their loved ones before the Trials begin, the quest tests their loyalty, their love, and their lives...
Author: Roberts, Lauren, 2002-
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
Published: ©2024
243 pages : illustration, map ; 20 cm.
Powerless trilogy
4 reserves

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T ROB - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 15 May 2024) - 011021406

A way home / Emily Brewin.

Sixteen-year-old Grace lives under a bridge in Melbourne's CBD. It's cold and wet, but hidden. Safe, at least, until she can go home. When winter drives her to the City Library one morning, Grace meets Louie, a weird kid with his own problems, and discovers a community piano. The piano reminds Grace of her mum, a celebrated pianist whose mental illness makes life a rollercoaster - and not always a fun one. When Grace comes up with a plan to find the help she and Mum need, life begins to look up. But things don't work out as Grace imagines and suddenly her world's turned upside down again, and maybe for good this time. A Way Home is a big-hearted novel that explores the complexities of growing up with a parent who is struggling, and about the places and people we call home.
Author: Brewin, Emily
Published: Rundle Mall, SA : MidnightSun Publishing, 2024.
Published: ©2024
219 pages ; 20 cm

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T BRE - Available - 011021444

You wouldn't catch me dead / Tess James-Mackey.

Keely planned to keep her head down at her new school - she isn't there to make friends or memories, she just wants to be left alone. In order to get into college, she is roped into a programme that involves camping in the Welsh wilderness with five over-keen try-hards. Her plan is to keep her head down, keep her mouth shut and get through the next few days. But Keely is running from something. Something that drove her family out of their home and to this quiet town. And when her fellow explorers start disappearing and the bodies begin to pile up, she has to ask herself: did she run far enough?
Author: James-Mackey, Tess
Published: London : Hodder Children's Books, 2024.
Published: ©2024
299 pages ; 20 cm

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T JAM - Available - 011024445

Katie goes to KL / Su-May Tan.

KATIE CHEN, 16, lives in the unremarkable suburb of Narre Warren in Australia with her somewhat reclusive Malaysian father. Coming to Australia when she was 5 and losing her mother at 7, she has always struggled with issues of identity. One day, she goes back to Malaysia for her grandmother's funeral and discovers that her mother - long-thought-dead - is alive. Set in a fictionalised Kuala Lumpur (KL), Katie struggles to reconnect with her mother whom she discovers is Malay. Navigating KL's underground music scene and the underlying tensions of a country she doesn't understand, how far is Katie willing to go to find a place to belong?
Author: Tan, Su-May
Published: Singapore : Penguin Books, 2023.
Published: ©2024
233 pages ; 22 cm

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T TAN - Onloan - Due: 06 Jun 2024 - 011000043

The perfect guy doesn't exist / Sophie Gonzales.

While her parents are away for the week, sixteen-year-old Ivy Winslow plans on binge-watching her favourite TV show and hanging out with her best friend, Henry. But things quickly go downhill on the very first morning, when Ivy wakes up to find Weston, the gorgeous lead character of her favourite show, in her bedroom. And, oh yeah, he thinks that she's his soulmate. Ivy realises that her writing has somehow brought Weston as she's imagined him to life, and now he's living out her fanfiction dreams. But those fairytale dreams soon turn into disasters. Mack, Ivy's best-friend-turned-enemy who lives next door, and Henry get involved and the three of them need to figure out why Weston is here and how to get rid of him. As Ivy and Mack grow closer again, old feelings resurface and they finally face the fallout of their broken friendship, and question if they've both secretly always wanted something more . . . The new sapphic YA friends-to-enemies-to-lovers novel from bestselling author Sophie Gonzales, with her trademark humour and heart.
Author: Gonzales, Sophie, 1992-
Published: London : Hodder Children's Books, 2024.
Published: ©2024
294 pages ; 20 cm

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T GON - Available - 010997818

The reappearance of Rachel Price [Paperback] / Holly Jackson.

18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mum's mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness. Rachel is gone, presumed dead. The case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can't wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. But then Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again . . .
Author: Jackson, Holly, 1992-
Published: London : Farshore, 2024.
Published: ©2024
429 pages : genealogical table ; 20 cm
6 reserves

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T JAC - Onloan - Due: 06 Jun 2024 - 011024827
Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T 823.00 - On order

Otherworldly / F.T Lukens.

Ellery doesn't believe in magic. Sure, they've been stuck in a five-year winter, but there's got to be a scientific explanation for that. They're more concerned with working hard to send money back to the family farm than with whether there's a goddess out there who could put a stop to it. Knox has been trapped in the human realm for years. In service to a powerful witch for a decade, Knox is finally freed when her crossroads deal meets its terms. But Knox isn't sure he wants to return to the Other World, especially since his queen seems to have abandoned him. When a chance encounter finds Ellery coming to Knox's rescue, they're suddenly face to face with a (annoyingly attractive) guy who claims to be a supernatural familiar - something they definitely don't believe. But Ellery needs a way to stop the endless winter and save his family farm, and Knox needs a human who can tether him to their realm. A crossroads deal can't go wrong, can it?
Author: Lukens, F. T.
Published: London : Smon & Schuster, 2024.
Published: ©2024
343 pages ; 20 cm

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T LUK - Available - 011024803

10 hours to go / Keely Parrack.

Desperate for a ride home, Lily embarks on a tense road trip with her estranged ex-best friend Natasha and Elke, a girl Lily got expelled from their school years ago, and as tensions rise, past grievances and surrounding wildfires make the journey increasingly perilous.
Author: Parrack, Keely, 1967-
Published: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2024]
Published: ©2024
275 pages ; 21 cm

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T PAR - Available - 011001583

Gus and the missing boy / Troy Hunter.

True crime buff Gus Green has always felt out of place in the world. He's overweight, gay, his injured mum's primary carer, and he only has two real friends: Kane, polar opposite to Gus, and Shell, who is dealing with her own set of problems. Gus's life is flipped on its head one day when he finds a missing persons website with a digitally aged picture of a missing boy who looks eerily like him. Could he be a kidnapping victim? It would explain a lot about his patchy background, but what would that make his mum - his kidnapper? As Gus and his friends dive into the mystery, their investigation reveals more questions than answers. Can they unravel the case before his world falls apart? And what will they do if the truth is too much to handle?
Author: Hunter, Troy
Published: Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2024.
Published: ©2024
232 pages ; 21 cm
3 reserves

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T HUN - Onloan - Due: 11 Jun 2024 - 011017881

The girl in question / Tess Sharpe.

"Nora O'Malley knows her murderous stepfather will come after her when he is released from prison, but she is prepared to do whatever it takes to protect the people she loves"-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Sharpe, Tess
Published: London : Hodder Children's Books, 2024.
Published: ©2024
439 pages ; 20 cm

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T SHA - Available - 011022311

King of dead things / Nevin Holness.

The first time Eli had tried taking magic that wasn't his, it had wrapped around his palms like razor wire, tight enough that he'd needed stitches. Since then, Eli had bled magic from a soul enough times that he knew the rhythm of it. He knew what kinds of magic to stay away from and which he could upsell, which would get stuck beneath his fingernails, and which would crumble and turn to ash if he held on too tightly. Eli doesn't know who he is or where he came from. What he does know is that he can pluck the magic from a soul like a petal from a flower. And he knows there is nothing he wouldn't borrow, steal or destroy in order to discover his past. Malcolm knows he can raise the dead with a wave of his hand but all he really wants is to be able to save his mother. When Eli is sent to track down the legendary fang of the leopard god Osebo, he finds himself entangled with an old and ancient power. Forced to team up, Malcolm and Eli must weave through the cracks of London, unearthing magic that should have stayed buried. Until finally, they face a power greater than either of them could have imagined- the daughter of Death herself . . .
Author: Holness, Nevin
Published: London : Penguin Books, 2024.
Published: ©2024
371 pages ; 20 cm

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T HOL - Available - 010997849

Tell me what really happened / Chelsea Sedoti.

"It was all her idea. They would get away from their parents and spend the weekend camping. Down by Salvation Creek, the five of them would make s'mores, steal kisses, share secrets. But sometime around midnight, she vanished. Now the four friends who came back are under suspicion-and they each have a very different story to tell about what happened in the woods. The clock is ticking. What are they hiding? Who is lying? Dark truths must come to light if their friend is to be found... Told entirely through first-person police interviews, this riveting mystery asks: what really happened that night?"-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Sedoti, Chelsea
Published: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2024]
Published: ©2024
402 pages ; 22 cm

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T SED - Onloan - Due: 11 Jun 2024 - 011022267

These deadly prophecies / Andrea Tang.

Being an apprentice for one of the world's most famous sorcerers has its challenges; Tabatha Zeng just didn't think they would include solving crime. But when her boss, the infamous fortune-teller Sorcerer Solomon, predicts his own brutal death-and worse, it comes true-Tabatha finds herself caught in the crosshairs. The police have their sights set on her and Callum Solomon, her murdered boss's youngest son. With suspicion swirling around them, the two decide to team up to find the real killer and clear their own names once and for all. But solving a murder isn't as easy as it seems, especially when the suspect list is mostly the rich, connected, and magical members of Sorcerer Solomon's family. And Tabatha can't quite escape the nagging voice in her head asking- just how much can she really trust Callum Solomon? Nothing is as it seems in this quick-witted and fantastical murder mystery.
Author: Tang, Andrea
Published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2024.
Published: ©2024
244 pages ; 22 cm

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T TAN - Available - 010997733

The last bloodcarver / Vanessa Le.

"When Nhika is caught using her bloodcarving abilities during a sham medical appointment, she's captured by underground thugs and sold to an aristocratic family to heal the last witness of their father's murder. But as Nhika delves deeper into their investigation amidst the glitz of Theumas' wealthiest district, she begins to notice parallels between this job and her own dark past. And when she meets an alluring yet entitled physician's aide, Ven Kochin, she's forced to question the true intent behind this murder. In a society that outcasts her, Kochin seems drawn to her...though he takes every chance he gets to push her out of his opulent world. When Nhika discovers that Kochin is not who he claims to be, and that there is an evil dwelling in Theumas that runs much deeper than the murder of one man, she must decide where her heart, and her allegiance, truly lie. And - if she's willing to become the dreaded bloodcarver Theumas fears to save herself and the ones she's vowed to protect."-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Le, Vanessa, 1999-
Published: London : Rock the Boat, 2024.
Published: ©2024
369 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Last bloodcarver ; 1.

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T LE - Onloan - Due: 22 May 2024 - 010997825

Someone is always watching / Kelley Armstrong.

When their friend Gabrielle is found covered in blood in front of their dead principal, with no recollection of what happened, Blythe, Tucker, and Tanya soon discover their lives are a lie as the walls built around their real memories come crashing down.
Author: Armstrong, Kelley
Published: [Toronto, Ontario] : Tundra Books, 2024.
Published: ©2023
349 pages ; 21 cm

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T ARM - Available - 011021895

That self-same metal / Brittany N. Williams.

"Sixteen-year-old Joan Sands is a gifted craftswoman who creates and upkeeps the stage blades for William Shakespeare's acting company, The King's Men. Joan's skill with her blades comes from a magical ability to control metal-an ability gifted by her Head Orisha, Ogun. Because her whole family is Orisha-blessed, the Sands family have always kept tabs on the Fae presence in London. Usually that doesn't involve much except noting the faint glow around a Fae's body as they try to blend in with London society, but lately, there has been an uptick in brutal Fae attacks. After Joan wounds a powerful Fae and saves the son of a cruel Lord, she is drawn into political intrigue in the human and Fae worlds."-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Williams, Brittany N.
Published: London : Faber & Faber, 2024.
Published: ©2023
334 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Forge & fracture saga ; 1.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T WIL - Available - 011024797

House of war and bone / Leia Stone.

Fallon Bane, cursed to feel pain from touch, accidentally swaps powers with Ariyon, the only person able to touch her, leading her on a perilous journey to save him from the land of souls while navigating her new abilities as a Maven healer as the looming threat of war grows.
Author: Stone, Leia
Published: Naperville, Illinois : Bloom Books, [2024]
Published: ©2024
278 pages ; 20 cm.
Gilded city ; 2.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T STO - Available - 011022281

A drop of venom / Sajni Patel.

Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters--she's been running from them for years, from beasts who roam the jungle to the King's army, who forced her people, the naga, to scatter to the ends of the earth. You might think that the kingdom's famed holy temples atop the floating mountains, where Manisha is now a priestess, would be safe--but you would be wrong. Seventeen-year-old Pratyush is a famed slayer of monsters, one of the King's most prized warriors and a frequent visitor to the floating temples. For every monster the slayer kills, years are added to his life. You might think such a powerful warrior could do whatever he wants, but true power lies with the King. Tired after years of fighting, Pratyush wants nothing more than a peaceful, respectable life. When Pratyush and Manisha meet, each sees in the other the possibility to chart a new path. Unfortunately, the kingdom's powerful have other plans. A temple visitor sexually assaults Manisha and pushes her off the mountain into a pit of vipers. A month later, the King sends Pratyush off to kill one last monster (a powerful nagin who has been turning men to stone) before he'll consider granting his freedom. Except Manisha doesn't die, despite the hundreds of snake bites covering her body and the venom running through her veins. She rises from the pit more powerful than ever before, with heightened senses, armour-like skin, and blood that can turn people to stone. And Pratyush doesn't know it, but the "monster" he's been sent to kill is none other than the girl he wants to marry.
Author: Patel, Sajni, 1981-
First edition.
Published: Los Angeles : Hyperion, 2024.
Published: ©2024
393 pages ; 23 cm

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T PAT - Available - 011021437

To gaze upon wicked Gods / Molly X. Chang.

"Known as The Girl Blessed by Death, Ruying wants only to survive, but when her magic is discovered by an enemy prince she must decide if saving her family is worth betraying her country. For as long as Yang Ruying can remember, the empire of Er-Lang has been occupied by Romans, whose advanced science and military make them Gods. But these Gods are not kind. Their only gifts- cruelty, opian, and destruction. When Antony, the second Prince of Rome, uncovers Ruying's power, she becomes what she always feared- the perfect assassin. As tensions mount and rebellion stirs, Ruying can no longer deny that peace is a death sentence for Er-Lang. A death she may not be willing to deliver."-- Provided by publisher.
Author: Chang, Molly X.
Published: [London] : Penguin Books, 2024.
Published: ©2024
viii, 350 pages ; 24 cm

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T CHA - Onloan - Due: 08 Jun 2024 - 011021888

The Revenant Games / Margie Fuston.

"Blood is survival for seventeen-year-old Bly, who lives in the poverty-stricken human villages caught between enemy vampire and witch kingdoms. Most of the time, vampires and witches live in an uneasy truce, buying human blood for their food and spells. But for two weeks a year, the truce dissolves, and they hold the Revenant Games. Any human can play in the games for either the witches or the vampires. The witches will raise one person from the dead for whoever captures the highest-ranking vampire. The vampires offer immortality to whoever captures the most powerful witch. For most humans, the games are a ticket out of poverty. For Bly, it's a chance to get back her dead sister, Elise, and save her dying best friend, Emerson. Together, she and Emerson forge a dangerous plan to play both sides and win both prizes: resurrection for Elise and immortality for Emerson. But when the vampire they capture stirs a passion in Bly that she hasn't felt in a long time, she'll have to make a choice: her sister or the boy who's shown her there's more to life than just survival"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Fuston, Margie
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
Published: ©2024
402 pages ; 20 cm

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T FUS - Available - 011024810

The breakup lists / Adib Khorram.

Jackson Ghasnavi is a lot of things-a techie, a smoothie afficionado, a totally not obsessive list-maker-but one thing he's not is a romantic. And why would he be? He's already had a front row seat to his parents' divorce and picked up the pieces of his sister Jasmine's broken heart one too many times. No, Jackson is perfectly happy living life behind the scenes-he is a stage manager, after all-and keeping his romantic exploits limited to the breakup lists he makes for Jasmine, which chronicle every flaw (real or imagined) of her various and sundry exes. Enter Liam- the senior swim captain turned leading man that neither of the Ghasnavi siblings stop thinking about. Not that Jackson has a crush, of course. Jasmine is already setting her sights on him and he's probably-no, definitely-straight anyway. So why does the idea of eventually writing a breakup list for him feel so impossible?
Author: Khorram, Adib
Published: New York : Dial Books, 2024.
Published: ©2024
328 pages ; 22 cm
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Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T KHO - Onloan - Due: 22 May 2024 - 011022328

Electric life / Rachel Delahaye.

Estrella is the 'perfect' society: an immaculate, sanitised, hyper-connected environment where everything is channelled through the digital medium. There is no dirt, no pain, no disease and no natural world. Feelings like boredom are frowned upon and discouraged. Alara is dropped down to London Under and into a new-old world that bewilders and disorientates her. How will she survive in a society where noise, dirt and sometimes pain are everyday experiences, and where food is not synthetic and tastes real? Will she accomplish her mission? Who can she trust? How will she get back to her family and her worry-free life in Estrella?
Author: Delahaye, Rachel
Published: Gosford, NSW : Scholastic Australia, 2024.
Published: ©2023
336 pages ; 20 cm

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T DEL - Available - 011021918

Seven days / Rebeka Shaid ; [interior illustrations by Parvati Pillai].

Noori has it all figured out. She may only be sixteen, but she knows a thing or two about life and its messy heartaches. Aamir is trying to escape a painful past. The last thing he needs is more complications. Yet after his world collides with Noori's, he can't forget her. Noori and Aamir may be strangers to each other, but their lives are connected by invisible threads. Will the both realise what's at stake before it's too late?
Author: Shaid, Rebeka
Published: London, England : Walker Books, 2024.
Published: ©2024
299 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Teen Fiction - T SHA - Available - 010997672