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Cool Books for Hot Nights

Older Teens

Cover of The Foretelling
Alice Hoffman
Rain must find the strength within herself to become the next Queen of the Amazons and to banish her dream of the Black Horse of Death.
Cover of 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Maureen Johnson
After receiving 13 envelopes to be opened one at a time, a plane ticket to London, and a list of instructions, Ginny sets out on a backpacking adventure across Europe never knowing where the next envelope will lead her.
Cover of Autobiography of My Dead Brother
Walter Dean Myers
Rise and Jesse live where drugs, drive-bys, and gangs are a reality. Rise decides the only way to survive the violence and hopelessness is to give in to it. But in the end, he is just another victim.
Cover of Uglies
Scott Westerfield
Tally can’t wait till she is 16 when she will get the operation that will make her look like everyone else, beautiful. But when Tally meets Shay, her life takes a drastic turn.
Cover of The Book Thief
Marcus Zusak
A train to Munich, the death of her brother, the abandonment by her mother, a foster family; so begins the new life of nine-year old Liesel, the book thief, as narrated by death himself. Along this new path she will encounter war, death, hatred, love, and the power of words.

Younger Teens

Cover of Down the Rabbit Hole
Peter Abrahams
Ingrid decides to solve the murder of Cracked Up Katie before she can be accused of it herself and before the real killer comes after her next.
Cover of Gilda Joyce Psychic Investigator
Jennifer Allison
Gilda is one of a kind. She invites herself to stay with a distant relative in a spooky mansion where she investigates a suicide and solves the mystery of the ghost in the tower.
Cover of In the Night on Lanvale Street
Jane Leslie Conly
Charlie and her little brother work with the “raincoat man” to discover who killed Mr. Healy. But this is no game and Charlie soon finds herself in danger.
Cover of Double Identity
Margaret Peterson Haddix
When Bethany’s parents abandon her, she is faced with living with an Aunt she never new existed, a town that treats her like a ghost, and secrets surrounding her own identity.
Cover of The Minister’s Daughter
Julie Hearn
Grace wants revenge. With witch hunting fever beginning in England, her plan will soon have Nell’s neck in a noose.
Cover of Bella at Midnight
Diane Stanley
A new and very different twist on the tale of Cinderella. Isabel’s life changes when she is torn from the family who raised her and sent to live with an insane father, a stepmother who doesn’t want her around, and two stepsisters. It takes yet another turn when she sets out to save Prince Julian from certain death.
Cover of Elsewhere
Gabrielle Zevin
Liz dies and wakes up aboard a boat to Elsewhere. Now she needs to become adjusted to a new life where she will age backward until she is a baby again and returns to Earth.

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