Barry Lyga
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
Author
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four teens dig up the time capsule that their parents buried in 1986 and never bothered to recover. In addition to the expected ephemera of mixtapes, Walkmans, photographs, letters, toys, and assorted junk, Elayah, Liam, Marcie, and Jorja discover something sinister: a hunting knife stained with blood and wrapped with a note. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to kill anyone." The teens haven't just unearthed a time capsule: they've also dug up pain and secrets...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
A chunk of old memory, adrift in a pool of blood. Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one--not even Sebastian himself--can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun. Now, ten years later, Sebastian has lived with the guilt and horror for his entire life. With his best friend away for the summer, Sebastian has only a new friend--Aneesa--to distract him from his darkest thoughts....
5) The hive
Author
Publisher
KCP Loft
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's the near future--the day after tomorrow--and the government has shut down online bullying once and for all. With BLINQ, its new social media platform, users can 'like' or 'share,' but they can also 'condemn' posts--and if condemns reach a certain level, users can exact punishment from the original poster in real life. No more anonymous trolling! Instead...hive justice. Seventeen-year-old Cassie McKinney is angry at everything. She's just lost...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
472 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jazz Dent, who has been shot and left to die in New York City, his girlfriend, Connie, who is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy, and his best friend, Howie, who is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod, must all rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Time is a funny thing in the hospital. In the mental ward. You lose track of it easily. After six months in the Maryland Mental Health Unit, Kyra Sellers, a.k.a. Goth Girl, is going home. Unfortunately, she's about to find out that while she was away, she lost track of more than time.
Kyra is back in black, feeling good, and ready to make up with the only person who's ever appreciated her for who she really is.
But then she sees him. Fanboy. Transcended...
Author
Series
Flash volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a timeline where Flashpoint never happened, The Flash (aka Barry Allen) must face a mysterious villain who can control the minds and actions of citizens. But when Hocus Pocus, as he calls himself, takes control of Barry, its up to Team Flash to help the Scarlet Speedster before hes forced to do the unthinkable.
9) Game
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
520 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After solving a deadly case in the small town of Lobo's Nod, seventeen-year-old Jazz, the son of history's most infamous serial murderer, travels to New York City to help the police track down the Hat-Dog Killer.
10) The secret sea
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three friends find themselves plunged into a world of quantum physics, a rare disease that only affects identical twins, and a mysterious fact about a real-life global catastrophe" --
Zak is standing on the subway platform when the tunnel starts to fill with water. He sees it before anyone else; a voice only he hears warns him to run. His friends Moira and Khalid believe this is more than a premonition, and soon all three find themselves in an alternate...
11) Manga man
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
125 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Ryoko Kiyama, a character from a Japanese comic book, or manga, falls through a rip into the real world--the western world--and tries to survive as the ultimate outsider at a typical American high school.
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Triumph. Tragedy. The empyreal. The infernal. Even the mundane, filtered through the fantastical. Superheroes are, appropriately enough, a sort of super-genre, encompassing all other story types. This YA anthology features 13 short stories that creatively turn superhero tropes on their head, while still paying homage to the genre that has found fans for more than eight decades. And there will be no mistake--superheroes don't have to just be generic...
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A life-size baby doll who stalks its prey. A flesh-hungry ogre who jingle jangles when he walks. A haunted house just dying for a visitor. What do all these things have in common? In collaboration with the Horror Writers Association, New York Times bestselling author and master of horror Jonathan Maberry has compiled a gruesome collection of terrifying stories--in tribute to Alvin Schwartz's classic Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series--that...