Teen Girl Fantasy

What if your town was sliding underwater, and everyone was ordered to pack up and leave? How would you and your friends spend your last days together? While the adults plan for the future, box up their possessions, and find new places to live, Keeley Hewitt and her friends decide to go out with a bang.

Five extraordinary sisters discover that they each have a unique talent, an extra-sensory perception that enables them to see what others can't. It makes them incredible, it puts them in danger, and it brings them closer to learning the secrets that have haunted them their entire lives. These are the Delta Girls. Sassy Sasha is having an online interlude with a secret admirer. She's convinced it's the gorgeous Taylor Petrenko behind the romantic emails. There's little time for love, though.

Evelyn, it turns out, is a human/alien hybrid, and her nervous wreck of a mother is right: Men in Black ARE hunting them. Evelyn narrowly escapes capture, and with Deb, her middle school bestie, and Gary Mayhew (a biology grad the two more or less hijack along the way), the trio trek cross country from Roswell to Las Vegas to the mysterious Groom Lake (Area 51), to rescue both Evelyn's mom and dad (Malin). Along the way, Evelyn discovers that she inherited more from her dad than her pale complexion, height, and unnervingly large eyes.

Acclaimed novelist Jewell Parker Rhodes is an American Book Award winner. Rhodes’ Ninth Ward is a stunning tale set against the horrors of Hurricane Katrina. Orphaned 12-year-old Lanesha lives with Mama Ya-Ya, the midwife who birthed her, in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. Although Lanesha is different—able to see ghosts like that of her dead mother—she never feels unloved, an empowerment that helps her survive the devastating storm.

In the middle of the American Second Civil War, born with a face that is half black and half white, Jetta belongs nowhere. In New Orleans, where she lives with her grandmother after her parents' death, she is believed to be a demon come to curse them all. Everywhere in the town, the blacks - or people of any color - are being persecuted and, one day, Jetta is moved by the white military and shipped outside of the city walls to live in a closed ghetto along with the rest of New Orleans' many blacks. But Jetta is not black.

Though everyone in the village of  Tres Montes thinks Sonia Ocampo is blessed, she knows she is nothing but a fraud. She’s spent her life listening to the hopes and wishes of her neighbors and family, but when a classmate dies despite her prayers, she is forced to realize that she has no special powers - no way to prevent bad things from happening.

When Talia and her sisters take part in a live studio audience for a television show, the last thing the eldest Delta Girl expects is for her psychic gift to be unwillingly broadcast to the nation. Now the media are hounding her, and the sisters' secret life and the power they hold threatens to become public knowledge. As Talia seeks refuge in a sculpture class, she meets mysterious loner and talented artist Marco Rodriguez. But someone else has heard about Talia's gift - someone dangerous - and he will stop at nothing to get what he wants from her.

Human extinction is inevitable - there is no going back. The pox spread quickly, within weeks everyone was dead - everyone except Harper McKenzie. Barely 15, Harper is an orphan, but a true survivor - life made her that way. An autistic loner, suffering years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her alcoholic mother, Harper seems remarkably undamaged, but can anyone hope to survive a lifetime of isolation without descending into madness?

I have been hunting vampires since I was fashioned by the clockwork specialist, Beatrice Hansworthy. It is the only purpose of my existence. It is already over 100 years since then, and the era of steam is but a distant memory. I wish the same were true of vampires. I am alone in my mission, but I will persevere until it is complete. I will remain strong. I should tell my parents, but we have this rule - we never hunt together, because there are too few of us left to risk it. What will happen if they decide to work together?

Five extraordinary sisters discover that they each have a unique talent, an extra-sensory perception that enables them to see what others can't. It makes them incredible, it puts them in danger, and it brings them closer to learning the secrets that have haunted them their entire lives. These are the Delta Girls.... Serena and her sisters read a private letter their father wrote to their mother, revealing a clue about his disappearance that they never knew about before.

In an isolated society, one girl makes a discovery that will change everything - and learns that a single stone, once set in motion, can bring down a mountain.

Jet is a 19-year-old skag, one of the humans still living free on Earth following an invasion of creatures called the Nirreth. Squatting in the ruins of Vancouver, Jet and her family eke out an existence underground, hiding from the culler ships. No one knows where the ships take the people they abduct, but they never return. When a culler finds Jet, she may discover the truth the hard way...and end up living among the very creatures that have enslaved her.

Teen Scream Movie Queen Sharlene Gallagher was the biggest thing to happen to Primrose, Texas... until she died. Now she's back as a guardian angel on a mission: solve murders before they happen. Her murder is first on the list. If she doesn't succeed, her charge will die. If she does, she'll find her way onto The Guardian.

Being able to detect black magic isnt all tea and crumpetsand for Theodosia Throckmorton, it can be a decidedly tricky business! When Sticky Will drags Theo to a magic show featuring the Great Awi Bubu, she quickly senses there is more to the magician than he lets on, setting in motion a chain of events she never could have bargained for.

Polly has always felt different. She is always top in swimming competitions, she swims in the sea but never feels the cold, and has a birthmark shaped like a small fish. Then she meets a girl called Lisa who has the same mark. The girls discover that they were adopted after having been found on a beach and that they can swim underwater for long periods.... This leads them to a city underwater, a completely different way of life and some startling revelations....

"Achingly tender." "Intimate and astonishing." For fans of You've Reached Sam and If I Stay, a hauntingly beautiful, ultimately hopeful novel-in-verse about a girl in between life and death, by National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride, who also narrates. Gospel is the Keeper of the Leaving...

Josy is coming closer to discovering her magic, but what will she have to sacrifice to uncover the secrets?

Maddie's dreams come true when she makes friends with Poppy, a flower fairy who lives in the woods behind her grandpa's house. But the fairies are in trouble! And not only the flower fairies - tooth fairies, book fairies, and dream fairies too. Someone is catching and imprisoning them and only Maddie and Poppy can help. Poppy has just one wing and can't fly, but soon she and Maddie set off on a daring rescue mission. Can they save the fairies before it is too late?

Athena Crowley is an ordinary eleven-year old girl who lives in an extraordinary place: a resort hotel in the Bahamas. Athena goes to school, rides the water slides, and helps out at the hotel’s dolphin encounter… a fairly normal life. But everything changes the day an old turtle starts talking to her, and Athena realizes that she can communicate with sea creatures.

Her secret magical ability could put everyone she loves in danger. Jen, a human chameleon, can transform herself into any inanimate object she touches - an ability she’s hidden from everyone, especially her parents. That is, until she meets Ainsley, a handsome artist with paintings so beautiful that Jen wants to jump inside them and become one with the fantastical worlds. Which, for Jen, is actually a possibility... Jen senses there is something special about Ainsley, too: He has a secret...just like hers.