February 2018 – Algonquin Library Teen Services

Renegades by Marissa Meyer (Renegades #1)

February 28, 2018

Renegades by Marissa Meyer (Renegades #1) As champions of justice, the Renegades remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone, except the villains they once overthrew. Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for vengeance.

All Rights Reserved by Gregory Scott Katsoulis (Word$ #1)

February 27, 2018

All Rights Reserved by Gregory Scott Katsoulis (Word$ #1) In a world where every word and gesture is copyrighted, patented or trademarked, one girl elects to remain silent rather than pay to speak, and her defiant and unexpected silence threatens to unravel the very fabric of society.

Tell A Fairy Tale Day

February 26, 2018

February 26 is Tell a Fairy Tale Day! Check out some of the fairy tales we have in the Teen section today: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.

Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin by James Swanson

February 26, 2018

Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin by James Swanson James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King, Jr. had two very different life journeys — but their paths fatally collide when Ray assassinates the world-renown civil rights leader. This book provides an inside look into both of their lives, the history of the time, and a […]

Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Albert Marrin

February 25, 2018

Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Albert Marrin In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly […]

Meet Cute: Some People are Destined to Meet by Jennifer Armentrout (Ed.)

February 24, 2018

Meet Cute: Some People are Destined to Meet by Jennifer Armentrout (Ed.) A collection of short stories exploring the moment when a couple meets for the first time–from an African American girl in upstate New York who simultaneously finds a prom dress and a date to a transgender girl who confronts the student blocking her right to use the school […]

Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia Cole (Faloiv #1)

February 23, 2018

Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia Cole (Faloiv #1) Octavia is excited to study the plants and animals of Faloiv until she witnesses one of the planet’s indigenous people being attacked and begins to question her own family history and the scientists she has always admired.

Busted by Gina Ciocca

February 22, 2018

Busted by Gina Ciocca When Marisa accidentally caught her best friend’s boyfriend making out with another girl, her reputation for sniffing out cheaters spread all over school. Now Marisa finds herself the reluctant queen of busting two-timing boys. When ex-frenemy Kendall asks her to spy on her boyfriend TJ, she discovers the girl TJ might be falling for is Marisa […]

Love and Other Train Wrecks by Leah Konen

February 21, 2018

Love and Other Train Wrecks by Leah Konen When their train breaks down during a snowstorm, Noah, a hopeless romantic, and Ammy, who refuses to believe in true love, are forced to travel together to reach their destinations.

Love Letters of Abelard and Lily by Laura Creedle

February 20, 2018

Love Letters of Abelard and Lily by Laura Creedle When Lily Michaels-Ryan ditches her ADHD meds and lands in detention with Abelard, who has Asperger’s, she’s intrigued—Abelard seems thirty seconds behind, while she feels thirty seconds ahead. It doesn’t hurt that he’s brilliant and beautiful. When Abelard posts a quote from The Letters of Abelard and Heloise online, their mutual […]