Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction

Allie's world is falling apart.

Nature is out of balance in the human world.

In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota - and hopefully live to see another day.

In this exhilarating companion to Printz Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi brilliantly captures a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, driven by demagogues who recruit children to become soulless killing machines.

In Rosewood, not all that glitters is gold, and the town harbors secrets darker than anyone could imagine-like the truth about what really happened the night Alison DiLaurentis went missing.

Four gorgeous girls are telling very ugly stories.

In picture-perfect Rosewood, Pennsylvania, pictures often lie-and so do Rosewood's four prettiest girls.

In idyllic Rosewood, four very pretty girls just can't help but be bad.

The secret hour is beginning to crumble and the darklings are preparing to feed for the first time in centuries.

Imagine falling for someone who can fly you through the air.

As the new girl at Bixby High School, Jessica Day expected some unwelcome attention.

Valerie is in love with the dangerous and unlikable Peter (a woodcutter, of course) but is betrothed to the rich hot blacksmith in town, Henry.

Bethany, an angel sent to Earth, and her mortal boyfriend, Xavier, have been to Hell and back.

Is love a great enough power against evil?

Three angels are sent down to bring good to the world: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio.

Jesse has survived the chasers.

Jesse is on a school trip in New York when his subway carriage is rocked by an explosion.

Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.

The plan was only to scare their English teacher.

It was only an accident but it would change their lives forever.

Our hero?

You're an alpha, a leader.

Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by the riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits.

After the horrifying explosion that claimed one of their own, the Diviners find themselves wanted by the US government, and on the brink of war with the King of Crows.

The Diviners are back in this thrilling and eerie third installment by #1 New York Timesbestselling author Libba Bray.

After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner.

It's 1920s New York City.

Jane is found, near death, in a rosebush - a victim of hit and run.

She can control her pack, but not her heart .

Lavish parties.

With time dwindling but her will to end the Prophecy stronger than ever, Lia sets out on a journey to find the remaining keys, locate the missing pages of the Prophecy, and convince her sister Alice to help--or risk her life trying.

Drastically altered after her fall at the end of HIDDEN, Neferet is now more dangerous than ever - and her quest for vengeance will wreak havoc on humans as well as Zoey and her friends.

'Comfortably mixing science, myth, and mystery, Armstrong creates a vivid world highlighted by appealing characters.

I'd known it before we saw the fire trucks and the smoke.

Teenager Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything.

When teenager Nick Gautier was saved from almost-certain death by a mysterious warrior, he had a feeling his life was set to change.

They're Young, Fabulous and Fanged.

Once enslaved in the darkest pits of the underworld, Lawson and his pack were destined to become Hounds of Hell.

'The pieces of her spirit are with the dead in the Otherworld,' Aphrodite said, blinking hard against the stinging of her red-tinged eyes.

'I knew forcing a confrontation with Neferet here and now wasn't smart.

'My soul's been shattered and my boyfriend's been killed.

Young Andrew was touched by the otherworld when a dead murderer sought out his village, showing him his fate.

'There's never a slow moment in their journey or a false line in Armstrong's writing.

London, 1865, and young Theresa Hatch (Tess, to her friends) receives a nast surprise late at night.

Schuyler's hunt for the Gates is becoming more intense as the vampire world is beginning to show cracks.

The glamorous Manhattan lives of the Blue Bloods have been threatened by the rise of the Silver Bloods.

With the stunning revelation surrounding Bliss's true identity comes the growing threat of the sinister Silver Bloods.

Schuyler Van Alen's blood legacy has just been called into question: is the young vampire in fact a Blue Blood, or is it the sinister Silver Blood that runs through her veins?

Schuyler Van Alen wants an explaination for the mysterious death of young vampires.

Schuyler Van Alen has never fit in at Duchesne, her prestigious New York City private school.