Looking for a good book? This list was created by the North Shore Library’s Youth Services Department. The books on this list come highly recommended by librarians, teachers, parents, and children!

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NORTH SHORE LIBRARY Youth Services 6800 N Port Washington Rd

Glendale, WI 53217 Department

Sea of Shadows by Kelley Armstrong Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins The Devil and Winnie Flynn by Micol Ostow YA ARMSTRONG YA HAWKINS YA OSTOW Twin sisters Ashyn and Moria must embark on a When Sophie attracts too much human attention for a While working as a production assistant on her aunt’s dangerous journey when the spirits they’re charged prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, she is exiled to television show about the paranormal, a seventeen- with protecting turn vengeful. Grades 8-12 Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward year-old girl discovers a ability of her own, Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters. which may provide clues to her mother’s death. Grades Grades 8-12 8-12 The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

YApb BLACK When seventeen-year-old Tana wakes up following a Reawakened by Colleen Houck Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs party in the aftermath of a violent attack, she YA HOUCK travels to Coldtown, a quarantined Massachusetts city A visit to an Egyptian exhibit brings teen Lilliana Young YApb RIGGS full of , with her ex-boyfriend and a face to face with a recently awakened mumm-turned- After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore mysterious vampire boy in tow. Grades 8-12 handsome-sun-god as she gets caught up in an an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of adventure with more twists and turns than the Nile Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children itself. Grades 8-12 who were kept there. Grades 8-12 The Diviners by Libba Bray

YA BRAY The Twelve Fingered Boy by John Hornor Jacobs The Archived by Victoria Schwab Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, YA JACOBS YApb SCHWAB even when a rash of -based murders thrusts Evie Fifteen-year-old fast-talking Shreve is thriving in When an otherworldly library called the Archive is and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American juvenile detention until he is assigned a strangely silent compromised from within, sixteen-year-old Mackenzie , , and the Occult, into the thick of and vulnerable new cellmate, Jack, who just might have Bishop must prevent violent, -like Histories from the investigation. Grades 8-12 superpowers and who attracts the attention of both of escaping into our world. Grades 8-12 the cellblock bullies and sinister Mr. Quincruz. Grades 8-12 Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

YA CORDOVA YA STIEFVATER Alex is a bruja and the most powerful witch in her I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue family. But she’s hated ever since it made her YA LORE Sargent’s only gift seems to be that she makes other father disappear into thin air. When a curse she In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove people’s talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, performs to rid herself of magic backfires and her distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby family vanishes, she must travel to Los Lagos, to get Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own – her family back. Grades 8-12 powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving and that together their talents are a dangerous mix. Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who Grades 8-12 destroyed their planet, Lorien. Grades 8-12 Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret

Stohl Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride YA GARCIA YA TAYLOR In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little YA McBRIDE Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college student in a Prague boarding school, carries a is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters – the whom he shares a psychic connection and whose world of harbingers, , satyrs, and one Chimerae who form the only family she has ever known. family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his Grades 8-12 sixteenth birthday. Grades 8-12 lucrative business of raising the dead. Grades 8-12

Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey YA HARDINGE YA OLDER YA YANCEY In post-World War I England, eleven-year-old Triss When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his nearly drowns in a millpond known as "The Grimmer" neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and emerges with memory gaps, aware that Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and something's terribly wrong, and to try to set things on – then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi. right, she must meet a twisted architect who has shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil Grades 8- 12 designs on her family. Grades 8-12 anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.

Grades 8-12