Everyone has a family, and trust me, EVERY family has a story … and a secret.
Blumenthal, Deborah. Mafia Girl. 2014.
As the daughter of an infamous mob boss, seventeen-year-old Gia struggles to come out of the shadow of her family’s notorious reputation and be her own person.
Carleson, J.C. The Tyrant’s Daughter. 2014.
Exiled to the American suburbs when her father, a Middle Eastern royal, is killed in a coup, fifteen-year-old Laila gradually adjusts to a different culture and considers new opportunities, while her mother conspires with CIA operatives and rebel factions to regain the family throne.
Christopher, Lucy. The Killing Woods. 2014.
When her father, an ex-soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder is arrested for murder, Emily’s efforts to exonerate him take her into the woods to play the Game, an extreme version of childhood games.
Fantaskey, Beth. Buzz Kill. 2014.
To Bee or not to Bee? When the widely disliked Honeywell Stingers football coach is found murdered, seventeen-year-old Millie is determined to investigate. She is chasing a lead for the school newspaper – and looking to clear her father, the assistant coach, and prime suspect.
Hopkins, Ellen. Fallout. 2013.
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother’s addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
Lockhart, E. We Were Liars. 2014.
Spending the summers on her family’s private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
Nickerson, Jane. The Mirk and Midnight Hour. 2014.
Seventeen-year-old Violent Dancey is spending the Civil War with a new stepmother and stepsister and her young cousin when she comes upon a wounded Yankee soldier, Thomas, who is being kept alive by mysterious voodoo practitioners.
Scott, Elizabeth. Heart Beat. 2014.
Does life go on when your heart is broken? Things change for Emma after her mother passes away, and her stepfather is keeping her mother’s body alive because of the baby she is carrying.
Smith-Ready, Jeri. This Side of Salvation: a novel. 2014.
After his older brother is killed, David turns to anger and his parents to religion, but just as David’s life is beginning to make sense again, his parents press him and his sister to join them in cutting worldly ties to prepare for the Rush, when the faithful will be whisked off to heaven.
Walton, Leslye J. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender. 2014.
Born with bird wings into a family cursed to be foolish in love, sixteen-year-old Ava delves into her family’s past hoping to understand her unusual nature and learn to fit in with her peers, but she is ill-prepared for what she discovers.