Best Teen & Young Adult Romantic Mysteries & Thrillers
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children).
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book was one of the first books SHE mentioned wanting to read on her own. We jumped in the car and raced off to the book store to see if we could capitalize on her "read all of the books mood" once she flipped through the book she was hooked in... inside the store!"
"While the storyline took a while to get into the actual peculiar side it still kept my interest. They're supposedly vintage photos with minimal altering which leads even more mystery to the story and a little magic to life as the photos themselves are peculiar."
"Good characters."
"It is tied in my opinion with Harry Potter and I've only read one of the Miss Peregrine books so far and I've only read the first 5 HP books. I am very critical when it comes to books and I have to say or type it is the best thing I've read in a loooong time."
"Not only did I read this book in two sittings (bringing it with me whenever I got up to grab something or do anything else), I had a VERY hard time falling asleep on the night of the 7th and focusing at work on the 8th because all I could think about was the story and how badly I wanted to be reading rather than sleeping/working! I honestly can't remember the last time I felt that way about a book... though I have read plenty that I had a hard time putting down, I didn't lose sleep over them because they just didn't hook me as much as this one did. I loved everything about this book."
"I thought the author did a very good job of capturing a disenfranchised sixteen year old who finds himself on an adventure. I loved his narrating voice and his voice of young Jake, but he made all the young girls sound like old biddies--all breathy and high pitched."
This paperback box set includes the first four books in Sara Shepard’s #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars series, Pretty Little Liars , Flawless , Perfect, and Unbelievable. High school juniors Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily have been keeping secrets ever since their best friend, Alison DiLaurentis, disappeared three years ago.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Aria, Spencer, Hannah and Emily are brought back together by their common bond, their lost friend Alison."
"This book held my attention til the end and then guess it does not appear to be the end."
"I started reading the book at the same time I started watching the tv series. I will definitely read the next book and continue the series on tv."
"after starting to watch the series, I really wanted to read the books."
"I loved these first four books."
"I finished this in a day... i was addicted 2 this book.... great book!love it!SERIOUSLY 😃This book had all the factors to be an awesome book."
"This was a great, quick, dramatic read!"
"Never clear to me what the terrible secret is or was, that they're trying desperately no to reveal."
“ Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club ” (EW.com). in this “flat-out addictive” ( RT Book Reviews ) story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Before the end of detention Simon's dead. An EW.com Best YA Book of the Year Selection A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of the Year Selection. A Popcrush Best Young Adult Book of the Year Selection. A New York Public Library's Best Book for Teens Selection. A CBC Teen Choice Book Award Nominee. A Bustle.com Best Young Adult Book of May 2017. A Goodreads Best Young Adult Book of the Year Nominee. A YALSA Best Fiction Book Nominee. " A whodunit with a Breakfast Club twist ...following four unique voices on a chase to find the killer, this one will keep you guessing until the very, very end. “ An addictive, devour-in-one-sitting thriller with so many twists and turns you'll be wondering until the very end: Who really killed Simon ?”—Kara Thomas, author of The Darkest Corners and Little Monsters ★ "[As] McManus's intense mystery unfolds... each character becomes more complex and nuanced, adding richness and depth to the suspense. ". "A smart, twisted, and unpredictable YA mystery that will have readers guessing until the very end. A New York Times Bestseller. An EW.com Best YA Book of the Year Selection. A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of the Year Selection. A New York Public Library's Best Book for Teens Selection. A Popcrush Best Young Adult Book of the Year Selection. A CBC Teen Choice Book Award Nominee A Bustle.com Best Young Adult Book of May 2017 A Goodreads Best Young Adult Book of the Year Nominee A YALSA Best Fiction Book Nominee. thriller. "Twisty plotting, breakneck pacing and intriguing characterisation add up to an exciting, single-sitting thrillerish treat. “ An addictive, devour-in-one-sitting thriller with so many twists and turns you'll be wondering until the very end: Who really killed Simon ?”—Kara Thomas, author of The Darkest Corners and Little Monsters ★ "[As] McManus's intense mystery unfolds... each character becomes more complex and nuanced, adding richness and depth to the suspense. ".
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I’m normally not a reader of YA books, but I received a recommendation and read the blurb relating what it was about and I just had to buy it."
"The author keeps you invested and does a great job in playing out the story with new details without being confusing or boring."
"An engaging and thrilling YA book with the right amount of romance and suspense."
"Love this mystery combo of Mean Girls and The Breakfast Club!"
"This book is a great mystery that takes unexpected turns."
"I picked this up bc I've heard of story lines like Pretty Little Liars or Gossip Girl on TV, but I haven't watched or read any of them. The rest of the books focuses on figuring out who killed Simon - each diving into the characters and their supporting cast of family and friends. Each chapter reveals more about each character and helps build up motives, suspicions and add plot twists and turns. Each chapter and part of the book help build up and show newer and bigger surprises to all of the story lines! The author does an excellent job of tying up plot lines, with perhaps one or two areas that could be improved in terms of tightening up loose ends."
"When Simon, the gossip, dies in a mysterious way during that detention, the other four students are immediately put in the spotlight. During the investigation, the police find an unpublished blog that has information that ruin those four students that were in the room with Simon. The author did a great job in creating these characters and I found myself liking them and hoping that none of them were the killer."
"The main characters are all teenagers, and like teenagers, they can be pretty cringy."
Best Teen & Young Adult Historical Mysteries & Thrillers
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children).
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"This book was one of the first books SHE mentioned wanting to read on her own. We jumped in the car and raced off to the book store to see if we could capitalize on her "read all of the books mood" once she flipped through the book she was hooked in... inside the store!"
"While the storyline took a while to get into the actual peculiar side it still kept my interest. They're supposedly vintage photos with minimal altering which leads even more mystery to the story and a little magic to life as the photos themselves are peculiar."
"Good characters."
"It is tied in my opinion with Harry Potter and I've only read one of the Miss Peregrine books so far and I've only read the first 5 HP books. I am very critical when it comes to books and I have to say or type it is the best thing I've read in a loooong time."
"Not only did I read this book in two sittings (bringing it with me whenever I got up to grab something or do anything else), I had a VERY hard time falling asleep on the night of the 7th and focusing at work on the 8th because all I could think about was the story and how badly I wanted to be reading rather than sleeping/working! I honestly can't remember the last time I felt that way about a book... though I have read plenty that I had a hard time putting down, I didn't lose sleep over them because they just didn't hook me as much as this one did. I loved everything about this book."
"I thought the author did a very good job of capturing a disenfranchised sixteen year old who finds himself on an adventure. I loved his narrating voice and his voice of young Jake, but he made all the young girls sound like old biddies--all breathy and high pitched."
Best Teen & Young Adult Mysteries & Detective Stories
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children).
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"This book was one of the first books SHE mentioned wanting to read on her own. We jumped in the car and raced off to the book store to see if we could capitalize on her "read all of the books mood" once she flipped through the book she was hooked in... inside the store!"
"While the storyline took a while to get into the actual peculiar side it still kept my interest. They're supposedly vintage photos with minimal altering which leads even more mystery to the story and a little magic to life as the photos themselves are peculiar."
"Good characters."
"It is tied in my opinion with Harry Potter and I've only read one of the Miss Peregrine books so far and I've only read the first 5 HP books. I am very critical when it comes to books and I have to say or type it is the best thing I've read in a loooong time."
"Not only did I read this book in two sittings (bringing it with me whenever I got up to grab something or do anything else), I had a VERY hard time falling asleep on the night of the 7th and focusing at work on the 8th because all I could think about was the story and how badly I wanted to be reading rather than sleeping/working! I honestly can't remember the last time I felt that way about a book... though I have read plenty that I had a hard time putting down, I didn't lose sleep over them because they just didn't hook me as much as this one did. I loved everything about this book."
"I thought the author did a very good job of capturing a disenfranchised sixteen year old who finds himself on an adventure. I loved his narrating voice and his voice of young Jake, but he made all the young girls sound like old biddies--all breathy and high pitched."
Best Teen & Young Adult Fantasy & Supernatural Mysteries & Thrillers
***** Includes a preview of. THE BOOK OF DUST, the long-awaited new novel from Philip Pullman set in the world of His Dark Materials, and. hailed by the New York Times as "A stunning achievement"***** The Golden Compass. , The Subtle Knife , and The Amber Spyglass are available together in a collectible His Dark Materials boxed set perfect for any fan or newcomer to this modern fantasy classic series that has graced the New York Times , Wall Street Journal , San Francisco Chronicle , Book Sense , and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. Phillip Pullman’s spellbinding His Dark Materials trilogy has captivated readers for over twenty years and won acclaim at every turn. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy ( The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass ), which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Weekly . He has also won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal for The Golden Compass (and the reader-voted "Carnegie of Carnegies" for the best children's book of the past seventy years); the Whitbread (now Costa) Award for The Amber Spyglass ; a Booker Prize long-list nomination ( The Amber Spyglass ); Parents' Choice Gold Awards ( The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass ); and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in honor of his body of work.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Indeed as I was reading through the entire series (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass) I had thoughts and feelings which I have only experienced when reading books of supreme quality and worth such as Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey series, or Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence."
"Favorite childhood series. A fantastical adventure series that challenges concepts of innocence, experience, and antiquated belief systems."
"Awesome series, I really enjoyed it!"
"A great read, somewhat disheartened to learn that some people see it as 'young adult reading' ... while I understand that the main characters are young .. the themes running through the books are valid to all and still relevant today."
"There are two kinds of great stories -- those that fit seamlessly into the body of thought and make you wonder why no one thought of it before, and those that are remarkably imaginative and compelling and make you wonder how the author thought it up at all. Pullman's trilogy fits into the latter category."
"I love hardback books, which makes this perfect."
Best Teen & Young Adult Thrillers & Suspense
***** Includes a preview of. THE BOOK OF DUST, the long-awaited new novel from Philip Pullman set in the world of His Dark Materials, and. hailed by the New York Times as "A stunning achievement"***** The Golden Compass. , The Subtle Knife , and The Amber Spyglass are available together in a collectible His Dark Materials boxed set perfect for any fan or newcomer to this modern fantasy classic series that has graced the New York Times , Wall Street Journal , San Francisco Chronicle , Book Sense , and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. Phillip Pullman’s spellbinding His Dark Materials trilogy has captivated readers for over twenty years and won acclaim at every turn. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy ( The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass ), which has been named one of the top 100 novels of all time by Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Weekly . He has also won many distinguished prizes, including the Carnegie Medal for The Golden Compass (and the reader-voted "Carnegie of Carnegies" for the best children's book of the past seventy years); the Whitbread (now Costa) Award for The Amber Spyglass ; a Booker Prize long-list nomination ( The Amber Spyglass ); Parents' Choice Gold Awards ( The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass ); and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in honor of his body of work.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"It's hard not to be drawn into the lives of Tamora Pierce's heroines like Beka Cooper, for example, but Lyra rarely felt to me like anything but an archetype once her adventures began, and the threatening clouds that hung over her almost constantly in _The Golden Compass_ and parts of its two sequels lacked the human scale and logical coherence of the evil faced by, say, Harry Potter or Pierce's heroines."
"I loved the many different characters in this book each other their on purpose and ideas on how to solve the problems of the universe,."
"The third time I completed the story and I am still processing the many truths that are revealed in this compelling trilogy."
"Indeed as I was reading through the entire series (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass) I had thoughts and feelings which I have only experienced when reading books of supreme quality and worth such as Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey series, or Stephen Baxter's Xeelee Sequence."
"Favorite childhood series. A fantastical adventure series that challenges concepts of innocence, experience, and antiquated belief systems."
"Awesome series, I really enjoyed it!"
"There are two kinds of great stories -- those that fit seamlessly into the body of thought and make you wonder why no one thought of it before, and those that are remarkably imaginative and compelling and make you wonder how the author thought it up at all. Pullman's trilogy fits into the latter category."
Best Teen & Young Adult Law & Crime Stories
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price--and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. Gr 7 Up—Bardugo has created a wildly imaginative story of six young people who have been commissioned to pull off the greatest heist of all time.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Bought this book the day it came out, and only this past week have I finally read it....well actually I downloaded the audiobook. The way Kaz interacted with others, and how Inej is able to slip silently into the shadows...how much I wanted to hug Matthias tightly and never let go. As for the audiobook version - the people who voiced Leigh's wonderfully crafted characters really brought them to life. Six of Crows was my first venture into the world of Audiobooks, and I feared that I would miss a lot of the story, not being able to comprehend it fully without seeing the words on the page. The way the people read the characters and the overall production of the audiobook made it so easy to follow along and listen to the book come to life."
"I quickly became submersed in the world that is Six of Crows, living vicariously through Kaz Brekker's crew (NIna, Inej, Mathias,Jesper, and Wylan)."
"As you can read on the cover, the book is about “six dangerous outcasts, and one impossible heist.” Those of you who love stories about gangs of less than upstanding citizens, sting operations, and movies like Ocean’s Eleven, should be pulled in by those words alone. My only complaint about the book is that I raced through it in two days, and then was left dying to get my hands on the next in the series, the equally beautifully clad Crooked Kingdom, due out September 27."
"With a diverse cast and a diverting, fast-paced narrative, this reads like a heist movie set in a fantasy land."