Just In For Teens! Our Newest Teen Reads

New releases and just-acquired Teen books at the Cape Breton Regional Library. Check out some of our latest additions for young adult readers! PLEASE NOTE: if the catalogue address for the book does not include "samepagecbrl.bibliocommons.com", go to the cbrl.ca link and search for the item by title or author to access current services to place holds, etc.
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Fireworks
"Seventeen-year-old Lulu Li has her last summer before college all planned out. But her plans go awry when she learns that Kite Xu, her old next-door neighbor and childhood friend, will be returning home from South Korea. Lulu hasn't seen Kite since eighth grade, after he left the country to pursue a career in K-pop. Star-struck and nostalgic, Lulu tries to reconnect with Kite. But how could a K-pop star ever fall for a nobody from home?
She Gets The Girl
Alex Blackwood is really good at getting the girl she wants, but coming from a broken home with an alcoholic mother she finds committment difficult. Impossibly awkward Molly Parker has a crush on the cool Cora Myers, but she does not know how to even start a conversation, much less make a connection. Now they are all at college in Pittsburgh. Alex decides to "help" Molly get the girl, while proving to her own flame that she is not just totally selfish--but things do not work out as planned.
Genuine Fraud
Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two. A bad romance, or maybe three. Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains. A girl who refuses to give people what they want from her. A girl who refuses to be the person she once was.
Kat And Meg Conquer The World
When they are thrown together for a year-long science project, Kat, who has a social anxiety disorder, and Meg, who has ADHD, bond over their common obsession with a swoon-worthy online gaming star.
Tista, 1.
Tista leads a dual life as an assassin and a university student. What price will she pay to save the people she loves? In New York City, the NYPD struggles to track down a serial killer known as Sister Militia, who has been targeting mobsters and other criminals in the Big Apple. No one knows who Sister Militia really is except a few residents of a Catholic orphanage. Her name is Tista... A graphic novel.
Silence of Bones
In Joseon Dynasty-era Korea, sixteen-year-old Seol is living out the ancient curse: “May you live in interesting times.” Indentured to the police bureau, she’s been tasked with assisting a well-respected young inspector with the investigation into the murder of a noblewoman. Seol forms an unlikely bond of friendship with the inspector. But her loyalty is tested when he becomes the prime suspect, and she may be the only one capable of discovering what truly happened on the night of the murder.
Hey Jude
17-year-old Penny is struggling to balance caring for Jude, her sister with mental health challenges, working part-time to help her mother with money issues and facing her final year of high school. She does not need any distractions. But then she meets Jack. They click immediately. But as quickly as things heat up, they then cool down, and Penny isn't sure why. Does she have room for her feelings for Jack alongside her worries that her sister is crashing into suicidal depression again?
Field Notes on Love
Two teens, Hugo and Mae, are strangers until they share a cross-country train trip that teaches them about love, each other, and the futures they can build for themselves.
Thunderhead
Arc of the Scythe, 2. The Thunderhead cannot interfere in the affairs of the Scythedom. All it can do is observe--it does not like what it sees. A year has passed since Rowan had gone off grid. Since then, he has become an urban legend, snuffing out corrupt scythes in a trial by fire. When the life of Scythe Anastasia is threatened and her methods questioned, it becomes clear that not everyone is open to the change. Will the Thunderhead intervene? Or watch as the world begins to unravel?
Blood Like Fate
Voya Thomas may have passed her Calling to become a full-fledged witch, but the cost was higher than she’d ever imagined. Her family doesn’t believe that she has what it takes to lead. As Voya struggles to convince everyone—herself included—that she can be a good Matriarch, she has a vision of a terrifying, deadly future that would spell the end of the Toronto witches. Voya must do whatever it takes to bring her shattered community together and stop what's coming for them before it’s too late.
Tokyo Ever After
It isn't easy being Japanese American in a small, mostly white, northern California town, being raised by a single mother. When Izumi Tanaka discovers her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, it means irreverent Izzy is literally a princess. She travels to Japan to meet the father she never knew-- and discovers being a princess isn't all ball gowns and tiaras. Back home she was never 'American' enough, here she must prove she is 'Japanese' enough.
And They Lived...
Chase Arthur is a hopeless romantic, but he's also struggling to figure out his gender identity and recover from an eating disorder. When Chase starts his freshman year of college, he has to navigate being away from home and missing his sister, finding his squad, and [learning] to love--and be enough for--himself, while discovering what it means to truly live.
Out of The Blue
[In this story t]old in alternating voices, Crest, a merperson, who grudgingly undergoes a mandatory sojourn to help a human within one moon cycle or risk staying on land forever, suddenly develops feelings for his beneficiary Sean, leaving them torn between two worlds.
Memory of Light
When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
House of Hollow
Something happened to Iris Hollow and her two older sisters Grey and Vivi when they were children, something they can't quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats. When Grey goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get. As Iris retraces Grey's last known footsteps, it becomes apparent that the only way to save her sister is to decipher the mystery of what happened to them as children.