Calvert Library's Book Bites for Teens

In today’s story, a seventeen year old girl learns that she is adopted when her long lost twin pays her a visit via astral projection.

In today’s story, a group of teens make plans to steal a mummy from the local museum and hang it in the school’s bell tower as a senior prank.

In today’s story a British teenager recovering from mental illness learns how to enjoy life again. With the help of her family, a quirky boy, and coffee, she begins to venture out of her house and learns how to manage her anxiety.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright.

Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago’s life has been about making the tough decisions—doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela.

The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness.

Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows that it’s not worth her time to pursue the impossible. Yet despite the rules she thinks she has to play by, once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free.

In a small Texas town where high school football reigns supreme, Viv, sixteen, starts a feminist revolution using anonymously-written zines.

In today’s story, Peirce, a teen who recently survived a near death experience, must restart her life at a new high school on an island off the Florida coast. Haunted by her time in the Underworld, she must face an uncertain future with a fellow Underworld companion as her only guide.

Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps—gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. So when young, beautiful Roza vanishes... well, it isn't the first time that someone has slipped away and left Finn and Sean O’Sullivan on their own. But Finn knows Roza didn't just leave. She was kidnapped, ripped from the cornfields by a dangerous man whose face Finn cannot remember. But the searches turned up nothing, and no one believes him. Can Finn find Roza and prove there's more to him, and this town, than meets the eye?

When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change, but only if she and her popular and wildly rich classmate, Zan can find the ticket holder who hasn't claimed the prize

In today’s story, 35 teen girls are chosen to live in the palace and compete for the heart of the prince. Only one will be crowned, but all will fight for love in this future dystopian novel that has been hailed: The Hunger Games meets The Bachelor.

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay.

Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home...Yet she spares Cas's life.