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One Last Chance - Teen Books

These teen fiction books are in need of some extra love. Check them out before they're gone from the shelves at the Fern Hill Branch.

Tacoma Public Library

21 items

  • It wasn't the kidnapping that ruined Cass Adams's life. It was the letters that came after. The pink envelopes that appear in her car, her locker, her bedroom. Notes from the man she escaped, telling her that he's always there, always watching. The…
    Book, 2021New York : Scholastic Press, 2021. — YF CONTO-A
  • Reeling from betrayal, with few options and fewer allies, Renata Convida has reluctantly joined forces with none other than Prince Castian, her most infuriating and intriguing enemy. Their goals: find the fabled Knife of Memory, kill the ruthless…
    Book, 2021New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. — YF CORDO-Z
  • Renata was only a child when she was kidnapped by the King's Justice and brought to the luxurious palace of Andalucía. As a memory thief, the rarest and most feared of the magical Moria, Renata was used by the crown to carry out the King's Wrath, a…
    Book, 2020Los Angeles : Hyperion, 2020. — YF CORDO-Z
  • Beneath the shadow of impending war in fifteenth-century Wallachia, Ilona Csáki is betrothed to Prince Mircea, as her feelings blossom for her fiance's cousin Andrei and younger brother Vlad Dracula.
    Book, 2021New York : Swoon Reads, 2021. — YF DELAC-A
  • Sixteen-year-old figure skater Olivia Kennedy's Olympic dreams have ended. She's bitter, but enjoying life as a regular teenager instead of trying to live up to expectations of being the daughter of Olympians Michael Kennedy and Midori…
    Book, 2020New York : Tor Teen, 2020. — YF FUJIM-S
  • When Elle and Holly switch places, will they find all they want for Christmas? Elle is a social media star with the #DreamLife...or so it seems. Determined to shake up her content and gain new followers, she's on a mission: Can she find a British…
    Book, 2021Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, 2021. — YF GARRO-B
  • Jay is forced to continually cover for his sister, Nicole, who hangs out with the wrong crowd; however, Jay can't deal with it any more. Soon after, Nic fails to return home. When she's deemed missing, the police barely bother to search for her;…
    Book, 2020New York : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — YF HARRI-P
  • The Lost Girls

    a Vampire Revenge Story

    Hartl, Sonia,
    Holly Liddell has been stuck with crimped hair since 1987 when she agreed to let her boyfriend, Elton, turn her into a vampire. But when he ditches her at a gas station a few decades into their eternity together, she realizes that being young…
    Book, 2021Salem, MA : Page Street Publishing Co., [2021] — YF HARTL-S
  • Contending with the lives of her loved ones in danger, assassination attempts, and a new stranger she can't quite trust, Empress Redemptor Tarisai must decide if she is willing to die for justice--or to live for it.
    Book, 2021New York : Amulet Books, 2021. — YF IFUEK-J
  • While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
    Book, 2020New York : Random House Children's Books, [2020] — YF JOHNS-K
  • It seems that aspiring playwright Natalie and musician Reid have been in competition all their young lives, but when they are forced to compete for scarce school budget dollars they embark on an all-out prank war which backfires; now they are forced…
    Book, 2021New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2021. — YF KANTE-M
  • Sixteen-year-old Katrell uses her witchy powers to talk to the dead and escape her home life, but when she disregards the dead's warnings to stop, dark forces begin to close in forcing Ketrell to make some hard decisions.
    Book, 2021New York : Delacorte Press, [2021] — YF LEWIS-J
  • Meg Long's Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves is a captivating debut about survival, found family, and the bond between a girl and a wolf that delivers a fresh twist on classic survival stories and frontier myths. On a frozen wasteland of a planet, a…
    Book, 2022New York : Wednesday Books, 2022. — YF LONG-M
  • After the Army of the Republic destroys her town, Claudie and her sister agree to a mission to deliver a valuable stolen jewel to the resistance's leader and Claudia finds herself irresistibly drawn to the man and his cause.
    Book, 2021New York : Viking, 2021. — YF MOBLE-J
  • After an incident at school, seventeen year-old Alaine is spending spring break in a "volunteer immersion project", toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle and her eagle-eyed mother at a new nonprofit in Haiti. Although it is meant…
    Book, 2019Toronto, Canada : Inkyard Press, [2019] — YF MOULI-M
  • Living a comfortable life in the Space Colonies, Ify, now nineteen and a medical administrator, must return to wartorn Nigeria, where she last saw her sister, to investigate why young refugees from that nation are carrying a deadly virus.
    Book, 2020New York : Razorbill, 2020. — YF ONYEB-T
  • When people she loves--and all memory of them--start disappearing from Vera's life, leaving behind only a haunting sorrow, she and her best friend set out to solve a mystery they cannot remember
    Book, 2021New York : Amulet Books, 2021. — YF PRIEM-A
  • Snarky seventeen-year-old Josslyn Drake gets infected by a dangerous piece of forbidden magic and teams up with wanted criminal Jericho Nox to remove the spell corrupting her soul.
    Book, 2022New York : Razorbill, 2022. — YF RHODE-M
  • A modern retelling of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus. She fully expects the tragedy that…
    Book, 2020New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2020. — YF RIVER-L
  • It's been one year since Edie's mother died. But her ghost has never left. According to her GG, it's tradition that the dead of the Mitchell family linger with the living. It's just as much a part of a Mitchell's life as brewing healing remedies or…
    Book, 2021New York : Viking, [2021] — YF SIBSO-L