Cambridge High School Library 2024

By:Emery Lord Location: FIC LOR Genre: Young adult- contemporary "This was absolute perfection."- Stacee It's been one year since it happened... When Paige Hancock's first boyfriend died in a swimming accident, she shut out almost everyone. Now Paige has decided it's finally time to rejoin the world, and she has a plan. First on the list: go out with Ryan Chase, her longtime and newly single crush. And last on the list: swim. Terrifying, yet possible? But when Ryan's sweet, nerdy cousin Max moves to town and recruits Paige for the QuizBowl team (of all things!), her perfect plan is thrown for a serious loop. Starting over isn't easy, but Paige knows the scariest things are usually the most difficult. Can she face her fears and open herself up to life and love again? “In friendship we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.”

By: Jeff Noon Location: FIC NOO Genre: Sci/Fi- Fantasy Series: John  Nyquist #1 The brilliant, mind-bending return to science fiction by one of its most acclaimed visionaries "Fantasy vs nior decective- Great for seniors!" Mr Mannins Below the neon skies of Dayzone – where the lights never go out, and night has been banished – lowly private eye John Nyquist takes on a teenage runaway case. His quest takes him from Dayzone into the permanent dark of Nocturna. As the vicious, seemingly invisible serial killer known only as Quicksilver haunts the streets, Nyquist starts to suspect that the runaway girl holds within her the key to the city’s fate. In the end, there’s only one place left to search: the shadow-choked zone known as Dusk It's sci-fi, horror, urban fantasy and detective noir, so there's a lot going on here- This was a well written and imaginative book and I'd like to read more by this author. Fai th  

By: Andrea Portes Location:FIC POR Genre: Young adult- Mystery The bestselling author of Anatomy of Misf i t and The Fall of Butterflies, Andrea Portes, is back with another irresistible snarky heroine in Liberty. "I missed reading books such as this one. Silly but fun. Simple but original. Super fast but super engaging also. In fact, I think these are the types of books that are of the hardest to write. The writing must seem effortless, like we’re having a coffee with the main character. The story must be impossible to put down, that’s how entertaining it is. I’ll just put it this way: this is the perfect book to read when you want to read something, but you don’t really feel like reading something. Lola Reviewer                                                                         ...

By: Gena Showalter Location: FIC SHO Genre: Fantasy- Dystopia  ONE CHOICE. TWO REALMS. NO SECOND CHANCE. "Utterly unique and absolutely riveting- i couldn't put it down" Sarah J Maas Tenley “Ten” Lockwood is an average seventeen-year-old girl…who has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. The reason? Not her obsession with numbers, but her refusal to let her parents choose where she’ll live—after she dies. There is an eternal truth most of the world has come to accept: Firstlife is merely a dress rehearsal, and real life begins after death. In the Everlife, two realms are in power: Troika and Myriad, longtime enemies and deadly rivals. Both will do anything to recruit Ten, including sending their top Laborers to lure her to their side. Soon, Ten finds herself on the run, caught in a wild tug-of-war between the two realms who will do anything to win the right to her soul. Who can she trust? And what if the realm she’s drawn to i...

By: Paolo Bacigalupi Location: FIC BAC Genre: Zombieness "Don’t let the title completely fool you. Yes, there are zombies, there is baseball, and there is in fact a zombie baseball beatdown (so cool!). Paolo Bacigalupi’s middle reader novel is a whole lot of fun, but also, he packs quite the socially-conscious message, too. It’s a book for both the reluctant kid, and the kid who wants to read something with substance. Zombie Baseball Beatdown is about an Indian boy named Rabi (a non-white protagonist), who lives in a small town in corn-country Iowa. A meat-packing plant supplies most of the jobs for the residents, and supplies the beef for seven neighboring states. He plays on the baseball team (or tries to) with his friend Joe, and best friend Miguel, as well as arch-enemy and bully, Sammy, who’s dad runs the Milrow Meat Solutions. And it’s the dad, Mr. Riggoni, who not only is behind pumping his fields of cows with drugs, feeding them full of chicken bones a...

By: Stephen King Location: FIC KIN Genre: Fantasy/SCi Fi-King Series: Dark Tower#1 Its a book- and its a movie!  Its scary, but good....  Not my scene but it might be yours- but  READ THE BOOK SERIES FIRST!

By: Jessica brody Location: FIC BRO Genre: Young Adult Because sometimes it takes a whole week of Mondays to figure out what you really want.... When I made the wish, I just wanted a do-over. Another chance to make things right. I never, in a million years, thought it might actually come true...  Sixteen-year-old Ellison Sparks is having a serious case of the Mondays. She gets a ticket for running a red light, she manages to take the world’s worst school picture, she bombs softball try-outs and her class election speech (note to self: never trust a cheerleader when she swears there are no nuts in her bake-sale banana bread), and to top it all off, Tristan, her gorgeous rocker boyfriend suddenly dumps her. For no good reason! As far as Mondays go, it doesn’t get much worse than this. And Ellie is positive that if she could just do it all over again, she would get it right. So when she wakes up the next morning to find she’s reliving the exact same day, she know...

By: M.R.Cary Location: FIC CAR Genre: Horror and Zombies and Apocalyptic The Girl with All the Gifts series is a sensational thriller, perfect for fans of Stephen King, Justin Cronin, and Neil Gaiman.   Just a fantastic fascinating beautifully formed reading experience. All the love for this one. Both the boy and the girl hit me right in the reading soul. Highly Recommended. HIGHLY."-  LIZ   "The Girl with All the Gifts opens in the strangest classroom ever. (And as a teacher, I’ve seen some pretty strange classrooms.) After the zombie apocalypse in England, some infected children have, for reasons unknown, been turned into zombies but have also retained their human intelligence. Melanie is the research lab’s star pupil. Along with her classmates, who are all strapped in their chairs to keep them from, you know, eating the human teacher, they go through lessons and read stories, so the scientists can try to understand what makes these bright youn...

By: Theodora Goss Location: FIC GOS Genre: Historical Fantasy “Only an idiot would bring an important letter out in the rain.” Based on some of literature’s horror and science fiction classics, this is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders—and the bigger mystery of their own origins. Ooooo, it’s several classic characters all in one place! Mary Jekyll is looking for her father’s old partner, the murderous Edward Hyde. If she turns him in, the reward will solve all her financial woes. Instead she finds Hyde’s daughter, Diana, and a group of other women: Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherin Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein. With the help of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Mary and the others are going to solve the mysteries of their origins. This book is an epic nerdpurr! Book Riot Community Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents’ death, is curious about the secrets of her fathe...

By: Traci Chee Location: FIC CHE Genre: Fantasy Series: Sea of Ink and Gold #1 An instant New York Times Bestseller, this is a stunning debut set in a world where reading is unheard-of. Perfect for fans of Inkheart and Shadow and Bone. Finalist for the Kirkus Prize "I was spellbound from the first page. An utterly transportive tale of swashbucklers and sharpshooters, masterfully written."--Renee Ahdieh, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn "Traci Chee's The Reader Could Be The Next Big YA Fantasy Series"--Bustle.com Sefia knows what it means to survive. After her father is brutally murdered, she flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches her to hunt, track, and steal. But when Nin is kidnapped, leaving Sefia completely alone, none of her survival skills can help her discover where Nin's been taken, or if she's even alive. The only clue to both her aunt's disappearance and her father...