Cambridge High School Library 2024

 By: Vera Kurian Location: FIC KUR Genre:  Thriller “In real life, we don't get to edit out the painful parts.”   Meet Chloe Sevre. She ’s a freshman honor student, a leggings-wearing hot girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. Her hobbies include yogalates, frat parties, and plotting to kill Will Bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her. Chloe is one of seven students at her DC-based college who are part of an unusual clinical study for psychopaths—students like herself who lack empathy and can’t comprehend emotions like fear or guilt. The study, led by a renowned psychologist, requires them to wear smart watches that track their moods and movements. When one of the students in the study is found murdered in the psychology building, a dangerous game of cat and mouse begins, and Chloe goes from hunter to prey. As she races to identify the killer and put her own plan into action, she’ll be forced to decide if she can trust any of her fellow psyc...

 By: Allison Saft  Location: FIC SAF Genre: Fantasy, Romance “Girls like her don’t get to dream. Girls like her get to survive. Most days, that’s enough. Today, she doesn’t think it is.” A MAGICAL SECRET. A MYTHICAL HUNT. AND A LOVE THAT COULD RISK EVERYTHING. In the dark, gothic town of Wickdon, Maggie Welty lives in an old creaking manor. Maggie's mother is an alchemist who has recently left town, leaving Maggie with just her bloodhound for company. But when Maggie spots a legendary ancient fox-creature on her porch, her fate is changed forever. Whoever tracks down and kills the hala in the Halfmoon Hunt will earn fame and riches - and if Maggie wins the hunt, she knows her mother will want to celebrate her. This is her chance to bring her home. But the rules state that only teams of two can join the hunt, and while Maggie is known as the best sharpshooter in town, she needs an alchemist. Enter Wes Winters. He isn't an alchemist ... yet. Fired from every apprenticeship he...

 By: Nova Weetman Location: FIC WEE Genre: Health, Identity, Middle grade This was so raw and real - full of friendship, family and feelings with a really authentic voice. I loved it. Meg uses Sick Bay to hide from other kids. She’s struggling with changes at home, wears slippers to school and buries her head in books. New girl Riley is a type 1 diabetic with an over-protective mother. She’d rather chat with her friends than go to Sick Bay, but sometimes she has no choice. They think they’ve worked each other out, but what if they’ve got it all wrong? On the brink of high school, Meg and Riley need a place where they can find the courage to be themselves. "It All Begins with Jelly Beans  is a sensitive middle grade book about unlikely friendships, living with Type 1 Diabetes, and coping with the loss of a parent. Set in Australia, this book also features a main character with anxiety, tackles bullying, and is written from the perspective of two narrators. This heartwarming sto...

 By: Ataria Sharman Location: TER SHA Genre:  Fantasy, Maori Hine and the Tohunga Portal is a fast-paced fantasy adventure. Hine and her brother, Hōhepa, unwittingly step through a portal into an ancient realm inhabited by the atua Māori (Māori deities), Kea bird tribes, patupaiarehe (fairy people), moa and giant eagles. This world is in turmoil as evil sorcerer Kae has built a cursed army and intends to rule this world and everything in it. He sees the opportunity to dominate the modern world as well, by kidnapping Hōhepa and using his life force to reopen the portal between the worlds. This sets Hine on a quest to learn ancient knowledge from the goddesses Hineteiwaiwa and Mahuika and her ancestors, find the medicine to revoke the curse on the warriors and gain the support of the Kea and patupaiarehe to fight Kae and rescue Hōhepa.  LEARN ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A taria  Rangipikitia  Sharman  (Tapuika, Ngāpuhi)  is a writer of  essays, poetry and...

 By: Zana Fraillon Location: FIC FRE Genre: Verse Novel and Dogs and disability “Be strong. Be fierce. Life is more than a concrete floor." A fiercely original verse novel from the ABIA and CBCA award-winning author of The Bone Sparrow. Scruffity is born into the harsh, grey world of a puppy farm. Taken from his mamma and locked in a concrete cage, what he yearns for most is Family. To belong is The Way of Dog. But no one wants him. Just as his chances of adoption grow dangerously thin, Scruffity is set free by a boy as unwanted and lonely as he is. Outside, Scruffity learns all about The Way of Dog – it is to run, to dig, to howl and, biggest of all, to love. But when tragedy strikes, Scruffity is suddenly all alone. How does a dog find his way home when he never had one to begin with?   "Just as desperate to escape as Scruffity, a young boy decides that he and Scruffity need to escape and so Scruffity finally gets to experience the wider world and learn the Way of Dog -...

 By: Fleur Beale Location: FIC BEA Genre: Time travel, Wellington NZ , Ghostly a bit... A contemporary young-adult novel with mysterious goings-on, time travel, a curse and a strange painting. Etta is worried about her brother, Jamie. The doctors can find nothing wrong with him, but he is getting weaker by the day. At breakfast one morning, he seems to have lost it completely: In a voice as pale as his face, he said, ‘I think I can see a ghost.’ However, when they all turn to look, sure enough, materialising on the window seat is a girl about Etta’s age, wearing a beautiful Victorian wedding dress. Etta has to get off to school, she has no time for this, but she is about to discover that time has a whole new significance. She and her ghost companion have no choice but to work out what is going on before Jamie is lost for ever . . . Review form Jen the Baker Book reviewer This Young adult novel is set in Wellington, New Zealand in 2019 and in England in 1869 and features TIME TRAVEL...

By: Rute Sepetys Location: FIC SEP Genre: Historical Fiction  Jo says... "‘when justice cannot shape memory, remembering the past can be a form of justice.’ powerful and haunting. a story to give proper justice to an often forgotten memory. thank goodness for books like this - books that teach us and help us remember." A gut-wrenching, startling window into communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the number one  New York Times  best-selling, award-winning author of  Salt to the Sea  and  Between Shades of Gray . Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. He’s left with only two choices: betray everyone...

 By: T J Klune Location: FOC KLU Genre: Fantsy, Fiction, LGBGT “The first time you share tea, you are a stranger. The second time you share tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share tea, you become family.” A Man Called Ove  meets  The Good Place  in  Under the Whispering Door , a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the  New York Times  and  USA Today  bestseller  The House in the Cerulean Sea . Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead. But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days. Hilarious, haunting, an...

 By: Sonya Wilson  Location: FIC WIL Genre:  Kiwi, Adventure Over a million hectares of wild bush-clad land and one young hunter … Nissa Marshall knows that something is hiding deep in the forests of Fiordland National Park – she’s seen their lights in the trees. But what are they, and why does no one else seem to notice them? When Nissa abandons her school camp to track down the mysterious lights, she finds herself lost in a dangerous wonderland. But she’s not the only one in danger – the bush and the creatures are under threat too – and she wants to help. What can a school kid do where adults have failed, and can she find her way back? In Fiordland, the lost usually stay lost. 'Spark Hunter' is an epic Kiwi adventure-fantasy – a story of survival in one of the world’s last great wildernesses. "FOR YOUNG READERS OR THE YOUNG AT HEART 😀 Wow! There are so many reasons to love this book and as an adult who loves being transported to places of beauty (Fiordland rating right...

 By: Beth Underdown  Location: FIC UND Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery I still dream, every night, of Polneath on fire. Smoke unfurling out of an upper window and a hectic orange light cascading across the terrace. By day, Ivy Boscawen mourns the loss of her son Tim in the Great War. But by night she mourns another boy - one whose death decades ago haunts her still. For Ivy is sure that there is more to what happened all those years ago: the fire at the Great House, and the terrible events that came after. A truth she must uncover, if she is ever to be free. Brimming with secrets, this lyrical haunting historical thriller is perfect for fans of Elizabeth Macneal, Sarah Waters and Diane Setterfield. "This is a beautifully written novel with a great sense of location in Cornwall, with a sadness and heartbreak that lingers in the pages of the book. The characterisation is wonderful, the flawed Ivy who goes on to marry the coroner, making questionable decisions, in this story o...

 By: Parker Peevyhouse  Location: FIC PEE Genre: SCI FI Strange Exit  is Parker Peevyhouse's next suspenseful, near-future, stand-alone thriller, perfect for fans of Kass Morgan's  The 100  and Patrick Ness's  More Than This . Seventeen-year-old Lake spends her days searching a strange, post-apocalyptic landscape for people who have forgotten one very important thing: this isn’t reality. Everyone she meets is a passenger aboard a ship that’s been orbiting Earth since a nuclear event. The simulation that was supposed to prepare them all for life after the apocalypse has trapped their minds in a shared virtual reality and their bodies in stasis chambers. No one can get off the ship until all of the passengers are out of the sim, and no one can get out of the sim unless they believe it's a simulation. It's up to Lake to help them remember. When Lake reveals the truth to a fellow passenger, seventeen-year-old Taren, he joins her mission to find everyone, persua...

 By: Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson Location: FIC LAW Genre: Mystery  Part Agatha Christie, part Veronica Mars, and completely entertaining' -- Karen M McManus, #1 NYT bestselling author of  One of Us Is Lying Welcome to Castle Cove — a town cursed with missing girls, bad boyfriends, family secrets, and some very steep cliffs. Last summer, Alice Ogilvie's basketball-star boyfriend, Steve, dumped her. Then she disappeared for five days. Where she went and what happened to her is the biggest mystery in Castle Cove. Or at least it was. Because now, another one of Steve's girlfriends has vanished: Brooke Donovan, Alice's ex-best friend. And it doesn't look like Brooke will be coming back ... Enter Iris Adams, Alice's tutor. Iris has her own reasons for wanting to disappear, though unlike Alice, she doesn't have the money or the means. That could be changed by the hefty reward Brooke's family is offering. The police are convinced Steve is the culprit, but Al...

By: Astrid Scholte Location: FIC SCH Genre: Fantasy, Mystery   In this fantasy thriller, four teens charged with murder and the illegal use of magic band together to devise the ultimate jailbreak. “Don’t be one of those people who hates their life but doesn’t have the courage to change it, ” Ever since his mother was killed, seventeen-year-old Cayder Broduck has had one goal--to see illegal users of magic brought to justice. People who carelessly use extradimensional magic for their own self-interest, without a care to the damage it does to society or those around them, deserve to be punished as far as Cayder is concerned. Because magic always has a price. So when Cayder lands a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to apprentice under a premier public defender, he takes it. If he can learn all the tricks of public defense, the better he'll be able to dismantle defense arguments when he's a prosecutor. Then he'll finally be able to make sure justice is served. But when he meets th...

 By: Jennieke Cohen  Location: FIC COH Genre: Historical Fiction " A charming historical romp and fitting tribute to My Fair Lady. With pitch-perfect prose and a sly, observant voice, Jennieke Cohen serves up a spectacularly unique rom-com confection. I absolutely loved it!" Culinary delights abound, romance lingers in the air, and plans go terribly, wonderfully astray in this cheeky and charming historical tale, perfect for fans of  Bridgerton  or  Dickinson . It’s 1830s England, and Culinarians—doyens who consult with society’s elite to create gorgeous food and confections—are the crème de la crème of high society. Helena Higgins , top of her class at the Royal Academy, has a sharp demeanor and an even sharper palate—and knows stardom awaits her if she can produce greatness in her final year. Penelope Pickering  is going to prove the value of non-European cuisine to all of England. Her contemporaries may scorn her Filipina heritage and her dishes, but wit...

 By: David Bell Location: FIC BEL Genre: Mystery, Thriller " If you have not read a David Bell novel before, you need to get reading! Seriously, his books are beautifully written, gripping, and intelligent page turners. Debra After years of struggling to write following the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor Nye publishes his first novel, a thriller about the murder of a young woman. There's just one problem: Connor didn't write the book. His missing student did. And then she appears on his doorstep, alive and well, threatening to expose him. Connor's problems escalate when the police insist details in the novel implicate him in an unsolved murder from two years ago. Soon Connor discovers the crime is part of a disturbing scandal on campus and faces an impossible dilemma--admit he didn't write the book and lose his job or keep up the lie and risk everything. When another murder occurs, Connor must clear his name by unraveling the horrifying secret...

 By:  Kyrie McCauley Location: FIC MCC Genre: Contemporary, Magical Realism “When the legacy is anger, the inheritance is fear.” “This is what I know of  pride . I know that it keeps the secrets of cruel men. I know that it holds us in the shadows, because we are too proud to admit we need help. I know that pride values a man's reputation over a woman's life. It calls her selfish for speaking up, even when she speaks the truth.  Especially  then.” Perfect for fans of Laura Ruby, Laurie Halse Anderson, and Mindy McGinnis, Kyrie McCauley’s stunning YA debut is a powerful story about the haunting specter of domestic violence and the rebellious forces of sisterhood and first love. Winner of the William C. Morris Award! Tens of thousands of crows invading Auburn, Pennsylvania, is a problem for everyone in town except seventeen-year-old Leighton Barnes. For Leighton, it’s no stranger than her house, which inexplicably repairs itself every time her father loses his tem...

 By: Django Wexler Location: FIC WEX Genre: Fantasy Standing on opposite sides of a looming civil war, two siblings discover that not even ties of blood will keep them from splitting the world in two. Long ago, a magical war destroyed an empire, and a new one was built in its ashes. But still the old grudges simmer, and two siblings will fight on opposite sides to save their world, in the start of Django Wexler’s new epic fantasy trilogy Gyre hasn't seen his beloved sister since their parents sold her to the mysterious Twilight Order. Now, twelve years after her disappearance, Gyre's sole focus is revenge, and he's willing to risk anything and anyone to claim enough power to destroy the Order. Chasing rumors of a fabled city protecting a powerful artifact, Gyre comes face-to-face with his lost sister. But she isn't who she once was. Trained to be a warrior, Maya wields magic for the Twilight Order's cause. Standing on opposite sides of a looming civil war, the two s...