We have just started the new year and it is now time to start setting those goals and thinking about what we want to accomplish in 2023. If you have a goal to read more books or even just to finish one, then this week’s teen book spotlight is perfect to help you jumpstart that mission. Our teen book spotlight this week is on YA books that are the first books in a completed series!! I think one of the best ways to find yourself reading more is to fall in love with a series that has multiple titles. The series we are featuring today are ones that are completed so you can read through nonstop; we have historical, paranormal, mystery, science fiction, and fantasy just to get you started. These books and more can be found by searching the catalog using the search tag #yafirstseries as well as on Libby and Hoopla. Check back next week for a new teen book spotlight and if you have any book suggestions, please let us know!!
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare--Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this strange world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
Scythe by Neil Shusterman--In a future world where all hunger, disease, war, misery, and even death have been conquered, to keep the population from exploding and becoming unsustainable, the scythes are the only agents with the legal authority to kill people. Teens Citra and Rowan are chosen to be apprentice scythes, a role neither wants, but they have no choice--if they do not master the "art" of ending life, they might lose their own.
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick--When Nora Grey meets an attractive young man named Patch, it's love at first sight. As she gets to know him better, however, Nora begins to suspect that there is more to Patch than there seems to be. Her suspicions are confirmed when she finds herself caught in the middle of an ancient conflict, where one wrong move could mean her doom.
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry--Benny Imura lives in Mountainside, a safe haven in a world where zombies have taken over civilization. Now that he is 15, he must find a job or have his food rations cut, so Benny reluctantly agrees to join his older brother Tom hunting for zombies. Benny blames Tom for their parents' deaths and sees him as a coward, even if the town thinks Tom is a champion zombie hunter. As Benny and Tom venture out into the zombie-infested forest, Benny discovers he was wrong about many things.
An Ember In the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir--One of the conquered Scholar people, Laia lives as a slave, suppressed by the ruthless Masks who enforce the Martial Empire's laws. Laia and her grandparents and older brother know that resistance means death. However, when her brother is arrested for treason, Laia vows to save him, and that means joining the Scholar Resistance. She becomes their spy at the Empire's military academy, where she befriends the academy's greatest student, Elias. But Elias has a secret—he wants to take the Empire down, too. Laia and Elias realize their destinies are entwined, and that one, or both of them, may not survive.
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black--Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.