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  Incredibly Penelope by Lauren Myracle I have my doubts about this book. I find any boarding school narrative a bit of a stretch when it co...

  Return to Sender by Vera Brosgol With a premise like this one - a kid finds a magic wishing mail slot in his new apartment - you're go...

  Return to Sender by Vera Brosgol I've enjoyed Brosgol's graphic novels, so when I found she had written a regular novel about a bo...

  What Fell from the Sky by Adrianna Cuevas When I selected this one I'd hoped that the combination of alien encounters and Cold War era...

  What Fell From the Sky by Adrianna Cuevas Stories about kids finding and helping aliens can be interesting. Add in a setting of Cold War e...

  Our Shouts Echo by Jade Adia I can't quite settle on how I feel about this book. From the start, when it was clear that the protagonis...

  Our Shouts Echo by Jade Adia I've read books about kids being raised by preppers, but this may be the first I've read where the te...

  Tangleroot by Kalela Williams Consider the set-up here - a girl forced to spend the summer at an old plantation with her high-achieving mo...

  Tangleroot by Kalela Williams Tangleroot promises a tale of a girl unraveling a town's racist past and her mother's expectations. ...

  Something's About to Blow Up by Sam Blake When you start a book with an explosion at a school and introduce the idea that the teen cha...

  Something's About to Blow Up by Sam Blake After the rather disappointing experience of our last audio, let's jump into something t...

  Nightmare in the Backyard by Jeff Strand It doesn't take long for this book to jump into the spooks and jump scares. Mysterious things...

  Nightmare in the Backyard by Jeff Strand I've read a couple of Strand's books before and they're typically good for a solid, m...

  A Game Most Foul by Alison Gervais At the outset this is a pretty standard teen mystery. A girl on her own for the summer, studying abroad...

  A Game Most Foul by Alison Gervais A girl participating in a summer writing program in London gets caught up in the mysterious disappearan...

  Investi-Gators Collection by John Patrick Green The idea of an audiobook for a graphic novel has always felt a bit counter-intuitive to me...

  InvestiGators Collection by John Patrick Green The InvestiGators graphic novel series is a lot of silly fun and I'm curious to see how...

  The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord Given the set-up, this book could easily have turned into a cliche. We have a pastor's daughter w...

  The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord This story of a girl whose whole world has been turned upside down learning to see life through a dif...

  The Summer She Went Missing by Chelsea Ichaso  In many ways, this book is an example of what has become standard in a teen thriller. We ha...