The Half Life of Ryan Davis
10 best books like The Half Life of Ryan Davis (Melinda Szymanik): Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Speak: The Graphic Novel, Heretics Anonymous, The Rest of the Story, Frogkisser!, Legacy, The Rift, Whatshisface, A Song Only I Can Hear, Arctic Zoo
Ghosts of the Shadow Market
Author | Cassandra Clare |
ISBN | 1406385379 |
The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks and vampires. There the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market...
Author | Laurie Halse Anderson |
The modern classic Speak is now a graphic novel.
"Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have to say."
From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless--an outcast--because...
Author | Katie Henry |
ISBN | 0062698877 |
Michael is an atheist. So as he walks through the doors at St. Clare’s—a strict Catholic school—sporting a plaid tie, things can’t get much worse. His dad has just made the family move again, and Michael needs a friend. When a girl challenges their teacher in class, Michael thinks he might have...
Author | Sarah Dessen |
ISBN | 0062933620 |
Emma Saylor doesn’t remember a lot about her mother, who died when she was ten. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever, with cold, clear water and mossy trees at the edges.
Now it’s just Emma and her dad, and life is good, if a little predictable…until...
The last thing she needs is a prince. The first thing she needs is some magic.
Poor Princess Anya. Forced to live with her evil stepmother’s new husband, her evil stepstepfather. Plagued with an unfortunate ability to break curses with a magic-assisted kiss. And forced to go on the run when...
Author | Whiti Hereaka |
ISBN | 1775503348 |
Seventeen-year-old Riki is worried about school and the future, but mostly about his girlfriend, Gemma, who has suddenly stopped seeing or texting him. But on his way to see her, he's hit by a bus and his life radically changes. Riki wakes up one hundred years earlier in Egypt, in 1915, and finds he's living...
Author | Rachael Craw |
ISBN | 1760650021 |
When the Rift opens, death follows.
For generations, the Rangers of Black Water Island have guarded the Old Herd against horrors released by the Rift. Cal West, an apprentice Ranger with a rare scar and even rarer gifts, fights daily to prove he belongs within their ranks. After nine years away,...
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Cooper Vega is used to moving a lot with his parents' jobs, but it still gets old being "what's his face". At his newest school, he manages to run afoul of Brock, the popular, jerk-face jock. He has a pleasant interaction with Jolie, who is also popular and absolutely...
Introducing Rob Fitzgerald: thirteen years old and determined to impress the new girl at school, but it's a difficult task for a super-shy kid who is prone to panic attacks that include vomit, and genuine terror that can last all day. An anonymous texter is sending Rob challenges and they might just help....
From London . . .
Georgia gets straight As at school, writes essays for fun, has been placed first in twenty-six drone races and has a serious addiction to buying Japanese stationery. She plans to follow her older sister Sophie and become a doctor, but her worldview is shattered when Sophie commits...
Author | David Ouimet |
ISBN | 1324004436 |
How do you find your voice, when no one seems to be listening? In David Ouimet’s spellbinding debut, a young girl struggles to make herself heard, believing she is too insignificant and misunderstood to communicate with the people in her life.
Anxious about how she thinks she should look...
Revolution: Book 2 (The Haven)
Author | Simon Lelic |
ISBN | 1444947621 |
Picking up a short time after the events of book 1 Revolution finds our group in disarray. They know they need to do something, but are really unsure how to go about doing what they need.
Ollie is struggling with his own insecurity, and also feeling that people are fighting his authority. However,...
The Clockill and the Thief
This fantastic follow-up to the Storylines Tessa Duder Award-winning The Traitor and the Thief is just as exciting and action-packed as the first instalment.
Sin is dying, poisoned by his blue blood. His troubles deepen when the traitor who poisoned him escapes from the custody of the Covert...
Author | Selina Tusitala Marsh |
ISBN | 1869408985 |
An inspirational graphic memoir of growing up Pasifika in New Zealand, written and illustrated by our fast-talking PI Poet Laureate, Selina Tusitala Marsh.
At school, Selina is teased for her big, frizzy hair. Kids call her ‘mophead’. She ties her hair up this way and that way and tries...
The Traitor and the Thief
Discovered picking pockets at Coxford’s Corn Market, fourteen year old Sin is hunted across the city. Caught by the enigmatic Eldritch Moons, Sin is offered a way out of his life of crime: join the Covert Operations Group (COG) and train to become a spy. At Lenheim Palace, Sin learns spy craft while...
Telesa: The Covenant Keeper
Author | Lani Wendt Young |
ISBN | 1466253711 |
When Leila moves to her new home, all she wants is a family, a place to belong. Instead she discovers the local ancient myths of the telesa spirit women are more than just scary stories. The more she finds out about her heritage, the more sinister her new home turns out to be. Embraced by a Covenant Sisterhood...
Unlike the first eight stories in the short story collection Ghosts of the Shadow Market, this and The Lost World were not released as separate ebooks, but included in the print edition.
The Jace Herondale who crossed into our world from Thule is torn between his feeling of responsibility to...
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I mean, there were Kit and Ty, how could I give this less than 5 stars?
The fact that Livvy is a ghost kind of freaks me out but I hope she can become a friendly ghost like Jessamine and learn to control her powers more.
I was happy to see Ty at the Scholomance, in the end...