An Now For Something Completely Different

Sometimes you're just in the mood for something new . . . something different.  So this week, I'm sharing some teen stories that are quirky and different.  Here are a few of my favorites . . . .

The Year of the Beasts by Cecil Castelucci
Tessa tries to be happy when her crush, Charlie, falls for her younger sister, Lulu, and it becomes easier after she begins a secret relationship with Jasper, a social outcast who lives next door to Tessa's best friend. Alternate chapters are in graphic novel form.

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Eldest of three sisters in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared wizard Howl .

Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
The best friend of a kid with superhuman qualities endeavors to have a life of his own that is both normal and extraordinary in the face of constant world-shaking challenges, threats against his school, and an elusive pretty girl.


More Books --
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
As You Wish by Chelsea Sedoti
Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schrieber
Away We Go by Emil Ostrovski
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
Drink, Slay, Love by Sarah Beth Durst
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Paper Towns by John Green
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
Spontaneous by Aaron Starmer
Stranger Than Fanfiction by Chris Colfer
There Is No Dog by Meg Rosoff
Wax by Gina Damico
We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan
William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher


Check these books out on display at the Arnold Branch through December 20, 2019.