Jack Perdu is a Classics geek, a ninth grader who spends his free time helping a Yale professor translate the Metamorphosis.  After he’s hit by a car, he begins to see ghosts.  When his worried Dad sends him to a doctor in New York, Jack gets led down into the New York underworld: the home of New York ghosts beneath the city.  Remembering the Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempted to travel to the underworld to return his dead wife Eurydice to life, Jack begins to search for his mother, who died when he was a child.  He is accompanied by Euri, a ghost who becomes his friend as the two work to find Jack’s mom and elude the Underworld guards.

There is a lot to The Night Tourist: Jack’s sadness over losing his mom and his hope that he may soon find her, his friendship with Euri, who has her own sadness, the mythology that colors the story, as Jack recalls the myths that have been his obsession.  It’s a really good adventure, and a fun read.  The audio version is also available, and is a really great listen!  You can check out the sequel, The Twilight Prisoner as well.
 

Spirit White’s story begins with pain and depression: her entire family has been killed in a car accident, and Spirit herself is seriously injured.  When her health insurance runs out and Oakhurst Academy begins to pay her medical bills, Spirit learns that her simple-living hippie parents had set up a guardianship for her with the prestigious orphanage/private school.  Once she is released from the hospital, she learns that Oakhurst is more than it seems, more even than the luxurious-but-strict boarding school it seems to be.  When kids start to go missing, Spirit fears that the teachers may know more than they are admitting to the police, and she begins to fear that she may not survive long enough to graduate.

Legacies is the first book in the Shadow Grail series, so while the plot resolves itself, there are lots of unanswered questions. Spirit is a good character and you will wonder about all the other characters: their motives and relationships, and who Spirit can really trust.  This book is a mystery, a book about loss and growing up without parents, fantasy, and a boarding school drama.   Without giving too much away, I can tell you that Harry Potter & Percy Jackson fans will like this new series.
 

Nora’s Bio partner has always been her BFF Vee, until the day their Bio teacher makes them switch seats.  Enter darkly mysterious Patch: a bad boy if there ever was one.  All of a sudden, Patch is everywhere in Nora’s life: her lab partner, at the arcade, her assigned tutee.  Vee and the school counselor are warning her away…  but the thing is that even while Nora is attracted to Patch’s good looks, she’s afraid of him.  And when she starts feeling like she’s being followed and watched, Patch is her number one suspect.  Nora knows there is more going on than meets the eye, she knows Patch might be dangerous, but somehow he’s so hard to resist…

All of a sudden, Nora doesn't know who, or what, to trust.  Vee is acting weird and hanging around guys who seem really creepy. Patch shows up so often he may be following her.  Her mom is always away on business... 

hush, hush is an awesome book and a good Halloween read-- it's got supernatural forces, a mystery, and some romance.  If you liked Shiver or Fallen, this is your next book.  And it was voted as one of the Teen's Top Ten!

Will Grayson is surviving high school by following two cardinal rules: 1) Shut Up 2) Try Not To Care.  His best friend is Tiny: “the world’s largest person who is really, really gay,” whose physical bulk and outgoing personality overshadow Will’s whole existence.  When a fake-ID mess-up leads to Will hanging out alone on a cold Chicago night, he meets… Will Grayson.  Other Will Grayson is a clinically depressed gay kid from Iowa, who has ended up alone in the city, and who is having one of the worst nights in a life that has included some pretty rotten nights.  Tiny, who falls in and out of love constantly, immediately falls for this new Will… but this time it might mean something more for everyone involved.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson is about the two Wills, their relationships with Tiny, with their families, with their friends and girlfriends, and about how all those things can change, slowly or in an instant.  It’s a sweet story and funny, but also an honest look at cruelty, selfishness, mental illness and also deep love.