What If...

...there's a place where the lost go to be found?

Would you go there?

Jam Gallahue is unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve. Her grief leads her parents to send her to The Wooden Barn, a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont. Here, Jam is selected to attend Mrs. Q.'s Special Topics English class where a journal-writing assignment  transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar.  At first, Jam and the four other classmates, all of whom have endured debilitating losses,  are reluctant to write in the journal, but when they begin to write in their pages, they are transported to their former lives, at least for a while. Call # YA WOLITZER, MEG

Go on A Road Trip!

Five strangers. 

Countless adventures.

One epic way to get lost.

Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named LEILA. 

She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car

 at the moment they need someone the most.

There's HUDSON, a small-town mechanic who is willing to throw away his dreams for true love. And BREE, a runaway who seizes every Tuesday-and a few stolen goods along the way. ELLIOT believes in happy endings...until his own life goes off-script. And SONIA worries that when she lost her boyfriend, she also lost the ability to love.

Hudson, Bree, Elliot and Sonia find a friend in Leila. And when Leila leaves them, their lives are forever changed. But it is during Leila's own 4,268-mile journey that she discovers the most important truth: sometimes, what you need most is right where you started. 

And maybe the only way to find what you're looking for is to get lost along the way.

Call #  YA ALSAID, ADI

How Can She Live With What She Did?

Never Ending
by Martyn Bedford

After her brother Declan's death during a family holiday, Siobhan -- Shiv -- has seen numerous conselors and therapists, but none has succeeded in lessening her guilt or stopping the terrible outbursts she can barely remember afterwards. 

Now she is an inpatient in the new Korsakoff Clinic's first therapy program for adolescents. Shiv is a willing participant in the clinic's unorthodox therapy (Walk, Make, Talk, and Write) and at the start, she feels some progress.

As the program moves into phase two, however, she's forced to confront Declan's last days and the accident that killed him. 

Call # YA BEDFORD, MARTYN

Make a List!

Have you ever made a list of stuff to do to keep from being bored?  

Read Hercules' list!

12 Things to Do Before You Crash and Burn

by James Proimos

Sixteen-year-old James "Hercules" Martino has been given a list of 12 tasks to complete while spending two weeks in Baltimore with his Uncle Anthony, and gains insights into himself, his uncle, and his recently deceased father, a self-help author and daytime talk show host who was beloved by the public but a terrible father.

 Call# YA PROIMOS, JAMES