The Thirteenth Cat

Twisted

Bad Apple

Small Spaces

Forever Rose

The Mystery of the Colour Thief

Santa Claus Doesn't Mop Floors

Just Jaime

A teen girl’s summer with her mother turns sinister in this gripping thriller about the insidious dangers of unwanted attention, from Printz Honor medal–winning and National Book Award finalist author Deb Caletti—perfect for fans of Courtney Summers’s Sadie.

Sydney Reilly has a bad feeling about going home to San Francisco before she even gets on the plane. How could she not? Her mother is Lila Shore—the Lila Shore—a film star who prizes her beauty and male attention above all else…certainly above her daughter.

But Sydney’s worries multiply when she discovers that Lila is involved with the dangerous Jake, an art dealer with shady connections. Jake loves all beautiful objects, and Syndey can feel his eyes on her whenever he’s around. And he’s not the only one. Sydney is starting to attract attention—good and bad—wherever she goes: from sweet, handsome Nicco Ricci, from the unsettling construction worker next door, and even from Lila. Behaviors that once seemed like misunderstandings begin to feel like threats as the summer grows longer and hotter.

It’s unnerving, how beauty is complicated, and objects have histories, and you can be looked at without ever being seen. But real danger, crimes of passion, the kind of stuff where someone gets killed—it only mostly happens in the movies, Sydney is sure. Until the night something life-changing happens on the stairs that lead to the beach. A thrilling night that goes suddenly very wrong. When loyalties are called into question. And when Sydney learns a terrible truth: beautiful objects can break.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

The Thirteenth Cat

Mary Downing Hahn, 2021

Twisted

R.L. Stine, 1987

Bad Apple

T. R. Burns, 2012

Small Spaces

Katherine Arden, 2018

Forever Rose

Hilary Mckay, 2007

The Mystery of the Colour Thief

Ewa Jozefkowicz, 2018

Santa Claus Doesn't Mop Floors

John Steven Gurney, Marcia T. Jones, Debbie Dadey, 1991

Just Jaime

Terri Libenson, 2019