Monday wouldn’t just leave her to endure tests and bullies alone. When she doesn’t show for the second day, or second week, Claudia knows that something is wrong. So when Monday doesn’t turn up for the first day of school, Claudia’s worried. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable-more sisters than friends. Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure-to live a lifetime in a single day.ĥ. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. Us: reads a book called They Both Die at the EndĪlso us: gets mad when they, well, you know Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there now.Ĥ. It’s a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can. But what they don’t know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. If the Year of Killer Clowns 2016 taught us anything, it’s to be terrified of a title like this. The house has a long-ago grudge it needs to settle. What Daffodil doesn’t yet realize is that her job comes with a steep price. The spacious home seems to close in on her, and as she takes the long road into town, she feels eyes on her the entire way, and something tugging her back. Something doesn’t want me here.ĭaffodil Franklin has plans for a quiet summer before her freshman year at college, and luckily, she’s found the job that can give her just that: housesitting a mansion for a wealthy couple.īut as the summer progresses and shadows lengthen, Daffodil comes to realize the house is more than it appears. Not a ghost story? Honestly, we don’t buy it… This is Not a Ghost Story by Andrea Portes She feels alive when all signs point elsewhere.īut with the odds decidedly not in her favor, Amelia knows this feeling can’t last forever. With Will, it’s easy to forget about what’s lurking between the lightness of their time together. With no guarantee of a viable organ transplant, everything Amelia’s been sure of-like college plans or the possibility of one day falling in love-has become a huge question mark, threatening to drag her down into a sea of what-ifs she’s desperate to avoid. But now it’s the only thing she-and everyone around her-can think about. What she couldn’t see coming, however, was the flare-up of the rare liver disorder she was born with. Hard-charging and irrepressible, eighteen-year-old Amelia Linehan could see a roller derby opponent a mile away-and that’s while crouched down, bent over skates, and zooming around a track at the speed of light. “Someday” is here and we’re simultaneously apprehensive and all about it. Scroll down for some of the most foreboding book titles in YA! Basically, we’re all about the book titles that give us a taste of the potential terror and/or heartbreak we’re signing ourselves up for, because you know we live for the kind of books that hurt us. They Both Die at the End? Spoiler alert: they do, and we’re still mad about it. Muse of Nightmares? Sign us up for a terrifying read. Some are sweet, some are hilarious, some sound like they might be Fleetwood Mac songs, tbh.Īnd some? Some are hella foreboding, promising books that just may take a dark turn. Alright y’all, let’s talk about book titles.
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