Joelle Charbonneau, Minotaur, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-62980-9
Roller skates and crime don't mix, or do they? In Charbonneau's fresh, funny debut they most certainly do. When Chicago mortgage broker Rebecca Robbins returns to her hometown of Indian Falls, Ill., to sell the roller rink she's inherited, she's...
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Joelle Charbonneau. Minotaur, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-60662-6
Charbonneau's sequel to 2010's Skating Around the Law offers just the right mix of skullduggery, humor, mystery, and romance. Rebecca Robbins is focused on selling the skating rink she inherited in Indian Falls, Ill., so she can move back to Chicago,
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Joelle Charbonneau. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-60663-3
At the start of Charbonneau's fun third mystery featuring roller rink owner Rebecca Robbins (after 2011's Skating over the Line), Rebecca is slated to serve in the dunk tank at the Native American Days event in Indian Falls, Ill., but cancels at the
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Joelle Charbonneau. Houghton Mifflin, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-547-95910-8
Making the jump from adult mysteries to YA, Charbonneau (the Rebecca Robbins series) launches a dystopian trilogy reminiscent of the Hunger Games. Cia Vale is one of four teens chosen to represent her small colony at the annual Testing, an intensive
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Joelle Charbonneau. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-01959-2
Charbonneau’s fourth mystery featuring roller rink owner Rebecca Robbins (after 2012’s Skating on the Edge) relies heavily on the eccentricities of her cast of characters, including Rebecca’s spandex-loving grandfather and her con man photographer...
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Joelle Charbonneau. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-547-95920-7
Charbonneau continues the trilogy that began with The Testing with this densely plotted follow-up, a tense, paranoid story in which layers of treachery, deceit, and danger are peeled away one by one. Having survived the lethal Testing, which forces...
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Joelle Charbonneau. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-547-95921-4
Charbonneau concludes her dystopian Testing trilogy with this action-packed finale, which sees Cia Vale secretly tasked by the President of the United Commonwealth to remove the officials behind the lethal Testing process that has claimed so many...
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Joelle Charbonneau. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-544-41669-7
The mysterious Need network, an anonymous social network that springs up overnight, claims that it can fulfill the deepest desires of the students at Nottawa High School. At the center of the storm is 16-year-old Kaylee Dunham; while her classmates...
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Joelle Charbonneau. HarperTeen, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-245384-6
Following the death of the king and his heir, 17-year-old twins Carys and Andreus must compete in a series of trials to determine which of them will ascend to the throne of Eden. Carys has spent her life protecting Andreus, ensuring that no one...
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Joelle Charbonneau. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-544-41670-3
In a terrifying, timely thriller, six teens work together to survive after becoming trapped in their school following a bombing. Each member of the diverse group—congressman’s daughter Diana, biracial and newly out Tad, star athlete Frankie,...
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Joelle Charbonneau. HarperTeen, $18.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-280362-7
In this dystopian thriller set in America nearly a century from now, a young woman discovers lies undermining her community when she seeks to complete her late mother’s unfinished paintings. Meri Beckley, 16, just wants to become a government-approve
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