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SummerWeen!

Ditch your summer beach reads and pick up one of these summer slashers by channeling your inner Halloween vibes!

Jefferson County Public Library

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  • This bone-chilling modern horror is about a Haitian American girl who uses her previously hidden zombie abilities to enact revenge on the wealthy elites who've caused her family pain.
    Book, 2025New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2025
  • It's "Rear Window" meets "The Ring" in this sinister YA thriller, in which a teen girl witnesses the livestreamed murder of a popular online streamer by a paranormal entity and could be its next victim.
    Book, 2025New York : Viking, 2025. — TEEN FICTION ROMASCO MOORE
  • Last year, Nan's three best friends ventured into the canyons near their small town and never returned. Now, one of them is back, and Nan can't believe it — because she's the one who killed them!
    Book, 2025Random House Childrens Books 2025
  • Lucia falls in with a group of glamorous girls while spending the summer on Nantucket. But her new friends have a dangerous secret — and they'll do anything to get revenge on the people who have wronged them.
    Book, 2025New York : Delacorte Press, 2025. — TEEN FICTION EKSTROM-COURAGE
  • Seventeen-year-old Marin infiltrates Huntsworth Academy to exact revenge for her cousin's death. But an attraction to a pair of dysfunctional boys coupled with her uncovering of otherworldly secrets jeopardizes her mission.
    Book, 2025New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2025
  • On the run from her own dark secrets, a teen girl becomes the nanny for a prestigious family on their Jamaican estate, where she quickly discovers even paradise may be haunted.
    Book, 2025[New York] : Sweet July Books, a Zando imprint, 2025. — TEEN FICTION TOBIAS
  • Ceci moves to a small town and discovers a mysterious wishing well possessed by La Cegua, a vengeful female spirit with the face of a horse skull. Every wish has its price, and sometimes it's deadly.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Zando Young Readers, 2025. — TEEN FICTION MONTALBAN
  • There's a killer on board a luxury yacht, and two former friends must team up to figure out which of their privileged classmates has a penchant for murder before they become victims themselves.
    Book, 2023New York : Delacorte Press, [2023] — TEEN FICTION CAST
  • Six teenage girls and former best friends, all born on the same day, reunite to unravel the secrets of their small town after one of them disappears, only to return very differently.
    Book, 2024New York : Delacorte Press, 2024. — TEEN FICTION LINSMEIER