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What Waits in the Woods

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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Carrie Ryan · 310 pages

ForestTense and SuspensefulFemale FriendshipYoung Adult
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The Overnight

R.L. Stine · 148 pages

ForestTense and SuspensefulTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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One Was Lost

Natalie D. Richards · 320 pages

ForestTense and SuspensefulTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Forest Demands Its Due

Kosoko Jackson · 432 pages

ForestTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Missing

Kelley Armstrong · 384 pages

The best thing about being a teen in Reeve's End is that I'll be able to leave soon. Like my best friend did. Like my sister did. Most of us go. There's nothing here but abandoned mines and an empty future. I'm better off taking my chances elsewhere. The only thing I'll miss is the Kentucky wilderness that has always been my refuge. But that changed the day I found Lennon. Left for dead, ble

ForestTense and SuspensefulTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Three Truths and a Lie

Brent Hartinger · 272 pages

ForestTense and SuspensefulTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Little Monsters

Kara Thomas · 346 pages

Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with her father, she stepped into a brand-new life. A life with a stepbrother, a stepmother, and strangest of all, an adoring younger half sister. Kacey s new life is eerily charming compared with the wild highs and lows of the old one she lived with her volatile mother. And everyone is so nice in Broken Falls she s even been welcomed into a

Female FriendshipTense and SuspensefulTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Heartless

Sara Shepard · 328 pages

Female FriendshipTense and SuspensefulTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Strawberry Picker

Monika Feth · 304 pages

Tense and SuspensefulFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Accomplice

Eireann Corrigan

High school juniors and best friends Finn and Chloe hatch a daring plot to fake Chloe's disappearance from their rural New Jersey town in order to have something compelling to put on their college applications, but unforeseen events complicate matters.

Female FriendshipTense and SuspensefulTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Saeculum

Ursula Poznanski · 456 pages

Een groep studenten gaat naar een afgelegen plek in Oostenrijk voor een middeleeuws rollenspel. Er blijkt een vloek op de plek te rusten, waardoor alles al snel gruwelijk uit de hand loopt. Bastian (20) gaat met een groep studenten naar een afgelegen plek in Oostenrijk voor een middeleeuws rollenspel. Er blijkt een vloek op de plek te rusten, waardoor alles al snel gruwelijk uit de hand loopt. Va

ForestTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultThriller
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Don't Look Back

Jennifer L. Armentrout · 368 pages

Female FriendshipTense and SuspensefulTeen ProtagonistThriller
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Good Girl, Bad Blood: Deluxe Edition

Holly Jackson · 264 pages

THE MULTMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES • A must-have special edition of the sequel to the global phenomenon A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, featuring gorgeous sprayed edges and exclusive content from mutimillion-copy bestselling author Holly Jackson! Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last yea

Tense and SuspensefulFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Black Ice

Becca Fitzpatrick · 400 pages

Tense and SuspensefulForestYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Ashes

Ilsa J. Bick · 480 pages

Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.

ForestTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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The River at Night

Erica Ferencik · 304 pages

"A high stakes drama set against the harsh beauty of the Maine wilderness, charting the journey of four friends as they fight to survive the aftermath of a white water rafting accident, The River at Night is a nonstop and unforgettable thriller by a stunning new voice in fiction. Winifred Allen needs a vacation. Stifled by a soul-crushing job, devastated by the death of her beloved brother, and

ForestTense and SuspensefulFemale FriendshipThriller
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The Killing Woods

Lucy Christopher · 374 pages

When her father, an ex-soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD, is arrested for murder, Emily's efforts to exonerate him take her into the woods to play the Game, an extreme version of childhood games. When Emily's father, an ex-soldier suffering from PTSD, is arrested for murder, her efforts to exonerate him take her into the woods and create a connection between her and th

ForestTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultThriller
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Untraceable

S.R. Johannes · 312 pages

ForestTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultThriller
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Monday's Not Coming

Tiffany D. Jackson · 448 pages

Female FriendshipTense and SuspensefulTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Slumber Party

Christopher Pike · 149 pages

When a ski weekend reunites a group of teenage girls eight years after a fire at a slumber party disfigured one of them and killed her sister, new fire-related accidents suggest that one of them may have been responsible.

Tense and SuspensefulFemale FriendshipYoung AdultThriller
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Stolen Children

Peg Kehret · 165 pages

When Amy agreed to baby-sit Kendra Edgerton, she had no idea she was stepping into a kidnapping plot. Two men force the girls out of the house and into a cabin in the woods, where they create DVDs to send to the families, in hopes of a large ransom from Kendra's wealthy parents. Using her wits and imagination, Amy stealthily sends clues to the police through the DVDs, but time is working against h

ForestTense and SuspensefulTeen ProtagonistThriller
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Don't Breathe a Word

Jennifer McMahon · 447 pages

On a soft summer night in Vermont, twelve-year-old Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she told her little brother, Sam, about a door that led to a magical place where she would meet the King of the Fairies and become his queen. Her little brother, Sam, has grown up to be a levelheaded man who is still convinced that Lisa was abducted by a pr

ForestTense and SuspensefulThrillerFemale Lead
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If You Find Me

Emily Murdoch · 290 pages

"She leaves us sittin' there, with the late-afternoon sun dapplin' the forest floor as if it's any other day. I watch her reach into the bin by the foldin' table, then walk back over. She hands me two of the shiny black garbage bags folded up like Mama's letter. I slip out from under Jenessa, balance her on the tree, and proceed to shake each bag into its full size. We all stop and watch the birds

ForestTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultThriller

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