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Escape this summer

School is just around the corner. Check out these Tacoma Public Library titles to escape for one last summer adventure.

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  • Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way, except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two…
    Book, San Francisco, CA : Viz Media, LLC
  • Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
  • Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives.
    Book, 2016New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2016
  • One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight…
    Book, 2008New York, N.Y. : Dutton Books, [2008]
  • Liselotte, a young lady of noble birth and guardian to twins, picks up and moves to a remote land where, at the easternmost reaches of her new home, lies a forest where it is said witches roam.
    Book, New York, NY : Yen Press
  • Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy…
    Book, 2018New York : Flatiron Books, 2018.
  • Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London (circa 1940), the "peculiar" capital of the world.
    Book, 2014Philadelphia, PA : Quirk Books, [2014]
  • The girl with no past, and no future, may be the only one who can save their lives. Nisha was abandoned at the gates of the City of a Thousand Dolls when she was just a little girl. Now sixteen, she lives on the grounds of the isolated estate, where…
    Book, 2013New York : HarperTeen, 2013.
  • Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
    Book, 2005New York : Dutton Children's Books, 2005.
  • When her entire existence is shattered in the blink of an eye, Ali is forced to partner with secretive bad boy Cole Holland to avenge the deaths of her loved ones by returning an undead army to their graves.
    Book, 2012Don Mills, Ont. : HarlequinTeen, [2012]