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1) Eden West
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Explores a boy's unraveling allegiance to an insular cult.
2) Halt's peril
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Tennyson, the false prophet of the Outsider cult, has escaped and Halt is determined to stop him before he crosses the border into Araluen, but Genovesan assassins put Will and Halt's extraordinary archery skills to the test.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
After her mother unexpectedly leaves her with her uncle's family, members of a fanatical Christian cult, Kirby tries to learn what has become of her mother and struggles to cope with the repressiveness of her new surroundings and to maintain her own identity.
4) Above
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Pat O'Toole, his brother Coop, and their new companion, Kate, have narrowly escaped the cultlike community below New York City but must try to stop the cult's leader, Kate's grandfather.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.
6) The project
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Lo Denham, wants to expose the Unity Project as a cult and reconnect with her indoctrinated sister, but as she immerses herself in the group with no signs of Bea, Lo begins to question everything she thought was true.
After their parents died, Bea Denham joined The Unity Project, leaving Lo in the care of their great aunt. Thanks to its extensive charitable work and community outreach, The Unity Project has won the hearts and minds of most in the...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After waking in a shallow grave, Breezy, a high school senior, crosses the country seeking answers about her death and resurrection, discovering along the way a host of supernatural creatures, as well as a human cult determined to "free" them at any cost.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When Stephen moves to the small Midwestern town where his father grew up, he quickly falls in with punk girl Cara and her charismatic twin brother Devon. But the town has a dark secret, and the twins are caught in the middle of it"--
10) Come November
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Senior year at high school is going to be hard enough for Rooney Harris, desperate to get into a good college and away from her small town, but things get tougher when she ends up as the sole support for herself and her younger brother because of their mother's obsession with the Next World Society, a cult that believes they will be whisked away to a new world paradise on November 17.
11) The Special Ones
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When four young people are taken against their will to become part of a cult, they are worshiped by their followers and become lost in their new reality--but what happens if they rebel against the one holding them captive?"--
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Piper knows that Father is a Prophet. Infallible. The chosen one. She would do anything for Father. That's why she takes care of all her little sisters. That's why she runs end-of-the-world drills. That's why she never asks questions. Because Father knows best. Until the day he doesn't. Until the day the government raids the compound and separates Piper from her siblings, from Mother, from the Aunts, from all of Father's followers--even...
Author
Publisher
Merit Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Van arrives in Las Vegas at the upscale Silver Saddle casino with her mother-a brilliant businesswoman with fragile mental health-she learns that her mother assigned her a college student, Alex, to "babysit" her. Van is used to having to land on her feet-her mother and surrogate grandmother move from city to city all the time like corporate nomads, but she is not thrilled to have someone watching her now. When Alex introduces Van, a talented...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Meet Scarlett, a smart, sarcastic fifteen-year-old, ready to take on crime in her hometown. When Scarlett agrees to investigate a local boy's suicide, she figures she's in for an easy case and a quick buck. But it doesn't take long for suicide to start looking a lot like murder. As Scarlett finds herself deep in a world of cults, curses, and the seemingly supernatural, she discovers that her own family secrets may have more to do with the situation...
15) Devil in Ohio
Author
Publisher
Square Fish, Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Jules Mathis comes home from school to find a strange girl sitting in her kitchen, her psychiatrist mother reveals that Mae is one of her patients at the hospital and will be staying with their family for a few days. But soon Mae is wearing Jules’s clothes, sleeping in her bedroom, edging her out of her position on the school paper, and flirting with Jules’s crush. And Mae has no intention of leaving. Then things get weird....
Author
Series
Merciless volume 3
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn knows that there's no good without evil, no right without wrong. And when a helpless girl calls her teen helpline, whispering that someone is hurting her, Brooklyn knows that she needs to save her anonymous caller, even if it means doing something bad. Her parents and friends assure her the call was probably a prank-but Brooklyn has always had a tendency to take over, whether someone has asked for help or not. She discovers the call came...
17) Thirteen
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Targeted by a dangerous cult, thirteen-year-old Adam must save himself--and the rest of London--before the New Year begins.
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