Engaging Stories with Quality Writing

Try these books if you're looking for:

• engaging stories
• quality writing

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 
By Ransom Riggs
YA F RIGGS
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.

The Nanny Diaries 
By Emma McLaughlin
F MCLAUGHL
A satirical glimpse into Manhattan's upper class follows Nanny, a struggling NYU student who takes a position caring for the son of the rich and glamorous X family, as she learns how to juggle a vast array of tasks so that a Park Avenue wife never has to lift a well-manicured finger.

Just Ella 
By Margaret Peterson Haddix
YA F HADDIX
In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.

Wildwood Dancing 
By Juliet Marillier
YA F MARILLIE
Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood.