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YA Vacations Gone Wrong

These Young Adult reads are away from home, vacations gone wrong thrilling reads that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Wood Buffalo Regional Library

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  • A gripping story of survival and the razor's-edge difference between perfect cruelty and perfect love.
    Book, 2017New York, New York : Dutton Books, 2017. — KUEHN
  • After suffering a near-fatal freediving accident, seventeen-year-old Addie Spencer tags along on her mother's honeymoon to a private island where she unearths dark secrets--a child ghost, moody flowers, and a deep pool where no one feels…
    Book, 2022New York : Razorbill, 2022. — YA LESPERAN
  • When two girls go backpacking deep in the woods of the Pisgah National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains, things go very wrong when they cross paths with a serial killer.
    Book, 2021New York : Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021. — PERKINS
  • "When 19-year-old Josh returns from Rome without his budding influencer girlfriend Amelia, he immediately becomes a suspect in her disappearance, but as college sophomore and hacker Harper attempts to clear his name, she unearths secrets from both…
    Book, 2023New York : Union Square and Co., 2023. — YA DELACRUZ
  • "At Fly Fest, true crime podcaster Rafi Francisco, hoping to score an interview with River Stone, a musician who rose to fame after the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend, finds herself fighting for her life along with hundreds of other…
    Book, 2022New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022. — YA MOLDAVSK
  • After a traumatic school year, camp counsellor Goldie Easton is excited to reunite with her two best friends at an elite summer camp, but when a local boy is found dead on the grounds, all three must reveal a dark secret to find the murderer.
    Book, 2022New York : Razorbill, [2022] — YA GOODMAN
  • Adri is on an all-expenses-paid trip to the exclusive Solstice Festival but suddenly it turns into a deadly nightmare when a dead body washes up on the beach and Adri must put together the clues to who-or what-is killing off the crowd one by one.
    Book, 2020New York : Imprint, 2020. — ALISON
  • While at the college prep Camp Rockaway, sixteen-year-old Arlee Gold is tapped to join a secret society, with deadly consequences.
    Book, 2022New York : Wednesday Books, 2022. — YA RUBIN
  • Lost in the Great Smoky Mountains, rising high school senior Ashley Hawkins must fight for survival without any tools, growing in awareness that the world is not tame, and neither are people.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, [2020] — MCGINNIS
  • While on a camping trip to an isolated beach on the Scottish coast, Heather's friends suffer the wrath of a malevolent spirit, and a year later, Heather remains imprisoned in a facility, refusing to admit guilt.
    Book, 2020Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks Fire, 2020. — MCFALL
  • A visit to a private amusement park is the trip of a lifetime for a group of teen influencers, until they learn that getting off the island alive is not part of the plan.
    Book, 2023[New York, New York] : Delacorte Press, [2023] — YA PRESTON
  • Biracial "Gringa-Rican" Lupe lives in Vermont but visits Puerto Rico for the summer to see her father's family in this riveting novel. Soon, her love of true crime bleeds into reality when she visits the first of several peculiar crime scenes…
    Book, 2019New York : Tor Teen, 2019. — CARDINAL
  • "While on spring break in Aruba, a young girl is accused of her best friend's death and must stand trial for murder in a foreign country"
    Book, 2013New York : Simon Pulse, 2013. — HAAS
  • A hilarious Agatha Christie-inspired YA thriller-comedy about three best friends who sneak into an influencers-only festival event (gone wrong), only to discover a killer is in their midst--and they have to uncover the truth and solve the mystery…
    Book, 2021New York : Philomel Books, [2021] — PARSONS
  • Jay discovers that mountain resort where he lives and works with his friends and family is also a doomsday oasis for the rich and powerful who expect top-notch customer service even as the world outside the resort's walls disintegrates.
    Book, 2022New York : Scholastic Press, 2022. — YA GILES
  • Follows teenager Alex and her horror buff friends as their dream trip to a remote Romanian castle turns into a nightmare when they begin to be killed one by one.
    Book, 2022New York : Razorbill, 2022. — YA DEVOS
  • Teen aged best friends Annie and Pete go on a backpacking trip in the Pacific Northwest, with dangerous consequences.
    Book, 2020New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020] — MAC
  • Shy high school junior Riley Kowalski is spending her winter break on a research trip to Antarctica, sponsored by one of the world's biggest tech companies. She joins five student volunteers, a company-approved chaperone, and an impartial scientist…
    Book, 2022Salem, MA : Page Street Publishing Co., [2022] — YA AMES
  • Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island.
    Book, 2019New York : Delacorte Press, [2019]
  • When seventeen-year-old Dee Guerrera wakes up in a haze, lying on the ground of a dimly lit warehouse, she realises she's about to be the next victim of the app. Knowing hardened criminals are getting a taste of their own medicine in this place is…
    Book, 2018Los Angeles, California : Freeform Books, 2018. — MCNEIL