Those Who Wish Me Dead

7 of 10
Those Who Wish Me Dead
400 pages; Little, Brown and Company
After Jace Wilson, 14, witnesses a murder, its brutal perpetrators don't let the boy's age stop them from hunting him down in this taut novel brimming with violence, terror and (just as scary) the perils of growing up.
— Katie Arnold-Ratliff and Meredith Bryan