TITLE: A Snake Falls to Earth
AUTHOR: Darcie Little Badger WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Lit SUMMARY: Fifteen-year-olds Nina and Oli come from different words-she is a Lipan Apache living in Texas and he is a cottonmouth from the Reflecting World-but their lives intersect when Oli journeys to Earth to find a cure for his ailing friend and they end up helping each other save their families. |
TITLE: The Sky Blues
AUTHOR: Robbie Couch WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Cou - NOVELS SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old Sky, openly gay but under the radar, decides to make a splashy promposal but his plans are leaked by an anonymous, homophobic hacker, moving his classmates to help him expose the perpetrator. |
TITLE: She Drives Me Crazy
AUTHOR: Kelly Quindlen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Qui - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Getting into a fender-bender with a beautiful rival after an embarrassing loss to her ex, a talented basketball athlete reluctantly agrees to a carpool arrangement before an opportunity for revenge leads to an unlikely relationship. |
TITLE: Kate in Waiting
AUTHOR: Safia Elhillo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Elh - NOVELS SUMMARY: Best friends Kate Garfield and Anderson Walker share a love of theater and crushes on the same guys, but when one of their long-distance crushes shows up at their school, real feelings might end their friendship. |
TITLE: Home Is Not a Country
AUTHOR: Safia Elhillo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Elh - NOVELS SUMMARY: Muslim and Arabic-speaking Nima doesn't feel like she belongs in her American town, but she doesn't feel she belongs with her mother and the "old country" way of thinking, either. When reality tilts and Nima can suddenly see different paths of her life, belonging begins to mean something different. |
TITLE: Gilded
AUTHOR: Marissa Meyer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Mey - FANTASY SUMMARY: Ordered by the king to spin straw into gold or be killed for telling falsehoods, Serilda, known for her fantastical tales, unwittingly summons a mysterious boy to help her--for a price, in this haunting retelling of Rumpelstiltskin. |
TITLE: Firekeeper's Daughter
AUTHOR: Angeline Boulley. CALL NUMBER: FIC Bou SUMMARY: Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths |
TITLE: Concrete Rose
AUTHOR: Angie Thomas CALL NUMBER: FIC Tho - NOVELS SUMMARY: A gang leader's son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one's brutal murder. |
TITLE: Blackout
AUTHOR: Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Bla - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark. |
TITLE: Ace of Spades
AUTHOR: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Àbí - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, two students at Niveus Private Academy, are selected to be part of the elite school's senior class prefects and struggle against an anonymous bully who reveals all of their secrets. |
TITLE: All American Muslim Girl
AUTHOR: Nadine Jolie Courtney. CALL NUMBER: FIC Cou - NOVELS SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Allie, aged seven when she knew her family was different and feared, struggles to claim her Muslim and Arabic heritage while finding her place as an American teenager. |
TITLE: Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard
AUTHOR: Echo Brown CALL NUMBER: FIC Bro - NOVELS SUMMARY: A largely autobiographical story infused with magical realism follows the transcendent coming-of-age of a teen from the East Side who transitions from the world of her home to that of a privileged West Side school while navigating an ominous veil of depression. |
TITLE: Clap When You Land
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Acevedo CALL NUMBER: FIC Ace - NOVELS SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-olds Camino Rios, of the Dominican Republic, and Yahaira Rios, of New York City, are devastated to learn of their father's death in a plane crash and stunned to learn of each other's existence. A novel in verse told in two voices. |
TITLE: Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
AUTHOR: Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite CALL NUMBER: FIC Mou - NOVELS SUMMARY: Told in epistolary style through letters, articles, emails and diary entries, a debut novel by sister authors follows the experiences of a Haitian American teen who is sent to work in a Haitian nonprofit, where she learns about local culture and her family heritage. |
TITLE: Dear Justyce
AUTHOR: Nic Stone CALL NUMBER: FIC Sto - NOVELS SUMMARY: Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system. |
TITLE: Elatsoe
AUTHOR: Darcie Little Badger CALL NUMBER: FIC Lit - NATIVE COLLECTION SUMMARY: Elatsoe lives in this slightly stranger America. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry. The picture-perfect facade of Willowbee masks gruesome secrets, and she will rely on her wits, skills, and friends to tear off the mask and protect her family. |
TITLE: Felix Ever After
AUTHOR: Kacen Callender CALL NUMBER: FIC Cal - NOVELS SUMMARY: Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend. |
TITLE: Furia
AUTHOR: Yamile Saied Méndez CALL NUMBER: FIC Mén - NOVELS SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego. |
TITLE: Legendborn
AUTHOR: Tracy Deonn CALL NUMBER: FIC Deo - FANTASY SUMMARY: To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights. |
TITLE: Light It Up
AUTHOR: Kekla Magoon CALL NUMBER: FIC Mag - NOVELS SUMMARY: Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators. |
TITLE: The New David Espinoza
AUTHOR: Fred Aceves CALL NUMBER: FIC Ace - NOVELS SUMMARY: Obsessed with the idea that he is not muscular enough and tired of being bullied, David, age seventeen, begins using steroids, endangering his relationships with family and friends. |
TITLE: Punching the Air
AUTHOR: Ibi Zoboi CALL NUMBER: FIC Zob - NOVELS SUMMARY: A novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. |
TITLE: Tigers, Not Daughters
AUTHOR: Samantha Mabry CALL NUMBER: FIC Mab - NOVELS SUMMARY: Three sisters in San Antonio are shadowed by guilt and grief over the loss of their oldest sister, who still haunts their house. |
TITLE: Tweet Cute
AUTHOR: Emma Lord CALL NUMBER: FIC Lor - ROMANCE SUMMARY: A reimagining of You've Got Mail follows the unlikely romance between an overachiever from a successful family and the class clown, who exchange snarky tweets that escalate into a viral Twitter war. |
TITLE: We Are Not Free
AUTHOR: Traci Chee CALL NUMBER: FIC Che - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps. |
TITLE: You Should See Me in a Crown
AUTHOR: Leah Johnson CALL NUMBER: FIC Joh - NOVELS SUMMARY: A Black, underprivileged misfit from a wealthy, prom-obsessed midwestern community carefully plans to attend a prestigious medical college before the unexpected loss of her financial aid forces her to compete for her school's prom-queen scholarship. |
TITLE: Dig
AUTHOR: A. S. King WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Kin - NOVELS SUMMARY: Only a generation removed from being simple Pennsylvania potato farmers, Gottfried and Marla Hemmings managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now sit atop a seven-figure bank account, wealth they've declined to pass on to their adult children or their teenage grand children. Now the five teenagers are lost in a tangled maze of family secrets. One of the teens sells pot; one has cancer; all are estranged from the family. As they come together for Easter dinner, will they be able to find their ways back to each other? |
TITLE: Children of Blood and Bone
AUTHOR: Tomi Adeyemi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Ade - FANTASY SUMMARY: Coming of age in a land where her magi mother was killed by the zealous king's guards along with other former wielders of magic, Zélie embarks on a journey alongside her brother and a fugitive princess to restore her people's magical abilities. |
TITLE: Leah on the Offbeat
AUTHOR: Becky Albertalli WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Alb - NOVELS SUMMARY: With prom and graduation around the corner, senior Leah Burke struggles when her group of friends start fighting. |
TITLE: What If It's Us
AUTHOR: Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Alb - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Told in two voices, when Arthur, a summer intern from Georgia, and Ben, a native New Yorker, meet it seems like fate, but after three attempts at dating fail they wonder if the universe is pushing them together or apart. |
TITLE: Monday's Not Coming
AUTHOR: Tiffany D. Jackson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Jac - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Claudia's friend Monday goes missing and she is the only one who seems to care. |
TITLE: Odd One Out
AUTHOR: Nic Stone WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sto - NOVELS SUMMARY: High school juniors and best friends Courtney and Jupe, and new sophomore Rae, explore their sexuality and their budding attractions for one another. |
TITLE: Pride
AUTHOR: Ibi Zoboi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Zob - ROMANCE SUMMARY: When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as Zuri and Darius are forced to find common ground, their initial dislike shifts into an unexpected understanding. But with four wild sisters pulling her in different directions, cute boy Warren vying for her attention, and college applications hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to find her place in Bushwick's changing landscape, or lose it all. |
TITLE: The Disasters
AUTHOR: M. K. England WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Eng - HUMOR SUMMARY: Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist. |
TITLE: The Fountains of Silence
AUTHOR: Ruta Sepetys WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sep - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule. |
TITLE: Genesis Begins Again
AUTHOR: Alicia D. Williams WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Wil - NOVELS SUMMARY: Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is. |
TITLE: Heroine
AUTHOR: Mindy McGinnis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC McG - NOVELS SUMMARY: Determined to see her softball team through a historic tournament run despite severe injuries, Mickey Catalan is prescribed painkillers that initially help, before high pressure leads to an out-of-control addiction. |
TITLE: Internment
AUTHOR: Samira Ahmed WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Ahm - NOVELS SUMMARY: A terrifying, futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence. |
TITLE: I Wish You All the Best
AUTHOR: Mason Deaver WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Dea - NOVELS SUMMARY: After coming out as nonbinary, Ben must leave home and goes to live with a sister and her husband to finish the last year of high school. |
TITLE: Like a Love Story
AUTHOR: Abdi Nazemian WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Naz - NOVELS SUMMARY: When Reza moves to New York City, he begins dating Judy even though he is secretly gay and then struggles with his feelings when he grows close to Judy's best friend Art, who is openly gay. |
TITLE: Love from A to Z
AUTHOR: S. K. Ali WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Ali - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Eighteen-year-old Muslims Adam and Zayneb meet in Doha, Qatar, during spring break and fall in love as both struggle to find a way to live their own truths. |
TITLE: Lovely War
AUTHOR: Julie Berry WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Ber - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: 'Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?' but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice, trauma, and music revealing that War is no match for the power of Love. |
TITLE: On the Come Up
AUTHOR: Angie Thomas WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Tho - NOVELS SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother. |
TITLE: Pet
AUTHOR: Akwaeke Emezi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Eme - FANTASY SUMMARY: In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster. |
TITLE: With the Fire on High
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Acevedo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Ace - NOVELS SUMMARY: een mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef. |