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American Street by
From TitlePeek: Separated from her detained mother after moving from Haiti to America, Fabiola struggles to navigate the home of her loud cousins and a new school on Detroit's gritty west side, where a surprising romance and a dangerous proposition challenge her ideas about freedom.
Pet by
From TitlePeek: 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.
The Lucky Ones by
From TitlePeek: Struggling with grief, anger and survival guilt in the months after her twin is murdered in a school shooting, May forges an unexpected bond with the maligned son of a woman who incurred local wrath for defending the shooter.
All Eyes on Us by
From TitlePeek: When an anonymous texter threatens to expose the boy they are both dating, a girl from a family of social climbers and a closeted gay teen with Christian fundamentalist parents become unlikely allies in a fight to unmask their blackmailer before he reveals their secrets.
The Marrow Thieves by
From TitlePeek: In a world where most people have lost the ability to dream, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous boy who is still able to dream struggles for survival against an army of "recruiters" who seek to steal his marrow and return dreams to the rest of the world.
Give Me Some Truth by
From TitlePeek: As the tension between those on the Tuscarora Reservation and the surrounding community grows, teens Carson Mastick and Maggi Bokoni dream of exploring their own artistic dreams beyond the reservation.
All the Stars and Teeth by
From TitlePeek: When a spell goes wrong, Princess Amora Montara flees Visidia and teams up with a mysterious pirate on a quest to prove herself fit to rule the kingdom.
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by
From TitlePeek: Uprooted from his native Montreal to Austin, Texas, a black French-Canadian teen navigates the joys and clichés of the American high school experience, including falling in love, before challenging himself to accept friendship into his life.
Lovely War by
From TitlePeek: Meeting in a World War II-era Manhattan hotel for a forbidden tryst, immortals Ares and Aphrodite are caught by the latter's jealous husband before she defends her actions by imparting the tale of four young humans who became connected during World War I.
Patron Saints of Nothing by
From TitlePeek: Setting aside his college ambitions when he learns that his cousin has been murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, a high school senior travels to the Philippines to uncover the truth, and the part he may have played in it. By the author of After the Shot Drops.
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by
From TitlePeek: When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her own, discovers from mutual friends that her sister may not have been as perfect as believed.
The Poet X by
From TitlePeek: The daughter of devout immigrants discovers the power of slam poetry and begins participating in a school club as part of her effort to understand her mother's strict religious beliefs and her own developing relationship to the world.
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know by
From TitlePeek: The best-selling author of Love, Hate & Other Filters presents the alternating narratives of two young women, centuries apart, who fight to tell their own stories while escaping the pressure of familial burdens and patriarchal cultural expectations.
Symptoms of Being Human by
From TitlePeek: Struggling with identity, Riley, a gender-fluid teenager, starts an anonymous blog after a therapist encourages it, but when the blog goes viral Riley must make a choice-to walk away or to risk everything and come out.
The Fountains of Silence by
From TitlePeek: 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.
The Grace Year by
From TitlePeek: Dreaming of a life outside the strict society that criminalizes teen girls and banishes them into the wild to be "purified," 16-year-old Tierney discovers that many of the banished girls are being poached and sold on the black market. By the award-winning author of The Last Harvest.
The Last True Poets of the Sea by
From TitlePeek: Sent to a Maine community founded by her ancestor in the aftermath of a sibling's suicide attempt, musical Violet teams up with an amateur historian, Liv, to search for a long-lost shipwreck, forging new bonds along the way.
The Everything I Lost by
From TitlePeek: Beginning at age twelve, Julia keeps a diary of her life in Juarez, Mexico, where life is always dangerous, until she joins her aunt and grandmother in El Paso, Texas, and faces new challenges.
The Gravity of Us by
From TitlePeek: When his volatile father is picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to Mars, seventeen-year-old Cal, an aspiring journalist, reluctantly moves from Brooklyn to Houston, Texas, and looks for a story to report, finding an ally (and crush) in Leon,the son of another astronaut.
The Good Luck Girls by
From TitlePeek: Sold as children and branded with cursed markings, five girls trapped in a brutal existence risk a dangerous escape and a harrowing journey to find freedom, justice and revenge in a country of human and inhuman forces that would deny them basic freedoms.
There Will Come a Darkness by
From TitlePeek: "For generations the Seven Prophets guided humanity with their visions, ending wars and uniting nations-until the day they vanished, leaving behind the promise of a looming Age of Darkness and the birth of a Prophet who could be the world's salvation . . . or the cause of its destruction"-
The Infinite Noise by
From TitlePeek: "Caleb Michaels is a sixteen-year-old champion running back. Other than that his life is pretty normal. But when Caleb starts experiencing mood swings that are out of the ordinary for even a teenager, his life moves beyond "typical." Caleb is an Atypical, an individual with enhanced abilities. Which sounds pretty cool except Caleb's ability is extreme empathy-he feels the emotions of everyone around him. Being an empath in high school would be hard enough, but Caleb's life becomes even more complicated when he keeps getting pulled into the emotional orbit of one of his classmates, Adam. Adam's feelings are big and all-consuming, but they fit together with Caleb's feelings in a way that he can't quite understand. Caleb's therapist, Dr. Bright, encouragesCaleb to explore this connection by befriending Adam. As he and Adam grow closer, Caleb learns more about his ability, himself, his therapist-who seems to know a lot more than she lets on-and just how dangerous being an Atypical can be"
The Bone Houses by
From TitlePeek: Enduring a meager existence as a gravedigger after the death of her parents, Ryn teams up with apprentice mapmaker Ellis to stop an undead plague linked to a decades-old curse. By the author of Deceptive.
The Waning Age by
From TitlePeek: Determined to rescue her brother from the world's biggest company after they kidnapped him, Natalia finds her mission complicated by a serial predator, a boy who needs help, and the bounty on her head.
Butterfly Yellow by
From TitlePeek: A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a rodeo aspirant to track down the younger brother she was forced to leave behind before discovering that he no longer remembers her. By the award-winning author of Inside Out & Back Again.
Black Girl Unlimited by
From TitlePeek: 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.
The Art of Breaking Things by
From TitlePeek: Art school is Skye's ticket out; all she has to do is survive her senior year, not get too drunk at parties, and be there for her little sister, Emma. Then her mom's ex-boyfriend slithers his way back into her family. They have no idea about the dark secrets about him - and Skye never thought she would have to face him again. After years of hiding her past, she must protect her sister from the monster in their midst.
It's a Whole Spiel by
From TitlePeek: "From stories of confronting their relationships with Judaism to rom-coms with a side of bagels and lox, It's a Whole Spiel features one story after another that says yes, we are Jewish, but we are also queer, and disabled, and creative, and political, and adventurous, and anything we want to be"-
Juliet Takes a Breath by
From TitlePeek: Coming out to her Puerto Rican-American family, a girl from the Bronx pursues an internship under a legendary feminist author during a summer of exploring identity, race and first love.
All Out: the No-Longer-Secret Stories of Kick-Ass Queer Teens by
From TitlePeek: A collection of historical fiction featuring a transgender soldier, two girls falling in love while mourning Kurt Cobain, and forbidden love in a sixteenth-century Spanish convent.
How They Met and Other Stories by
From TitlePeek: A collection of eighteen stories describing the surprises, sacrifices, doubts, pain, and joy of falling in love.
19 Love Songs by
From TitlePeek: A collection of short love stories by the best-selling author of Every Day was inspired by the author's tradition of writing for his friends every Valentine's Day and includes a story set in the world of Two Boys Kissing.
Pumpkinheads by
From TitlePeek: Working at a pumpkin patch every autumn, two seasonal best friends organize ultimate Halloween plans to celebrate their last working year together. By the award-winning author of Fangirl and the Eisner Award-winning illustrator of the Nameless City trilogy.
Free Lunch by
From TitlePeek: "A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day in the school lunch line, Rex's is a compelling story of a more profound hunger - that of a child for his parents' love and care. Compulsively readable, beautifully crafted, and authentically told with the voice and point of view of a 6th-grade kid, Free Lunch is a remarkable debut by a gifted storyteller"-
