I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga’s role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street […]
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn’s fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.
Us Kids Know by JJ Strong Siblings Bri and Ray O’Dell are lost. Anxious. Restless. Ray bullied at his Catholic school for being small and timid wants to be someone people respect or, even better, someone people fear. Meanwhile, Bri knows that something is off about her friendship with the shiny, happy, sophisticated blond girls on her field hockey team. […]
Munro vs. the Coyote by Darren Groth In this novel for teens, Munro Maddux goes to Australia on a student exchange in order to try and deal with his younger sister’s death.
Dear Martin by Nic Stone Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie Dao (Rise of the Empress #1)Eighteen-year-old Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she is destined for greatness, that she is meant to be Empress of Feng Lu. But only if she embraces the darkness within her. Growing up as a peasant in a forgotten village on the edge of the map, Xifeng longs […]
Enhanced by Carrie Jones (Flying #2)Cheerleader-turned-alien-hunter Mana has a mother who is in a coma after being rescued from aliens, but no one, including her best friends Lyle and Seppie, will let her take action despite a looming alien threat. Last Chance by Gregg Hurwitz (Rains Brothers #2)In Creek’s Cause, the Rain brothers and their friend Alexandra fight for humanity’s […]
