Year: 2018

Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, […]

Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan After her mother’s suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.

Finding Felicity by Stacey Kade Caroline must leave behind her fantasy world inspired by a 1990s television show and create a real life at college, despite her mother’s concerns and her own self-doubt.

Way the Light Bends by Cordelia Jensen Virtual twins Linc and Holly were once extremely close. But while artistic, creative Linc is her parents’ biological daughter, it’s smart, popular Holly, adopted from Ghana as a baby, who checks all the boxes of their family’s high standards for success. Linc is desperate to pursue photography and longs to be accepted for […]

Miles Away From You by A.B. Rutledge Eighteen months after Vivien, his beloved transgender girlfriend, slipped into a coma after a suicide attempt, eighteen-year-old Miles begins healing while photographing her empty shoes against the stark landscapes of Iceland. Told through a series of instant messages.

And She Was by Jessica Verdi When Dara finds her birth certificate, she is puzzled to find two strange names on it, but when her mother, Mellie, reveals that she is transgender and transitioned when Dara’s biological mother died soon after Dara’s birth, Dara is stunned and angry–and she sets off with her friend Sam, in search of the grandparents […]

Honor Code by Kiersi Burkhart Life at the elite Edwards Academy means following the honor code to the letter. As she dreams of getting into Harvard one day, Sam Barker is willing to do anything to fit in and excel at the private high school. Even if that means enduring hazing, signing up for a sport she hates, and attending […]

Twelve Steps to Normal by Farrah Penn Upon returning from a year in Oregon to Texas and her alcoholic father, Kira is distressed to find three of her father’s rehab friends staying at her home, while her own friends seem distant.