Genre: YA General

In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner

In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner

Life in a small Appalachian town is not easy. Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his Papaw is dying slowly from emphysema. Dodging drug dealers and watching out for his best friend, Delaney, is second nature. He’s been spending his summer mowing lawns while she works at Dairy Queen. But when Delaney manages to secure both of them full rides to an […]

August 10, 2021 / 0 Comments
The Bollywood Lovers’ Club  by James Goldberg & Janci Patterson

The Bollywood Lovers’ Club by James Goldberg & Janci Patterson

Before you can reach for your dreams, you have to choose them. Amrita Sidhu belongs: in her Indian extended family, in her Sikh faith, in her California home. But when a family fight makes up her father’s mind to take a job across the country in Ohio, she’s torn from the fabric of her community and left to find her footing in a new high […]

July 19, 2021 / 0 Comments
A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg

A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg

A teen girl, backed by a secret society of powerful women, competes to make an 18-year-old future President fall in love with her. Behind every powerful man is a trained woman, and behind every trained woman is the Society. It started with tea parties and matchmaking, but is now a countrywide secret. Gossips pass messages in recipes, Spinsters train to fight, and women work together […]

June 1, 2021 / 0 Comments
Displaced by Dean Hughes

Displaced by Dean Hughes

Two Syrian refugee teens trying to make a living on the street corners of Beirut must decide how far they’re willing to go to make a home for their family in an unwelcoming country. Thirteen-year-old Hadi Toma and his family are displaced. At least that’s what the Lebanese government calls them and the thousands of other Syrian refugees that have flooded into Beirut. But as […]

September 8, 2020 / 0 Comments
Memorable by Laurisa White Reyes

Memorable by Laurisa White Reyes

16-year-old Ryan Rojas would do anything to please his dad, including give up what he loves most: music. But the pressure of living up to his parents’ expectations is too much to bear. After getting suspended for doing drugs on campus, Ryan is determined to prove himself and get back into school—no matter the cost. Like Ryan, Penny Tate has also put her dreams on […]

November 16, 2019 / 0 Comments
Where I End and You Begin by Preston Norton

Where I End and You Begin by Preston Norton

Ezra Slevin is an anxious, neurotic insomniac who spends his nights questioning his place in the universe and his days obsessing over Imogen, a nerdy girl with gigantic eyebrows and a heart of gold. For weeks, Ezra has been working up the courage to invite Imogen to prom. The only problem is Imogen’s protective best friend, Wynonna Jones. Wynonna has blue hair, jams to ’80s […]

June 5, 2019 / 0 Comments
Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner

Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner

Every Friday night, best friends Delia and Josie become Rayne Ravenscroft and Delilah Darkwood, hosts of the campy creature feature show Midnite Matinee on the local cable station TV Six. But with the end of senior year quickly approaching, the girls face tough decisions about their futures. Josie has been dreading graduation, as she tries to decide whether to leave for a big university and […]

February 27, 2019 / 0 Comments
The Awful Wonderful Story of Us by Jolene Perry

The Awful Wonderful Story of Us by Jolene Perry

Act strong. Feel strong. Be strong. Are the words that London chants to herself to get through the day. She lives in a house where rules are enforced with fists, and drugs change hands in a near steady flow. Cole uses his carefully placed camouflage of studious athlete to cover up a past he wishes he could erase, constantly counting down to keep himself in […]

August 29, 2018 / 0 Comments
#Fangirl Problems by Jennie Bennett

#Fangirl Problems by Jennie Bennett

Talitha wanted one thing: to meet X-O’s Chansol, and this was her chance. As a nineteen-year-old culinary student, she was too poor to see the Kpop group in concert, but at least she could watch them walking by at the airport. As X-O is about to arrive, an overzealous fan claws through, knocking Talitha over and ruining any chance at an encounter. Heartbroken, she heads […]

May 24, 2018 / 0 Comments
Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller

Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller

Alosa’s mission is finally complete. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he’s under her orders. And she takes great comfort in knowing that the villainous Vordan […]

February 27, 2018 / 0 Comments