New Arrivals for Teens! | June 2024
The Brightwood Code by Monica Hesse | A cryptic message forces eighteen-year-old American Edda to investigate what secrets followed her across the ocean, even as she tries to make sense of her time as a telephone operator on the French front lines of World War I. (Historical Fiction)
The Color of a Lie by Kim Johnson | In 1955, a Black family relocates to the suburbs where they must pass for white, but dark secrets about the town and its inhabitants threaten their new home. (Historical Fiction)
The Dangerous Ones by Lauren Blackwood | Eighteen-year-old Jerusalem, a fearless Saint with demigod powers, joins the Union Army seeking revenge against the vampire who enslaved her family, but in order to find success, she finds herself reluctantly teaming up with Alexei, a handsome Union vampire she can't help but fall for. (Historical Fantasy)
There Is a Door in This Darkness by Kristin Cashore | With the help of bizarre messages that keep appearing in her life, teenage Wilhelmina tries to overcome grief and depression brought on by the national trauma of 2016-2020 and the loss of her beloved aunt. (Fiction)
Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth | From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Atlas Six (under the penname Olivie Blake) comes Twelfth Knight, a grumpy/sunshine YA romantic comedy and coming of age story about taking up space in the world and learning what it means to let others in. (Romance)
Stepping Off by Jordan Sonnenblick | When Covid shuts New York City down in March 2020 just days after Jesse’s mother leaves his father, Jesse's worlds collide. (Fiction)
Two Sides to Every Murder by Danielle Valentine | Reagan and Olivia, whose parents were present during the infamous Lost Lake murders seventeen years ago, return to the campgrounds in search of answers and find that another murderer is on the loose. (Thriller)
Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell | In her powerful debut novel, Looking for Smoke, author K. A. Cobell (Blackfeet) weaves loss, betrayal, and complex characters into a mystery that will illuminate, surprise, and engage readers until the final word. (Thriller)
Bad Graces by Kyrie McCauley | Stealing her perfect sister's identity, self-destructive and desperate Liv Whitlock finds herself stranded with a pop star, two actresses, an Olympic gymnast and a social media influencer on an island where they must face something inhuman, using each other as their final tether to humanity. (Horror)
Lockjaw by Matteo L. Cerilli | Determined to kill the monster under their town before anyone else gets hurt, Paz, along with inseparable friends bound by a childhood pact, discovers death is neither the beginning nor the end as she faces a greater force of evil than she ever could've imagined. (Horror)
Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee | In a society where conformity is valued above all else, a teen girl training to become an Imperial pilot is forced to return to her rebel roots to save her world. (Science Fiction)
A Spin of Fate by A.A. Vora | In a universe that segregates beings based on the weight of their souls into upper realms of peace and lower realms of strife, three teenagers join a rebel group defying the powers that be by bringing aid to the inhabitants of the lower realms. (Fantasy)
Icon and Inferno (Stars and Smoke #2) by Marie Lu | A year after surviving a mission in London, and unmistakable chemistry, Winter and Syndey team up again for a perilous assignment involving old flames, new jealousies, and yet another sinister plot. (Thriller)
The Only Light Left Burning (All That’s Left in the World #2) by Erik J. Brown | They found each other. Now they must rescue what they left behind. The highly-anticipated sequel to the queer genre-bending dystopian romance All That's Left in the World. (Dystopian)
Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha #3) by Tomi Adeyemi | When Zélie is captured and taken away from her homeland, she must face her captor, King Baldyr, and find allies to stop the impending catastrophe threatening her people at the hands of the Skulls. (Fantasy)
Sheine Lende (Elatsoe #0) by Darcie Little Badger | Shane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons. Their own family was displaced from their traditional home years ago following a devastating flood and the loss of Shane's father and her grandparents. They don't think they'll ever get their home back. Then, Shane's mother and a local boy go missing after a strange interaction with a fairy ring. Shane, her brother, her friends, and her lone, surviving grandparent (who isn't to be trusted) set off on the road to find them. But they may not be anywhere in this world--or this place in time. (Fantasy)
Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol | Jane is incredibly plain. Everyone says so: her parents, the villagers, and her horrible cousin who kicks her out of her own house. Determined to get some semblance of independence, Jane prepares to propose to the princely Peter, who might just say yes to get away from his father. It's a good plan! Or it would've been, if he wasn't kidnapped by a mermaid. (Graphic Novel)
The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag | High school senior Magdalena Herrera already has adult responsibilities and a deadly secret hidden in the dark of the basement, one that drains her of energy and leaves her bleeding--until the return of her childhood friend, Nessa, forces her to face her secrets. (Graphic Novel)
The Worst Ronin written by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, art by Faith Schaffer | Determined to prove she's worthy of attending a prestigious samurai school, 16-year-old Chihiro teams up with her former idol, Tatsuo, on a treacherous journey rife with battles and conspiracies, forcing them to put aside their differences to save their village and face the demons of the past. (Graphic Novel)
The Harrowing by Kristen Kiesling and Rye Hickman | In this YA graphic novel, a psychic teen hunts potential killers until she discovers the boy she loves is her next target. (Graphic Novel)
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire by Paula Yoo | Paula Yoo’s latest is a compelling, nuanced account of Los Angeles’s 1992 uprising and its impact on its Korean and Black American communities. (Nonfiction)
Road Home by Rex Ogle | When Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend, and attend church twice a week, or he could be gay―and leave. Rex left, driving toward the only other gay man he knew and a toxic relationship that would ultimately leave him homeless and desperate on the streets of New Orleans. (Nonfiction)
Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States by J. Albert Mann | This eye-opening and engaging history of the worker actions that brought us weekends, pay equality, desegregation, an end to child labor and more documents how the labor movement has shaped America and how it intersects with many of the major issues facing modern teens. (Nonfiction)
Hurdles in the Dark by Elvira K. Gonzalez | A YA memoir about survival and strength by Elvira Gonzalez, a Mexican-American track star who found freedom from poverty and violence by training to become one of the top athletes in the U.S. (Nonfiction)