New Arrivals for Teens! | January 2025
Crash Landing by Li Charmaine Anne | Jay Wong is spending the last days of summer 2010 trying to land a kickflip and begging for something to make her senior year different--to finally give her some stories worth telling. When she meets Ash Chan, it seems like she's getting what she asked for. Ash is confident, intensely independent, and hell on a skateboard--nothing like anyone Jay knows and exactly how she wishes she could be. (Fiction)
Just Until by Joseph Moldover | Seventeen-year-old Hannah must choose the impossible--put her nephews into foster care so she can stay true to her dream, or take them on and lose everything she has worked so hard to achieve. (Fiction)
Louder Than Words by Ashley Woodfolk and Lexi Underwood | When Jordyn Jones transfers to Edgewood High, she sees it as a chance to start over and get away from what happened at her old school--but soon an anonymous podcast begins revealing humiliating secrets about the other students, and threatening to expose Jordyn's secret. (Fiction)
Libertad by Bessie Flores Zaldívar | Set during the controversial 2017 Honduran presidential election, seventeen-year-old Libertad finds purpose writing political poetry as she navigates her sexuality and concerns for her activist brother's safety. (Fiction)
Tangleroot by Kalela Williams | When eighteen-year-old Noni moves to Tangleroot plantation in rural Virginia for her mom's new position as a college president, she uncovers long-buried secrets of the town's racist past and present. (Mystery)
Eddy, Eddy by Kate de Goldi | A series of earthquakes exposes the fault lines in a teenager’s unconventional life in a powerful crossover novel that explores raw emotion with wit and warmth. (Fiction)
Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kölsch | Following the murder of their leader and friend, a tight-knit coven of queer teens takes on a wish-granting demon lurking in their town. (Horror)
Under the Heron’s Light by Randi Pink | Told in alternating timelines, African American Atlas learns of her ancestral powers and their connection to the Great Dismal Swamp which shielded her grandmother as a formerly enslaved girl in the 1700s. (Historical Fantasy)
A Cruel Thirst by Angela Montoya | A fledgling vampire and a headstrong vampire huntress must work together--against their better judgment—to rid the world of monsters in this irresistible romantic fantasy. (Fantasy)
The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold | In a dystopian world devastated by The Storm, seventeen-year-old Liz finds refuge in her old bookstore, but when Maeve breaks in seeking shelter from another impending storm, the two confront their secrets and inner demons as they fight for their lives. (Dystopian)
Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao (Iron Widow #2) | After suffering devastating loss and making drastic decisions, Zetian finds herself on the seat of power in Huaxia, but she has also learned that her world is not as it seems. Revelations about an enemy more daunting than Zetian imagined force her to share power with a dangerous man she cannot simply depose. Despite their mutual dislike and distrust, the two must work together to take down their common enemy and stoke a revolution against the systems of exploitation that plague their world. (Science Fiction)
Where the Library Hides by Isabel Ibañez (Secrets of the Nile #2) | The stunning conclusion to the story that started in What the River Knows. Set in 1885, Inez marries Whitford in order to stay in Egypt and continue searching for her parents, but she wonders if their love can endure the secrets buried under the city of Alexandria. (Historical Fantasy)
Leap by Simina Popescu | A coming-of-age graphic novel following two dancers at a conservative performing arts school--exploring friendship, first love, and what it means to fall out of step with your own dreams. (Graphic Novel)
We Called Them Giants written by Kieron Gillen, art by Stephanie Hans | We Called Them Giants is a story of communication across a chasm at the end of the world. Lori wakes to find the streets empty. Everyone has gone. Or at least, nearly everyone. She’s thrown into a world where she has to scrape by in the ruins of civilization, nearly starving, hiding from gangs when… they arrive. (Graphic Novel)
Visitations by Corey Egbert | Corey's mom has always made him feel safe. Especially after his parents' divorce, and the dreaded visitations with his dad begin. But as Corey grows older, he can't ignore his mother's increasingly wild accusations. Soon, she whisks Corey and his sister away from their home and into the boiling Nevada desert. There, they struggle to survive with little food and the police on their trail. Meanwhile, under the night sky, Corey is visited by a flickering ghost, a girl who urges him to fight for a different world--one outside of his mother's spoon-fed tales, one Corey must find before it's too late. (Graphic Memoir)
Learn to Draw Cursed Princess Club by LambCat | Immerse yourself in the hilarious world of the WEBTOON Originals series Cursed Princess Club through exclusive content, step-by-step drawing tutorials, and artistic advice from its creator. (Nonfiction)