The Cellar

Summer gets picked up by a stranger and taken to his home where he is keeping three other girls. Each is named for a flower, and they are his "kept" garden. The problem is, they can't leave.

One of Us is Lying

On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control.

All The Bright Places

When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school—six stories above the ground— it’s unclear who saves whom. Soon it’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink. . . .

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

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 in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family.

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You Should See Me in a Crown

Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor.

Influence

After a video she makes goes viral, everyone knows Delilah Rollins. And now that she’s in LA, Delilah’s standing on the edge of something incredible. Everything is going to change. She has no idea how much.

Burn Our Bodies Down

Ever since Margot was born, it’s been just her and her mother, struggling to get along. But that’s not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And she may have just found the answer: A photograph, pointing her to a town called Phalene. Only, when Margot gets there, it’s not what she bargained for.

The Gilded Ones

Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs.

Amulet

After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the strange house proves to be dangerous. Before long, a sinister creature lures the kids' mom through a door in the basement. Em and Navin, desperate not to lose her, follow her into an underground world inhabited by demons, robots, and talking animals.

Awkward

Peppi has certain rules she follows to survive in school. But day one she breaks a rule! Then things get awkward between her and Jaime, and to make things worse, they are on rival clubs. Sometimes maybe it is necessary to break the rules to survive.

The Rose that Grew From Concrete

This collection of deeply personal poetry is a mirror into the legendary artist's enigmatic world and its many contradictions.

Written in his own hand from the time he was nineteen, these seventy-two poems embrace his spirit, his energy -- and his ultimate message of hope.

We Used to Be Friends

We Used to Be Friends explores the most traumatic breakup of all: that of childhood besties. At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy’s name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they’re no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love with her first girlfriend and having a future that feels wide open.

Even If We Break

This Is Where It Ends author Marieke Nijkamp returns with a tale of five friends — including Ever, a nonbinary teen, and Finn, a trans boy — reuniting at a cabin for a game that turns deadly in this mystery, a book One of Us Is Lying author Karen M. McManus calls “thrilling in every sense of the word.”

Date Me, Bryson Keller

When popular teen Bryson Keller is dared to go out on a date with the first person to ask him out every Monday morning, Kai Sheridan shoots his shot. A dare’s a dare, so Bryson says yes. Even so, Kai knows this straight boy won’t be his happily-ever-after… or will he?

The Mighty Heart of Sunny James

Sunny is a rising 7th grader who has just had a heart transplant. She will spend the summer with her caretaker Kate on Juniper Island. Sunny’s mission: to kiss a boy. But she’s asking herself the question if that is who she really wants to kiss. A wonderful MG book of self-discovery and asking questions about one’s sexuality.

Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali

Rukhsana is a Muslim American who is in love with a girl. When her parents find out they send her to Bangladesh where they will arrange a marriage. This coming-of-age novel will look at coming out and what that means when the main character is straddling two very different cultures.

Birthday

Morgan and Eric celebrate their birthdays together each year-until they don’t. Morgan holds a secret that he cannot share-he wants to be a girl. Eric has secrets of his own. Told over alternate chapters over the course of 6 years this book explores both friendship and sexuality.

Wild and Crooked

Kalyn’s dad is in prison for committing murder long before she was born. When she and her mom return to the small town where she was born, she will change her name in order to attend school. Secrets, mysteries, and homophobia are all part of the landscape here.

To Night Owl from Dogfish

Two girls, Avery from NYC and Bett from California will spend the summer with each other in camp while their dads are motorcycling together across China. Their two dads have been secretly dating. The girls will bond during camp.

Some Girls Bind

Jamie binds her chest. That is part of her secret. The other part is that she does not identify as a female or a male. She identifies as genderqueer.