Escape of Light
by Fred Venturini
Teenage burn survivor, Wilder Tate, begins high school ashamed of his disfigurement. He finds an outlet tapping into his one-dimensional basketball talent as a shutdown defender and courts his cheerleader dreamgirl, only to endure heartbreak and setbacks that drive him to have a tissue expander operation to rid himself of his scar tissue for good, but at what price?
Field Notes on Love
by Jennifer E. Smith
Two teens, Hugo and Mae, are strangers until they share a cross-country train trip that teaches them about love, each other, and the futures they can build for themselves.
Fireborne
by Rosaria Munda
Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world. Now they are both rising stars in the new regime. When survivors from the old regime surface, Lee must choose to kill the only family he has left or to betray everything he's come to believe in. And Annie must decide whether to protect the boy she loves, or step up to be the champion her city needs.
Heroine
by Mindy McGinnis
When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot on the team. The pain pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends and as her need increases, and it becomes less about pain and more about want, something that could send her spiraling out of control.
I Know You Remember
by Jennifer Donaldson
Zahra Gaines is missing. After three long years away, Ruthie Hayden arrives in her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska to this devastating news. Zahra was Ruthie's best friend--the only person who ever really understood her--and she vows to do whatever it takes to find her. As Ruthie desperately tries to piece together the truth, she falls deeper and deeper into her friend's new world, circling closer to a dangerous revelation about what happened to Zahra in the days before her disappearance--one that might be better off buried.
Internment
by Samira Ahmed
A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence.
Ordinary Hazards : A Memoir
by Nikki Grimes
Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing.
Patron Saints of Nothing
by Randy Ribay
When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.
Slay
by Brittney Morris
An honors student at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old Keira enjoys developing and playing Slay, a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture, until the two worlds collide
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
by Ben Philippe
When Norris, a black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as cliches from a bad 90s teen movie.
The Grace Year
by Kim Liggett
Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry.
The Lovely and the Lost
by Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn) Barnes
When a little girl is lost in a 750,000-acre national park, a family of search-and-rescue professionals reunites and three generations of secrets are uncovered.
The Speed of Falling Objects
by Nancy Richardson Fischer
Danielle's absent movie star dad calls with an offer to join him to film the next episode of his popular survivalist show, and she jumps at the chance to prove she's not the disappointment he left behind. But when their small plane crashes in the Amazon, and a terrible secret is revealed, Danny must find her own inner strength and worth to light the way home.
Where I End & You Begin
by Preston Norton
As punishment for breaking into their high school to watch the solar eclipse, Ezra, his crush Imogen, Ezra's best friend Holden, and Imogen's best friend Wynonna must perform in the school's production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, but before the first rehearsal starts, socially inept Ezra and badass Wynonna wake up in each other's bodies.
With the Fire on High
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef.