Realistic Fiction

Verónica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplasia, auditions to become a mermaid at a Central Florida theme park in the summer before her senior year, all while figuring out her first real boyfriend and how to feel safe in her own body.

An unforgettable coming-of-age tale, a swoon-worthy romance, and much-needed disability representation can be found in this story about a girl who's determined to follow her dreams.

Graphic Novel

In this bilingual, inventive, and heartfelt debut Christine Suggs explores a trip they took to Mexico to visit family, embracing and rebelling against their heritage and finding a sense of belonging.

A luminous, captivating story about identity, sisterhood, and how our hometowns are inextricably a part of who we are, even when we outgrow them.

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this spellbinding, smoldering novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.

Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else does. Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding.

A pair of best friends who meet at a last-chance camp before juvenile detention embark on what they hope is a lucrative career in scam artistry with Nulife, a company that promises consumers a lifetime of bliss.

A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum

This sweeping intergenerational story, examining queer identity at the end of different decades, follows three boys in the same Iranian family as they each gain a new understanding of their history, culture--and themselves.

Ten authors collaborated on this novel of interconnected stories that follows a group of young people over the course of a few wild, transformative hours at an epic house party.

Esther Greenwood, a talented and successful writer, finally succumbs to madness when the world around her begins to falter.

Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize  The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.

Graphic Novel

After the sudden death of her father, sixteen-year-old Valerie Chu, who is hiding an eating disorder from her friends and family, reevaluates her life, her choices and her own body as she tries to find the strength to seek help.

In 1970s Harlem, when Fonny, a young African-American sculptor, is falsely accused of rape and imprisoned, Tish, his nineteen-year-old, pregnant girlfriend; her parents; and his father rally together to try to clear his name.

In order to stop the destructive forces of gentrification, three best friends use social media to create a fake gang and get justice for their South L.A. community.

A refreshingly human look at the day-to-day nuances of Orthodox Judaism and the terror of modern anti-semitism. The protagonist's [funny] yet deeply thoughtful voice is a perfect guide to the complexities of navigating an ancient religion in the TikTok ageI –Tyler Feder, author of Dancing at the Pity Party