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Teen Recommendations

  • Lighthearted or Happy
  • Black Lives Matter: Teens and Racism
  • Black Voices in YA Fiction
  • Black Voices & Black Stories – YA Nonfiction
  • Fantasy

2025 Teen Book Bingo: Lighthearted or Happy

Bunt!: Striking Out on Financial Aid
The Sticky Note Manifesto of Aisha Agarwal
The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway
Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball
Live, Laugh, Kidnap
Scout's Honor
Kings of B'more
I Was Born For This
Maybe an Artist
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
Lucy Clark will Not Apologize
Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution
The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
The Voting Booth
Miss Meteor
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime
Lumberjanes. Volume One, Beware the Kitten Holy
Boy Meets Hamster
Highly Illogical Behavior
Miles Morales: Spider-Man
Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo. 1, The Road to Epoli
When Dimple Met Rishi
I Will Always Write Back
Awkward
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. Vol. 1, Squirrel Power
Skink No Surrender
Zen and the Art of Faking It
Be More Chill
Radha & Jai's Recipe for Romance
A Snake Falls to Earth

Black Lives Matter: Teens and Racism

Tyler Johnson Was Here
New Kid
Light It Up
I Am Alfonso Jones
A Good Kind of Trouble
All American Boys
Ghost Boys
I'm Not Dying With You Tonight
Dear Martin
The Hate U Give
Piecing Me Together
Just Mercy : A Story of Justice and Redemption
This Book is Anti-Racist
Stamped : Racism, Antiracism, and You
We Are Not Yet Equal : Understanding Our Racial Divide
Say Her Name
One Person, No Vote : How Not All Voters are Treated Equally

Fantasy

Elatsoe / Darcie Little Badger ; illustrated by Rovina Cai.
Amari and the night brothers / B. B. Alston ; illustrations by Godwin Akpan.
The novice / Taran Matharu.
Star daughter / Shveta Thakrar.
Strike the zither / Joan He.
The Sunbearer Trials / Aiden Thomas.
Sorcery of thorns / Margaret Rogerson.
A curse of roses / Diana Pinguicha.
Infinity son / Adam Silvera.
Legendborn / Tracy Deonn.
The false prince / Jennifer A. Nielsen.
Children of blood and bone / Tomi Adeyemi.
Six crimson cranes / Elizabeth Lim.
Raybearer / Jordan Ifueko.
The iron raven / Julie Kagawa.
Woven in moonlight / Isabel Ibañez.
The Rithmatist / Brandon Sanderson ; illustrations by Ben McSweeney.
Sisters of the snake / Sasha Nanua and Sarena Nanua.
The ivory key / Akshaya Raman.
Song below water / Bethany C. Morrow.

Black Voices & Black Stories – YA Nonfiction

Somebody Give This Heart a Pen
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington
March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine
Jazz A-B-Z
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
Say Her Name
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
Legacy
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers
Edmonia Lewis
Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II
The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir
Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights
March. Book One
Give Me Wings: How a Choir of Former Slaves Took on the World
Untold Glory: African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom, Opportunity, and Achievement
1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
The Handy African American History Answer Book
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary: A Biography

Black Voices in YA Fiction

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope
With the Fire on High
Swing
Children of Blood and Bone
Felix Ever After
Legendborn
Pet
Overturned
Raybearer
Dread Nation
You Should See Me in a Crown
A Blade So Black
Song Below Water
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
Akata Witch
Charming as a Verb
Ghost
Opposite of Always
Flygirl
Jackpot
The Hate U Give
Piecing Me Together
Punching the Air


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