Lists and Suggestions for Teens
List: Teen Winter Reads: #ownvoices
The Poet X
Acevedo, Elizabeth, author.
"Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her b...
How It All Blew Up
Ahmadi, Arvin, author.
Fleeing to Rome in the wake of coming out to his Muslim-American family, a failed relationship, and...
Felix Ever After
Callender, Kacen, author.
Felix Love has never been in love, painful irony that it is. He desperately wants to know why it se...
Caster
Chapman, Elsie, author.
Aza Wu knows that casting magic can kill--it killed her sister--but she needs money desperately to ...
New Kid
Craft, Jerry, author, illustrator.
Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of...
The Marrow Thieves
Dimaline, Cherie, 1975- author.
"In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the d...
Better Nate Than Ever
Federle, Tim.
An eighth-grader who dreams of performing in a Broadway musical concocts a plan to run away to New ...
If I Ever Get Out of Here: A Novel with Paintings
Gansworth, Eric. 1965-
Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George...
Raybearer
Ifueko, Jordan, author.
Raised in isolation, Tarisai yearns for the closeness she could have as one of the Crown Prince...
You Should See Me in a Crown
Johnson, Leah (Young adult author), author.
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed...
Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Khorram, Adib, author.
"Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues t...
The Extraordinaries
Klune, TJ, author.
Nick would rather write fanfiction about the feats of heroism and romantic entanglements he imagine...
Elatsoe
Little Badger, Darcie, 1987- author.
"Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistach...
A Very Large Expanse of Sea
Mafi, Tahereh, author.
It's 2002, a year after 9/11. It's an extremely turbulent time politically, but especiall...
All the Stars Denied
McCall, Guadalupe Garcia, author.
When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organ...
A Blade So Black
McKinney, L. L. (Leatrice L.), author.
"This isn't the Wonderland you remember. The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly co...
Sanctuary
Mendoza, Paola, author.
In 2032 America, all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked. It is almost impossible to survi...
10 Things I Hate about Pinky
Menon, Sandhya, author.
Told in two voices, Ashish's friends Pinky and Samir pretend to date during a summer at Cape C...
Shadowshaper
Older, Daniel José, author.
When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front...
The Black Kids
Hammonds Reed, Christina, author.
With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged b...
Ghost
Reynolds, Jason, author.
"Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school ...
Hearts Unbroken
Smith, Cynthia Leitich, author.
When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks ...
Disappeared
Stork, Francisco X., author.
Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ...
Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance
Morrow, Bethany C., editor.
A young adult anthology featuring fictional stories of everyday resistance. You might be the kind...
Cemetery Boys
Thomas, Aiden, author.
Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to hel...
Unbroken : 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens
Nijkamp, Marieke, editor.
An anthology of stories in various genres, each featuring disabled characters and written by disabl...
American Born Chinese
Yang, Gene Luen.
Story 1: "All Jin Wing wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he sud...
Frankly in Love
Yoon, David, author.
High school senior Frank Li is caught between his parents' traditional expectations and his ow...