Lists and Suggestions for Teens

List: Teen Winter Reads: Debut Novels

Little Badger, Darcie

Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice ...

Deonn, Tracy

After her mother dies in an accident, Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or...

Ortiz, Amparo

Lana Torres has always preferred dragons to people. In a few weeks, sixteen countries will compete i...

Lord, Emma

Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. Her family may b...

Jaigirdar, Adiba

Nishat doesn't want to lose her family, but she also doesn't want to hide who she is, and...

Thomas, Aiden

Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help...

Pentecost, Kate

When Sal is named Successor to Mother Morevna, a powerful witch and leader of Elysium, she jumps at...

Stamper, Phil

Cal Lewis's volatile father has been picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to M...

Flanders, KayLynn

The kingdom of Hálendi is in trouble. It's losing the war at its borders, and rumors of a new,...

Hur, June

1800, Joseon (Korea). Homesick and orphaned, Seol is indentured to the police bureau. She has been t...

Jung, Jessica

Six years ago Korean American Rachel Kim was recruited by DB Entertainment, one of Seoul's larg...

Thakur, Sophia

In her publishing debut, internationally acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur takes you on an in...

Hughes, Kiku

Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese...

De Leon, Jennifer

It's fine that Lilliana's best friend, Jade, is all caught up in her new boyfriend lately....

Goodman, Jessica

Gold Coast, Long Island. Freshman year Jill's best friend, Shaila Arnold, was killed by her boy...

Ichaso, Chelsea

As a child, Cassidy Pratt accidentally started a fire that killed her neighbor. At least, that'...

Johnson, Leah

Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed ...

Oliver, Ben

Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. Each day ...

Watson, Sarah

In 2049, as the President of the United States waits to be sworn in, she reflects on senior year in...

Johnson, Lora Beth

Bound for humanity's new colony planet, seventeen-year-old Andra wakes up from a cryogenic slee...

Dow, Alechia

Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori resulted in th...

Jackson, Holly

As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed,...

Masood, Syed

When self-proclaimed 'not very bright' nineteen-year-old Danyal Jilani is chosen for a pre...

Medema, Dante

Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig intended to breeze through her senior project. While her peers st...