Lists and Suggestions for Teens
List: Teen Winter Reads: Debut Novels
Elatsoe
Little Badger, Darcie
Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice ...
Legendborn
Deonn, Tracy
After her mother dies in an accident, Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or...
Blazewrath Games
Ortiz, Amparo
Lana Torres has always preferred dragons to people. In a few weeks, sixteen countries will compete i...
Tweet Cute
Lord, Emma
Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. Her family may b...
The Henna Wars
Jaigirdar, Adiba
Nishat doesn't want to lose her family, but she also doesn't want to hide who she is, and...
Cemetery Boys
Thomas, Aiden
Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help...
Elysium Girls
Pentecost, Kate
When Sal is named Successor to Mother Morevna, a powerful witch and leader of Elysium, she jumps at...
The Gravity of Us
Stamper, Phil
Cal Lewis's volatile father has been picked to become an astronaut for NASA's mission to M...
Shielded
Flanders, KayLynn
The kingdom of Hálendi is in trouble. It's losing the war at its borders, and rumors of a new,...
The Silence of Bones
Hur, June
1800, Joseon (Korea). Homesick and orphaned, Seol is indentured to the police bureau. She has been t...
Shine
Jung, Jessica
Six years ago Korean American Rachel Kim was recruited by DB Entertainment, one of Seoul's larg...
Somebody Give This Heart a Pen
Thakur, Sophia
In her publishing debut, internationally acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur takes you on an in...
Displacement
Hughes, Kiku
Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese...
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From
De Leon, Jennifer
It's fine that Lilliana's best friend, Jade, is all caught up in her new boyfriend lately....
They Wish They Were Us
Goodman, Jessica
Gold Coast, Long Island. Freshman year Jill's best friend, Shaila Arnold, was killed by her boy...
Little Creeping Things
Ichaso, Chelsea
As a child, Cassidy Pratt accidentally started a fire that killed her neighbor. At least, that'...
You Should See Me in a Crown
Johnson, Leah
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed ...
The Loop
Oliver, Ben
Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. Each day ...
Most Likely
Watson, Sarah
In 2049, as the President of the United States waits to be sworn in, she reflects on senior year in...
Goddess in the Machine
Johnson, Lora Beth
Bound for humanity's new colony planet, seventeen-year-old Andra wakes up from a cryogenic slee...
The Sound of Stars
Dow, Alechia
Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori resulted in th...
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Jackson, Holly
As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed,...
More Than Just a Pretty Face
Masood, Syed
When self-proclaimed 'not very bright' nineteen-year-old Danyal Jilani is chosen for a pre...
The Truth Project
Medema, Dante
Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig intended to breeze through her senior project. While her peers st...