Fiction: Inheritance: a visual poem by Elizabeth Acevedo. An illustrated poem that acknowledges prejudice and celebrates Black hair. Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed. An unconventional murder mystery takes a sharp look at racism and Islamophobia in America. The Deep Blue Between by Ayesha Harruna Attah. In 1892, ten-year-old twin sisters Hassana and Husseina are kidnapped […]
Fiction: What Once Was Mine: a twisted tale by Liz Braswell. If Rapunzel’s mother accidentally drank a potion from the Moondrop flower instead of the Sundrop, how would Tangled have gone? Rapunzel grows long silver hair and develops powers that hurt rather than heal. To protect the kingdom, she’s locked away in a tower under […]
Fiction: Scout’s Honor by Lily Anderson. Ladybird Scouts may portray themselves as community-minded young women with a fondness for tea parties and pastel colors, but in truth, they’re also warriors who covertly protect the world from interdimensional monsters that most folks can’t see. My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham. When transfer student Finch Chamberlin and […]
Fiction: Cinder & Glass by Melissa De La Cruz. Trapped in a life of servitude to her cruel step family, Cendrillon enters a competition to win the prince’s heart even though she truly loves his brother. Fight Like a Girl by Sheena Kamal. Love and violence. In some families they’re bound up together, dysfunctional and […]
Fiction: Bright Ruined Things by Samantha Cohoe. On Lord Prosper’s island the very air pulsates with magic. His beautiful, ruthless descendants are provided for by the grace of a magical substance known as aether. But their servants, the island’s captive spirits, are beginning to mysteriously sicken and die off. Sunny G’s Series of Rash Decisions […]
Fiction: Here’s to Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera. When Ben and Arthur, two ex-boyfriends who are stuck in the past–keep running into each other in the present, they wonder if fate is giving them a second chance at love. Murder of Crows by K. Ancrum. Cuban American teen Tig Torres investigates suspicious happenings […]
Fiction: The Words in my Hands by Asphyxia. Sixteen-year-old Piper McBride searches for her place as a Deaf person in a mildly dystopian hearing world. In Every Generation by Kendare Blake. Despite the many challenges standing in her way, Frankie must assemble her own bumbling Scooby Gang, get dressed up in Buffy’s (vintage ’90s) clothes, […]
Fiction: Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood. A young woman faces internal and external demons in the name of love in this reimagining of Jane Eyre. Heart of the Impaler by Alexander Delacroix. The fearsome legacy of Dracula is brought to vivid life in a delicious blend of romance and 15th-century politics. Dragonblood Ring […]
Fiction: Listen, Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied. Layla has ended the school year on a high and can’t wait to spend the holidays hanging out with her friends and designing a prize-winning Grand Designs Tourismo invention. But Layla’s plans are interrupted when her grandmother in Sudan falls ill and the family rush to be with her. […]
Fiction: Any Sign of Life by Rae Carson. High school senior and WNBA hopeful Paige wakes up from a coma to find herself the only living person in her Columbus, Ohio, neighborhood. Black Was the Ink by Michelle Coles. Malcolm has been sent to his family’s farm in Natchez, Mississippi, for the summer following a […]