New Teen Books July 13, 2022

Posted: July 13, 2022

Fiction:

Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert.  It’s the beginning of summer, and 17-year-old Ivy has been experiencing some weird and possibly supernatural encounters. On top of it all, her mother has been acting strange without explanation.

Blade Breaker by Victoria Aveyard.  A sequel to Realm Breaker: follows Corayne’s continuing quest to save the world from the demon god who is seeking to invade.

Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow.  The island of Parris looks picture perfect, and that’s how the wealthy residents like it, despite the curse that every once in a while claims the life of a young woman.

Blood and Moonlight by Erin Beaty.  A complex and socially conscious murder mystery set in a Western European–inspired medieval fantasy city that’s hiding cataclysmic secrets.

Feather and Flame by Livia Blackburne.  Mulan ascends to the role of empress and continues to fight against self-doubt and sexism.

Girl Overboard by Sandra Block.  On a cruise ship rumored to have a high rate of suicides, Izzy resolves to discover whether new friend Jade is another tragic victim or the target of a crime.

Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino.  Beneath the streets of York, the goblin market calls to the Wickett women–the family of witches that tends to its victims.

We Weren’t Looking to be Found by Stephanie Kuehn.  When Dani and Camila find themselves rooming together at Peach Tree Hills, a treatment facility in beautiful rural Georgia, they initially think they’ll never get along—and they’ll never get better.

Sometime in Summer by Katrina Leno.  A (literally) magical New England summer is the catalyst for reshaping a conflicted Los Angeles teen’s worldview.

The Fear by Natasha Preston.  When her classmates start turning up dead—dying in the way that they said scared them the most—Izzy knows it’s no joke.

The MatchBreaker Summer by Annie Rains.  Set at a North Carolina summer camp, a high school junior reconciles her imagined future with the unpredictability of reality.

Lock the Doors by Vincent Ralph.  Tom’s family have moved into their dream home. But pretty soon he starts to notice that something is very wrong—there are strange messages written on the wall and locks on the bedroom doors. On the OUTSIDE.

Rise of the Vicious Princess by C.J. Redwine.  Princess Charis disguises herself as a smuggler at night, hunting for new enemies, and risks both her heart and her life for the one boy she cannot have.

The Sea Knows My Name by Laura Brooke Robson.  Amid the  ruins of Astoria, a coastal country shaped by both mythology and natural disasters, a pirate’s daughter blazes her own path.

Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches by Kate Scelsa.  The “least witchy person in Salem” finds herself in the unlikely position of joining a coven and pursuing a new romance.

A Secret Princess by Margaret Stohl & Melissa De La Cruz.  When a tragedy befalls one of them, three best friends find a plan and a secret that change everything for the better, in this clever and romantic YA retelling-mashup of A Little Princess and The Secret Garden.

See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon.  Stuck in a time loop with her nemesis, college student Barrett Bloom agrees to work with Miles to find a way out, and when they start falling for each other, they wonder what will happen to their relationship if they make it to tomorrow.

The New Girl by Jesse Q. Svtanto.  Lia anticipated a struggle fitting in with her wealthy boarding school classmates. She did not, however, predict the  bullying she’d endure on the  school’s gossip app, the  rampant drug and alcohol use, the  cheating ring run by a teacher, or the  murder.

With and Without You by Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka.  High school sweethearts Siena and Patrick must decide whether to maintain a long-distance relationship when Patrick’s family moves away.

Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White.  Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population.

Graphic Novel:

Welcome to St. Hell: my trans teen misadventure by Lewis Hancox.

Nonfiction:

Quiet Fire: Emily Dickinson’s life and poetry by Carol Dommermuth-Costa & Anna Landsverk.