New Teen Books

New Teen Books April 12, 2022

Posted: April 12, 2022

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 […]

New Teen Books March 10, 2022

Posted: March 10, 2022

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 […]

New Teen Books February 23, 2022

Posted: February 23, 2022

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 […]

New Teen Books February 14, 2022

Posted: February 14, 2022

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 […]

New Teen Books January 19, 2022

Posted: January 19, 2022

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, […]

New Teen Book January 10, 2022

Posted: January 10, 2022

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 […]

New Teen Books December 15, 2021

Posted: December 15, 2021

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. […]

New Teen Books November 26, 2021

Posted: November 26, 2021

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 […]

New Teen Books November 19, 2021

Posted: November 19, 2021

Fiction: Skin of the Seas by Natasha Bowen.  A mermaid seeks to appease the Supreme Creator after a rescue attempt goes awry.  Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough.  A werebear princess and her cruel twin brother vie for inheritance of their father’s crown. The Delusionist by Don Calame.  Quinn and best friend Perry hope […]

New Teen Books November 10, 2021

Posted: November 10, 2021

Fiction: The Falling Girls by Hayley Krischer.  Seventeen-year-old Shade learns that friendship can be toxic after she joins the cheerleading team over her best friend’s objections. The Last Beautiful Girl by Nina Laurin.  A teen’s identity becomes entangled with social media fame when she moves to a remote mansion with a troubling history. A Clash […]