young adult fiction

When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.

Darcy Willis is hiding a painful secret from her family and decides to turn to her remaining friends for help. When she discovers one of them is concealing an even bigger secret, Darcy is forced to stand up for herself and her friend, and her life is changed forever.

Fed up with her manipulative, intrusive cousin, Maya pays little heed when Viviana begins to have a hard time adjusting to her new life. When Viviana makes a drastic and dangerous choice, however, Maya becomes the only one who can help.

When Hakeem Randall's father becomes ill the family can no longer keep their home. Hakeem must leave Bluford High School and move to Detroit where a moody and secretive cousin Savon lives. They quickly become enemies and face an uncertain and frightening future together.

"Teenage girl Yukko awakens to find that she has shrunken in size-but this is no rabbit hole or fairy tale-this is real life! In a desperate and bloody struggle to stay alive, while fleeing giant predators and other twisted dangers, Yukko learns that she is not the only person who has turned tiny. Can she survive long enough to learn the truth behind her curious transformation?"--Back cover.

High school senior Jayd Jackson has defeated her grandmother's worst and closest enemy, but that doesn't mean her life is getting easier--not with all the drama her friends create--like Mickey and G, who are on the run, or like her evil neighbor, Esmeralda, who just won't rest in peace.

After Paz makes a commitment to go out with Juan, she discovers she would rather date Cruz, and even when Griff and Marge try to get her out of it, Paz still knows the right thing to do.

Kirk faces a real dilemma. His steady girlfriend Claire is angry that Kirk's boss asked him to give his niece a tennis lesson. Claire's jealousy makes her question if Kirk is faithful to her.

After June's temper explodes, the coach takes her off the vollyball team and her boyfriend ends their relationship, but her friends Rose and Kim try to help her from losing her temper.