young adult fiction

At Swaziland's Keziah Christian Academy, where the wealth and color of one's father determines one's station, once-popular Adele bonds with poor Lottie over a book and a series of disasters.

Seventeen-year-old Muir tries to survive her senior year before aging out of the foster care system. As she becomes closer to her latest foster mother, meets a new friend, and even finds love, she worries that she's getting too involved and fights the urge to flee the closest thing she's ever had to a home.

Liv's older brother Jonah accidentally shoots himself with his best friend Clay's father's gun, and now Jonah needs round-the-clock care just to stay alive and Liv feels like she's the only one who can still see her brother inside his broken body. When Liv's mom sues Clay's family, Liv knows there are lines that she can't cross, but Clay is her friend too and she refuses to give up on Clay and Jonah.

Seventeen-year-old CJ Katsuyama's family sold their flower shop to a white man for next to nothing while they were interned during World War II. Thirty years later, the family bought the store back from that family, the McAllisters, who had prospered in the interim. Now the shop is in financial trouble and CJ's mother works for McAllister Venture Capital. CJ's mother pushes CJ to make something of her life, but CJ only seems to excel at arranging flowers, and she feels aimless. When secrets about the McAllister patriarch come to light, CJ and a group of student activists find something to rally behind, though it causes friction in the community and between CJ and her mother.

High school senior Clara Evans decides to run a clandestine library out of her locker after the principal of her school bans a number of classic and popular books. After a school tragedy involving one of her books, Clara must come to terms with her role in lending out the forbidden material.

One of the only African-American students at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old honors student Keira enjoys playing "Slay," a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture that she secretly developed. When a Kansas City teen is murdered over a dispute in the game, Keira's previously safe space is now labeled racist, exclusionist, and violent. Now she tries to defend her game while keeping her identity hidden.

When Isabel goes to the hospital for her monthly infusion for rheumatoid arthritis, she meets Sasha, who is also there managing his chronic illness. Although Isabel has always had a no-dating rule, Sasha just might be the one to convince her to break it.

Sixteen-year-old Dove "Birdie" Randolph's close bond with her parents is threatened by a family secret, and by hiding her relationship with Booker, who has been in juvenile detention.

In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.

College dropout Pablo Neruda Rind is up to his eyes in student loans and credit card debt, and his graveyard shift at a twenty-four-hour Brooklyn deli is anything but a career. Pop star Leanna Smart grew up a child star and now has more social media followers than some entire countries' populations. One day at five in the morning, Leanna and Pablo meet at the bodega, and defying all expectations Lee and Pab may just become "A Thing.".