domestic fiction

Seventeen-year-old biracial Avery Anderson's life is turned upside down when she and her parents move to Bardell, Georgia, to live with her terminally ill grandmother, Mama Letty. Avery's mom and Mama Letty have a strained relationship, but they won't tell Avery what caused it. Fortunately, Avery befriends Simone Cole, her Black next-door neighbor who she begins to fall for, and Jade Oliver, the White daughter of the town's most prominent family. As Avery begins to unpacks Bardell's racist past, she learns more about her own family's tragic connection to the town and about the unsolved murder of Jade's mother.

Three months after Lily found her sister, Alice, cutting herself in the bathroom--an event Lily names The Night on the Bathroom Floor--Alice is about to come home from her treatment program, calling up fears and feelings she had tamped down since that time. With Alice comes Micah, a boy from her same treatment program, who recognizes Lily is hiding secret compulsions of her own. To help, Micah joins Lily on an art project for school, where she must find the courage to speak and write the words and poetry she has been concealing in her heart.

The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.

Ginny Rose and Peggy became best friends when Ginny Rose's family came to work as pickers on Peggy's family's peach farm. Ten years later, Ginny Rose's family returns to town, and the two reconnect despite their class differences. Peggy's wealthy best friend, Lisette, threatens to get in the way of their friendship, but an unexpected adventure brings the girls together.

When Archie's grandfather's Alzheimer's disease worsens, he devises a role-playing game to play with his grandfather based on his diary entries, as a way for his grandfather to connect with his memories. But when he comes across a diary entry that details a horrific piece of his grandfather's past, Archie begins to question the man he idolized his whole life.

Dominguita helps Mr. Fuentes by taking his food order for his granddaughter Leni's upcoming quincea?era to the butcher shop. But when the order goes missing, Dom steps in to investigate. She and her friends Pancho and Steph uncover evil plans of the Bublassi brothers to ruin Leni's day. The three friends vow to stop the brothers and save Leni's party.

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.

Lives are turned upside down when three adult siblings meet for the first time after they each discover their biological father was a sperm donor.

After his father's death, Isaiah feels that he is now the man of the house and it is his responsibility to take care of his Mama and little sister. When things get really tough at home, Isaiah depends on the stories in his daddy's journal in order to find his way out of the darkness.

Evan Pao and his family move to Haddington, Virginia in hopes of keeping his father's notoriety a secret, but a small southern town is not an easy place for a Chinese-American boy to fit in, and one kid, Brady Griggs, seems determined to make things difficult.