domestic fiction

Brother, Sister, and Honey Bear eagerly select seeds and plant their own gardens, but when the growing takes longer than expected, Mama and Papa remind them that patience is also required.

After the sudden death of her husband, a literature professor tries to rediscover who she is while also dealing with a series of family and political crises.

Seventh grader Quijana is ashamed when her Guatemalan cousins move to town and her father shows his disappointment in her cultural ignorance. Meanwhile, school grows more complicated when she meets two new friends, Zuri and Jayden, and realizes she might like Jayden as more than just a friend. At home, Quijana spends her nights Skyping with her ailing grandmother and her younger brother is withdrawing more all the time.

Outcasts and best friends Serena Velasco and Melody Grimshaw strive together to survive senior year and break away from their rural factory town.

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.

Sixteen-year-old Gravity Delgado has been breaking records and competitors since she started boxing with a legendary coach at age twelve, and now will reach the Olympics if her home life and romance do not distract her.

In the summer of 1972, three girls from very different backgrounds struggle to come to terms with being pregnant.

Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor heads into seventh grade armed with advice his grandfather gave him: to find a thing he's good at and become the best at it. But Rahul struggles with his identity, including his confusing attraction to classmate Justin Emery. Rahul joins the Mathletes but it doesn't go as planned, and when Jenny asks him to a dance, Rahul spirals into depression and anxiety. With the help of his best friend Chelsea, Rahul confronts who he actually is.

Sixteen-year-old Allie has known since she was seven years old that her family is different and even feared. She struggles to claim her Muslim and Arabic heritage while finding her place as an American teenager.

Deena comes out as lesbian to her family on her seventeenth birthday, but that event is overshadowed when her older sister, Mandy, jumps off a cliff. Their extended family is surprised by neither event, having always considered the Rys sisters "bad apples." Then, Deena finds the impossible happening--she starts receiving letters from Mandy, sparking a cross-country search in the hopes of healing her family and herself.