school fiction

Trying to hide her autism diagnosis, fifteen-year-old Palestinian-Canadian girl Jessie creates a list of goals to help navigate her first year of high school but is forced to go off script when two very different boys steal her heart.

Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.

"Theo Mori and Gabriel Moreno have always been at odds. Their parents own rival businesses--an Asian American cafe and a Puerto Rican bakery--and Gabi's lack of coordination has cost their soccer team too many games to count. Stuck in the closet and scared to pursue his own dreams, Gabi sees his parents' shop as his future. Stuck under the weight of his parents' expectations, Theo's best shot at leaving Vermont means first ensuring his parents' livelihood is secure. So when a new fusion cafe threatens both shops, Theo and Gabi realize an unfortunate truth--they can only achieve their goals by working together to cook up an underground bakery operation and win back their customers. But can they put aside their differences long enough to save their parents' shops or will the new feelings between them boil over?"--Provided by publisher.

When the town threatens to close their crumbling middle school and Greg realizes he'd have to go to a different school than his best friend, he rallies his classmates to save their school before it's shuttered for good.

"Four friends enter their fourth and final year of high school. They have survived abusive partners, drinking parties, eating disorders, social ostracism, ethnicslurs, star-crossed romances, and even the deaths and divorces of parents - all the challenges that can make the teen years turbulent and painful. But they have also learnedto cope. They have passed the dreaded standardized tests, gotten in a few AP courses, gone to prom, fallen in and out of love, worked summers, learned to drive. They have visited college campuses and begun to apply for--and receive--scholarship decisions. Their last year is flying past, and their feelings are in a whirl. They can't wait to leave--but they dread the thought of losing each other."--Publisher's description.

It is his second year of Scare School for Bash the ghost, and when he is paired with Vlad and Vicky, the mischievous vampires, he is worried that their antics will sabotage their group project.

"When Mia arrives at her new school, she has to decide between the Popular Girls Club and the Cupcake Club. The choice makes her feel like she's choosing between her divorced parents and she want to mix things up instead of being stuck in the middle"--Provided by publisher.

"Katie Brown is miserable when her best friend joins the Popular Girls Club, but she learns that sometimes starting from scratch can be the icing on the cupcake after she finds a new group of friends and starts the Cupcake Club"--Provided by publisher.

"Alexis is by far the most prepared, very exact, and extremely organized Cupcake Club member, but she has to figure out a formula for love when she has a crush"--Provided by publisher.

Middle school student Sam is comfortable with their nonbinary identity, and their family has accepted it too (as long as they do their homework and chores), so when their history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honoring a historical Staten Islander (there is a contest involved) they and their friend TJ decide to focus on Alice Austen, a lesbian photographer, whose house on Staten Island is a museum--but they have to overcome the presumption on the part of their teacher that only straight males are eligible.