bildungsromans

In New York City, follows the breakup of teenaged best friends Cleo and Layla, told in alternating timelines.

With her unstable, alcoholic mother, sixteen-year-old Isabelle moves from one dingy apartment to the next while trying to care for her younger siblings. Things go from bad to worse when Isabelle gets on the wrong side of a popular girl at her new school. And although she doesn't really have time for romance, she realizes she's falling for a boy named Will, which only complicates things.

High school junior Del Rainey unwittingly joins a Purity Pledge class at church, hoping to get closer to his long-term crush, Kiera.

While troubled black teen Tyson Trice recovers from being shot, he is taken in by Nandy Smith and her well-to-do family in the Pacific Hills community. Nandy has a reputation to keep up and she won't let Trice ruin it. But their growing attraction causes problems when the past threatens to pull Trice back onto the streets.

Live streamer Divya Sharma is a rising star among gamers who play "Reclaim the Sun" and her recent sponsorships are helping her single mother pay rent. She meets another budding video game developer named Aaron and the two develop an online friendship. When a group of trolls begin to harass Divya with a doxxing campaign, Aaron and Divya band together to protect themselves and their families.

Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.

"In an eccentric, turreted vacation house by the sea, our watchful narrator sees everything, including many things that shouldn't be seen, while brothers and sisters, parents and theatrical older cousins fill the hot days with wine and tennis and sailing and planning a wedding. Enter two brothers, the sons of a fading film actress; irresistibly charming, languidly sexy Kit and surly, silent Hugo. Suddenly there's a serpent in this paradise, and the consequences will be devastating"--Provided by publisher.

After failing to come into her powers, sixteen-year-old Voya--a Black witch living in near-future Toronto--is forced to choose between losing her family's magic forever, a heritage steeped in centuries of blood and survival, or murdering her first love, a boy who is supposedly her genetic match.

"Peyton King has always wanted to belong. She seizes the opportunity to start over at a new school and finally finds real connections with the friends she's always dreamed of and even an actual boyfriend! But after flying high in her newfound happiness, Peyton comes crashing down when reality sets in and the ones she cares about let her down. Peyton's friends can't fix her and she can't help them if they won't let her. If she wants to find real, lasting happiness, Peyton will have to search somewhere else. With nothing but her sketchpad and a backpack, she buys a one-way ticket and gets on a plane. How far will she go to change her story?"--Provided by the publisher.