*New & Notable Teen Books - May/June Highlights*

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Updated May 15, 2026
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*New & Notable Teen Books - May/June Highlights*

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In the country I love.
Al-Barkawi, Alaa.
Paper Book
Two Iraqi American best friends--a struggling teen father and the community's golden boy--confront dark truths about their families in the wake of a devastating crime in this heartrending YA debut. As a seventeen-year-old single dad and a soon-to-be high school drop-out, Yassir...
Holloway.
Arnold, Elana K.
Paper Book
Award-winning author Elana K. Arnold returns with a boldly visionary, deeply felt story that crosses space and time to examine loss and love in a world on the brink. It is the late summer of 2021, and a girl named Nora is on the Paris Metro. Nora, whose mother loved...
Rani Deshpande Takes the Wheel
Avachat, Arushi
Paper Book
Rani's summer checklist didn't include falling in love in this sparkling romance for fans of The Summer of Broken Rules and Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute. Nineteen-year-old Rani Deshpande is on a mission to reinvent herself the summer before transferring to...
Rolls and Rivalry.
Boyce, Kristy.
Paper Book
Roll the dice, strike up the band, and get ready for a swoon-worthy summer! A charming gaming romance that blends the magic of D&D with the camaraderie of band camp--from the bestselling author of Dating and Dragons! Questing for love . . . Hazel...
Lying, stealing, and other ways to save the planet.
Campbell, Curtis.
Paper Book
A hilarious YA novel about coming of age in the shadow of climate change, overcoming cynicism, and the power of collaboration from the award-winning author of Dragging Mason County. Ever since the best story of his career became the worst humiliation of his life, teen reporter John O'Neil...
Young world.
Chainani, Soman.
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of the School for Good and Evil series comes a renegade thriller, about a teenager elected President of the United States, sparking a global revolution of young leaders--until one of them is murdered and he's the prime suspect. **The...
Queerleaders.
Cole, Olivia A.
Paper Book
Two cheerleaders find themselves inconveniently tumbling head over heels for each other in this satirical, sapphic teen rom-com that's Bring It On meets She Drives Me Crazy. Oak Haven High doesn't have cheerleaders--it has queerleaders. It's a...
To All the Boys I've Loved Before The Graphic Novel
Han, Jenny.
Paper Book
To All the Boys I've Loved Before is now a major motion picture on Netflix and the inspiration for the spin-off series XO, Kitty--now streaming on Netflix! In this sparkling graphic novel adaptation of the Time Best YA Book of All Time selection and...
Behind Five Willows.
Hur, June.
Paper Book
From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Crane Among Wolves comes a warm and romantic homage to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice set in historical Korea, about a reader and a writer who secretly fight against government book banning and find themselves irresistibly...
As I Dream of You
Lee, Jennifer.
Paper Book
STARRED REVIEWS from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, SLJ, The Horn Book, and The BCCB! Franny and Sam are each other's entire world. So what do you do when your world ends? Frozen's Jennifer Lee and Lunar New Year Love Story's...
The Last Best Quest Ever.
Lukens, F. T.
Paper Book
A fraudulent teen quester must team up with a brooding, royal rival on a perilous adventure to save her brother's life in this "witty...lively, heartfelt" (School Library Journal, starred review) young adult romantasy full of mythical...
The saw mouth.
Plett, Cale.
Paper Book
For fans of The Last Bookstore on Earth and Compound Fracture, a heart-pounding rural horror following a genderqueer teen who survives a near-apocalypse, only to be hunted by a mysterious monster whose very existence is entwined with their own. From a breathtaking new...
This Must Be the Place.
Quindlen, Kelly.
Paper Book
Inheriting a gay bar from your secretive great-uncle? Awkward. Trying to save it while catching feelings for the wrong girl? Complicated. From the author of She Drives Me Crazy comes an exuberant YA novel about queer joy, found family, and standing your ground. When...
The electric life of Lavender Lewis.
Storti, Kara.
Paper Book
In this contemporary romance full of magic and hope, a grieving teen with severe epilepsy scours New England for answers about her mystifying connection with a stranger, for fans of Rachel Lynn Solomon and Gayle Forman. At seventeen, Lavender Lewis has had...
Shards of silence.
Young, Brian.
Paper Book
In his first YA novel, award-winning author Brian Lee Young (Diné) bridges the generational divide between a Navajo teen at an elite prep school and his great-grandmother's experience at a federal boarding school for Indigenous students. The book is an eye-opening call for community...
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