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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Counselors delivers a razor-sharp murder-mystery set during the summer when a local teen's suspicious death exposes the devastating secrets three sisters keep. "A gripping, unputdownable read." --Veronica Bane, USA Today...

The American Indian Youth Literature and Morris Award-winning author of Rez Ball returns with the unforgettable story of a gifted young Ojibwe athlete learning to ride in his father's footsteps while practicing for a skateboarding championship. When Bryce's mom...

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...

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...

A luminous and romantic debut verse-novel navigating first love as a non-binary teenager. I feel invincible. Like I could run and run and never stop for breath. I feel a power in me I didn't know I had. ...

From the celebrated author of As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow comes a poignant novel about a Syrian American girl who uses a magical sketchbook to turn her grief into art, painting miraculous murals of her mother's life in Syria. Seventeen-year...

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...

Heartstopper meets Before Sunrise in this irresistible, swoony YA rom-com about two boys unexpectedly falling in love over the course of one night in Paris. Ben Lim is so excited for his French Club's trip to the most romantic city in the world: Paris. Ben's even made a to-do...

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...

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...

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...

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...

★ "An adrenaline rush-inducing must-read." --School Library Journal, starred review ★ "A powerful and moving depiction of seeking justice amid mourning." -- Booklist, starred review This edge-of-your-seat Indigenous murder-mystery set in...

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...