Teen Scene
September 2025
Recent Releases
Pride or die : a novel
by C. L. Montblanc

When an LGBTQ+ club meeting coincides with an attack on the head cheerleader, seventeen-year-old Eleanora and the other club members must solve the crime themselves to clear their names and save the club from disappearing
Tall water
by SJ Sindu

Against the will of her father, teenage Nimmi journeys to Sri Lanka to reconnect with her long-lost mother during the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, which leaves Nimmi stranded amid the devastation and destruction. Gr 7-9
One-punch man. 31, Supreme purgatorial explosive heat wave-motion gun
by ONE

Monster Association big shots are taking out S-class heroes one after another, until the strongest man alive, King, rises to confront this crisis. Original. Gr 7+
My return to the Walter boys
by Ali Novak

"Jackie Howard returns to the Walter ranch after a summer in New York. She needed space--and got it. But she doesn't know where things stand with her and Cole Walter after that goodbye kiss. Over the summer, she stopped texting him. She never stopped thinking about him. Still, with Cole living off in town to work at Tony's garage before he heads off to college, Jackie thinks it'll be easy to avoid him--only to find that when she sees him face to face at last, it's, well... impossible to resist him. Things are getting complicated: he's the boy she can't get off her mind, and the Walters have become the family she loves and needs. How can Jackie move forward when she's afraid of taking the next step?"
The red car to Hollywood
by Jennie Liu

"In LA's Chinatown in 1924, sixteen-year-old Ruby Chan rebels against her parents' conventional plans for her future when a friendship with nineteen-year-old Anna May Wong, a rising Hollywood film star, opens up new possibilities"
Hispanic Heritage Month
The survivor wants to die at the end
by Adam Silvera

"Paz Dario stays up every night, waiting for the Death-Cast call that would mean he doesn't have to keep faking his way through this lonely life. After a devastating day, Paz decides he's done waiting around for Death-Cast. If they say he's not dying, he'll just have to prove them wrong...Alano Rosa is heir to the Death-Cast empire that encourages everyone to live their best lives, but he doesn't feel in control of his own existence thanks to his father...Fate brings Paz and Alano together, but it's now up to the boys to survive the tragic trials ahead so no one dies at the end"
Flawless girls
by Anna-Marie McLemore

"When her sister Renata returns from prominent finishing school Alarie House, seemingly pleasant, unnervingly polite and possibly murderous, younger sister Isla is determined to find out want happened to Renata by going back to the school and is drawn into the opulent, unsettling place that won't give up its secrets?—?or her?—?without a fight. Simultaneous eBook."
Caught in a bad fauxmance
by Elle Gonzalez Rose

"Agreeing to fake date the son of his family's longtime enemy, Devin Báez uses this opportunity to gather intel strong enough to take them down and keep the family cabin they gambled on a risky bet until he realizes love is in the cards. Simultaneous and eBook."
Survive the Dome
by Kosoko Jackson

"A high school junior teams up with a hacker during a police brutality protest to shut down a device that creates an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out"
Burn down, rise up
by Vincent Tirado

When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process
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