Teen Reads
August 2025
 
 
Fiction
All the Way Around the Sun
by Xixi Tian

Book Annotation
Augmented
by Kenechi Udogu

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Bad Creek
by Peyton June

Iris, Gum, and Aidan are vacationing in Bad Creek, just like every summer. Except Iris's older sister, Glory, drowned in the lake last year, and Iris can't seem to move on; Gum is hiding his sexuality from his family while being viciously haunted by Glory's rotting ghost; and Aidan is distraught over a drunken argument with Glory that he fears may have led to her death. When Iris sleepwalks to the dilapidated house that Glory obsessively sketched in her final days, she and the boys begin to uncover a sinister history in the very bones of the town. The trio must reckon with the events of last summer and uncover what lurks within Bad Creek before it takes Iris's life next.
City of Echoes
by Judy I. Lin

Sixteen-year-old Jin, a refugee in Ba Sing Se, navigates a dangerous underworld to save her best friend Susu from a brainwashing conspiracy run by the Earth King's enforcers.
Beast
by Richard Van Camp

 
Bad in the Blood
by Matteo L. Cerilli

 
Best Summer Ever
by Jessica Cunsolo

 
Beenie at Fourteen
by Margaret Buckhanon

 
Blood Moon
by Britney S. Lewis

 
Bitten
by Jordan Gray

After losing her best friend and being bitten in a werewolf attack, seventeen-year-old Vanessa, now a newly turned werewolf, seeks vengeance on the Wolf Queen's Court, where she becomes mesmerized by a prince who is promised to another.
The Book of Heartbreak
by Ova Ceren

 
Blue Ridge Calling
by Olivia Neal

 
Breathing Underwater
by Abbey Lee Nash

Seventeen-year-old competitive swimmer Tess Cooper grapples with the upheaval of her carefully planned future following an epilepsy diagnosis, and works to get back in the pool despite her doctor's advice or her distracting feelings for the new guy.
Bound by Stars
by E. L. Starling

 
City of Magic and Monsters
by Estelle Laure

The Villains have taken over Monarch City, and Mary Elizabeth Heart has finally joined them. When different factions begin vying for the control of magic, Mary must question where her loyalties lie--and what everyone's motives really are. As the Villains band together to wage one last epic battle against the corrupt forces who made them villains in the first place, the very fabric of the world starts to unravel. It soon becomes clear that Mary can't hide from her demons, and that her real destiny as a fairy tale villain is only just beginning.
The Cariboo Trek of Callum McBay
by Colin Campbell

 
Graphic Novels
A Bite of Pepper
by Balazs Lorinczi

 
Champion  A Graphic Novel
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

 
Nonfiction
Black History for Every Day of the Year
by David Olusoga

 
Developing Social Awareness
by Jennifer Sanderson

 
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