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Shampoo Unicorn
by Sawyer Lovett
After a hit-and-run leaves Greg, a closeted jock, unconscious, Brian, the secret host of a popular podcast, uses his platform to investigate the crime and reveal harsh truths about their small town, which inspires others to show support and organize a pride festival that gains national attention.
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Hyo the Hellmaker
by Mina Ikemoto Ghosh
Meet the Hakai Family Purveyors of artisan hells and unlucky days to inflict upon your enemies. They'll make it personal... But for a price!
Hyo Hakai is a Hellmaker. But when a curse destroys her village, she and her brother are forced to flee to the Island of Onogoro - a place where Gods live among humans.
Hyo expects the bodies when they show up, but as she investigates, she is drawn into a tangled web of ends, death, conspiracy and secrets.
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Band Nerd
by Sarah Clawson Willis
For twelve-year-old Lucy Carver, music isn’t just a way of life; it’s an escape from homework and an off-key homelife. When Lucy starts seventh grade at Windley School of the Arts, with its high academic standards and even higher artistic expectations, it becomes much harder to keep life in tune.
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To Steal from Thieves
by M. K. Lobb
Within the dazzling halls of London’s Crystal Palace, the event of the season has arrived: The Great Exhibition. An opportunity for the greatest minds of the century to come together under one roof in an unprecedented display of art and invention. And for two unlikely partners in crime, it’s about to become the score of a lifetime. But robbing one of the most public, heavily guarded buildings in London isn’t going to be easy, especially when love and betrayal threaten to ruin everything they've worked so hard for.
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Camila Núñez's Year of Disasters
by Miriam Zoila Pérez
Cuban-American Camila Nuñez has always been afraid of the future. Maybe it's because her mami seems to make worrying about her a full-time job or because she’s uncomfortable in her own skin. But whatever the cause, she can’t seem to shake her anxiety and panic attacks. So, when Camila's best friend gives her a tarot card reading for her birthday, she believes it when the cards portend terrible things to come. As the year unfolds, the cards seem to be spot on. Whether she likes it or not, Camila is forced to reckon with all the ways her fear about the future is ruining her life, and what it will really take to get back on track.
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The Flip Side
by Jason Walz
After losing his best friend to cancer, grieving Theo navigates a haunting alternate reality that embodies his depression, where he faces a shape-shifting monster and teams up with a mysterious girl to survive in a world where everyone has vanished.
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Right Beside You
by Tucker Shaw
A vintage polaroid camera sends Eddie to early 20th-century New York, where he explores the underground queer life and meets Francis, while in present-day New York, Eddie meets Theo and must choose between romantic fantasies of the past or reality.
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The Summer I Remembered Everything
by Catherine Con Morse
Sixteen-year-old Emily spends her summer as a companion to an elderly woman with Alzheimer's, and grapples with being both a loyal friend and a responsible caregiver.
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Ollie in Between
by Jess Callans
Puberty, AKA the ultimate biological predator, is driving a wedge between soon-to-be 13-year-old Ollie Thompson and their lifelong friends. Too much of a girl for their neighborhood hockey team, but not girly enough for their boy-crazed BFF, Ollie doesn’t know where they fit. And their usual ability to camouflage? Woefully disrupted. When a school project asks them to write an essay on what it means to be a woman, and one of their new friends is the target of bullying, Ollie is caught between the safety of fleeing from their own differences or confronting the risks of fighting to take their own path forward.
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Hey, Mary!
by Andrew Wheeler
Mark is a good Catholic boy. He goes to church, says his prayers, and spends too much time worrying about hell. When Mark realizes he has a crush on another boy in his school, he struggles to reconcile his feelings with his faith as the weight of centuries of shame and judgment--and his fear of his parents' response--presses on his shoulders. Mark seeks advice from his priest, as well as a local drag performer, but also receives unexpected input from key figures in Catholic history and lore, including Joan of Arc, Michelangelo, St. Sebastian, and Savonarola. Ultimately, only Mark can answer the question: Is it possible for him to be both Catholic and gay?
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The Peach Thief
by Linda Joan Smith
When orphan Scilla Brown climbs the Earl of Havermore's garden wall to steal a peach, she is caught, mistaken for a boy and ends up with a job, but her loyalties become divided, in a story about fate, ambition and identity.
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The Girl You Know
by Elle Gonzalez Rose
When eighteen-year-old Luna's twin sister Solina dies mysteriously just before returning to Kingswood Academy, Luna infiltrates the boarding school by posing as her sister to uncover the truth behind her death, but dark secrets make the investigation far more challenging than she anticipated.
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