| You Only Live Twice by Autumn AllenReady for life on her own terms, Zakiyyah leaves high school early, attends community college, and begins wearing a niqab. She’s considering finding a spouse who shares her faith, but she’s still discovering much about herself. This earnest, affirming story unfolds through texts, emails, sticky notes, poetry, and more.
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| Flickerstate by F.A. DavidsonPeople who access the flickerstate can manipulate probability, but there are vicious flickerbeasts in the realm of the future. Needing a cure for flickerbeast bites, Noah teams up with classmates to compete for access to her academy’s archives.
Read-alikes: Ava Reid’s A Study in Drowning; Petra Lord’s Queen of Faces. |
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Library or Lattes?
by Lila Hazell
Willa's small town is at its best in the fall. It's cozy and comforting, pretty much perfect, but sometimes Willa wonders if she's destined for more. Then she's left some money by a distant aunt, with one condition: It must be used to see the world. The rest of the book unfolds in alternating chapters where she makes one choice or another about this inheritance.
You might also like: Left on Read by Marissa Eller, Practically Magic by Jen Calonita, or The Introvert's Guide to Kissing in Europe by Brenda Janowitz.
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| Such Great Heights by Rajani LaroccaSiya was 10 years old when her attorney mother died in a car accident. Now a high school senior on the mock trial team, Siya encounters a case mirroring her mother’s story, prompting her to uncover family secrets. This sweeping novel is a retelling of Hindu epic the Ramayana.
For other books about life-altering secrets, try: Heavensent & Hellbent by Sara Jafari or My Killer Family Reunion by Dinesh Thiru. |
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But I Hate Him
by Page Powars
As the heir to the most successful tutoring company in the world, Rory can be nothing less than perfect if he wants to gain his parents' approval. So he never loses. Except to Luca Melendez. The infuriatingly good-looking hockey player wins every academic competition without even trying. When Rory has a very public meltdown, throwing a smoothie at Luca and shattering his own public image in the process - it feels like one more thing Luca ruined. To salvage his reputation, Rory has his sights set on winning the most cutthroat academic camp in the country, BRAIN. There is nothing standing between Rory and the final medal. Until, Luca Melendez shows up.
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| Nest of Tongues by Randy RibaySiblings Lily and Caleb are Bay Area teens with a big secret: they’re vampires. When a monster hunter targets Caleb, the two seek to uncover the hunter’s identity before it’s too late. This page-turning horror novel is rooted in Filipino vampire mythology.
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| Immortal Game by Allison SaftWhen Midir of Bri Leith, the fae High King of the Otherworld, hosts a chess tournament, the prize is the granting of a single wish. Chess grandmaster Shea Fury knows this is her chance to reclaim her sister, lost to the fae realm six years ago.
You might also like: Find My Way Down to You by Julian Winters or Hell to Pay by Lora Beth Johnson. |
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Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15-October 15
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Second Generation Blues: A Graphic Novel
by Julio Anta
Luis Menendez wants to be free from his immigrant Cuban-American parents' expectations. Instead, he's spending the summer delivering food for his family's faltering restaurant, sweating under the hot sun and the crushing weight of a future he didn't choose. At least there's Yara. Confident, assertive, and basically Luis's dream girl, she might be the only person who understands him. If only he had any free time to spend with her. Amid the chaos, Luis starts carving out his own path. But when trying to be the son his parents need clashes with the life he wants, he's forced to face the question he's most afraid of answering: Is family loyalty worth sacrificing his own happiness?
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Take It to Your Grave
by Louangie Bou-Montes
Maximiliano Rafael Guerrero Lopez has been dead for 30 years. He's stuck as a sixteen-year-old in his childhood bedroom with no memory of how he died, and no company aside from rotting floor boards and mildew-ridden guitars. Joaquin Felix Ladron is a high schooler who's desperate to experience something paranormal--he'd do anything to even catch a glimpse of a ghost. When Joaquin goes on a ghost hunt at an abandoned house that's rumored to be haunted, he and Max find their fates becoming intertwined in ways neither of them expected.
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Cursed Ever After
by Andy C. Naranjo
Love is not for cursed girls. Risa is better off without it. After years of taking the blame for every calamity, mishap, and minor inconvenience that befalls the townspeople of Barrow, Risa longs to escape her village. On her seventeenth birthday, her wish is granted. Sort of. Risa owes a (very annoying) witch a favor, and it comes in the form of a quest: She must escort Prince Javi--the youngest, handsomest, and least significant of the kingdom's princes--through the dark (and deadly) Bosque to his wedding. This measly errand quickly spirals into a struggle with greedy assassins, a murderous cult, a vicious tyrant, and Risa's own curse.
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Estela, Undrowning
by René Peña-Govea
Seventeen-year-old Estela grapples with racial tensions after placing second to a non-Latino student in a Latinx poetry contest, all while battling anxiety over her family's looming eviction.
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Latina Superheroes: Loquita & Ruca
by Kayden Phoenix
Follow Loquita, a girl from Miami, Florida, who immerses herself in the supernatural realm to figure out why a mysterious ghost is following her, and Ruca, a tough girl in East L.A. fighting against human traffickers. Together these women comprise two of five amazing Latina superheroes known as A La Brava--strong young adults who fight for justice and equality in their communities. This volume follows the first comic in the series, Jalisco & Santa.
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Tangled Roots & Wild Dreams
by Angela Velez
Ezzie Ramos is a champion secret keeper. Her brilliant-professor mami and nosy abuelita don't know about her daily ritual (wandering the art museum), her college applications (hopelessly blank), or her summer plans (avoiding the dreaded f-word, a.k.a. her future, at all costs). Ezzie's biggest secret? She's interning at Sprout, the urban garden she's stunned to discover her father founded weeks before his death. With seven weeks to uncover who Papi really was, Ezzie must chase down every lead, even if it means tangling with Sprout's star volunteer, Gabe McCalister, who couldn't be more off-limits--or distractingly cute.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 14 and up!
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