Teen Scene
November 2025

Recent Releases
Goodbye, my princess by Wo Si Cun Fei
Goodbye, my princess
by Wo Si Cun Fei

Now married to the heartless crown prince, princess Xiaofeng lives a secret life outside the manor until a stranger reveals a past she cannot remember, and she must recover her memories of love and betrayal.
All are welcome : a Cat's Cafe collection by Matt Tarpley
All are welcome : a Cat's Cafe collection
by Matt Tarpley

Join Cat, Rabbit, Penguin, and the rest of the team in this delightful new comic collection for middle grade readers! All are Welcome offers young readers delightful comics full of friendship and fun. Freeing the warm and floofies within, the Cat's Cafe series offers a world that understands you. In this collection, readers will find new levels of cuteness and heartwarming moments and learn more about their favorite characters. Along with the familiar stories of mental health and friendship that Cat's Cafe is known for, author Gwen Tarpley also uses characters like Rabbit to share her most authentic self with the world. So grab your favorite mug and sip, laugh, and cheer as you curl up with the newest installment of Cat's Cafe.
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories by Cynthia Leitich Smith, editor
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
by Cynthia Leitich Smith, editor

Sandy June’s Legendary Frybread Drive-In is a food truck that appears wherever Indigenous people across North America need to meet. It provides the setting for the linked stories in this touching and magical anthology that takes readers from Hawai’i to Alaska to Manitoba and many liminal places in between.
Sailor V  Naoko Takeuchi Collection 1 : Codename by Naoko Takeuchi
Sailor V Naoko Takeuchi Collection 1 : Codename
by Naoko Takeuchi

Before Sailor Moon, there was Sailor V! Minako Aino is 13 years old when she meets a talking white cat named Artemis, who tells her something unbelievable: With a magic pen, she has the power to transform into the elegant, masked hero Sailor V. Experience Minako's adventures, before she became Sailor Venus, featuring a new, glittering cover, a fresh translation, and remastered interior art! A year before meeting Sailor Moon--and her destiny as a member of the Sailor Guardians--Minako was the first hero to find her calling.
The unexpected consequence of bleeding on a Tuesday by Kelsey B. Toney
The unexpected consequence of bleeding on a Tuesday
by Kelsey B. Toney

Seventeen-year-old Delia's frustrating journey to find a diagnosis for her excruciating menstrual pain leads to a fateful decision to self-medicate with marijuana, putting her future in jeopardy.
Spacewalking with you. 1 by Inuhiko Doronoda
Spacewalking with you. 1
by Inuhiko Doronoda

Kobayashi just can't focus--not on studying, not on work--and the adults in his life think he's in danger of becoming a worthless dropout. Then, one day, a strange new presence arrives in his class: an energetic and naive kid named Uno. Kobayashi saves Uno from getting scammed, and that close encounter launches a new friendship. Uno's definitely a space cadet, but Kobayashi can't help admiring the way he floats through life, and before he knows it, he might start feeling his feet lift off the ground, too...
Lady dragon by AdriAnne Strickland
Lady dragon
by AdriAnne Strickland

Humans and dragons are living under a tentative truce, and after Samansa, the reluctant human princess, and Kirek, the favored contender for the draconic queenship, grow closer, they discover a potential breach of the treaty.
A beautiful and terrible murder by Claire M. Andrews
A beautiful and terrible murder
by Claire M. Andrews

Irene Adler is no ordinary young lady. She's at the top of the ranks in the All Souls cohort, a competitive preparatory class reserved for Oxford's brightest minds. But her peers and professors don't know she's a lady at all. To them, she is Isaac Holland. Keeping up her disguise gets trickier when All Souls students start dying, one by one. Determined to find out who's responsible for the deaths, Irene--as Isaac--teams up with fellow classmate and roommate Sherlock Holmes to track down clues. Their mission grows more dangerous by the day as someone tries to frame Isaac for the murders, and Irene's own father, Dean Moriarty, begins to threaten her seat in school.
Contact your librarian for more great books for ages 14 and up!
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131 E Jefferson St
Grand Ledge, Michigan 48837
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