Teen Scene: December 2025
New Young Adult Materials
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Fiction
Reasons We Break by Jesmeen Kaur Deo
Reasons We Break
by Jesmeen Kaur Deo
 
As long as Simran has known Rajan, her immigrant community has warned her away. She knows what they call him, especially since he got out of juvie: an addict. A gangster. A killer. But Simran can’t believe Rajan is beyond hope. She’s seen his thoughtfulness firsthand: He’s the only one who’s noticed the pressure she’s under to be perfect—and how close she is to breaking. So when Rajan’s old gang tries to force him back in, Simran makes a desperate bargain: She’ll become their bookkeeper to clear his debts and keep him out of prison. But Rajan won’t leave her side while she works, and their forbidden attraction is becoming harder to ignore. Worse, there’s a gang war brewing and neither of them is likely to get through it unscathed.
A Fate So Cold by Amanda Foody
A Fate So Cold
by Amanda Foody

In Alderland, where Summer magicians defend the nation against Winters brutal reign, Domenic and Ellery become the unprecedented Chosen Two, bonded with the most powerful Summer and first-ever Winter wands, and face a looming cataclysm and the devastating truth that saving their homeland may require one to slay the other.
Coldwire by Chloe Gong
Coldwire
by Chloe Gong

A dystopian story following a young soldier who is framed for a political assassination and must team up with her country's most wanted terrorist to clear her name.
Grave Flowers by Autumn Krause
Grave Flowers
by Autumn Krause

When her murdered twin sister's ghost appears to her, begging to be freed, Princess Madalina poses as Inessa, her more ruthless sister, to marry and assassinate Prince Aeric and solidify a pact between her family and his uncle.
We Fell Apart: A We Were Liars Novel by E. Lockhart
We Fell Apart
by E. Lockhart

When eighteen-year-old Mathilda is invited to spend the summer with the father she has never met, she discovers far more than she expected within his seaside home.
The Map That Led to You (a Novel) by Ella McLeod
The Map That Led to You
by Ella McLeod

Told through three perspectives and timelines, Reggie and Maeve are tasked with a history assignment about the rise and fall of a pirate Republic from their island home, uncovering long-forgotten legends and discovering that magic may be closer than they ever imagined.
Seven for a Secret by Mary E. Roach
Seven for a Secret
by Mary E. Roach
 
In the town of Avan Island, there was a group home called Sister’s Place. It housed girls no one cared about, girls who had nothing and no one but each other. Over the course of six months, eight girls from the home seemingly disappeared, never to return. But one girl did. Nev is the girl who returned. The girl who survived. She's done her best to leave what happened in the forest on Avan Island behind her, but now, five years later, the men in charge of Sister’s Place, the men who brushed the missing girls off as “runaways,” are turning up dead. And Nev realizes that confronting the town that was all too happy to forget her may be her only chance to get answers about what happened to her sisters. As Nev is pulled deeper into Avan's secrets and as more bodies pile up she must unravel the mysteries locked in her own mind as she hunts down a killer who is willing to do anything to make sure the past stays buried.
Fade Into You by Amber Smith
Fade Into You
by Amber Smith

Two unlikely high school seniors, Jessa and Bird, join forces to break up their best friends' toxic relationship, but in the process, they begin to fall for each other and discover new aspects of themselves.
Non-Fiction
Hick : the trailblazing journalist who captured Eleanor Roosevelt's heart by Sarah Miller
Hick : the trailblazing journalist who captured Eleanor Roosevelt's heart
by Sarah Miller

Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, this book traces Lorena Hickok or Hick's rise from devastating childhood to renowned journalist, and follows the most significant friendship and romantic relationship of her life with first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt.
Graphic Novels
This place kills me / :  A Graphic Novel by Mariko Tamaki
This place kills me
by Mariko Tamaki

At Wilberton Academy, few students are more revered than the members of the elite Wilberton Theatrical Society a.k.a. the WTS and no one represents that exclusive club better than Elizabeth Woodward. Breathtakingly beautiful, beloved by all, and a talented thespian, it's no surprise she's starring as Juliet in the WTS's performance of Shakespeare's classic tragedy. But when she's found dead the morning after opening night, the whole school is thrown into chaos. Transfer student Abby Kita was one of the last people to see Elizabeth alive, and when local authorities deem the it-girl's death a suicide, Abby's not convinced she's sure there's more to Wilberton and the WTS than meets the eye. As she gets tangled in prep school intrigue, Abby quickly realizes that Elizabeth was keeping secrets. Was one of those secrets worth killing for?
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