Teen Scene
February 2026

Recent Releases
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.
Trajectory by Cambria Gordon
Trajectory
by Cambria Gordon

As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy--
Free Speech Handbook: A Practical Framework for Understanding Our Free Speech Protections by Ian Rosenberg
Free Speech Handbook: A Practical Framework for Understanding Our Free Speech Protections
by Ian Rosenberg

Freedom of speech is perhaps the most American of virtues. In a nation where everyone wants to speak and be heard, this First Amendment right is vital to our identity and our democracy. These rights have been advanced by people who spoke out and fought in our nation's highest court, with each decision refining and reshaping what exactly free speech means. In Free Speech Handbook, Ian Rosenberg and Mike Cavallaro brilliantly trace this turbulent history across ten seminal Supreme Court cases while drawing parallels with more recent controversies. Rosenberg's straightforward language combines with Cavallaro's bold and bright art to create an accessible and engaging crash course on the meaning, reach, and limits of our free speech protections. engaging way.--Provided by publisher.
You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk about Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell by null
You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk about Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
by Book Author

Sharing candid interviews with 13 top children's and young adult authors who discuss why their books have faced censorship, a historian and critic puts First Amendment challenges into historical context and examines the support network that protects and defends young people's rights.--Provided by publisher.
Retro Reads
Pure by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Pure
by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Alex longs for a normal life as a half-blood and grapples with her destiny as the second Apollyon, which is exacerbated by her infuriating connection to Seth and her forbidden feelings for pure-blood Aiden, all while she battles daimons and pures who threaten her survival.
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