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She Drinks the Light
by Yasmin Angoe
Addae grew up on the Golden Isle, a community originally founded by the Kinfolk, escaped enslaved Black people protecting traditions rooted in West African spirituality and mythology. When Addae's best friend Naria goes missing, and signs point to the existence of an Adze, a vampire, Addae travels to the mainland to search for her friend; there she uncovers secrets about her home and her past.
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Fathom Fall
by Matteo L. Cerilli
On Fathom Fall's leaderboard, player Wyatt "DoctorDoctor" Docherty ranks at number three. In real life, he's seen only as the privileged kid of head engineers at Hydrexo, the company that supplies 75% of North America's water. He has easy access to water while others must line up to pay exorbitant prices at public water taps. To prove he's more than a spoiled Water Baby, Wyatt wants to win the upcoming Fathom Fall competition and finally make a name for himself. But when he starts seeing Bluddites -- the water-guzzling monsters from the game -- in real life, Wyatt suspects that the tournament is about more than just prize money.
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When I Was Death
by Alexis Henderson
Haunted by her sister's mysterious death, Roslyn joins a mysterious caravan of girls with whom her sister spent her last summer and who she discovers serve Death by reaping souls. Soon, Roslyn is forced to choose between finding closure or making a deadly bargain herself.
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Lies We Tell about the Stars
by Susie Nadler
In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in San Francisco, Nicky's family believes he died in the destruction, but his best friend Celeste believes he used the chaos to disappear. Accompanied by a mysterious stranger who also knew Nicky, Celeste embarks on a quest across the broken city, up the coast through towns sheltering quake refugees, and eventually all the way to Florida, where the mission to Mars is about to lift off.
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Her Hidden Fire
by Cliodhna O'Sullivan
When Ionáin, the heir to the ruling family of Ailm's Keep, is in danger of failing his test to channel magic, Éadha, the serving girl who loves him, pretends her magic is his, forfeiting her own claim to power. Her decision sends them both to an academy of magic, where she must shield her secret from every grim Master and scheming apprentice, and where she learns about magic's terrible cost.
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Estela, Undrowning
by René Peña-Govea
One of the only Latinas who tested into San Francisco's most exclusive public high school, Estela just wants to keep her head down. But after placing second in the Latiné Heritage Poetry Contest behind a non-Latino student, Estela is thrust into citywide debates about merit, identity, and diversity. Things only get messier when her family is threatened with eviction. As Estela's friends organize against bigotry and her landlady increases the pressure, Estela is suffocating and finds release only in poetry and in a breathless new romance. When tensions finally reach their breaking point, Estela must find a way to undrown the community she loves -- and herself.
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The Ruins Beneath Us
by Sasha E. Sloan
To conceal her Elven heritage and protect her from the brewing war between Elves and humans, Lyria's mother, a renowned healer, has kept Lyria hidden in the forest. But when Lyria rescues a human boy and then heals him from his wounds, Lyria discovers that her patient is the crown Prince, who summons her to the palace to become a royal apothecary.
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Six Must Die
by Victoria Wlosok
7 friends participated in an escape room, but only six survived. One year later, all six receive invitations to play again in honor of their dead friend, but when they arrive, they find themselves trapped, with both their secrets and their lives at stake.
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Prodigal Tiger
by Samantha Chong
When her older brother, Aaron, disappears, Caroline Chua is summoned home to the Malaysian state of Penang to take his place on the island's council. Instead, Caroline enlists the help of old friends to find and rescue Aaron from the vengeful ghosts who kidnapped him, before the ghosts are able to use him to take control of the island.
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One Word, Six Letters
by Adib Khorram
Freshmen Dayton and Farshid couldn't be more different -- or so it seems. When Dayton takes a dare and shouts the f-slur at a visiting author during a school event, it sets off a chain reaction that forces both boys to face parts of themselves they'd rather ignore. Dayton grapples with the fallout of his actions and a growing awareness of the harm he's caused. Meanwhile, Farshid is left to untangle his own feelings -- about himself and about the quiet struggle of coming to terms with his queerness in a world steeped in heteronormativity.
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Heiress of Nowhere
by Stacey Lee
In 1918 on Orcas Island, 18-year-old orphan Lucy becomes heiress to her employer's estate after his mysterious death and must clear her name by unmasking his killer before she and her beloved orcas become the next victims.
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Most Likely to Murder
by Lish McBride
When someone replaces the yearbook superlatives with grisly forecasts of student and faculty deaths -- "Homecoming's Cutest Corpses," "Most Likely to Sleep with the Fishes," -- everyone assumes it's a tasteless prank… until people start dying in the same ways predicted in the yearbook. Best friends Rick and Martina are determined to find the yearbook killer before their own superlative prediction comes true.
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