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Alondra
by Gina Femia

Joining a group of teens as they work toward wrestling fame, Alondra struggles with increasing tension at home and with conflicting feelings for King, the leader of the group, and Lexi, the girl with a beautiful smile.
An Appetite for Miracles
by Laekan Zea Kemp

When Danna, struggling with family issues, and Raúl, playing guitar for the elderly to escape his past, meet, they embark on a mission to heal both her grandfather, whose memories are fading, and themselves.
Blaine for the win
by Robbie Couch

To prove to his ex-boyfriend Joey that he can be serious, Blaine decides to run against Joey's new boyfriend for senior student council president and must decide if he is willing to sacrifice everything he loves about himself to do it.
Blood Scion
by Deborah Falaye

A Scion– a descendant of the ancient Orisha gods who must hide her powers– 15-year-old Sloan, drafted into the brutal Lucis army, decides to destroy their ranks from within, but risks becoming the very monster she hates.
Buffalo Flats
by Martine Leavitt

In the Northwest Territories of Canada during the late 1880s, 17-year-old Rebecca Leavitt must overcome the never-ending challenges of pioneer life in her Latter-day Saints community as she works towards owning her own land, calling upon her family, faith and friendships to see her through.
Chaos & Flame
by Tessa Gratton

To save her adoptive Kraken father from House Dragon, Darling Seabreak must join forces with the enemy, the dutiful War Prince for House Dragon, to survive the fiery prophecies and ancient blood magic threatening to devastate their entire world.
Forget Me Not
by Alyson Derrick

When the girl she loves suffers a terrible fall and cannot remember anything from the last two years, Nora finds herself forgotten and wonders if they can beat the odds and find their way back to each other.
Girl Forgotten
by April Henry

Starting a podcast to investigate the unsolved murder of Layla Trello, true-crime fan Piper Gray begins receiving anonymous threats warning her off the case, leading her to believe the killer is still out there and is coming for her next.
Greymist Fair
by Francesca Zappia

The people of Greymist Fair know that the woods are a dangerous and magical place and that they should never set foot off the road, but when a young tailor, Heike, discovers a body on the road, her search for the culprit reveals even more strange and dark happenings around her town.
Harvest House
by Cynthia Leitich Smith

When strange things start happening at night near a new, supposedly haunted, rural attraction, including a creepy man stalking young Indigenous women, Hughie Wolfe and his friends set out to discover the truth in order to protect themselves and their community.
I Kick and I Fly
by Ruchira Gupta

Instead of being sold into Bihar, India's sex trade, 14-year-old Heera stays at a local hostel for at-risk girls where she learns, through the practice of martial arts, that her body is a vessel through which she can protect herself and those around her.
If I See You Again Tomorrow
by Robbie Couch

Clark, who has relived the same Monday 309 times, finds something different about Day 310 when Beau, a boy he's never seen before, appears, and as they spend this one day together, Clark falls hard and fast for someone with whom he'll have no tomorrow.
An Improbable Season
by Rosalyn Eves

While in Regency London for their first Season, Thalia, her sister Kalli and their cousin Charis find their big plans to discover their own happily-ever-afters thwarted by scandal, love and the expectations of high society.
Into the Light
by Mark Oshiro

Two outcasts, Eli and Manny, find their lives intersecting in unimaginable ways when the reported discovery of an unidentified body draws them into facing their biggest fears and confronting their own identity and who they are allowed to be.
Last Sunrise in Eterna
by Amparo Ortiz

Scavenging and selling elf corpses to support her family, 17-year-old goth Sevim finds a chance encounter with an elf prince setting her revenge in motion and must enter the magical elven realm where her fate is linked to someone she least expected.
The Making of Yolanda La Bruja
by Lorraine Avila

Yolanda Alvarez is having a good year. She's starting to feel at home at Julia De Burgos High, her school in the Bronx. She has her best friend Victory, and maybe something with Josâe, a senior boy she's getting to know. She's confident her initiation into her family's bruja tradition will happen soon. But then a white boy, the son of a politician, appears at Julia De Burgos High, and his vibes are off. And Yolanda's initiation begins with a series of troubling visions of the violence this boy threatens. How can Yolanda protect her community, in a world that doesn't listen? Only with the wisdom and love of her family, friends, and community--and the Brujas Diosas, her ancestors and guides.
Money Out Loud: All the Financial Stuff No One Taught Us
by Berna Anat

From budgeting and money to debt and investing, this not-so-serious guide from the Financial Hype Woman explains the basics of personal finance to empower teens and young adults to shape their futures and change their world.
Queen Bee
by Amalie Howard

Disguising herself as a mysterious heiress to infiltrate London's elite, Lady Ela Dalvi questions whether vengeance is still her greatest desire when she reunites with the only boy she's ever loved while seeking revenge against the friend who betrayed her.
Snow & Poison
by Melissa De la Cruz

When the king of Spain commands her death after his heir, Prince Philip, falls in love with her, Lady Sophie seeks refuge in the home of seven orphans and must choose between duty and her heart's desire when war threatens her duchy.
Star Splitter
by Matthew J. Kirby

In 2199, 17-year-old Jessica Mathers wakes up on a desolate, post-extinction planet 14 light years from Earth and must make sense of the bloody destruction around her, as well as the questionable intentions of a familiar stranger.
Stars and Smoke
by Marie Lu

Nineteen-year old Winter Young, the world's hottest superstar, is recruited by a covert organization to take down a criminal tycoon and finds himself paired with Sydney Cossette, a fierce and unpredictable secret agent, but suspicions soon turn to sparks as the two are drawn into a tangled web of secrets and deception.
Strictly No Heroics
by B. L. Radley

In a world run by those with the Super gene, Riley, a “Normie” in desperate need of money, starts a job with HENCH, henchmen working for villains, and after witnessing a horrible murder, learns that even she can take a stand against injustice.
This Delicious Death
by Kayla Cottingham

Ex-zombies living in Southern California, four best friends attend a musical festival in the desert, as a last hurrah before graduation, where they soon discover someone is drugging ghouls and reawakening their hunger for flesh and must work together to stop the carnage.
Throwback
by Maurene Goo

Sent back to the ‘90s where she finds herself in high school with her 17-year-old mother, Samantha Kang finds the right romance at the wrong time while trying to fit into an analog world and make things right with her mom.
Viva Lola Espinoza
by Ella Cerâon

Cursed in love, Lola Espinoza finds herself torn between two very different boys during a summer spent with her grandmother in Mexico City, where she tries to break the curse while learning about herself, her heritage and the magic around us all.
Warrior Girl Unearthed
by Angeline Boulley

With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance.
Wings in the Wild
by Margarita Engle

When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
Wolfwood
by Marianna Baer

Secretly forging the paintings of her mother, a once-famous artist, Indigo breathes new life into the dark and dangerous imaginary world of Wolfwood, a place she enters time and time again through her work, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.
You Wouldn't Dare
by Samantha Markum

Over the course of one crazy summer, Juniper tries to mend her friendship with Graham, for whom she has romantic feelings, save her community theater production and manage her hostile relationship with the angst-ridden daughter of her mother's boyfriend.
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