|
Artistic Wonders Teen Reads
|
|
|
|
|
Lux : the new girl
by Ashley Woodfolk
A debut entry in a series starring four Harlem high school students at crossroads introduces Lux Lawson, a fatherless teen whose last chance before military school takes her to Harlem’s Augusta Savage School of the Arts, where she tries to hide her past from popular new friends. Simultaneous and eBook.
|
|
|
Mad, bad & dangerous to know
by Samira Ahmed
The best-selling author of Love, Hate & Other Filters presents the alternating narratives of two young women, centuries apart, who fight to tell their own stories while escaping the pressure of familial burdens and patriarchal cultural expectations. Simultaneous eBook.
|
|
|
Blood water paint
by Joy McCullough
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
|
|
|
Starfish
by Akemi Dawn Bowman
A half-Japanese teen grapples with social anxiety and a narcissistic mother in the wake of a crushing rejection from art school before accepting an invitation to tour other art schools on the West Coast. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
|
|
|
She's too pretty to burn
by Wendy Heard
A provocative but uninspired photographer and her best friend, a passionate performance artist, endure a brutal summer marked by an all-consuming relationship, a fire, two murders and three suspicious drownings. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
|
|
|
Unfadeable
by Maurice Broaddus
Secretly living on her own, graffiti artist Bella Unfadeable Fades must learn how to bring her community together to fight back when corrupt people try to defund her Indianapolis neighborhood. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
|
|
|
Piper Perish
by Kayla Cagan
Piper Perish and her two friends, Kit and Enzo, have long planned on getting out of Houston and going to art school in New York City together, but halfway through their senior year Enzo breaks up with her at a dance in the most public, spectacular, and embarrassing manner possible--and suddenly Piper is faced with a series of life and relationship changing events that threaten her dream
|
|
|
The last of August
by Brittany Cavallaro
A much-needed winter break in Sussex is challenged by Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes' growing feelings for one another as well as the disappearance of a beloved uncle, who had been engaged in a secret assignment involving a German art forgery ring. Simultaneous eBook. 50,000 first printing.
|
|
|
Slay
by Brittney Morris
Hiding her identity as the developer of an elite online role-playing game, a talented teen, one of the only Black students in her school, is targeted with violent racism when an in-game dispute escalates into a players murder. 150,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
|
|
|
From Twinkle, With Love
by Sandhya Menon
Leaping at a fellow movie geek's offer to direct a submission for an upcoming summer film festival, Twinkle Mehra begins receiving anonymous romantic emails and finds herself torn between her longtime crush and her film-buff new friend. By the best-selling author of When Dimple Met Rishi.
|
|
|
Portrait of us
by A Destiny
Looking forward to taking summer classes with a famous artist-in-residence, Corinne struggles beside a fellow student whose style clashes with her own, a view that shifts when she learns that they have more in common than she thought
|
|
|
|
|
|