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GRAPHIC NOVELS
TITLE: 1984: The Graphic Novel
AUTHOR: George Orwell; Fido Nesti WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Orw - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Presents a graphic novel of George Orwell's '1984' in which Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the future political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the Party that controls all human thought and action. |
TITLE: Alex Rider: The Graphic Novel (Volumes 1 - 6)
AUTHOR: Anthony Horowitz; Antony Johnston WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hor - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6, in this comic adaptation of Horowitz's novel. |
TITLE: All Summer Long
AUTHOR: Hope Larson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lar - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel about summer and friendships. |
TITLE: Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel
AUTHOR: George Orwell; Odyr WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Orw - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A graphic novel adaptation of George Orwell's "Animal Farm," a political satire in which the animals take over running the farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship. |
TITLE: Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts
AUTHOR: Anthony Bourdain WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bou - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Presents an anthology of horror comics featuring food as a common theme. |
TITLE: Borders
AUTHOR: Thomas King WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kin - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A boy and his mother refuse to identify themselves as American or Canadian at the border and become caught in the limbo between nations when they claim their citizenship as Blackfoot. |
TITLE: Catherine's War
AUTHOR: Julia Billet WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bil - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A survival story based on true events follows the experiences of a young Jewish photographer who is forced to go into hiding and make a perilous journey to the free zone when Germany seizes France during World War II. |
TITLE: Cub
AUTHOR: Cynthia L. Copeland WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cop - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Author and artist Cindy Copeland comes of age, discovers new talents, and finds her voice as a cub reporter at her local newspaper during the Watergate era. |
TITLE: Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Novel
AUTHOR: Tyler Feder WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Fed - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir. |
TITLE: Deserter
AUTHOR: Junji Itō WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ito - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but they're not twins. And a boy's nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world... This hauntingly strange story collection showcases a dozen of Junji Ito's earliest works from when he burst onto the horror scene, sowing fresh seeds of terror. |
TITLE: Frankenstein: A Graphic Novel
AUTHOR: Mary Shelley; retold by Nick Pierce WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F She - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Victor Frankenstein, a gifted medical student, has discovered the secret of bringing dead matter to life. Gathering materials from graveyards and slaughterhouses, he creates a giant of superhuman strength. But he is horrified by what he has done, and runs away. How will the creature react to being left alone in the world by his creator? Specially commissioned full-color artwork brings excitement and atmosphere to this classic tale. Speech bubbles work with the main text to emphasize and enhance the retelling. Informative, fascinating end matter includes a biography of the author, Mary Shelley, and a history of adaptations of the classic novel in different mediums. |
TITLE: The Girl from the Sea
AUTHOR: Molly Ostertag WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ost - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting to kiss another girl. Then one night, Morgan is saved from drowning by a mysterious girl named Keltie. The two become friends and suddenly life on the island doesn't seem so stifling anymore. But Keltie has some secrets of her own. |
TITLE: The Hazards of Love
AUTHOR: Stan Stanley WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sta - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Follows the story of a queer teen from Queens who makes some mistakes, gets dragged into a fantastical place, and tries to hustle their way back home. |
TITLE: Heartstopper (Volumes 1 - 4)
AUTHOR: Alice Oseman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ose - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realized. |
TITLE: Himawari House
AUTHOR: Harmony Becker WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bec - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A young adult graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan. |
TITLE: Jukebox
AUTHOR: Nidhi Chanani WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cha - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A mysterious jukebox, old vinyl records, and cryptic notes on music history, are Shaheen's only clues to her father's abrupt disappearance. She looks to her cousin, Tannaz, who seems just as perplexed, before they both turn to the jukebox which starts...glowing? Suddenly, the girls are pulled from their era and transported to another time! Keyed to the music on the record, the jukebox sends them through decade after decade of music history, from political marches to landmark concerts. But can they find Shaheen's dad before the music stops? |
TITLE: Just Pretend
AUTHOR: Tori Sharp WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sha - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Shuffling between the homes of parents who still treat her like a kid, Tori turns to her writing to make sense of the complexities of her fractured family and its impact on her friendships. |
TITLE: Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
AUTHOR: Derf Backderf WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 378 Bac - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: An account, in graphic novel form, of the May 4, 1970, killing of four unarmed Kent State University students who had been protesting the Vietnam War by the Ohio National Guardsmen. |
TITLE: Measuring Up
AUTHOR: Lily Lamotte WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lam - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food. |
TITLE: My Last Summer with Cass
AUTHOR: Mark Crilley WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cri - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A coming-of-age graphic novel follows the experiences of childhood friends Megan and Cass, who approach a crossroad in their lives and art during a visit to the latter’s very different new home in New York City. |
TITLE: Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong
AUTHOR: Prudence Shein WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Shu - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Captain of the basketball team Charlie and president of the robotics club Nate battle it out in a school class election campaign for funding to cover a robotics competition or new cheerleading uniforms. |
TITLE: One Year at Ellsmere
AUTHOR: Faith Erin Hicks WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Hic - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Jun embarks on her first year of school at the prestigious Ellsmere Academy and tries to handle the rich girls who look down on her for being on scholarship as well as her friend Cassie's stories about mythical beasts. |
TITLE: Passport
AUTHOR: Sophia Glock WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Glo - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Sophia lives with her family in South America where her parents serve as foreign diplomats, but as she explores her own boundaries around honesty and deception she discovers the true nature of her parent's work. |
TITLE: Plain Janes
AUTHOR: Cecil Castellucci WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Cas - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: When Jane moves to the suburbs and thinks her life is over, she and three new friends form a club to make public art but are soon distracted by romance. |
TITLE: Run: Book One
AUTHOR: John Lewis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 323 Lew - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Tells the true story of John Lewis and his colleagues in the movement following the historic success of the Selma campaign and the Voting Rights Act. |
TITLE: Scott Pilgrim series (Volumes 1 - 6)
AUTHOR: Bryan Lee O'Malley WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F O'Ma - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Twenty-three-year-old Scott Pilgrim has the perfect life playing guitar in a rock band and dating a cute high school girl until he meets Ramona Flowers, an unforgettable rollerblading delivery girl whose seven evil ex-boyfriends Scott must defeat if he wants to win her love. |
TITLE: Slaughterhouse-Five
AUTHOR: Kurt Vonnegut; Ryan North WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Von - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five in which a fourth-generation German-American is tortured by his memories of the firebombing of Dresden in 1944 which he witnessed while a prisoner of war. |
TITLE: Tidesong
AUTHOR: Wendy Xu WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Xu - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Sophie, a young witch, is sent to live with her relatives to improve her magic, but when a spell she tries goes wrong, she meets a water dragon trapped on land who can't remember where he came from and Sophie must decide if she is going to help him, at the risk of failing her magic exams. |
TITLE: Truly Tyler
AUTHOR: Terri Libenson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lib - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Ever since Tyler started getting into art and hanging out with Emmie, his friends and teammates have been giving him a hard time. He wonders why can't he nerd out on drawing and play ball. Emmie is psyched that she gets to work on a comics project with her crush, Tyler. But she gets the feeling that his friends don't think she's cool enough. Maybe it's time for a total reinvention. |
TITLE: Wake: The Hidden History of the Women-Led Slave Revolts
AUTHOR: Rebecca Hall WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 306.3 Hal SUMMARY: Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake looks at enslaved Black women warriors and provides insight into the struggle to survive whole as a Black woman in today's America. |
TITLE: When Stars Are Scattered
AUTHOR: Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Jam - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp. |
TITLE: Witchlight
AUTHOR: Jessi Zabarsky WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Zab - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Sanja gets taken by Lelek, a witch, and they find themselves on an adventure to discover the truth about Lelek's powers and each other. |
FICTION
TITLE: Afterlife
AUTHOR: Julia Alvarez WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Alv - NOVELS SUMMARY: Reeling from her beloved husband's sudden death in the wake of her retirement, an immigrant writer is further derailed by the reappearance of her unstable sister and an entreaty for help by a pregnant undocumented teen. |
TITLE: Again, But Better
AUTHOR: Christine Riccio WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ric - NOVELS SUMMARY: Shane decides to move to England to study abroad after realizing she lives in a bubble. Wanting to do college the right way she tries to fix all her mistakes by making friends, pursuing boys, and finding adventure. But she's faced with the unknown and self-doubt beings to creep in. Shane comes to find that courage and determination can conquer anything . . . especially with a little touch of fate and magic. |
TITLE: All the Things We Never Knew
AUTHOR: Liara Tamani WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tam - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Carli and Rex have an immediate connection, an understanding that must mean first love, but family secrets, disappointments--and basketball, which holds center stage in both their lives--all create complications. |
TITLE: All Your Twisted Secrets
AUTHOR: Diana Urban WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Urb - MYSTERY SUMMARY: What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it's a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill...or else everyone dies. |
TITLE: American Royals
AUTHOR: Katharine McGee WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McG - ROMANCE SUMMARY: In an alternate America, princesses Beatrice and Samantha Washington and the two girls wooing their brother, Prince Jefferson, become embroiled in high drama in the most glorious court in the world. |
TITLE: Anatomy: A Love Story
AUTHOR: Dana Schwartz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sch - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Hazel Sinnett is a medical student in 19th century Scotland who, after being kicked out because of her gender, works with new attractive acquaintance Jack Currer to procure dead bodies to study, but they soon discover secrets buried in the heart of Edinburgh society. |
TITLE: Angel of Greenwood
AUTHOR: Randi Pink WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Pin - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Angel and Isaiah share a hidden love for Black literature, and now each other, when tragedy and triumph emerge during the Greenwood Massacre of Tulsa, Oklahoma. |
TITLE: Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
AUTHOR: Benjamin Alire Sáenz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sae - NOVELS SUMMARY: In this sequel to the critically acclaimed Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Ari and Dante are determined to forge a path for themselves in a world that doesn't understand them. |
TITLE: Artemis
AUTHOR: Andy Weir WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wi - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Augmenting his limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city. |
TITLE: Aurora Rising
AUTHOR: Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kau - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Relegated by a misguided act of heroism to a squad comprised of his school's hopeless misfits, a graduating cadet in a 24th-century space academy rescues a centuries-hibernating girl from interdimensional space only to be swept up in an interstellar war millions of years in the making. |
TITLE: Batman: Nightwalker
AUTHOR: Marie Lu WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lu - FANTASY SUMMARY: The Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and Bruce Wayne is next on their list. Bruce will walk the dark line between trust and betrayal as the Nightwalkers circle closer. |
TITLE: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
AUTHOR: Hank Green WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gre - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: A sequel to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing finds Andy assuming a late April speaking tour in the aftermath of the Carls's departure, while Miranda infiltrates a new scientific operation that poses consequences beyond her comprehension. |
TITLE: Bent Heavens
AUTHOR: Daniel Kraus WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kra - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Two years after the disappearance of her father, seventeen-year-old Liv and her friend capture an alien in the Iowa countryside, and instead of turning him over to the authorities, they choose a different path. |
TITLE: Bird Box
AUTHOR: Josh Malerman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mal - HORROR SUMMARY: In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children are followed by something as they make their way down a river, blindfolded, in order to avoid seeing a terrifying entity that will drive them to deadly violence. |
TITLE: The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond
AUTHOR: Brenda Woods WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Woo - NOVELS SUMMARY: A biracial girl finally gets the chance to meet the African American side of her family. |
TITLE: The Box in the Woods
AUTHOR: Maureen Johnson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Joh - MYSTERY SUMMARY: After solving the greatest unsolved mystery of the century, Stevie Bell goes undercover as a camp counselor to investigate the strange going-ons at Camp Wonder Falls--the site of the infamous "Box in the Woods" murders. |
TITLE: The Brave
AUTHOR: James Bird WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bir - NOVELS SUMMARY: Targeted by bullies for his escalating OCD, Collin is sent to live with his biological mother on an Ojibwe reservation where his differences are accepted and where he finds companionship in a physically challenged girl whose circumstances inspire Collin to make a difficult choice. |
TITLE: Caraval (Books #1 - #3)
AUTHOR: Stephanie Garber WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gar - FANTASY SUMMARY: Believing that she will never be allowed to participate in the annual Caraval performance when her ruthless father arranges her marriage, Scarlett receives the invitation she has always dreamed of before her sister, Tella, is kidnapped by the show's mastermind organizer. |
TITLE: A Chorus Rises
AUTHOR: Bethany C. Morrow WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mor - FANTASY SUMMARY: Once Portland-famous and now infamous, seventeen-year-old Naema Bradshaw is an Eloko--a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore--who navigates a personal and public reckoning, confronts the limits of her privilege, and discovers the nature of her Black girl magic. |
TITLE: City of Ghosts trilogy
AUTHOR: Victoria Schwab WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sch - FANTASY SUMMARY: Surviving a near-fatal accident that gives her the ability to enter the spirit world, the daughter of television ghost-hunters visits with her ghost best friend and meets another girl who shares her abilities before realizing the dangers that come with her powers. |
TITLE: Clown in a Cornfield
AUTHOR: Adam Cesare WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ces - HORROR SUMMARY: Resolving to keep her head down through graduation when a factory closing divides the adults and kids in her small community, Quinn is caught in a dispute between tradition and progress before a homicidal corporate mascot begins targeting teens. |
TITLE: Cold
AUTHOR: Mariko Tamaki WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tam - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Told in alternating perspectives, Todd replays the events that lead to his death in the local park, watching as detectives investigate his murder and talk to the students responsible for it, and meanwhile Georgia, who does not know Todd, cannot stop thinking about him. |
TITLE: Comics Will Break Your Heart
AUTHOR: Faith Erin Hicks WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hic - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Miriam's grandfather sold his rights to the comic book series TomorrowMen back in the 1960's, and Miriam's family has struggled financially ever since. When the heir to the fortune of the TomorrowMen series shows up in town, Miriam finds herself in a Romeo and Juliet story of her own as she begins falling for him. |
TITLE: The Cousins
AUTHOR: Karen M. McManus WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McM - MYSTERY SUMMARY: After receiving an invitation to spend the summer with their estranged grandmother, the Story cousins arrive at her house only to discover that she is not there, and the longer they stay on the island, the more they realize their mysterious family history has some deadly secrets. |
TITLE: Darius the Great Is Not Okay
AUTHOR: Adib Khorram WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kho - NOVELS SUMMARY: Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life. |
TITLE: The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
AUTHOR: Kiersten White WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Whi - HORROR SUMMARY: The events of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein unfold from the perspective of Elizabeth Lavenza, who is adopted as a child by the Frankenstein's as a companion for their volatile son Victor. |
TITLE: The Darkness Outside Us
AUTHOR: Elliott Schreffer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sch - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Earth's population is divided between only two existing countries which cannot manage to cooperate in any way, until a distress signal arrives from Titan's first settler. Neither country can afford to rescue her on their own if they act separately. Ambrose wakes up on board the Coordinated Endeavour under strange circumstances: he doesn't remember the launch, the ship's OS is voiced by his mother, strangers have been aboard, and Kodiak, the only other person on this mission, has barricaded himself away from sight. But nothing will stop Ambrose from making this mission succeed- not when the settler he's rescuing is his sister. |
TITLE: A Deadly Education
AUTHOR: Naomi Novik WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Nov - FANTASY SUMMARY: An unwilling dark sorceress destined to rewrite the rules of magic clashes with a popular combat sorcerer while resolving to spare the lives of innocents. |
TITLE: The Disasters
AUTHOR: M. K. England WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Eng - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist. |
TITLE: The Enemy
AUTHOR: Charlie Higson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hig - HORROR SUMMARY: In the wake of a devastating disease, everyone sixteen and older is either dead or a decomposing, brainless creature with a ravenous appetite for flesh. Teens have barricaded themselves in buildings throughout London and venture outside only when they need to scavenge for food. |
TITLE: Faith: Taking Flight
AUTHOR: Julie Murphy WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mur - FANTASY SUMMARY: A plus-sized high school senior who hides a secret ability to fly pursues an unexpected romantic relationship with the heroine star of her favorite teen drama before her investigation into a new recreational drug puts those she loves in danger. |
TITLE: The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
AUTHOR: Ben Philippe WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Phi - NOVELS SUMMARY: Uprooted from his native Montreal to Austin, Texas, a black French-Canadian teen navigates the joys and clichés of the American high school experience, including falling in love, before challenging himself to accept friendship into his life. |
TITLE: Fools in Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales
AUTHOR: Edited by Ashley Herring Blake WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Foo - ROMANCE SUMMARY: A diverse, inclusive young adult anthology featuring 15 short stories that re-imagine or subvert popular romance and rom-com tropes. |
TITLE: The Fountains of Silence
AUTHOR: Ruta Sepetys WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sep - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule. |
TITLE: Game Changer
AUTHOR: Neal Shusterman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Shu - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Transported into other dimensions by a seemingly random hit, a young football player visits alternate worlds that evolved differently in accordance with respective belief systems. |
TITLE: Gilded
AUTHOR: Marissa Meyer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mey - FANTASY SUMMARY: Ordered by the king to spin straw into gold or be killed for telling falsehoods, Serilda, known for her fantastical tales, unwittingly summons a mysterious boy to help her--for a price, in this haunting retelling of Rumpelstiltskin. |
TITLE: Girl from Nowhere
AUTHOR: Tiffany Rosenhan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ros - THRILLER SUMMARY: For Sophia Hepworth, the terrors of living in dangerous places with her diplomat parents are nothing compared to facing American high school, but friendships and romance bloom just before her past catches up with her. |
TITLE: The Girl in the White Van
AUTHOR: April Henry WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hen - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Kidnapped after an argument with her stepfather that causes everyone to assume she has run away, a kung fu student is held captive in a remote trailer home and struggles to free herself and a fellow prisoner who was nearly killed for attempting escape. |
TITLE: Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #2)
AUTHOR: Holly Jackson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Jac - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Pip reluctantly dons her detective cap once again when the police refuse to help search for a friend who goes missing on the night their community hosts a memorial for the victims of the murder case she and Ravi solved a year earlier. |
TITLE: The Grace Year
AUTHOR: Kim Liggett WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lig - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Tierney James, sixteen, struggles to endure the year in which she and other young women are banished to the wild until, purified, the survivors are allowed to return home and marry. |
TITLE: A Heart in a Body in the World
AUTHOR: Deb Caletti WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cal - NOVELS SUMMARY: Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and friends, Annabelle, runs from Seattle to Washington, D.C., becoming a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to her recent trauma. |
TITLE: Here's to Us
AUTHOR: Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Alb - ROMANCE SUMMARY: When Ben and Arthur, two very different boys--and ex-boyfriends who are stuck in the past--keep running into each other in the present, they wonder if fate is giving them a second chance at love. |
TITLE: I Killed Zoe Spanos
AUTHOR: Kit Frick WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Fri - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Hoping for a new start when she accepts a summer nanny job in the Hamptons, Anna is drawn into the disappearance case of a local teen who she eerily resembles while a local podcaster searches for answers, in a tale of suspense inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. |
TITLE: I Must Betray You
AUTHOR: Ruta Sepetys WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sep - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. |
TITLE: Icebreaker
AUTHOR: A. L. Graziadei WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gra - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Mickey James III is following in his father's (and grandfather's) skates by playing hockey at Hartland University, but he is not enjoying the situation: for one thing he is seriously depressed, unsure of anything, even whether he can make it as a hockey player (or wants to); more troubling his rival, Jaysen Caulfield, is also on the team and seems to bitterly resent him-and Mickey actually finds Jaysen very attractive and does not know how to deal with that. |
TITLE: Ikenga
AUTHOR: Nnedi Okorafor WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Oko - FANTASY SUMMARY: In southeastern Nigeria, twelve-year-old Mnamdi is determined to avenge his police chief father, who was murdered while trying to rid the town of criminals, but Nnamdi feels powerless until he receives a magical object which gives him superpowers. |
TITLE: Indivisible
AUTHOR: Daniel Aleman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - NOVELS SUMMARY: New York City high school student Mateo dreams of becoming a Broadway star, but his life is transformed after his parents are deported to Mexico. |
TITLE: The Inheritance Games series
AUTHOR: Jennifer Barnes WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bar - MYSTERY SUMMARY: When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance. |
TITLE: King of Scars
AUTHOR: Leigh Bardugo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bar - FANTASY SUMMARY: When the dark magical force within him challenges his effort to forge new alliances and build a defense against a new threat, Nikolai Lantsov, the young king of Ravka, embarks on a journey to his country's most magical places to vanquish it. |
TITLE: The Kingdom of Back
AUTHOR: Marie Lu WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lu - FANTASY SUMMARY: Desperate to be forever remembered for her music, Nannerl Mozart makes a dangerous pact with a mysterious stranger from a magical land, which may cost her everything. |
TITLE: The Last Thing He Told Me
AUTHOR: Laura Dave WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Dav - THRILLER SUMMARY: After her husband disappears, Hannah Hall quickly realizes he isn't who he said he was and that his 16-year-old daughter, who wants nothing to do with her, may hold the key to figuring out his true identity. |
TITLE: The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre
AUTHOR: Robin Talley WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tal - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Melody McIntyre, stage manager extraordinaire, has a plan for everything. What she doesn't have? Success with love. Every time she falls for someone during a school performance, both the romance and the show end in catastrophe. So, Mel swears off any entanglements until their upcoming production of Les Mis is over. Of course, Mel didn't count on Odile Rose, rising star in the acting world, auditioning for the spring performance. And she definitely didn't expect Odile to be sweet and funny, and care as much about the play's success as Mel. Which means that Melody McIntyre's only plan now is trying desperately not to fall in love. |
TITLE: Love in English
AUTHOR: Maria E. Andreu WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F And - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Feeling blocked after moving from Argentina to New Jersey, a sixteen-year-old poet finds herself torn between a cute American boy in her math class and a Greek student who understands the struggles she is facing in an ESL class. |
TITLE: Love Is a Revolution
AUTHOR: Renée Watson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wat - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Harlem teenager Nala is looking forward to a summer of movies and ice cream until she falls in love with the very woke Tye and pretends to be a social activist. |
TITLE: The Mary Shelley Club
AUTHOR: Goldy Moldavsky WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mol - THRILLER SUMMARY: Scholarship student Rachel keeps to herself at Manchester Prep, preferring the company of horror films to trust fund babies. When a prank puts her on the radar of a mysterious student society, 'The Mary Shelley Club', they subject her to a number of escalating Fear Tests which eventually puts them on the radar of a serial killer. |
TITLE: The Mirror Season
AUTHOR: Anna-Marie McLemore WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McL - NOVELS SUMMARY: After Ciela and Lock are sexually assaulted at the same party, they develop a cautious friendship through her family's possibly-magical pastelería and his secret forest of otherworldly trees. |
TITLE: More Than Just a Pretty Face
AUTHOR: Syed Masood WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mas - ROMANCE SUMMARY: When self-proclaimed 'not very bright' nineteen-year-old Danyal Jilani is chosen for a prestigious academic contest, he hopes to impress a potential arranged marriage match, only to begin falling for the girl helping him study instead. |
TITLE: Most Likely
AUTHOR: Sarah Watson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wat - NOVELS SUMMARY: In 2049, as the President of the United States waits to be sworn in, she reflects on senior year in high school when she and her three dear friends vied for the attention of the future First Gentleman. |
TITLE: My Heart Is a Chainsaw
AUTHOR: Stephen Graham Jones WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Jon - HORROR SUMMARY: Protected by horror movies -- especially the ones where the masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them, Jade Daniels, an angry, half-Indian outcast, pulls us into her dark mind when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian lake. |
TITLE: The New David Espinoza
AUTHOR: Fred Aceves WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ace - NOVELS SUMMARY: Obsessed with the idea that he is not muscular enough and tired of being bullied, David, age seventeen, begins using steroids, endangering his relationships with family and friends. |
TITLE: None Shall Sleep
AUTHOR: Ellie Marney WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mar - THRILLER SUMMARY: Eighteen-year-olds Emma Lewis and Travis Bell, recruited by the FBI to interview juvenile serial killers, must turn to a notorious teenage sociopath to help track down a new murderer. |
TITLE: Not So Pure and Simple
AUTHOR: Lamar Giles WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gil - NOVELS SUMMARY: High school junior Del Rainey unwittingly joins a Purity Pledge class at church, hoping to get closer to his long-term crush, Kiera. |
TITLE: Now That I've Found You
AUTHOR: Kristina Forest WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F For - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Blacklisted from Hollywood for badmouthing a famous director, a disgraced teen star enlists the help of a cute delivery boy when her eccentric, once-famous grandmother goes missing in New York City on the eve of receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award. |
TITLE: Of Curses and Kisses
AUTHOR: Sandhya Menon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Men - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Told in two voices, Jaya Rao, an East Indian princess, and Grey Emerson, an English lord, suffer the effects of a centuries-old feud when they meet at an elite Colorado boarding school. |
TITLE: Once Upon a Quinceañera
AUTHOR: Monica Gomez-Hira WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gom - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Eighteen-year-old Carmen takes on a summer internship that has her reuniting with estranged family for an over-the-top quinceañera, reluctantly reconnecting to a long-lost ex-boyfriend, and finding happiness in the chaos. |
TITLE: A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic
AUTHOR: Edited by Patricia Caldwell WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Pho - FANTASY SUMMARY: Black girls, including gender non-conforming individuals, star in this collection of sixteen stories of fantasy, science fiction, and magic. |
TITLE: Piecing Me Together
AUTHOR: Renée Watson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wat - NOVELS SUMMARY: Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls. |
TITLE: The Project
AUTHOR: Courtney Summers WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sum - THRILLER SUMMARY: Lo Denham wants to expose the Unity Project as a cult and reconnect with her indoctrinated sister, but as she immerses herself in the group with no signs of Bea, Lo begins to question everything she thought was true. |
TITLE: Project Hail Mary
AUTHOR: Andy Weir WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wei - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space where he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. |
TITLE: Rain Is Not My Indian Name
AUTHOR: Cynthia Leitich Smith WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Smi - NOVELS SUMMARY: Tired of staying in seclusion since the death of her best friend, a fourteen-year-old Native American girl takes on a photographic assignment with her local newspaper to cover events at the Native American summer youth camp. |
TITLE: Realm Breaker
AUTHOR: Victoria Aveyard WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ave - FANTASY SUMMARY: A strange darkness grows in Allward. Even Corayne an-Amarat can feel it, tucked away in her small town at the edge of the sea. She soon discovers the truth. She is the last of an ancient lineage--and the last hope to save the world from destruction. But she won't be alone. Even as darkness falls, she is joined by a band of unlikely companions: a squire, forced to choose between home and honor, an immortal, avenging a broken promise, an assassin, exiled and bloodthirsty, an ancient sorceress, whose riddles hide an eerie foresight, a forger with a secret past, a bounty hunter with a score to settle. Together they stand against a vicious opponent, invincible and determined to burn all kingdoms to ash, and an army unlike anything the realm has ever witnessed. |
TITLE: Red, White, and Whole
AUTHOR: Rajani LaRocca WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F LaR - NOVELS SUMMARY: Feeling disconnected from her heritage as the only Indian-American student in her community, young Reha commits herself to a future different from her dreams when her mother becomes dangerously ill. |
TITLE: Ripper
AUTHOR: Isabel Allende WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F All - MYSTERY SUMMARY: A brilliant teenage sleuth must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world. |
TITLE: Roll with It
AUTHOR: Jamie Sumner WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sum - NOVELS SUMMARY: Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease. |
TITLE: Rules for Vanishing
AUTHOR: Kate Alice Marshall WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mar - HORROR SUMMARY: When Sara and her friends search the forest for Sara's missing sister Becca, a mysterious road unfurls before them, where the ghost of Lucy Gallows sends horrors and challenges in their path to find Becca. |
TITLE: The Sacrifice Box
AUTHOR: Martin Stewart WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ste - HORROR SUMMARY: Once united by a glorious summer spent together, five teenagers are haunted years later by a broken oath and an ancient ritual. |
TITLE: Salvage the Bones
AUTHOR: Jesmyn Ward WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F War - NOVELS SUMMARY: Pregnant fifteen-year-old Esch and her family live in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, which puts them in the path of Hurricane Katrina, and as they try to stock the small amount of food they have in preparation for the disaster, the family's love for each other will be their only hope for survival. |
TITLE: The Sentence
AUTHOR: Louise Erdrich WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Erd - NOVELS SUMMARY: Over the course of one year, a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted by its most annoying customer. |
TITLE: Serendipity: Ten Romantic Tropes, Transformed
AUTHOR: Edited by Marissa Meyer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ser - ROMANCE SUMMARY: A collection of ten stories from YA authors celebrates and transforms romantic tropes, including first love, unrequited love, surprising love, and love that's been there all along. |
TITLE: Skin of the Sea
AUTHOR: Natasha Bowen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bow - FANTASY SUMMARY: Simi, a Mami Wata--a type of mermaid who collects the souls of those who die at sea--goes against an ancient decree by saving the life of a living boy and must now make amends in order to save the fate of all Mami Wata and the world as she knows it. |
TITLE: Skyhunter series
AUTHOR: Marie Lu WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lu - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for Mara, the only free nation in the world, but when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front to Mara's capital, Talin senses there is more to him than meets the eye. |
TITLE: Super Fake Love Song
AUTHOR: David Yoon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Yoo - ROMANCE SUMMARY: When new-girl Cirrus mistakes self-described nerd Sunny Dae as the lead in a rock band, Sunny rolls with it forming a fake band with his friends, but as the lies continue he risks losing both Cirrus and his friends. |
TITLE: Symptoms of a Heartbreak
AUTHOR: Sona Charaipotra WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cha - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Fresh from medical school, teenage genius Saira takes a job treating childhood cancer, and must prove herself to skeptical adult coworkers while adjusting to real life-and-death stakes and falling for one of her patients. |
TITLE: This Is My Brain in Love
AUTHOR: I. W. Gregorio WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gre - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Rising high school juniors Jocelyn Wu and Will Domenici fall in love while trying to save the Wu family restaurant, A-Plus Chinese Garden. |
TITLE: This Poison Heart
AUTHOR: Kalynn Bayron WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bay - FANTASY SUMMARY: Teenaged Briseis, who possesses a supernatural power over plants, even poisonous ones, inherits a dilapidated estate in rural New York and must protect herself and her family from centuries-old secrets that threaten their lives. |
TITLE: This Woven Kingdom
AUTHOR: Tahereh Mafi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Maf - FANTASY SUMMARY: To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight. The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes, the girl he can't put out of his mind, would one day soon uproot his kingdom--and the world. |
TITLE: The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
AUTHOR: Leslie Connor WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Con - NOVELS SUMMARY: Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. Mason's learning disabilities are compounded by grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason's best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family's orchard. An investigation drags on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, can't understand why Lieutenant Baird won't believe the story Mason has told about that day. |
TITLE: Watch Over Me
AUTHOR: Nina LaCour WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F LaC - NOVELS SUMMARY: A newly graduated Mila emerges from foster care to accept a job on an isolated Northern California Coast farm where she confronts haunting memories and the traumas of her fellow residents. |
TITLE: Watch Us Rise
AUTHOR: Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wat - NOVELS SUMMARY: Frustrated by the way women are treated--even at their progressive New York City high school--two best friends start a Women's Rights Club, post their essays and poems online, and watch it go viral, attracting positive support as well as trolls. |
TITLE: What I Carry
AUTHOR: Jennifer Longo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lon - NOVELS SUMMARY: In her final year in foster care, seventeen-year-old Muir tries to survive her senior year before aging out of the system. |
TITLE: When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky
AUTHOR: Margaret Verble WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ver - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: After disaster strikes during one of her shows, Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries with the help of an eclectic cast of characters. |
TITLE: When We Were Infinite
AUTHOR: Kelly Loy Gilbert WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gil - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Knowing that the friendships she depends on will change when her parents split up, Beth witnesses a private act of violence in her crush's home before forging a pact with her friends to offer support in the face of a life-altering decision. |
TITLE: When You Look Like Us
AUTHOR: Pamela N. Harris WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Har - NOVELS SUMMARY: A boy must take up the search for his sister when she goes missing from a neighborhood where Black girls' disappearances are too often overlooked. |
TITLE: Wicked Saints (Books #1 - #3)
AUTHOR: Emily A. Duncan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Dun - FANTASY SUMMARY: A girl who can speak to gods, a prince who must learn whom to trust, and a boy with a monstrous secret seek to assassinate the king and stop a centuries-long war. |
TITLE: Wings of Ebony
AUTHOR: J. Elle WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ell - FANTASY SUMMARY: Taken away from her Houston neighborhood by the father she never knew in the aftermath of her mother’s murder, a Black teen arrives on a hidden island of magic, where she discovers her half-god identity and responsibility in helping protect the mortal and immortal worlds. |
TITLE: You Have a Match
AUTHOR: Emma Lord WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lor - ROMANCE SUMMARY: When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it's mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already: Avid photographer. Injury-prone tree climber. Best friend to Leo and Connie...although ever since the B.E.I. (Big Embarrassing Incident) with Leo, things have been awkward on that front. But she didn't know she's a younger sister. When the DNA service reveals Abby has a secret sister, shimmery-haired Instagram star Savannah Tully, it’s hard to believe they’re from the same planet, never mind the same parents. The logical course of action? Meet up at summer camp (obviously) and figure out why Abby’s parents gave Savvy up for adoption. But there are complications: Savvy is a rigid rule-follower and total narc. Leo is the camp’s co-chef, putting Abby's growing feelings for him on blast. And her parents have a secret that threatens to unravel everything. |
TITLE: You'll Be the Death of Me
AUTHOR: Karen M. McManus WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McM - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Deciding to ditch school together, former friends Ivy, Cal and Mateo, in one chance move, find their day turning from dull to deadly when another student is murdered right in front of them. |
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TITLE: The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
AUTHOR: Nikole Hannah-Jones WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 973 Han SUMMARY: The 1619 Project tells [a] new origin story, placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country. |
TITLE: An African American and Latinx History of the United States
AUTHOR: Paul Ortiz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Ort SUMMARY: A bottom-up history told from the viewpoint of African American and Latinx activists and revealing the radically different ways people of the diaspora addressed issues still plaguing the United States today. |
TITLE: Ain't Burned All the Bright
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds; Jason Griffin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Gri SUMMARY: A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. |
TITLE: And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems
AUTHOR: Erica Martin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Mar SUMMARY: A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. |
TITLE: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
AUTHOR: John Green WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 814 Gre SUMMARY: In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet-from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu-on a five-star scale. |
TITLE: The Baking Cookbook for Teens: 75 Delicious Recipes for Sweet and Savory Treats
AUTHOR: Robin Donovan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641.7 Don SUMMARY: Robin Donovan offers over 75 easy-to-follow recipes for a variety of delectable baked goods -- from cookies, brownies, and bars, to tarts, breads, and even pizza. |
TITLE: The Black History Book
AUTHOR: Nemata Amelia Blyden WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 973 Bla SUMMARY: Bringing together accounts of significant ideas and milestones in Black history and culture, this book offers an accessible overview of the history of the African continent and its peoples. |
TITLE: Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History
AUTHOR: Jeff Chang WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 782.42 Cha SUMMARY: Traces the history of the hip-hop culture, discussing how hip-hop came to define a new generation of youth rebellion and expression in North America. |
TITLE: Crying in H Mart
AUTHOR: Michelle Zauner WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Zau SUMMARY: The Japanese Breakfast indie pop star presents a full-length account of her viral New Yorker essay to share poignant reflections on her experiences of growing up Korean-American, becoming a professional musician and caring for her terminally ill mother. |
TITLE: Flowers in the Gutter: The True Story of the Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers Who Resisted the Nazis
AUTHOR: K. R. Gaddy WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 940.53 Gad SUMMARY: A photo-illustrated account documents the story of the Edelweiss Pirates, a group of working-class teens who survived the Third Reich in their Cologne neighborhoods while resisting the Hitler Youth, helping POWs and sabotaging Nazi factories. |
TITLE: Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
AUTHOR: Mary Roach WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 591.5 Roa SUMMARY: A best-selling author offers an investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. |
TITLE: Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood
AUTHOR: Gary Paulsen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Pau SUMMARY: Born into the middle of World War II, Gary Paulsen's turbulent childhood provided plenty of subject matter for his bestselling novels, and the librarians in his life gave him the inspiration and support to explore the world through books. As a soldier himself, his storytelling technique developed, and for the first time he shares his own. |
TITLE: Home Body
AUTHOR: Rupi Kaur WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Kau SUMMARY: rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. |
TITLE: How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
AUTHOR: Edited by James Crews WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 How SUMMARY: How to Love the World invites readers to use poetry as part of their daily gratitude practice to uncover the simple gifts of abundance and joy to be found everywhere. |
TITLE: Just Us: An American Conversation
AUTHOR: Claudia Rankine WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Ran SUMMARY: This brilliant arrangement of essays, poems, and images includes the voices and rebuttals of others: white men in first class responding to, and with, their white male privilege; a friend's explanation of her infuriating behavior at a play; and women confronting the political currency of dying their hair blond, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine's own text, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word. |
TITLE: Music Is History
AUTHOR: Questlove WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 782.42 Que SUMMARY: Combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years. |
TITLE: Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God
AUTHOR: Kaitlin B. Curtice WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 277.3 Cur SUMMARY: Drawing on her Native American heritage, Kaitlin Curtice shares her journey toward a better self-understanding, showing how her sense of nativeness both informs and challenges her Christian faith. |
TITLE: Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD
AUTHOR: Allison Britz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Bri SUMMARY: A brave teen recounts her debilitating struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder--and brings readers through every painful step as she finds her way to the other side--in this powerful and inspiring memoir. |
TITLE: The Religions Book
AUTHOR: Edited by Shulamit Ambalu WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 200 Rel SUMMARY: Explores major world religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, primal beliefs, ancient and classical beliefs, and modern religions. |
TITLE: The Super Easy Teen Cookbook: 75 Simple Step-by-Step Recipes
AUTHOR: Christina Hitchcock WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641.5 Hit SUMMARY: Provides 75 easy recipes with step-by-step instruction. |
TITLE: The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
AUTHOR: Peniel E. Joseph WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 920 Jos SUMMARY: Reveals a nuanced portrait of two men, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, despite markedly different backgrounds, inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives. |
TITLE: This Is What I Know About Art
AUTHOR: Kimberly Drew WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 701 Dre SUMMARY: In this powerful and hopeful account, arts writer, curator, and activist Kimberly Drew reminds us that the art world has space not just for the elite, but for everyone. |
TITLE: True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News
AUTHOR: Cindy L. Otis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 070.4 Oti SUMMARY: Explores the history of Fake News and provides tips for how to spot it. |
TITLE: The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In
AUTHOR: Ayser Salman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Sal SUMMARY: Recounts the author's experiences as a young Iraqi immigrant trying to fit in among her American counterparts, discussing her parents' strict rules, her ill-advised romantic dalliances, and the isolation she felt after 9/11. |
TITLE: You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves
AUTHOR: Edited by Diana Whitney WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 You SUMMARY: Poetry awakens your inner world and makes all your feelings come alive. The poems in this collection-- chosen with girls in mind-- sing of diversity, self-discovery, and self-acceptance. Grouped by emotional experience, the poems offer girls and young women wisdom and compassion for a vital, formative time in their lives. They also give the reader permission let go of shame and perfectionism. By accepting your own contradictions, you can embrace the fullness of who you are-- and of who you are becoming. |