Decades apart, two young women deal with WWII and its aftermath in The Rebel Girls of Rome, by Jordyn Taylor.
Browsing: Ages 14 & up
A girl wins first-class passage on planetary ship of all ships in Bound by Stars, a YA romance by E.L. Starling.
Amateur sleuths Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney must solve a murder involving the family of Edmund and Fanny Bertram in The Rushworth Family Plot, by Claudia Gray.
From contemporary to fantasy, the following upper young adult books feature LGBTQ main/major characters and queer topics.
A teen tries to navigate her family’s love curse that comes when the tulips bloom in The Beautiful Maddening, a romantic contemporary fantasy by Shea Ernshaw.
Magic, court intrigue, forbidden romance and a deadly competition for the throne come together in Heir of Storms, an exciting YA debut from Lauryn Hamilton Murray.
A young woman plots her way back to her hidden mountaintop home after her mother’s arrest for murder in Wake the Wild Creatures, by Nova Ren Suma.
A popular friend group is targeted as the reason for another student’s death in The Thrashers, a young adult novel by Julie Soto.
The Family I’m In, by Sharon G. Flake, explores the complex relationships between Black boys and their fathers, and what it truly means to be a man.
The leader of a group of secret thieves leads her team on the heist of all heists in hopes of saving those she loves in The Wild Dark, by Katherine Harbour.