More new books - fall 2019
Monday's Not Coming
by Tiffany Jackson When Monday doesn't show up for school for two weeks, Claudia knows that something is wrong, but neither Monday's mother nor her sister give Claudia a straight answer. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she's gone? |
People Kill People
by Ellen Hopkins Six teenagers as they are brought into close contact over the course of one tense week, in a town with political and personal tensions that build until one fires a fatal gunshot. |
Patron Saints of Nothing
by Randy Ribay When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more. |
With the Fire on High
Elizabeth Acevedo Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago has been doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks |
Girl Made of Stars
by Ashley Herring Blake When Mara's twin brother Owen is accused of rape by her friend Hannah, Mara is forced to confront her feelings about her family and a trauma from her past. |
American Panda
by Gloria Chao A freshman at MIT, Mei Lu tries to live up to the expectations of her Taiwanese parents, but there are truths she is hiding. |
When Life Gives You Demons
by Jennifer Honeybourn Shelby tries to juggle high school and her interest in Spencer without revealing her extra-curricular training to be an exorcist. |
Shout; a poetry memoir
by Laurie Halse Anderson A memoir in verse, covering an adolescence scarred by her rape at age thirteen. |
Let's Call it a Doomsday
Katie Henry Ellis Kimball, sixteen, whose anxiety disorder causes her to prepare for the imminent end of the world, meets Hannah, who claims to know when it will happen |
The Wise and the Wicked
by Rebecca Podos Ruby comes from a family with a rare power: to see the moment in time when they are to die. |
The Edge of Everything
by Jeff Giles Holed up in a cabin during a Montana blizzard, seventeen-year-old Zoe and her little brother are rescued from an intruder by X, a bounty hunter sent from the Lowlands to claim the souls of evil men |
The Downstairs Girl, by Stacey Lee
In 1890s Atlanta, seventeen-year-old lady's maid Jo Kuan moonlights as the wildly popular anonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady,' but she's not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges society's views on race and gender. |