Teen & Young Adult Fiction

Kwame Alexander (A)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Breaking Rules and Consequences -2014)

2015 Newbery Medal Winner
2015 Coretta Scott King Honor Award Winner
New York Times Bestseller 

“With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I’m delivering,“…

Four starred reviews!

Dear Martin meets They Both Die at the End in this gripping, evocative novel about a Black teen who has the power to see into the future, whose life turns upside down when he foresees his younger brother’s imminent death, from the acclaimed author of SLAY.

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Jacqueline Woodson (A)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Biracial Teen / Friendship / Family – 2010)

A lyrical coming-of-age story from a three-time Newberry Honor winning author

Thirteen-year-old Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she took on a fiercer name. She’s always been different–set apart by the tragic deaths of her grandparents…

Kim Johnson (A)

A stunning repackage of a companion to Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, with cover art by two-time Caldecott Honor Award winner Kadir Nelson!

The son of a prosperous landowner and a former slave, Paul-Edward Logan is unlike…

Jonah Tarver, a troubled Oakland teenager grappling with his parents’ troubled marriage, his own mental disorder, and the weight of his best friend’s death, embarks on a desperate quest to find meaning in life.

On his eighteenth birthday, coinciding with his Senior prom, Jonah, along with his girlfriend Taniesha, his best friend Trevon, and…

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback- Teen / Politics / Choices / Basketball – 2012)

David Barclay Moore (A)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Community / Navigating Thru Challenges -2017)

“The right story at the right time. . . . It’s not just a narrative; it’s an experience. It’s the novel we’ve been waiting for.” —The New York Times

A boy tries to steer a safe path through the…

IDK! is a fictional but realistic story told through the eyes of the protagonist Kyndle, who is working on an International Day project.

When Kyndle’s teacher unexpectedly asked the class to name their cultural food, he doesn’t know the answer. Kyndle goes to his village for answers and discovered that the foods he loves…

Tanita S. Davis (A)

List Price: $12.99 (Paperback – Family / Grandmother and Granddaughters / Travel / Self – Discovery – 2011)

A Coretta Scot King Award Winner

Description: Meet Mare, a World War II veteran and a grandmother like no other. She was once a willful teenager who escaped her less than…

Sharon G. Flake (A)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Teen Fiction / Self Esteem – 2007)

Thirteen-year-old Maleeka Madison, is uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark. Until she meets Miss Saunders, a new teacher who is self assured and has a large birthmark on her…

When Nala Robertson reluctantly agrees to attend an open mic night for her cousin-sister-friend Imani’s birthday, she finds herself falling in instant love with Tye Brown, the MC. He’s perfect, except . . .

Tye is an activist and is spending the summer putting on events for the community when Nala would rather…

Walter Dean Myers (A) and Guy A Sims (A) and Dawaud Anyabwile (ILT) 

List Price: $15.99 (Paperback – Juvenile Justice / Narrative – 1999)

A stunning graphic novel adaptation of Walter Dean Myers’s New York Times bestseller Monster.

Monster is a multi-award-winning, provocative coming-of-age story about Steve Harmon, a teenager awaiting trial for a murder and robbery.…

Kwame Alexander (A)

List Price: $16.99 (Hardcover – Soccer / Family / Love and Friendship – 2018)  

From the New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander comes Rebound, a dynamic novel in verse and companion to his Newbery Award-winner, The Crossover, illustrated with striking graphic novel panels.

Before Josh and Jordan Bell were streaking up and down…

Wes Moore (A)

List Price: $12.99 (Paperback – Biography / Parallels Two Lives / Same Name – 2013)

For fans of The Wire and Unbroken comes a story of two fatherless boys from Baltimore, both named Wes Moore. One is in prison, serving a life sentence for murder. The other is a Rhodes…

Nic Stone (A)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback- An Adventure Down South – 2021) 

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a timely middle-grade road-trip story through landmarks of the Civil Rights movement and the map they lay for contemporary race relations.

How to Go on an Unplanned Road…

Candice Carty-Williams (A)

List Price: $18.99 (Paperback – Young Black Woman – 2019)

NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY WOMAN’S DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BUSTLE, AND BOOK RIOT!

“[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking.” —Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You

Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak…

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE

A debut YA novel-in-verse by Amber McBride, Me (Moth) is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family, and a teen boy who crosses her path.<br data-mce-fragment="1"…

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the “action-packed…banter-filled” (School Library Journal, starred review) sequel to his groundbreaking young adult novel Miles Morales: Spider-Man about the adventures of the unassuming, everyday kid who just so happens to be Spider-Man.

Miles Morales is just your average teenager.…

Jaqueline Woodson (A) 

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover -Teen Relationship /Bi-Racial – 2018)

A lyrical story of star-crossed love perfect for readers of The Hate U Give, by National Ambassador for Children’s Literature Jacqueline Woodson–now celebrating its twentieth anniversary, and including a new preface by the author

Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when…

Brandy Colbert (A)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Coming of Age / Self Awareness – 2019) 

From Stonewall Award winner Brandy Colbert comes a novel about first love, family, and hidden secrets that will stay with you long after turning the last page.

Dove “Birdie” Randolph works hard to be the perfect daughter and follow…

Kirkus Prize Finalist * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year * An SLJ Best Book of the Year * A Rise: A Feminist Book Project honoree * A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year * Nautilus Silver Award Winner * Amazon August Editors’ pick

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Brittney Morris (A)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover –  Teen Black Gamer / Racism/ Identity/ Drama -2019)

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019!
“Gripping and timely.” —People
“The YA debut we’re most excited for this year.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A book that knocks you off your feet while dropping the kind of knowledge that’ll keep you down for…

Angela Johnson (A)

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Teen / Loss / Coming Of Age – 2011)

After Heaven and The First Part Last, three-time Correta Scott King Award-winning author Angela Johnson concludes her acclaimed trilogy with a poignant tale of finding where you belong and who you belong with.

Shoogy left…

Angela Johnson (A)

List Price: $10.99 (Paperback – Teen Pregnancy – 2010)

Description:This little thing with the perfect face and hands doing nothing but counting on me. And me wanting nothing else but to run crying into my own mom’s room and have her do the whole thing. It’s not going to happen….

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The saga of the Logan family–made famous in the Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry–concludes in a long-awaited and deeply fulfilling story.

In her tenth book, Mildred Taylor completes her sweeping saga about the Logan family of Mississippi, which is also the story…

Justin Simien (A) and Ian O’ Phelan (ILT)

List Price: $18.99  (Hardcover – Race Relations / Life On A White College Campus – 2014)

“A Guide to Inter-Racial Harmony in Post-Racial America”

In the satirical tradition of the New York Times bestseller Stuff White People Like comes this witty companion book to the…

Frances Temple (A) 

List Price: $5.99 (Paperback – Social Political / Haitian Revolt – 2004)

Seventeen year old Do has a story: Once he was one of Titid’s boys, a vital member of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s election team, fighting to overthrow military dictatorship in Haiti. Now he is barely alive,…

Ermila Moodley (A)

List Price: $10.95 (Paperback – Young Adult Fiction / Relocation / Culture Confusion – 2007)

When her father is transferred from his position as a professor at a Capetown, South Africa university to Buena Vista, California, Thandie Sobukwe says goodbye to her friends, family and favorites places and hello…

Akwaeke Emezi (A)

List Price $12.99 (Paperback – Teen Novel Explores Themes on Identity and Justice – 2020) 

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New York Times • Time…

Sister Souljah (A)

List Price: $16.00 (Paperback – Street Smart Girl / Challenges and Survival – 2006)

Renowned hip-hop artist, political activist, and bestselling author Sister Souljah brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable first novel.

I came busting into the world during one of New…

Uzodinma Iweala (A)

List Price: $15.99 (Paperback – Africa  / Guerilla Fighting Boys – 2006) 

The harrowing, utterly original debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country—now a critically-acclaimed Netflix original film directed by Cary Fukunaga (True Detective) and starring Idris Elba (Mandela, The…

Ibi Zoboi (A) 

List Price: $15.99 (Paperback – Coming Of Age / Haitian Teen – 2017)

American Street is an evocative and powerful coming-of-age story perfect for fans of Everything, Everything; Bone Gap; and All American Boys.

In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart-nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing…

Jerry Craft (A) 

List Price: $15.99  (Paperback – Coming of Age Friendship Story – 2020)

New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize. This time, it’s Jordan’s…

Nic Stone (A) 

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Fiction / Social Justice / Racism – 2017)

“Powerful, wrenching.” – JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down

“Raw and gripping.” –JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys

“A must-read!” –ANGIE THOMAS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give

Raw, captivating,…

Two siblings investigate the murder of a friend only to unearth even more deadly mysteries in their small town in this page-turning young adult thriller from the acclaimed author of Their Vicious Games.

When Mikky Graves left his small, stifling hometown of Prophets Lake to live with his estranged mother, he thought nothing could ever…

Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor’s Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder,Hear My Cry.

For David Logan, a time of distress means taking the higher road.

During a drought, the Logan family shares their well water with their neighbors, black and white alike. But David’s brother…

Sharon G. Flake (A)

List Price: $10.99 (Paperback – Teen Fiction / Survival – 2006)

Sharon Flake’s authentic and original young adult novels have garnered many honors and awards, and have won her a loyal fan base of teens across the country. In this sequel to…

Nnedi Okorafor (A) 

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – SciFi / African Mythology and Fantasy / Warrior Sista – 2017)

The newest novel by the author of Akata Witch and the forthcoming Marvel comic book series about Shuri, Black Panther’s sister!

“The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have ever read!” —Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of Speak

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From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller about a wrongly accused teen desperate to recclaim both his innocence and his first love.

Life can change in an instant.
When you’re wrongfully accused of a crime.
When a virus shuts everything down.
When…

Tony Adeyemi (A)

List Price: $22.99 (Hardcover – Fantasy / West African / Female Protagonist / Must Save The Village -2018)

With five starred reviews, Tomi Adeyemi’s West African-inspired fantasy debut, and instant #1 New York TimesBestseller, conjures a world of magic and danger, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Sabaa Tahir.

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Kwame Alexander (A)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Soccer / Family / Love and Friendship – 2016) 

National Book Award Long List
New York Times Bestseller 

Like lightning/you strike/fast and free/legs zoom/down field/eyes fixed/on the checkered ball/on the goal/ten yards to go/can’t nobody stop you/
can’t nobody cop you…

In this follow-up to…

Jason Reynolds (A)

List Price: $12.99 (Paperback – Fiction / Coming of Age / Finding Strength – 2016)

A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book.

Just when seventeen-year-old Matt thinks he can’t handle one more piece of terrible news, he meets a girl who’s dealt with a lot more—and who just might…

This amazing collaboration brings together two inspirational Black artists, NYT bestselling author Ashley Woodfolk and actress Lexi Underwood, for a story about the transformative power of art as protest and its capacity to change the world.

When Jordyn Jones transfers to Edgewood High, it’s her opportunity to forget everything that happened at her old school.…

Walter Dean Myers (A)

List Price: $16.95  (Hardcover – Fiction / Racial and Social Divides / Relationships / Drug Addiction – 2003)

Anthony Spoon Witherspoon, 17, leaves Harlem, and his girl, Gabi, to spend his senior year at Wallingford Academy in Connecticut, with the hope that he will get into an Ivy League…

Richard Wright (A)

List Price: $16.99 (Paperback – African American Classic / Race and Class – 2005)

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young…

Jason Reyolds (A) 

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Gun Violence/ Choices / Decision Making – 2017)

A Newbery Honor Book
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
A Printz Honor Book
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
Winner of the Walter Dean Myers…

Charles Johnson (A)

List Price: $17.00 (Paperback – African American History / Middle Passage / Slave Trade – 1998)

A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece of a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick heroic in proportion to fiction that hooks the mind” (The New York…