Бен Оливер3.5 Так ли ты представлял себе далекое будущее? Аркан, тюрьма высоких технологий. Лука Кейн – заключенный 9-70-981, теперь всю жизнь его ждет безрадостное существование в звуконепроницаемой камере-одиночке. Дни предсказуемы до тошноты: обед по расписанию, час прогулки в одиночестве, из собеседников – надзиратель Рен и голос операционной системы. В запястья вживлены магнитные кабели, а в грудь вшит детонатор, который разорвет его сердце на куски, если он попытается сбежать. Мир давно прогнил насквозь: теперь живой человек – ничтожество, всем управляет система, а заключенных используют как расходный материал. Ежедневно из Луки тянут энергию наноботы, а раз в полгода – на нем проводят тесты новых протезов для жизни киборгов. Ни единого шанса на спасение. Но он должен вырваться на свободу, найти свою семью и выяснить, кто в ответе за мировой хаос! И когда система дает сбой, Лука решает воспользоваться моментом. Вот только знает ли он, что творится в мире за пределами Аркана? Не являются ли стены тюрьмы его единственной защитой от ужасов реального мира?
Энджелайн Булли3.8 Триллер о девушке-подростке, которая пытается пресечь криминальный сговор и коррупцию в своей родной общине. Потрясающая атмосфера культуры племени оджибве, столкновение традиций и выбор, который придется сделать главной героине.
Юная Даунис Фонтейн влюбляется в Джейми, звезду хоккея, но чувствует, что он что-то скрывает. Все выясняется, когда Даунис становится свидетелем шокирующего убийства и ФБР втягивает ее в свое расследование. Но поиск истины заводит ее в лабиринт страшных тайн и бередит старые раны. Когда число смертей растет, а разочарование Даунис достигает предела, она должна понять, что значит быть сильной и как далеко она пойдет ради правды, даже если это разрушит ее мир.
Нгози Указу4.1 Эрик Биттл — чемпион по фигурному катанию среди юниоров, популярный влогер и талантливый кондитер. Поступив в университет Самвэлл, он попадает в хоккейную команду, где сталкивается с новыми испытаниями. Во-первых, здесь используют силовые приемы, а во-вторых, университетскую команду возглавляет Джек — неотразимый, но угрюмый капитан.
Эмико Джин3.7 Изуми живет с мамой, ходит в обычную школу, веселится с лучшими подругами и мечтает узнать, кто же ее отец. И вот однажды oбнаруживает, что она - принцесса Японии! Вдохновленная этим фактоми желая наконец повстречаться со своим папой, Изуми летит в Японию.
Вскоре Изуми понимает: быть принцессой - это не только носить шикарные платья и жемчуг… это еще и странные родственники; сумасшедшая пресса, которая лезет в личную жизнь; тысячи традиций и обычаев, - и все их нужно изучить практически за одну ночь; а еще хмурый, но красивый телохранитель, который, впрочем и к счастью, понимает ее лучше всех на свете.
Изуми оказывается в ловушке между мирами и между двумя версиями самой себя: дома она никогда не была достаточно "американкой", а в Японии ей нужно доказать, что она достаточно "японка".
Сдастся ли Изуми под тяжестью короны или же будет жить в своей сказке долго и счастливо?
Трейси Деонн3.9 Легенды опасны. Не стоит их недооценивать.
Жизнь шестнадцатилетней Бри омрачила внезапная гибель матери. Учеба в университете – единственная для нее возможность перенести трагедию. Наконец-то она будет вдали от дома, чрезмерной опеки отца и преследующих воспоминаний.
Но первый день в кампусе стал полнейшей неожиданностью. Во время шумной вечеринки для новичков, Бри оказалась свидетельницей битвы между демонами и волшебниками. Невероятно привлекательный брюнет, назвавший себя Мерлином, попробовал стереть ей память, но его заклинание напротив пробудило в Бри магические способности.
Вскоре ей предстоит узнать о существовании в университете тайного общества, которое загадочным образом связано с гибелью ее матери. Бри решает проникнуть в Орден потомков рыцарей короля Артура и раскрыть его опасные секреты.
Эйден Томас3.7 Ядриэль наделен особым даром: он умеет вызывать духов. Но он не может по-настоящему пользоваться магией, пока не пройдет обряд посвящения. Чтобы показать своей семье, на что способен и кто он на самом деле, Ядриэль решается на авантюру. Ему предстоит призвать дух недавно погибшего родственника, чтобы проводить его в загробный мир. Вот только во время ритуала Ядриэль вызывает совсем не того, кого ожидал увидеть… Джулиан Диас. Тот самый шумный, легкомысленный, вечно попадавший в неприятности школьный хулиган. Джулиан совсем не понимает, как прервалась его земная жизнь: он намерен узнать, что с ним произошло. Ядриэль соглашается помочь Джулиану, чтобы каждый получил желаемое. Но так ли просто избавиться от того, кто совсем не собирается никуда уходить?
Рейчел Линн Соломон4.2 The Hating Game meets Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by way of Morgan Matson in this unforgettable romantic comedy about two rival overachievers whose relationship completely transforms over the course of twenty-four hours.
Today, she hates him.
It’s the last day of senior year. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals for all of high school, clashing on test scores, student council elections, and even gym class pull-up contests. While Rowan, who secretly wants to write romance novels, is anxious about the future, she’d love to beat her infuriating nemesis one last time.
Tonight, she puts up with him.
When Neil is named valedictorian, Rowan has only one chance at victory: Howl, a senior class game that takes them all over Seattle, a farewell tour of the city she loves. But after learning a group of seniors is out to get them, she and Neil reluctantly decide to team up until they’re the last players left—and then they’ll destroy each other.
As Rowan spends more time with Neil, she realizes he’s much more than the awkward linguistics nerd she’s sparred with for the past four years. And, perhaps, this boy she claims to despise might actually be the boy of her dreams.
Ямиль Сайед Мендес4.0 A powerful, #ownvoices contemporary YA for fans of The Poet X and I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter set in Argentina, about a rising soccer star who must put everything on the line—even her blooming love story—to follow her dreams.
In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life.
At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother’s narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father.
On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams, she’d get an athletic scholarship to a North American university.
But the path ahead isn’t easy. Her parents don’t know about her passion. They wouldn’t allow a girl to play fútbol—and she needs their permission to go any farther. And the boy she once loved is back in town. Since he left, Diego has become an international star, playing in Italy for the renowned team Juventus. Camila doesn’t have time to be distracted by her feelings for him. Things aren’t the same as when he left: she has her own passions and ambitions now, and La Furia cannot be denied. As her life becomes more complicated, Camila is forced to face her secrets and make her way in a world with no place for the dreams and ambition of a girl like her.
Filled with authentic details and the textures of day-to-day life in Argentina, heart-soaring romance, and breathless action on the pitch, Furia is the story of a girl’s journey to make her life her own.
Malinda Lo4.2 Acclaimed author of Ash Malinda Lo returns with her most personal and ambitious novel yet, a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare.
“That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?”
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club.
America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.
"Lo's writing, restrained yet luscious, shimmers with the thrills of youthful desire. A lovely, memorable novel about listening to the whispers of a wayward heart and claiming a place in the world."—Sarah Waters, bestselling and award winning author of Tipping the Velvet and The Night Watch
Дарси Литтл Бэджер3.7 Imagine an America very similar to our own. It’s got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream.
There are some differences. This America been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are less charming and should never see the light of day.
Elatsoe lives in this slightly stranger America. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry. The picture-perfect facade of Willowbee masks gruesome secrets, and she will rely on her wits, skills, and friends to tear off the mask and protect her family.
Maia Kobabe4.5 In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
Леа Джонсон3.9 Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor.
But when the financial aid she was counting on unexpectedly falls through, Liz's plans come crashing down . . . until she's reminded of her school's scholarship for prom king and queen. There's nothing Liz wants to do less than endure a gauntlet of social media trolls, catty competitors, and humiliating public events, but despite her devastating fear of the spotlight she's willing to do whatever it takes to get to Pennington.
The only thing that makes it halfway bearable is the new girl in school, Mack. She's smart, funny, and just as much of an outsider as Liz. But Mack is also in the running for queen. Will falling for the competition keep Liz from her dreams . . . or make them come true?
When Enchanted Jones wakes with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night, no one—the police and Korey’s fans included—has more questions than she does. All she really knows is that this isn't how things are supposed to be. Korey was Enchanted’s ticket to stardom.
Before there was a dead body, Enchanted was an aspiring singer, struggling with her tight knit family’s recent move to the suburbs while trying to find her place as the lone Black girl in high school. But then legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots her at an audition. And suddenly her dream of being a professional singer takes flight.
Enchanted is dazzled by Korey’s luxurious life but soon her dream turns into a nightmare. Behind Korey’s charm and star power hides a dark side, one that wants to control her every move, with rage and consequences. Except now he’s dead and the police are at the door. Who killed Korey Fields?
Robin Ha4.7 A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life—perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo.
For as long as she can remember, it’s been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn’t always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together.
So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes a permanent relocation—following her mother’s announcement that she’s getting married—Robin is devastated.
Overnight, her life changes. She is dropped into a new school where she doesn’t understand the language and struggles to keep up. She is completely cut off from her friends in Seoul and has no access to her beloved comics. At home, she doesn’t fit in with her new stepfamily, and worst of all, she is furious with the one person she is closest to—her mother.
Then one day Robin’s mother enrolls her in a local comic drawing class, which opens the window to a future Robin could never have imagined.
This nonfiction graphic novel with four starred reviews is an excellent choice for teens and also accelerated tween readers, both for independent reading and units on immigration, memoirs, and the search for identity
Traci Chee0.0 “All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the guard towers, the city, the country that hates us.
We are not free.
But we are not alone.”
From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II.
Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco.
Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted.
Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps.
In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.
Саджида Али4.5 From William C. Morris Award Finalist S.K. Ali comes an unforgettable romance that is part The Sun Is Also a Star mixed with Anna and the French Kiss , following two Muslim teens who meet during a spring break trip.
A marvel: something you find amazing. Even ordinary-amazing. Like potatoes—because they make French fries happen. Like the perfect fries Adam and his mom used to make together.
An oddity: whatever gives you pause. Like the fact that there are hateful people in the world. Like Zayneb’s teacher, who won’t stop reminding the class how “bad” Muslims are.
But Zayneb, the only Muslim in class, isn’t bad. She’s angry.
When she gets suspended for confronting her teacher, and he begins investigating her activist friends, Zayneb heads to her aunt’s house in Doha, Qatar, for an early start to spring break.
Fueled by the guilt of getting her friends in trouble, she resolves to try out a newer, “nicer” version of herself in a place where no one knows her.
Then her path crosses with Adam’s.
Since he got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in November, Adam’s stopped going to classes, intent, instead, on perfecting the making of things. Intent on keeping the memory of his mom alive for his little sister.
Adam’s also intent on keeping his diagnosis a secret from his grieving father.
Alone, Adam and Zayneb are playing roles for others, keeping their real thoughts locked away in their journals.
Arvin Ahmadi0.0 Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda goes to Italy in Arvin Ahmadi's newest incisive look at identity and what it means to find yourself by running away.
Eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi always knew coming out to his Muslim family would be messy--he just didn't think it would end in an airport interrogation room. But when faced with a failed relationship, bullies, and blackmail, running away to Rome is his only option. Right?
Soon, late nights with new friends and dates in the Sistine Chapel start to feel like second nature... until his old life comes knocking on his door. Now, Amir has to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth to a US Customs officer, or risk losing his hard-won freedom.
At turns uplifting and devastating, How It All Blew Up is Arvin Ahmadi's most powerful novel yet, a celebration of how life's most painful moments can live alongside the riotous, life-changing joys of discovering who you are.
Фарида Абике-Йимиде4.1 An incendiary and utterly compelling thriller with a shocking twist that delves deep into the heart of institutionalized racism, from an exceptional new YA voice.
Welcome to Niveus Private Academy, where money paves the hallways, and the students are never less than perfect. Until now. Because anonymous texter, Aces, is bringing two students' dark secrets to light.
Talented musician Devon buries himself in rehearsals, but he can't escape the spotlight when his private photos go public. Head girl Chiamaka isn't afraid to get what she wants, but soon everyone will know the price she has paid for power.
Someone is out to get them both. Someone who holds all the aces. And they're planning much more than a high-school game...
