Looking for the newest stories? Here are some brand new teen titles to start the New Year, with annotations adapted from the catalog. (Created December 2023.)
In Arushi Avachat's novel, Arya Khanna's Bollywood Moment, high school senior Arya must navigate fraught family dynamics, the fallout of her two best friends breaking up, and a tense partnership with her rival, the frustratingly attractive student council president - all as her sister's wedding approaches.
Brian Orca, by Bill Hoffman, is a tale of a young orca who leaves his pod out of frustration with his parents and the pod's adherence to ways and beliefs passed down from generation to generation. His pod's ways are stifling. Determined to try new things and seek out his own beliefs, after a fight with his parents, he strikes out on his own to teach them and the pod matriarch a lesson.
Dead Girls Don't Say Sorry, by Alex Ritany, tells how Nora's life takes a tragic turn when her best friend Julia dies, leaving her to unravel the secrets and lies hidden in their friendship.
Freshman Year, by Sarah Mai, chronicles the constant angst, hilarity, and self-doubt enmeshed in the experience of going away to college - all through the eyes of an eighteen-year-old burgeoning comics artist.
In The Getaway List, by Emma Lord, high school graduate Riley sets off to New York to find Tom, her childhood best friend and co-creator of the Getaway List of adventures they wanted to do together.
H.E. Edgmon's novel Godly Heathens follows seventeen-year-old Gem Echols, who hides their mental health challenges and mysterious dreams in the small town of Gracie, Georgia. When a newcomer reveals a shocking claim of being reincarnated gods together, Gem's life takes a perilous turn as they embark on a deadly adventure, where their past and present collide.
In Roye Okupe's graphic novel The Oloris, heroes from all over Africa must work together for the first time to face a growing threat looming over the continent.
Julie Abe's novel Our Cursed Love tells how a love potion gone wrong causes Cam to forget his best friend Remy completely, leading them to travel through Tokyo to rediscover his memories, make new ones, and maybe even fall in love all over again.
Karen Bao's science fiction novel Pangu's Shadow follows Ver and Aryl, rival apprentices at the biology lab in the Pangu Star System. When they become the prime suspects in their teacher's murder, they reluctantly team up to find the real culprit, running up against system-wide inequalities and conspiracies along the way.
In The Summer Queen, by Rochelle Hassan, Aziza, Leo, and Tristan struggle to rebuild their lives amidst painful secrets, emotional and physical scars, and lingering mysteries, all while dealing with the arrival of the Summer Court, a group of Fair Folk who seek to reclaim something Leo is unwilling to part with, leading to a risky deal and a perilous journey, where winning against the Fair Folk comes at a cost.
In Katherine Quinn's fantasy To Kill a Shadow, Jude Maddox knows nothing of love or even light. He knows only his grim duty as the Hand of Death, to lead the Knights of the Eternal Star into a land filled with nightmares and certain demise. It's only when he sees her - a young woman with wild, amber eyes who's as fierce, defiant, and swift as the shadow beasts themselves - that he feels the warmth of life in his blood.
~posted by Wally B.
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