YA Fiction Roundup: Teen Reads to Recommend
Looking for what’s new in YA? These fiction titles (plus a few you may have missed) deliver the heart, drama, and voice today’s teen readers crave.
Single Titles
The Red Car to Hollywood
Interest Level: Grade 9 – Grade 12
In LA’s Chinatown in 1924, sixteen-year-old Ruby Chan rebels against her parents’ conventional plans for her future. A friendship with nineteen-year-old Anna May Wong, a rising Hollywood film star, opens up new possibilities.
Sometimes the Girl
Interest Level: Grade 9 – Grade 12
When eighteen-year-old Holiday, an aspiring writer, gets a short-term job sorting through the attic of an acclaimed elderly author, the author’s secrets change how Holi views art and life.
Series
Hoops Academy
Interest Level: Grade 6 – Grade 12
Hoops Academy is a basketball high school known for turning out pro players. But mysteries also lurk on its campus. Each athlete must face the unknown and rise above new obstacles in this page-turning series.
Apple Black
Interest Level: Grade 8 – Grade 12
Long ago, humans acquired fruits called “Black” that turned humans into sorcerers. Apple Black follows the young sorcerer Sano as he struggles to fulfill his prophesied destiny as the Trinity, the savior of the world. Sano follows his dangerous and challenging quest. Now collected in library bound editions for the first time.
Massively Multiplayer World of Ghosts
Interest Level: Grade 8 – Grade 12
Nilay Rao receives a mysterious device from his long-lost mother that launches him into a video game world. Can Nilay survive long enough in the Massively Multiplayer World of Ghosts to find his mother?
Lorimer Real Love
Interest Level: Grade 9 – Grade 12
Real Love is a new collection of high/low YA novels that focus on realistic teen relationships. The novels feature diverse teen characters in contemporary settings as they experience love, romance, dating, sex, body image, LGBTQIA+ issues, and more. From authors who write from real-world experience, these contemporary YA romances will engage the most reluctant teen readers.
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