August 4, 2023
Like many teenage boys, Alex Colling views abortion as something he doesn’t need to have an opinion about—until the political gets personal. It has been a rough year for Alex. In the past twelve months, he has lost his best friend, become the target of the two biggest bullies at school, and been sentenced to community service. On June 25, 2013, he gets a call for help from Cassie Ramirez, the prettiest girl in school. Finally, he feels like his luck might be changing. Cassie is at the Texas State Capitol to protest lawmaker Wendy Davis’s filibuster and take a pro-life […]
August 4, 2023
The author of Ventura and Zelzah follows up that critically acclaimed debut novel with Ventura and Winnetka, a stand-alone work that furthers the adventures of Douglas and his friends as they come of age in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley in the late 1970s. As seniors in high school, the gang spends their final year before college practicing crazy car stunts, getting high, obsessing about girls, passionately listening to the great rock and roll of the ’60s and ’70s, arguing about the Dodgers and the Lakers and partying at the prom in powder blue tuxedos. From a West Hollywood porn […]
July 7, 2023
After his father returns from treatment for addiction, highschooler Vish is uncertain what the future holds. It doesn’t help that everyone seems to know about the family’s troubles, and they stand out doubly as one of the only brown families in town. When Vish is mistaken for a relative of the weird local bookseller and attacked by an unsettling pale man who seems to be decaying, he is pulled into the world of the occult, where witches live in television sets, undead creatures can burn with a touch, and magic is mathematical. Vish must work with the bookstore owner and […]
July 7, 2023
Heartstopper meets Crazy Rich Asians in this heartfelt, joyful paperback original rom-com that follows an aspiring chef who discovers the recipe for love is more complicated than it seems when he starts fake-dating a handsome new customer. Dylan Tang wants to win a Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake-making competition for teen chefs—in memory of his mom, and to bring much-needed publicity to his aunt’s struggling Chinese takeout in Brooklyn. Enter Theo Somers: charming, wealthy, with a smile that makes Dylan’s stomach do backflips. AKA a distraction. Their worlds are sun-and-moon apart, but Theo keeps showing up. He even convinces Dylan to be […]
July 7, 2023
What does the perfect song sound like? Normally, Malcolm Kid wouldn’t give this type of question the time of day. As a straight-B student with a heart of copper, he is far more concerned with overcoming mediocrity than he is with achieving perfection. But that all changes when he stumbles across the LK-2000—a strange keyboard cursed with the soul of an old jazz musician. Malcolm soon learns that the only way to free this musician’s soul is by performing the perfect song. With much hesitation, and the help of a lifelong friend, Malcolm embarks on a musical journey across the […]
June 2, 2023
From the author of Restart, the story of two boys who are losing their memories… to each other. Reef and Theo don’t know what’s happening to them. They’ll be going about their days and then suddenly they’ll have these strange flashes of memory — but the memories don’t belong to them. And at the same time, their own memories are starting to… vanish. For Reef, this is a big problem, because memories are all he has left of his mom. For Theo, it’s strange because the new memories give him a freedom he doesn’t have with his domineering dad. Twelve-year-olds […]
June 2, 2023
Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived. Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the four survivors have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: They’ve been summoned by the ghost of the friend they left for dead. Together they return to the place where their friendship ended and restart the deadly game―an innocent card-matching challenge called Meido. A game without instructions. Once inseparable, the survivors now can’t stand each other, but the challenges demand they work together, think quickly and make sacrifices―blood, clothes, secrets, memories and worse. And once […]
June 2, 2023
From a very young age, Udoka Clendon has been pushed relentlessly by his family on a troubling pursuit for an athletic scholarship. Now he is burdened by expectations and self-doubt as he tries to reignite his passion for the game. This novel shows the trials and traumas of becoming fixated on a dream of sports stardom. It’s unusual to mix a sports story with scenes of what goes on behind closed doors in sports therapy. But Udoka is suffering serious self-doubts and needs help, and Dr. Feldbrook may offer just what he needs. The therapy sessions allow the reader to glimpse […]
June 2, 2023
Devastated by the loss of her older brother to cancer, Bugz returns to the place where she can always find solace and strength: the Floraverse. Over the past year, she has regained her position of power in that virtual world, and while the remaining Clan:LESS members still plot against her, she is easily able to overcome their attacks. Even better, she has been working secretly on a bot that will be both an incredible weapon and a source of comfort: Waawaate. With the Waawaate bot looking exactly like the brother she misses so much—even acting like him — Bugz feels […]
May 5, 2023
Daniel Valdez loves skateboarding with his friend, Gracie. Sometimes he even wonders if they can be more than friends. Then Gracie’s mother kills her two children before turning the gun on herself. As grief counselors swoop into his high school and the whole community reels from the horrific deaths, Daniel drowns in his own pain and disbelief. What is his life without Gracie in it? As Daniel works through his grief, he’ll need to find a way to move forward without leaving Gracie behind. I brought this book for a flight, planning to read and review it for YAdudebooks. It’s […]