Dig

by A. S. King

2020 Michael L. Printz Award Winner

Five teenagers’ disparate lives weave together, unveiling long-buried secrets within a complex shared history. King’s surrealistic narrative confronts themes of white privilege and its dark legacies.

The White Darkness

by Geraldine McCaughrean

2008 Michael L. Printz Award Winner

Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone — a troubled fourteen year old — discovers that he is dangerously obses...

A Year in Japan

by Kate T. Williamson

Colorful impressions of a young woman's extended visit in Kyoto, Japan.

Chime

by Franny Billingsley

In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and ...

Pretty Monsters

by Kelly Link

Weirdly wonderful and a touch macabre, the nine short stories take readers into worlds with elements of reality but also supply a fantastic twist.

Anna Dressed in Blood

by Kendare Blake

For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unl...

Blood Water Paint

by Joy McCullough

By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. She was one of Rome's most talented painters, even if no one knew her name. But Rome in 1610 was a city where men took what they wanted from women, and in the aftermath...

The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia

by Candace Fleming

From the acclaimed author of Amelia Lost and The Lincolns comes a heartrending narrative nonfiction page-turner. When Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, inherited the throne in 1894, he was unprepared to do so. With their four daughters (i...

If I Ever Get Out of Here

by Eric Gansworth

Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and ...

Like No Other

by Una LaMarche

Though their relationship is strictly forbidden, Devorah and Jax arrange secret meetings and risk everything to be together. But how far can they possibly go? Just how much are they willing to give up?

Pieces of Why

by K. L. Going

Twelve-year-old Tia lives in a white slum in New Orleans with her mother, and her whole world revolves around singing in the gospel choir with her best friend, Keisha. But when practice is interrupted by a shooting outside the church, and a ...

Lost and Found

by Shaun Tan

These three stories explore how we lose and find what matters most to us, as a girl finds a bright spot in a dark world, a boy leads a strange, lost being home, and a group of peaceful creatures loses its home to cruel invaders.

The Night Gardener

by Jonathan Auxier

Irish orphans Molly, 14, and Kip, 10, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and the secrets of the cursed hous...

Beauty Queens

by Libba Bray

Reviewed by Mia: If you’re looking to escape the doldrums of winter look no further than this rollicking story of thirteen beauty pageant contestants whose plane crashes on a tropical island. Can they survive disgusting nature thing...

Exit, Pursued by a Bear

by Jason Reynolds

Reviewed by Mia: In this thoughtful reworking of Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale, smart and strong Hermione Winter is sexually assaulted at cheerleading camp. Her journey through the aftermath of the event as she seeks j...

Long Way Down

by Jason Reynolds

Reviewed by Mia: This novel in verse takes place in a single elevator ride. As Will contemplates avenging his brother’s murder he is joined on each floor by the ghost of a person in his life who has been the victim of gun violen...

Macbeth: a play by William Shakespeare

adapted and illustrated by Gareth Hinds

Macbeth, a general in the king's army, is returning from battle when he comes upon three witches who tell him that one day he'll be king. At first Macbeth dismisses their predictions, but an evil seed takes root in h...

Revolution

by Jennifer Donnelly

An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress ...

When I Was the Greatest

by Jason Reynolds

Avoiding the violence that has given his neighborhood a bad name, urban youth Ali spends busy days attending school, boxing and helping his family while looking out for a troublesome friend and a Tourette's-afflicted brother only to be br...

Pretty Monsters

by Kelly Link

Weirdly wonderful and a touch macabre, the nine short stories take readers into worlds with elements of reality but also supply a fantastic twist.

Feed

by M.T. Anderson

In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone

by Laini Taylor

Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters – the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.

The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

by Steve Sheinkin

Presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.

The Knife of Never Letting Go

by Patrick Ness

Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.