New & Notable - Teens
Again again
Lockhart, E., author
2020
Rising high school senior Adelaide Buchwald grapples with a family catastrophe and romantic upheaval while confronting secrets she keeps, her ideas about love, and the weird grandiosity of the human mind.
Agnes at the end of the world
McWilliams, Kelly.
2020
"Sixteen-year-old Agnes must escape a cult and a Prophet as she attempts to save the world from a pandemic"-- Provided by publisher.
All the things we never knew
Tamani, Liara, author.
2020
"Carli and Rex have an immediate connection, an understanding that must mean first love, but family secrets, disappointments--and basketball, which holds center stage in both their lives--all create complications"-- Provided by publisher.
Clap when you land
Acevedo, Elizabeth, author.
2020
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they've lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.
How it feels to float
Fox, Helena, author.
2020
Biz's world turns from balance to grief and depression when her father, whom she has been seeing since his death when she was seven, suddenly stops appearing to her, and she must find a new normal.
The Kinder Poison
Mae, Natalie.
In the magical kingdom of Orkena, a teenaged girl is chosen to be the human sacrifice in a deadly game between three heirs who will do anything for the crown.
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The mermaid, the witch, and the sea
Tokuda-Hall, Maggie, author
2020
Both Florian and Evelyn have lived their lives by the rules and beliefs of others, until they fall in love, and decide to take fate into their own hands, regardless of the consequences.
My eyes are up here
Zimmermann, Laura, 1970-
2020
"Fifteen-year-old Greer Walsh struggles with the experience of having very large breasts and feeling isolated by the unwanted attention they garner until a group of friends and a romantic interest help her regain her sense of self"-- Provided by publisher.
You should see me in a crown
Johnson, Leah (Young adult author), author.
2020
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school. Her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died. Liz has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine. When that scholarship falls through she is forced to turn to her school's scholarship for prom king and queen. Soon Liz is plunged into the gauntlet of social media (which she hates) and led to discoveries about her own identity and the value of true friendships. -- adapted from run-on sentence provided