Teen Booklists

Based on true events, ride along with four young Black women and their pursuit of love, suitors, and career aspirations in 1910 Chicago.

Seventeen-year-old Lilah, who wears hearing aids, returns to a summer camp for the Deaf and Blind as a counselor, eager to improve her ASL and find her place in the community, but she did not expect to also find romance along the way.

Effie Galanos' goals for her senior year include her navigating her way through her high school that is not really wheelchair-friendly, getting into the perfect college, and getting her crush Wilder to accompany her to the prom. Ages 12-18

Alternating between present day and flashbacks, multiracial Filipina-American teen Marisol tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother's sudden death. Ages 14-18

Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period. Ages 14-18

When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forwar

Behind every cut of steak and inside every croissant lies a story. And for Thien Pham, that story is about a search-- for belonging, for happiness, for the American dream. Ages 14-18

As hopeful as it is heartrending, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh shares her personal journey to find a place to belong and th emay meanings of home for those who must leave theirs. Ages 12-18

An Indigenous girl who lives on the grounds of a cemetery with her widowed father. Ages 15-18

Dealing with a great deal of upheaval in her life, including moving to a new town, starting a new school, and her parent’s rocky marriage, Liv finds solace at the local mall. Ages 12-18.