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Charaipotra, Sona

Summary: "She may be a California farm girl, but seventeen-year-old Maya's vision board is all about Fashion and Fierce--the New York City women's magazine she's been reading since she was ten. As the oldest daughter of Punjabi garlic farmers, though, Maya's path is set, and it's off to Cow camp for the summer. When she lands in the New York City area, Maya learns that her cousin's girlfriend works at...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHA

Woodfolk, Ashley

Summary: A novel in verse that captures the unbalanced experience of an all-consuming love between two unnamed, queer, Black teen girls who move rapidly from strangerhood into a protective best friendship before becoming dysfunctional lovers and mutually destructive partners in crime.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOO

Lockington, Mariama

Summary: While twelve-year-old Andi has suffered from anxiety attacks ever since her mother died ten months ago, Zora starting hurting herself whenever she feels out of control; they are both at Camp Harmony, an elite summer music camp, trying to deal with their problems and also the stress of competition--but as the summer passes they find themselves increasingly drawn to each other, and maybe not just...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOC

Florence, Debbi Michiko

Summary: "Susannah Mikami dreams of becoming a famous sushi chef like her dad. And this summer, she plans to learn everything about his traditional kitchen. Only he refuses to teach her, and won't tell her why. Is it because he doesn't want her to embarrass him in front of the documentary crew filming at his restaurant? Or worse, because she's a girl? Either way, Sana decides he's not the only one who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FLO

Johnson, Sadeqa

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed onto her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrived in Washington, DC with ambition and secrets. When...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOH

Wasson, Brian

Summary: "Sophomore Kalvin Shmelton has finally perfected his underground candy-selling hustle at school. He keeps his prices reasonable, his inventory fresh, and himself out of the drama. But when a heartbroken Sterling Glistern, Kal's longtime crush, barges into the storage closet where he keeps his candy supply, a new source of income unexpectedly presents itself: relationship therapist. He only...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WAS

Bryant, Elise (Elise M.)

Summary: "Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She goes with the flow--which is how she ends up singing in her friends' punk band as a favor, even though she'd prefer to hide at the merch table. Reggie is a D&D Dungeon Master and self-declared Blerd. He spends his free time leading quests and writing essays critiquing the game under a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzar + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BRY

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRY

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRY

Menon, Sandhya

Summary: Pinky Kumar wears the social justice warrior badge with pride. From raccoon hospitals to persecuted rock stars, no cause is too esoteric for her to champion. But a teeny tiny part of her also really enjoys making her conservative, buttoned-up corporate lawyer parents cringe. Samir Jha might have a few...quirks remaining from the time he had to take care of his sick mother, like the endless...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MEN

Liang, Ann

Summary: Eliza Lin's essay about meeting the love of her life unexpectedly goes viral, she gains the approval of her classmates at her new international school in Beijing, and a career-launching internship opportunity at her favorite magazine. Unfortunately, Eliza's essay is completely fiction. All good writing is lying, right? To hide the truth, Eliza strikes a deal with an actor in her class, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIA

Summary: "Retribution: Lucy Champagne was sent to St. Cecilia's after her movie-star mother was brutally attacked by her sleazy boyfriend, Ray Watkins. Lucy's damning testimony landed Ray a twenty-five-year sentence. But now, Ray is free. And he's going to find Lucy and make her pay, no matter how far and how fast she runs . . ." --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JAC

Dunn, Pintip

Summary: The Tech sisters don't date in high school-- because they're not allowed. Until now. Six months after the older Tech twins got to college, their parents asked, 'Why aren't you engaged yet?' Her traditional Thai parents now insist that their youngest daughter, Orrawin (aka 'Winnie'), must practice fake dating in high school. Under their watchful eyes, of course-- and organized based on their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DUN

DasGupta, Sayantani

Summary: Teenage sisters Eila and Mallika Das are attending a summer camp where the campers are trying out for minor parts in a romance/detective television show set in Regency times--but when Eila meets the handsome Rahul it is clear that there is plenty of drama to be had outside of the screenplay.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DAS

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DAS

Gregorio, I. W.

Summary: "Jocelyn "Jos" Wu has two wishes: to make it through high school without dying of boredom and to direct a short film with her best friend. Will Domenici has two goals: to get assigned to a worthwhile position at his school paper and to find a paying summer gig. When Jos's father tells her their family restaurant may be going under and Will learns he didn't land his dream job at the school...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRE

Steinbeck, John

Summary: Collects six short novels from one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Quach, Michelle

Summary: Eliza Quan is the perfect candidate for editor in chief of her school paper-- until ex-jock Len DiMartile decides on a whim to run against her. Suddenly her vast qualifications mean squat because inexperienced Len just seems more like a leader. When Eliza's frustration spills out in a viral essay, she finds herself inspiring a feminist movement she never meant to start, caught between those who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC QUA

Jenkins, Beverly

Summary: "Valinda Lacy's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life -- and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JEN

Kemp, Laekan Zea

Summary: Set in the Monte Vista neighborhood of San Antonio and told in alternating voices, teenaged musicians Aarón and Mia grow close as they share and struggle to overcome the emotional pain of their troubled home lives.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KEM

Lockhart, E.

Summary: Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island. Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat are a unit, especially during "summer 15," marking their fifteenth year on Beechwood-- the summer that Cady and Gat fall in love. Cady became involved in a mysterious accident, in which she sustained a blow to the head, and now suffers from debilitating migraines and memory...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LOC

Shrum, Brianna R.

Summary: "Margo Zimmerman is gay, but she didn't know until now. An overachiever at heart, Margo is determined to ace her newly discovered gayness. All she needs is the right tutor. Abbie Sokoloff has her own gayness down to a science. But a flunking grade in US History is threatening her acceptance to her dream school. All she needs is the right tutor. Margo agrees to help Abbie get her history grade...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHR

Kann, Claire

Summary: Alice's last girlfriend, Margo, ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual. Now Alice is sure she's done with dating ... and then she meets Takumi. She can't stop thinking about him or the rom-com-grade romance feelings she did not ask for. When herblissful summer takes an unexpected turn and Takumi becomes her knight with a shiny library-employee badge, Alice has to decide if she's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Swoon Reads 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Kann

Ostertag, Molly

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends ... who don't understand Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OST

Angelini, Josephine

Summary: Lily Proctor has come a long way from the weak, sickly girl she used to be. She has gained power as a witch and a leader, found her way home, and has chosen to face battle again. And after her recent losses and betrayal, she has learned more about grief than she ever wanted to know. Thrust once again into a strange society, Lily is determined to find a way to defeat the monstrous Woven without...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ANG

Rowe, Kelis

Summary: Sparks fly when teens Orion and Ray meet for the first time at a roller rink in Memphis, but these star-crossed souls have a past filled with secrets that threaten to tear them apart before their love story even begins.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROW

Baldwin, James

Summary: "Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAL

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