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Young Adult: Ages 13+

Scatter of Light
Lo, Malinda

"Full of yearning, ponderances about art and what it means to be an artist, and self-revelation, A Scatter of Light has a simmering intensity that makes it hard to put down."--NPR

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

Last Night at the Telegraph...

Item No. 9780525555308
$12.99
Ash
Lo, Malinda

The haunting, romantic lesbian retelling of Cinderella and modern queer classic by award-winning author Malinda Lo--now with an introduction by Holly Black, a letter from the author, a Q&A, and more!

In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel...

Item No. 9780316531313
$11.99
If I Stay
Forman, Gayle

The critically acclaimed, bestselling novel from Gayle Forman, author of Where She Went, Just One Day, Just One Year, and I Was Here.

Now a major motion picture, starring Chloe Grace Moretz! Includes exclusive interviews with Chloe Grace Moretz...

Item No. 9780593403846
$5.99
Last Night at the Telegraph Club - To Be Autographed 9/22
Lo, Malinda

  Staff Pick

Winner of the National Book Award
A New York TimesBestseller

"The queer romance we've been waiting for."--Ms. Magazine

Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root--that desire to look, to...

Item No. 9780525555278
$11.99
October Mourning PB
Newman, Leslea

A masterful poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard's murder on the world.

On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence,...

Item No. 9781536215779
$9.99
Pedro & Daniel
Erebia, Federico

KIRKUS BEST OF THE YEAR

Pedro and Daniel are Mexican American brothers growing up in 1970s Ohio. Their mom doesn't like that Pedro is a spitting image of their darker-skinned father, that Daniel plays with dolls, that neither of the boys love sports like the...

Item No. 9781646143047
$19.99
Akata Woman
Okorafor, Nnedi
Akata Woman is the New York Times bestselling third book in the series that started with Akata Witch, named one of Time magazine's "100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time" and "100 Best YA Books of All Time," from award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor.
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Item No. 9780451480583
$18.99
Apple: Skin to the Core
Gansworth, Eric

NOW IN PAPERBACK!

WINNER, AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD
HONOR, MICHAL L. PRINTZ AWARD
LONGLIST, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

TIME 10 Best YA and Children's Books of the Year
NPR Best of the Year
Shelf Awareness Best of the Year...

Item No. 9781646142033
$14.99
Beast Player
Uehashi, Nahoko

Nahoko Uehashi's The Beast Player is an epic YA fantasy about a girl with a special power to communicate with magical beasts and the warring kingdom only she can save.

Elin's family has an important responsibility: caring for the fearsome water serpents that form the core of...

Item No. 9781250233264
$11.99
Bitter
Emezi, Akwaeke
From National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi comes a companion novel to the critically acclaimed PET that explores both the importance and cost of social revolution--and how youth lead the way.

After a childhood in foster care, Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend...

Item No. 9780593309032
$18.99
Bitter PB
Emezi, Akwaeke

  Staff Pick

From National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi comes a companion novel to PET that explores both the importance and cost of social revolution--and how youth lead the way.

Bitter is an aspiring artist who has been invited to cultivate her talents at a special school in...

Item No. 9780593309063
$12.99
Blanca & Roja
McLemore, Anna-Marie

Award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore retells Swan Lake in this spellbinding YA story of sisters who are each other's best friends--and worst enemies.

The biggest lie of all is the story you think you already know.

The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters...

Item No. 9781250211637
$10.99
Cemetery Boys
Thomas, Aiden

A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's New York Times-bestselling paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys, described by Entertainment Weekly as "groundbreaking."

Yadriel has...

Item No. 9781250250469
$17.99
Children of Blood and Bone
Adeyemi, Tomi

Instant New York Times Bestseller
TIME Top 100 Fantasy Books of All Time
TIME Best YA Books of All Time
TIME 100: Most Influential People of 2020
New York Times Notable Children's Books of 2018
TIME Top 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2018
...

Item No. 9781250170972
$18.99
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Adeyemi, Tomi

An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick

"Adeyemi has sparked magic once again." --The New York Times


After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to...

Item No. 9781250170996
$19.99
Chime
Billingsley, Franny

  Staff Pick

"Part mystery, part fantasy, this beautifully-written page turner explores guilt, mercy, and love."--New York Times bestselling author Holly Black

Briony has a secret. It is a secret that killed her stepmother, ruined her sister's mind, and will end her life, if anyone were to...

Item No. 9780142420928
$8.99
Clap When You Land
Acevedo, Elizabeth

In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.

Camino Rios...

Item No. 9780062882776
$12.99
Collectors: Stories
Torres Sanchez, Jenny
Winner of the 2024 Michael L. Printz Award
A National Bestseller

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, an anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange and surprising...

Item No. 9780593620281
$19.99
Crank
Hopkins, Ellen
The #1 New York Times bestselling tale of addiction--the first in the Crank trilogy--from master poet Ellen Hopkins.

Life was good
before I
met
the monster.


After,
life
was great, ...

Item No. 9781442471818
$12.99
Darius the Great is Not Okay PB
Khorram, Adib
Darius doesn't think he'll ever be enough, in America or in Iran. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this unforgettable debut introduces a brilliant new voice in contemporary YA.

Winner of the William C. Morris Debut Award

"Heartfelt, tender, and so utterly real. I'd live in this book...

Item No. 9780525552970
$10.99
Dear Martin
Stone, Nic
Powerful, wrenching." -JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down

Raw and gripping. -JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys

A must-read!" -ANGIE THOMAS, #1 New...

Item No. 9781101939529
$9.99
Dread Nation PB
Ireland, Justina

New York Times bestseller; 6 starred reviews!

At once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar--a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads...

Item No. 9780062570611
$11.99
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega (Softcover)
Maldonado, Crystal
Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though.

A NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD WINNER!

Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat.

People sometimes have a problem with that last...

Item No. 9780823451319
$12.99
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
Maldonado, Crystal
Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard.

Harder when your whole life is on fire, though.

A New England Book Award Winner!

Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat.

People sometimes have...

Item No. 9780823447176
$18.99
Felix Ever After PB
Callender, Kacen


A Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time

From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the...

Item No. 9780062820266
$15.99