New Arrivals for Teens! | May 2025
While We’re Young by K.L. Walther | On a senior skip day in Philadelphia, four friends navigate tangled relationships, secrets, and broken hearts as they attempt to mend their bonds and find love amidst an epic adventure around the city. (Romance)
Love Points to You by Alice Lin | A swoony romance between driven, practical Lynda Fan and her rich, arrogant classmate, Angela Wu. When Angela offers Lynda the chance to design characters for her otome game, Lynda discovers things she never knew about herself…or her heart. (Romance)
Run Away with Me by Brian Selznick | A profoundly romantic YA novel about two boys finding each other and falling in love over one summer in Rome. (Romance)
Nav’s Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love by Jessica Lewis | Nav knows how to flirt, but she also knows love is a messy losing proposition. As proof, her best friend, Hallie, is constantly getting her heart broken. And when Hallie goes to her boring academic camp this summer, Nav won't be there to protect her for the first time in their lives. So when shy new girl Gia asks Nav for help getting Hallie's attention, Nav finds a way to make it work for her. In exchange for lessons in romance, Gia, whose mom runs the camp, will help get Nav a spot there. And if her coaching works, maybe Hallie can date someone who will treat her right for a change. (Romance)
This Thing of Ours by Frederick Joseph | Ossie Brown's entire future is in jeopardy when a torn ACL ends his promising basketball career. Now Ossie must navigate his new place in the social and academic ecosystems of his affluent, predominantly white school. When a Black teacher encourages him to join her highly regarded writing program, Ossie begins to find a new purpose, but everything changes when some students' viral 'anti-woke' video puts the teacher's job, the writing program, and even Ossie's friends' safety at risk. (Fiction)
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe by Mahogany L. Browne | In this poignant mixed voice, mixed form collection of interconnected prose, poems and stories, teen characters, their families, and their communities grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst fear and loss, these New York City teens prevail with love, resilience and hope. (Fiction)
Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray | It was said that if you write to the Bridegroom’s Oak, the love of your life will answer back. Now, the tree is giving up its secrets at last as three timelines converge to unveil the mysterious disappearance of two girls during World War II. (Historical Fiction)
Nahia by Emily Jones | A sweeping romantic epic set in the wild and dangerous world of prehistoric Europe! When eighteen-year-old Headwoman's daughter Nahia is exiled for speaking an inconvenient truth about her people, an apprenticeship with a shaman offers her the chance to try and save them again—if she can. (Historical Fiction)
Murder Between Friends by Liz Lawson | Told in three voices, Grace questions her eyewitness testimony that convicted Henry's brother in a murder trial, leaving former childhood friends Henry and Ally no choice but to join forces with her to prove Jake's innocence. (Mystery)
Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala | When a high school tarot reader’s latest client goes missing after a troubling reading, she must apply everything she’s learned from her private investigator mother to solve a case of her own. (Mystery)
The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum | Hollis lives in a rotting small town where no one can afford to leave. After unknowingly making a deal at the crossroads, Hollis finds himself losing control of his body and mind, falling victim to possession. Walt, the ghost making a home inside him, has a deep and violent history rooted in the town Hollis grew up in and he has unfinished business to take care of. As Walt and Hollis begin working together to put Walt's spirit to rest, an unspeakable bond forms between them, and the boys begin falling for one another in unexpected ways. (Horror)
Deadstream by Mar Romasco-Moore | After surviving a car accident that killed her best friend, Teresa finds solace in an online community, but when a mysterious figure appears in a streamer's video and begins causing deaths, she must confront her fears and venture outside to stop the entity before it claims more lives. (Horror)
Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven | Evelyn, who remembers each of her past lives in which she is always murdered before her eighteenth birthday by Arden, a supernatural being to whom she is tethered, must break their deadly curse to save her sister while resisting the pull of forbidden love. (Fantasy)
Love at Second Sight by F.T. Lukens | Fifteen-year-old Cam Reynolds, a human at a paranormal high school, discovers his rare ability to see the future when he has a vision of a murder, prompting him and his friends to work together to stop the killer before time runs out. (Science Fiction)
The Singular Life of Aria Patel by Samira Ahmed | Struggling to cope with her father's death and a recent breakup, eighteen-year-old Aria's life becomes infinitely more complicated when she falls through the multiverse, and with the help of a poem, she discovers truths about herself as she journeys through different universes to find her way back home. (Science Fiction)
Meet Me at Blue Hour by Sarah Suk | Childhood friends Yena and Lucas reconnect during a summer in Busan, South Korea and Yena tries to figure out why Lucas has no memories of her anymore. (Science Fiction)
Watch Me by Tahereh Mafi (Shatter Me: The New Republic #1) | Lose yourself in this exhilarating return to the #1 global bestselling Shatter Me universe. Ten years since the fall of The Reestablishment, it is ready to make a devastating move, in a journey through a dystopian landscape where enemies-to-lovers has never felt more impossible. (Science Fiction)
Rebel Witch by Kristen Ciccarelli (The Crimson Moth #2) | Betrayed by the boy she loved, Rune Winters allies herself with a dangerous witch to survive, while Gideon, torn between his lingering feelings for her and his duty to stop the witches, faces an impossible choice between love and saving the world he fought for. (Fantasy)
The Survivor Wants to Die at the End by Adam Silvera (Death-Cast #2) | In this third book of the USA Today and #1 New York Times bestselling They Both Die at the End series, two strangers—each with their own complicated relationship to Death-Cast—help each other learn to live. This book contains themes that some readers may find difficult. (Science Fiction)
Snowglobe 2 by Soyoung Park, translated by Joungmin Lee Comfort (Snowglobe Duology #2) | Seventeen-year-old Chobahm's discovery of the truth behind the Yibonn Media group sets off a chain of events that exposes dark secrets and raises the temperature, and when she is framed for murder, she must fight to clear her name with the help of Bonwhe, the disgraced Yibonn heir. (Science Fiction)
Brielle and Bear: Once Upon a Time by Salomey Doku | First-year student Brielle, who dreams of living out her fairytale fantasies at Once Upon a Time University, begins to find her dream coming true with a budding romance, only to uncover that she and her new love interest both have secrets. (Graphic Novel)
Dreamover by Dani Diaz | In this captivating debut YA graphic novel, two best friends becoming more than friends feels like a dream come true. But when one sleepover literally turns into a dream, will they ever want to wake up again? (Graphic Novel)
Low Orbit by Kazimir Lee | Fifteen-year-old Azar feels stuck. Her mom’s job forced them to move to Vermont, where Azar doesn't know anyone. Her only friends are the next-door neighbors: an aging sci-fi writer and his nonbinary teen, Tristan, fellow misfits in the small-town community. For a while, Azar can escape her troubles by disappearing into the pages of her kindly neighbor’s epic novel, The Exiles of Overworld. But when her queerness throws her life out of balance, Azar realizes some secrets can’t be escaped forever. (Graphic Novel)
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Tales from the Pizzaplex Graphic Novel Collection, Vol. 1 written by Scott Cawthon and Andrea Waggener; adapted by Christopher Hastings; illustrated by Diana Camero, Coryn Macpherson, and Macky Pamintaun; and letters by Taylor Esposito | In this volume, three stories from the Publishers Weekly bestselling series Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex come to life in delightfully horrifying comics. Readers, this collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans... (Graphic Novel)
Dogsred, Vol. 1 by Satoru Noda | After winning the national championship, 15-year-old figure skater Rou Shirakawa was on his way to the Olympics. But with his mother’s tragic death on his mind, he threw it all away in an outburst of rage. Banned from figure skating, he and his sister move to Hokkaido. When he meets some local kids at the skating pond, they convince him to be a stand-in player for their soon-to-be-disbanded hockey team. The team has never won a game, and they’re up against the local champs—but if they’ve got to go down, they want to score at least one goal before it’s all over. Rou hasn’t got a clue how to play ice hockey, but he sure knows how to skate! (Manga)
Disney Twisted-Wonderland: The Manga - Book of Savanaclaw, Vol. 1 original concept by Yana Toboso, story and art by Suzuka Oda | High school student Yu finds himself at Night Raven College, a school for magic users, where the staff and students are getting ready for the interdormitory Spelldrive tournament. It sounds fun, but Yu soon learns that intensity, intrigue, and fierce competitiveness abound! (Manga)
Not So Shoujo Love Story, Vol. 1 by Curryuku | School delinquent and manga super-fan Rei has a crush on Hansum, the most popular boy in school, but her plans are derailed when her main rival for his affections, star classmate Hanna, suddenly confesses her feelings for Rei. (Manga)
Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers’ Rights edited by Ashley Hope Pérez | A dazzling YA anthology that spotlights the transformative power of books while equipping teens to fight for the freedom to read, featuring the voices of 15 diverse, award-winning authors and illustrators. (Nonfiction)