New Arrivals for Teens! | June 2025
Roll for Love by M.K. England | Harper returns to her childhood farm and reconnects with Ollie, her childhood best friend and first crush through a D&D campaign, but their growing romantic tension complicates Ollie's desire to keep her bisexuality private and Harper's struggle to stay true to herself. (Romance)
Summer Girls by Jennifer Dugan | Cass, a teen girl whose beachside town is being gentrified by wealthy vacationers, falls in love with the daughter of a real estate developer. (Romance)
You Started It by Jackie Khalilieh | 17-year-old Jamie Taher-Foster has big plans for senior year. She's made a list of things and places in Toronto she and her boyfriend of three years, Ben Cameron, need to check off before graduating. And the biggest plan of all: a very special night for the two of them at the upcoming Winter Formal. But then Ben arrives back home after a summer away with an unthinkable announcement: he wants to break up. And when Jamie discovers him with Olivia Chen the next day, she is determined to get him back. Even if that means fake dating the younger, curly-haired, TikTok dancer Axel Dahin. (Romance)
Hangry Hearts by Jennifer Chen | Julie and Randall, former best friends turned rivals due to their feuding families, reconnect while working on a community-service project, leading to rekindled feelings and secret dates, but their budding romance is threatened when their families discover their secret. (Romance)
I Can’t Even Think Straight by Dean Atta | Kai is going into a new school year with some big decisions to make: when to come out as gay, what he wants to do in life, and who he wants to date. Is it any wonder he can't think straight? Best friends Matt and Kai made a promise to each other to stay in the closet. Matt isn't ready to come out, but Kai wants nothing more than to write his own story. He decides it's time to break his promise and show his true self to the world. Now out and proud, Kai starts dating super-hot Obi, but it's far from smooth sailing. Is love closer to home than Kai realizes? (Fiction)
Let Them Stare by Jonathan Van Ness and Julie Murphy | Sully, a gender-nonconforming 18-year-old, is trapped in the small town of Hearst, Pennsylvania after his internship gets cancelled. When they find a vintage bag at the resale shop, they realize they can resell it and afford to move to the city, but as they try to authenticate the bag, Sully finds himself haunted. The ghost of Rufus, a drag performer from the fifties starts Sully on an investigation into the history of the small town he so desperately wants to leave. (Fiction)
Run Like a Girl by Amaka Egbe | Dera Edwards knows her life is over when she's shipped off to live with her estranged father in the middle of White Suburbia. To make matters worse, Dera learns that her new school doesn’t have a girls’ track team, shattering her dreams of getting a track scholarship and, one day, competing in the Olympics. Not one to give up easily, Dera joins the boys’ team instead. But while she has the school administration’s blessing, her new teammates and classmates are less than welcoming. Between that and her frustratingly distant father, Dera is positive her junior year is ruined. Just as she starts to accept her status as an outsider, Dera’s approached by her classmate Rosalyn, who wants to feature Dera’s story in her blog. Eager to change the narrative and spend more time with Rosalyn's gorgeous cousin Gael—also known as one of the few teammates who will talk to her—Dera agrees. But when she goes viral and gains attention across the state, Dera’s new notoriety opens the door for trolls both online and at school. (Fiction)
Your Final Moments by Jay Coles | Hakeem goes to Narcotics Anonymous meetings to keep his addictions in check. But when his best friend Miles kills himself, Hakeem finds the days harder and harder to get through. He loved Miles—maybe even loved loved him—and he's haunted by the fact that there might have been something he could have done to ease his friend's pain. He meets a girl named Eliza in his NA meetings, and she is there for him when sometime truly out-there happens... Hakeem calls Miles's old phone number. And Miles not only calls back from beyond the grave, but has news to share: he didn’t kill himself. He was murdered. (Fiction)
All We Lost Was Everything by Sloan Harlow | After the tragic loss of her father in a house fire, 18-year-old River Santos feels stuck, but when new revelations about the fire emerge, she must confront painful truths about her past, relationships both new and old, and a dangerous revenge plot that may be lurking closer than she thinks. (Thriller)
When We Go Missing by April Henry | After discovering a camera memory card with hundreds of photos of teenage girls, 17-year-olds Willow and Dare set out to find some of them, who have gone missing. (Mystery)
No Place Left to Hide by Megan Lally | To Brooke, image is everything. She works hard to maintain perfect grades, perfect looks, a perfect life—especially after 'the incident' that threatened it all. Getting into her dream university puts her that much closer to a fresh start. How can she say no to celebrating with all her classmates? Hanging out with her crush by the bonfire is the perfect end to the night. Except it isn't the end. An old truck starts aggressively tailing Brooke and her best friend on the isolated road toward home. Someone thinks they know the truth about 'the incident,' and they won't stop until it's all out in the open. (Thriller)
Needy Little Things by Channelle Desamours | 17-year-old Sariyah, who can sense people's immediate needs, must use her ability to solve her friend's mysterious disappearance while dealing with family challenges and avoiding the same danger that befell her friend. (Mystery)
Honeysuckle and Bone by Trisha Tobias | On the run from her own dark secrets, a teen girl becomes the nanny for a prestigious family on their extravagant Jamaican estate—but things aren't quite as they seem, and she quickly discovers even paradise may be haunted. (Horror)
They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran | In Mercy, Louisiana, a town plagued by red algae and vanishing residents, Noon finds a reluctant ally in Covey and the two join forces to hunt a deadly creature in the dark waters as a storm looms. (Horror)
Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel | Xavier Oaks doesn't particularly want to go to the cabin with his dad and his dad's pregnant new wife, Nia. But family obligations are family obligations, and it's only for a short time. So he leaves his mom, his brother, and his other friends behind for a week in the woods. Only one morning he wakes up and the house isn't where it was before. It's like it's been lifted and placed somewhere else. When Xavier, his dad, and Nia go explore, they find they are inside a dome, trapped. And there's no one else around—until, three years later, another family arrives. (Science Fiction)
Don’t Let Me Go by Kevin Christopher Snipes | From acclaimed author Kevin Christopher Snipes comes a moving romance about two star-crossed boys trapped in a millennium-spanning cycle of reincarnation whose only hope of escape may be a price that neither is willing to pay. (Science Fiction)
A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim | A breathtaking romantic fantasy inspired by Beauty and the Beast about a girl who paints the future and a cursed dragon lord, bound by love and deception in a plot to bring down the gods. From the New York Times bestselling author of Six Crimson Cranes! (Fantasy)
His Face Is the Sun by Michelle Jabès Corpora | Four strangers connected by a forgotten oracle must work together to save their divided kingdom from destruction amidst the brewing conflict and struggle for the pharaoh's throne. (Fantasy)
To Shatter the Night by Katherine Quinn (Mistlands #2) | After escaping the mist, Kiara and Jude are pursued by a vengeful god hell-bent on stopping them from breaking the curse that torments the realm, in this sequel to the highly anticipated debut YA fantasy, To Kill a Shadow. (Fantasy)
Spell of the Sinister by Danielle Paige (A Fairy Godmother #2) | Told in alternating voices, Bari embarks on a quest to find another prince and take over a queendom, while Farrow seeks a peaceful resolution between the humans and fairy godmothers. (Fantasy)
Rainbow! Vol. 2 by Sunny and Gloomy | Teenager Boo Meadows's story continues in this second volume! With pink hair and a very vivid imagination, Boo has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl. In reality, she has a complicated home life, work stress, school stress, and a wicked crush on the girl of her dreams. After life became too toxic to endure, Boo has moved out of her alcoholic mother's house. Can Boo and Mimi stick together? And is dealing with Mimi's unapproving mother any better than Boo's mom? (Graphic Novel)
Trans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett | What does “trans” mean, and what does it mean to be trans? Diversity in human sex and gender is not a modern phenomenon, as readers will discover through illustrated stories and records that introduce historical figures ranging from the controversial Roman emperor Elagabalus to the swashbuckling seventeenth-century conquistador Antonio de Erauso to veterans of the Stonewall uprising Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. (Graphic Novel)
Renegade Girls written by Nora Neus, illustrated by Julie Robine | A swoonworthy queer romance set against a riveting story of social change in the 1880s, this historical graphic novel reimagines the life of Nell Nelson, America’s first stunt girl—a young undercover reporter—and her whirlwind summer of romance and fighting injustice. (Graphic Novel)
Dan in Green Gables written by Rey Terciero, illustrated by Claudia Aguirre | Abandoned to live with his grandparents in rural Tennessee, fifteen-year-old Dan adjusts to working on the farm, starting high school, and being queer in a conservative community in this modern reimagining of Anne of Green Gables. (Graphic Novel)
Hick: The Trailblazing Journalist Who Captured Eleanor Roosevelt’s Heart by Sarah Miller | In this riveting YA nonfiction set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, trace Lorena Hickok—or Hick's—rise from devastating childhood to renowned journalist, and watch as she forms the most significant friendship and romantic relationship of her life with first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. (Nonfiction)
Fight AIDS!: How Activism, Art, and Protest Changed the Course of a Deadly Epidemic and Reshaped a Nation by Michael G. Long | Tracing the history of the LGBTQ+ community from the Stonewall Riots and “gay liberation” movements to the groundbreaking protests of the 1980s and 1990s, Fight AIDS! is a gripping narrative of the AIDS epidemic for young readers, told through the lens of the activism it fostered. (Nonfiction)
A Most Perilous World by Kristina R. Gaddy | Flowers in the Gutter author Kristina R. Gaddy tells the story of America’s tumultuous years leading up to the Civil War and of the war itself from the viewpoints of four children of famous abolitionists, including those of Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. Gaddy crafts a surprisingly contemporary coming-of-age narrative, supported by meticulous research and featuring dozens of primary documents. Each of these four young people—two white, two Black—was strongly committed to the anti-slavery cause but felt just as keenly a need to make their own names, away from the often over-protective or disapproving shadows of the famous adults in their lives. (Nonfiction)
The Mysterious Virginia Hall: World War II’s Most Dangerous Spy by Claudia Friddell | How did a young lady from a wealthy family in Maryland end up as the Gestapo’s most wanted spy? With chapters titled for each of the many aliases and nicknames used by Virginia Hall, World War II’s most successful female spy, this book takes readers through her extraordinary life and her evolution as a resistance fighter and intelligence operative. (Nonfiction)