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Nothing Burns as Bright as You

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.

   
Nothing Burns as Bright as You

Ashley Woodfolk
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Woodfol)

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.


YA Novels in Verse

Thirty Talks Weird Love

In Cuidad Juárez, Mexico in 1999, where kidnapping of girls and women is common, a woman approaches thirteen-year-old Anamaria claiming to be her future self, offering advice and requesting help.

   
Thirty Talks Weird Love

Alessandra Narváez-Varela
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Narvaez)

In Cuidad Juárez, Mexico in 1999, where kidnapping of girls and women is common, a woman approaches thirteen-year-old Anamaria claiming to be her future self, offering advice and requesting help.


YA Novels in Verse

The Name She Gave Me

Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family.

   
The Name She Gave Me

Betty Culley
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Culley)

Rynn was born with a hole in her heart--literally. Although it was fixed long ago, she still feels an emptiness there when she wonders about her birth family. As her relationship with her adoptive mother fractures, Rynn finally decides she needs to know more about the rest of her family.


YA Novels in Verse

Baby Teeth

It starts when Claudia offers Immy a yellow rose. Immy has been in love before; many times, across many lifetimes. But never as deeply, as intensely as this. Claudia has never been in love this before either. But then, this is her first time with a vampire.

   
Baby Teeth

Meg Grehan
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Grehan)

It starts when Claudia offers Immy a yellow rose. Immy has been in love before; many times, across many lifetimes. But never as deeply, as intensely as this. Claudia has never been in love this before either. But then, this is her first time with a vampire.


YA Novels in Verse

Notes from My Captivity

Adrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting into a great college, becoming a revered journalist like her idol, and making her late father proud of her. So when Adrienne is offered the chance to write an article that will get her into her dream school, there's no question that she's going to fly across the world. But the Russian terrain is even less forgiving than Adrienne. And when disaster strikes, none of their extensive preparations seem to matter.

   
Notes from My Captivity

Kathy Parks
(Young Adult - Y Parks)

Adrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting into a great college, becoming a revered journalist like her idol, and making her late father proud of her. So when Adrienne is offered the chance to write an article that will get her into her dream school, there's no question that she's going to fly across the world. But the Russian terrain is even less forgiving than Adrienne. And when disaster strikes, none of their extensive preparations seem to matter. Now, Adrienne's being held captive by the family she was convinced didn't exist, and her best hope for escape is to act like she cares about them, even if it means wooing the youngest son.


YA Magical Realism

The Ten Thousand Doors of January

In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut. In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself.

   
The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Alix E. Harrow
(Science Fiction & Fantasy - SF Harrow)

In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut. In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself.


YA Magical Realism

The Ghosts of Rose Hill

Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an artist, Ilana Lopez—a biracial Jewish girl—finds herself torn between her dream of becoming a violinist and her immigrant parents' desire for her to pursue a more stable career.

   
The Ghosts of Rose Hill

Rachel Maria Romero
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Romero)

Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an artist, Ilana Lopez—a biracial Jewish girl—finds herself torn between her dream of becoming a violinist and her immigrant parents' desire for her to pursue a more stable career.


YA Magical Realism

The Midnight Library

Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices...Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

   
The Midnight Library

Matt Haig
(Science Fiction & Fantasy - SF Haig)

Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices...Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?


YA Magical Realism

The Valley and the Flood

When Rose Colter hears a voicemail from her own phone playing on her car radio, she follows the broadcast to the small town of Lotus Valley, where she discovers that she's the prophesied bringer of a catastrophic flood.

   
The Valley and the Flood

Rebecca Mahoney
(Teen - Y Mahoney)

When Rose Colter hears a voicemail from her own phone playing on her car radio, she follows the broadcast to the small town of Lotus Valley, where she discovers that she's the prophesied bringer of a catastrophic flood.


YA Magical Realism

The Edge of In Between

After the death of her parents, Lottie loses her colorful magic and is sent to the gray wasteland to live with her uncle, but the discovery of a locked-up garden, a wise cardinal, and a hidden boy gives Lottie a second chance at bringing color back into her life.

   
The Edge of In Between

Lorelei Savaryn
(Juvenile Fiction - J Savaryn)

After the death of her parents, Lottie loses her colorful magic and is sent to the gray wasteland to live with her uncle, but the discovery of a locked-up garden, a wise cardinal, and a hidden boy gives Lottie a second chance at bringing color back into her life.


YA Magical Realism

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