by Tom Crosshill
This smart and witty debut treads a colorful coming-of-age journey from New York City to Havana, featuring dance parties, unrequited love, and catrobatics.
The Cat King of Havana
Category Archives: New Young Adult Books
Unscripted Joss Byrd: A Novel
by Lygia Day Penaflor
Joss Byrd is America’s most celebrated young actress but she struggles to find herself on a film set where all that matters is what she’s not prepared to do.
Gemini
by Sonya Mukherjee
Sisters Clara and Hailey are cojoined twins. As high school graduation approaches, each must untangle her dreams from her sister’s and figure out what it means to be her own person.
A World Without You
by Beth Revis
After the unexpected loss of his girlfriend, a teenage boy suffering from delusions is convinced that he can travel through time to save her.
Before We Go Extinct: A Novel
by Karen Rivers
Sharky, devastated by the death of his best friend, is sent to stay with his father on an abandoned island. There, he meets a girl who shows him how to live-and love-again.
Lucky Strikes
by Louis Bayard
Melia and her two young siblings are newly orphaned, but there’s little time to morn. It’s the depression and there’s a family business to run, so Melia has to find them a stand in father– and fast.
The Inn Between
by Marina Cohen
After suffering a terrible loss, Quinn is unprepared for her best friend, Kara, to move away. She accompanies Kara’s family on one trip, which takes a creepy turn at a strange Victorian inn.
Girl In The Blue Coat
by Monica Hesse
1943: Hanneke’s job–delivering black-market goods in German-occupied Amsterdam–is already risky. She shouldn’t agree to help a client locate a missing Jewish girl…but she does.
Wink Poppy Midnight
by April Genevieuve Tucholke
Poppy is the bullying queen bee. Wink is the whimsical neighbor. Midnight is the boy left wondering how his prank with Wink caused Poppy to vanish-and whether they’ll ever find her.
The Bitter Side of Sweet
by Tara Sullivan
Ivory Coast: The fiery new girl at the cacao farm where Amadou and Seydou are enslaved doesn’t follow the brothers’ survival tactics. Instead, she entangles then in her risky plan for escape.
