These are just some of the new teen fiction books available this summer. To place a hold, select the title link.
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Prodigal Tiger / Samantha Chong
Eighteen-year-old Caroline Chua returns home to Penang to help find her missing brother and ends up in an epic battle with ghosts for control of the island.
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Breakout / Dhonelle Clayton
For Thurgood Marshall Academy’s best and brightest—five friends who’ve been thick as thieves since kindergarten—this spring break is all about forgetting: they want nothing more than to wash away last year’s tragedy, and the human-shaped hole it left in their friend group. It’s a hole the new kid, Anthony Brooks, seems to fit right into. So when he invites the Five to join him on a private island for a week at his dad’s luxury resort, they agree with zero hesitation. No one’s counting on a freak tropical storm swooping in and killing the vibe. And speaking of killing, they’re also ill-prepared for the mounting collection of dead bodies… including (another) one of their own. As their dream trip unravels, everything they tried to leave behind—secrets, lies, betrayals, dead best friends—seems to be washing up on the shore of their lives for everyone to see. Will any of them make it out alive?
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As I Dream of You / Jennifer Lee
(Graphic Novel) Falling in love is supposed to hurt. That’s what Franny and Sam, two cynical teenagers raised on tales of heartbreak and loss, have come to understand. Yet when they fall for each other, they find the reality of love is something else entirely: it’s electrifying, all-encompassing, and easy. Theirs is a love that can conquer anything…perhaps even death. But Franny and Sam’s quest to stay together—no matter the cost—soon blurs the line between reality and fantasy, and their shared dream threatens to turn into a nightmare.
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If We Never End / Laura Taylor Namey
Sylvie Castellano is used to goodbyes. Every summer, her friends leave to vacation at faraway beaches and her parents jet off to work on a luxury yacht, dumping her with her tia Vivian. Sylvie may love her aunt Viv, but just once, she wishes the summer held a big adventure for her, too. When Sylvie scores the thrift find of a lifetime—a vintage gold watch worth thousands—she thinks maybe her luck is turning around. Then a turn of the watch’s dial summons a ghost boy. With no idea who he is or why he’s attached to the watch and only his name (Penn) to go off of Sylvie offers to help him unravel the mystery of his death. Sylvie’s summer is suddenly full of road trips, beach bonfires, and Ferris wheel rides as she and Penn try to piece together the life he lost. But soon, Sylvie begins to imagine a future together-a future they can never have. Then a devastating discovery brings everything crashing down. The watch’s secrets extend far beyond Penn, and it’s not only Sylvie’s heart at risk, but her life.
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Her Hidden Fire / Cliodhna O’Sullivan
In a world where magic is an elite privilege, Éadha, a servant girl in Ailm’s Keep, secretly uses her formidable ability to save the boy she loves, Ionáin, the heir expected to wield magic, from exile, risking everything to survive an academy built on lies, patriarchy, and the brutal cost of magic.
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According to Plan / Christen Randall
Being editor of the school’s literary magazine was part of high school senior Mal’s plan to escape their small town, where as a fat, queer person with ADHD, they’ve never fit in, but when budget cuts shut down the magazine, Mal discovers working on a zine and spending time with Emerson could be somewhere they belong. -
Someday Perfect / Kat Schneider
In this beautiful graphic novel, a teen is tested when she falls for another camper at a Christian sleepaway camp, sparking feelings she was taught to suppress. As she grapples with the rigid expectations of her faith, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery that challenges her deepest beliefs.
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The October Girl / Matthew Dow Smith
(Graphic Novel) Autumn Ackerman grew up believing in fairies and magic and princesses who defeated dragons, but now that she’s eighteen and facing a future stuck behind the counter of her small town’s coffee shop, she’s starting to wonder if this is all there really is to her life. But then she meets her childhood imaginary friend, Barnaby, in the alley behind the coffee shop one night. Autumn’s entire world is turned upside down. Drawn into the strange and mysterious world of the Night Folk, fantastic creatures that inspired all of humanity’s myths about gods and monsters, Autumn is about to discover that there is more to her world than she ever dreamed of as a little girl, and that world is far more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. With the help of Barnaby and Evan Fade, the tragic young boy who inherited the local bookstore, Autumn has to protect herself from the coldly terrifying Mr. Balloon long enough to discover the truth about the Night Folk and her own past.
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