Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renee Watson. Kokila, 96 pg.

Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, Oregon, tender odes to the Black women in her life, and urgent calls for Black girls to step into their power.

Non-Fiction/Poetry

Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo. Make Me A World, 384 pg.

Samira is determined to have a perfect summer filled with fun parties, exploring DC, and growing as a poet—until a scandalous rumor has her grounded and unable to leave her house. When Samira turns to a poetry forum for solace, she catches the eye of an older, charismatic poet named Horus. For the first time, Samira feels wanted. But soon she’s keeping a bigger secret than ever before—one that could prove her reputation and jeopardize her place in her community.

Realistic/Romance

Call Me Iggy by Jorge Aguirre. First Second, 256 pg.

Ignacio "Iggy" Garcia is an Ohio-born Colombian American teen living his best life. After bumping into Marisol (and her coffee) at school, Iggy's world is spun around. But Marisol has too much going on to be bothered with the likes of Iggy. She has school, work, family, and the uphill battle of getting her legal papers. As Iggy stresses over how to get Marisol to like him, his grandfather comes to the rescue. The thing is, not only is his abuelito dead, but he also gives terrible love advice.

Realistic/Romance

Casters and Crowns by Elizabeth Lowham. Shadow Mountain, 384 pg.

Crown Princess Aria is dealt a terrible curse: Over the course of one hundred days, she will be unable to sleep, her body and mind doomed to waste away. And then the curse will pass to her sister, until every member of the King’s line is dead. Aria’s best hope for breaking her curse is to seek help from another Caster—the handsome and charming Baron Reeves. She vows not to be fooled by his dimpled smiles or his devotion to his brothers, but as she spends more time with him, she discovers that her heart has other ideas.

Romance/Fantasy

A Cat From Our World and the Forgotten Witch (Vol. 1) by Hiro Kashiwaba. Seven Seas, 168 pg.

In her youth, Jeanne was a powerful witch who vanquished the evil Demon King and saved the world—but over time, the people she rescued have forgotten her. Now she is a lonely old woman living in a secluded forest...until she accidentally summons a cat from Earth to her home! The former city kitty is now gigantic and must acclimate to this new world. Can a cat from another world soothe the loneliness of the forgotten witch?

Fantasy/Manga

The Dare by Natasha Preston. Delacorte Press, 368 pg.

As senior year comes to an end, senior pranks are just beginning. It all starts innocently enough. Marley and her friends—Atlas, Lucia, and Jesse—egg houses, set chickens free on the quad, and fill the principal’s office with glitter-filled balloons. But when Jesse accepts a dare to drive danger alley, a ten-mile stretch of winding road that’s notorious for car wrecks, with no headlights, things take a turn for the worst.

Mystery/Thriller

Darker By Four by June C.L. Tan. HarperTeen, 400 pg.

Rui has one goal in mind—honing her magic to avenge her mother’s death. Yiran is the black sheep of an illustrious family. The world would be at his feet—had he been born with magic. Nikai is a Reaper, serving the Fourth King of Hell. When his master disappears, the underworld begins to crumble... and the human world will be next if the King is not found. When an accident causes Rui’s power to transfer to Yiran, everything turns upside down. Without her magic, Rui has no tool for vengeance. With it, Yiran finally feels like he belongs. That is, until Rui discovers she might hold the key to the missing death god and strikes a dangerous bargain with another King.

Fantasy

Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson. HarperCollins, 384 pg.

The fire wasn’t Marlowe Wexler’s fault. Akilah, the girl Marlowe has been in love with for years, will never go out with her again. No one dates an accidental arsonist. With her house-sitting career up in flames, it seems the universe owes Marlowe a new summer job, and that’s how she ends up at Morning House, a mansion built on an island in the 1920s and abandoned shortly thereafter. It’s easy enough, giving tours. There’s a low risk of fire and a high chance of getting bored talking about stained glass and nut cutlets and Prohibition. Oh, and the deaths. Did anyone mention the deaths?

Mystery/Thriller

Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce. Delacorte Press, 304 pg.

Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway. But when Riley takes her mom’s car without permission, she's grounded and stuck with the worst punishment: spending her after-school hours working at her dad’s game shop. Riley can't waste her time working when she has a musical to save, so she convinces Nathan—a nerdy teen employee—to cover her shifts and, in exchange, she’ll flirt with him to make his gamer-girl crush jealous. Riley didn’t realize that meant joining Nathan's Dungeons & Dragons game...or that role playing would be so fun.

Romance

Full Shift by Jennifer Dugan and Kit Seaton. G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, 256 pg.

High school senior Tessa doesn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, where she can't figure out how to confess the feelings she's had for her best friend Maddie since the fourth grade. And definitely not at home, where the rest of her family of werewolves make her feel like an outcast because she can't even shift into her full wolf form yet. When word gets out that a group of werewolf hunters has infiltrated her pack's territory, and that they've developed a treatment that can make werewolves become human, Tessa thinks she's found the answer to her problems.

Fantasy/Graphic

Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery by Christine Mari. Little Brown Ink, 304 pg.

Christine has always felt she is just half American, half Japanese. As a biracial-Japanese American who was born in Tokyo but raised in the US, she knows all too well what it’s like to be a part of two different worldsbut never feeling as though you belong to either. Now on the brink of adulthood, she sets forth on a year abroad in Tokyo, believing that this is where she truly belongs. After years of feeling like an outsider, now she will finally be complete. Except...Tokyo isn’t the answer she thought it would be.

Non-Fiction/Graphic

Heartless Hunter: The Crimson Moth Duology, Book 1 by Kristen Ciccarelli. Wednesday Books, 406 pg.

Spending her days pretending to be nothing more than a vapid young socialite, Rune spends her nights as the Crimson Moth, a witch vigilante who rescues her kind from being purged. When a rescue goes wrong, she decides to throw the witch hunters off her scent and gain the intel she desperately needs by courting the handsome Gideon Sharpe – a notorious and unforgiving witch hunter loyal to the revolution – who she can't help but find herself falling for.

Fantasy/Romance

I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang. Scholastic Press, 320 pg.

Sadie Wen is perfect on paper: school captain, valedictorian, and a "pleasure to have in class." It’s not easy, but she has a trick, she channels all her frustrations into her email drafts. All her most vehemently worded emails are directed at her co-captain, Julius Gong, whose arrogance and competitive streak have irked Sadie since they were kids. Sadie doesn't have to hold back in her emails, because nobody will ever read them... that is, until they're accidentally sent out. Overnight, Sadie’s carefully crafted, conflict-free life is turned upside down. But amidst the chaos, there's one person growing to appreciate the "real" Sadie -- Julius, the only boy she's sworn to hate.

Romance

The Kill Factor by Ben Oliver. Chicken House, 368 pg.

Fifty contestants. Five challenges. One winner. Contestants are sent to a maximum-security reform camp on an island where they can have no contact with the outside world. The most popular young offender with the most upvotes by the end is given both a second chance in society and a cash prize. This kind of money could mean everything to Emerson and her family. But what Emerson doesn’t know, and what the viewers don’t know, is that the prison on the island is empty. Those who lose, those who are voted off aren’t incarcerated, and each challenge will leave more and more contestants to die. The only choice they have is to win over viewers before it’s too late.

Horror/Thriller

Last Summer Before Whatever Happens Next by Bee Burke. Islandport Press, 240 pg.

It’s the summer of 1980-something, and valedictorian Claire Hart has nothing to do. She can’t believe her luck when she’s swept up in the storied world of the Tooheys, heirs to a plumbing fortune and the richest, quirkiest family in Keech Harbor, Maine. As she follows the Toohey clan from one party to another, she starts to feel like she belongs somewhere other than in the library with her nose in a book. But perfection isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and Claire has to decide whether she wants to live a perfect life—or one that’s perfect for her, whatever that may be.

Realistic

The Lies We Conjure by Sarah Henning. Tor Teen, 400 pg.

Ruby and her sister, Wren, are normal, middle-class Colorado high school students working a summer job to supplement their meager college savings. So when an old lady asks them to impersonate her long-absent grandchildren at a fancy dinner party at the jaw-dropping rate of two grand―each―for a single night, Wren insists it’s a no-brainer. But less than an hour into the evening at the mysterious Hegemony Manor the hostess is dead, the gates are locked, and a magical curse ensures no one can leave until they solve both her murder and the riddles she left behind―in just three days. Because everyone else at this party is a powerful witch. What happens if the witches realize Ruby and Wren are imposters? The sisters won’t make it out of Hegemony Manor alive.

Mystery/Thriller/Fantasy

Stay Dead by April Henry. Christy Ottaviano Books, 313 pg.

In the aftermath of a car accident that claimed the life of her senator father, sixteen-year-old Milan finds herself adrift, expelled from her third boarding school. On their way home, their plane crashes in the mountains. In her final moments, Milan’s mother entrusts her with a key. She reveals it will unlock the evidence that so many people have already died for—including Milan’s father. Milan is forced to navigate a perilous descent in freezing conditions while outwitting everything from a drone to wild animals. With relentless assassins on her trail, she must untangle the web of deceit and save herself and countless others.

Mystery/Thriller

Sunderworld : The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry (Sunderworld #1) by Ransom Riggs. Dutton Books for Young Readers, 336 pg.

Seventeen-year-old Leopold Berry is seeing weird things around Los Angeles. Every hallucinatory moment seems plucked from a cheesy 1990s fantasy TV show called Max's Adventures in Sunderworld—and that’s because they are. In the blurry weeks after his mother’s death, a young Leopold discovered VHS tapes of its one and only season in a box headed for the trash—and soon became obsessed. But when the strange visions return—at the worst possible time on the worst possible day—Leopold turns to his best friend Emmet for help. Together they discover that Sunder is much more than just an old TV show, and that Los Angeles is far stranger than they ever imagined. And soon he’ll realize that not only is Sunderworld real, but it’s in grave danger.

Fantasy

That’s Not My Name by Megan Lally. Sourcebooks Fire, 297 pg.

Shivering and bruised, a teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there―or who she is. A passing officer takes her to the police station, and not long after, a frantic man arrives. He's been searching for her for hours. He has her school ID, her birth certificate, and even family photos. He is her father. Her name is Mary. Or so he says.

Mystery

We Are Big Time by Hena Khan. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 240 pg.

Aliya’s still excited to have teammates (although the team's captain, Noura, isn't really Aliya's biggest fan), and their new coach really understands basketball (even if she doesn't know much about being Muslim). This season should be a blast...if they could just start to win. As they strengthen their skills on the court, Aliya and the Peace Academy team discover that it takes more than talent to be great--it's teamwork and self-confidence that defines true success.

Graphic/Sports

Where Wolves Don’t Die by Anton Treuer. Levine Querido, 256 pg.

Ezra Cloud hates living in Northeast Minneapolis. His father is a professor of their language, Ojibwe, at a local college, so they have to be there. He hates being away from the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation. And he hates the local bully in his neighborhood, Matt Schroeder, who terrorizes Ezra and his friend Nora George. Ezra gets into a terrible fight with Matt at school defending Nora, and that same night, Matt's house burns down. Instantly, Ezra becomes a prime suspect. Knowing he won't get a fair deal, and knowing his innocence, Ezra's family sends him away to run traplines with his grandfather in a remote part of Canada, while the investigation is ongoing. But the Schroeders are looking for him. . .

Mystery