Collection: Young Adult

For fans of high school dramedies filled with quirky, lovable characters, comes a comic all about love, acceptance, and navigating the chaos of high school--while keeping your secrets safe.

With his rainbow-colored hair and love of all things fashion, Arcus is anything but your average teenager. It's the start of his sophomore year and Arcus is still trying his best to make lasting friendships (especially with Maud), pass math class, and keep his secret fashion blogger identity concealed, all while staying true to his unique sense of self.

Between hijinks at the zoo, sweet coming-out moments, and a whole lot of unrequited crushes, there's never a dull moment at Apollo High. Everything is leading up to prom at the end of the year, where all the misunderstandings of the year will come to light, and Arcus and his classmates realize they still have a lot to discover about themselves.

This volume collects Season 2 (episodes 43 to 88) of the charming WEBTOON comic Acception.

Break hearts! Break bones! Don't die!

Josie Campbell (Wonder Woman, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) and Alessio Zonno's (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) instantly iconic post-apocalyptic sports romance action extravaganza continues with its biggest adventure yet!

Trini has technically made her dream come true, but doesn't know how to feel about Skull-Crusher...or having to kill her newfound family (and her old teammates) when she plays against them in the Bubble Cities!

Worse, Skull-Crusher's team has a new captain: Marcus the RICH CAPTAIN! But Trini has a new insane dream: She's going to win this tournament without hurting her teammates, and bring them back together as a team!

Trini refuses to believe that there's only room for one at the top, and she's going to win and prove it! But can she survive Queen Mob's shocking new scheme

Collects I Heart Skull-Crusher! #6-10.

Perfect for fans of Tillie Cole and Laura Nowlin, this heartfelt and tearjerking novel starts when a girl embarks on a road trip to find out who her brother, who recently died, really was.

When her brother Luke disappeared one year ago, Ellie thought it was the worst thing that could ever happen to her.

Now Ellie knows better. Because Luke is dead. And all she feels is numb.

But when she receives some of Luke's things in the mail from an address in Michigan, she decides she has to know where her brother went when he disappeared. And she's not the only one who wants answers. She soon finds herself roped into a cross-country road trip with Luke's best friend Wes, Luke's ex-girlfriend Gwen, and Cade, the boy she almost kissed the night Luke ran away.

As they all get closer, Ellie realizes that she might not have known Luke as well as she thought. Was he her loving, golden-boy brother, or did he have secrets of his own?

Us Without You is the perfect read for readers who love:
- Friends-To-Lovers
- Hurt/Comfort
- Grief and Family Trauma
- Found Family
- Road Trips

Amid an upswing in gun violence, increasing suicide rates, and a lack of access to mental health care, many Americans strongly believe the country is in the midst of a mental health crisis. This volume presents a balanced exploration of the contentious issues surrounding mental health access, including opposing viewpoints on who should receive mental health services and disparities based on socioeconomic status and geographic location. Debates over the availability of certain treatments and the potential consequences of inadequate mental health services are explored from different perspectives, weaving together personal narratives and expert opinions. With increased rates of homelessness, incarceration, mass violence, and societal burdens for marginalized communities hinging on the availability of mental health services, this volume takes a close look at this ongoing debate in America.

Jane the
Virgin meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before
in this charming debut romantic comedy filled with Black Girl Magic. Perfect
for fans of Mary H. K. Choi and Nicola Yoon, with crossover appeal for readers
of Jasmine Guillory and Talia Hibbert romances.

Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt
like the protagonist in her own life. She's rarely seen herself reflected in
the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she's a true leading lady
is in her own writing--in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline,
her best friend and #1 devoted reader.

When Tessa is accepted into the creative
writing program of a prestigious art school, she's excited to finally let her
stories shine. But when she goes to her first workshop, the words are
just...gone. Fortunately, Caroline has a solution: Tessa just needs to find
some inspiration in a real-life love story of her own. And she's ready with a
list of romance novel-inspired steps to a happily ever after. Nico, the
brooding artist who looks like he walked out of one of Tessa's stories, is cast
as the perfect Prince Charming.

But as Tessa checks each item off Caroline's
list, she gets further and further away from herself. She risks losing everything
she cares about--including the surprising bond she develops with sweet Sam, who
lives across the street. She's well on her way to having her own real-life love
story, but is it the one she wants, after all?

Embrace Your Teenage Years with Unshakeable Confidence

"This book offers teens and tweens vital tools to help them belief in themselves and thrive." ꟷBecca Anderson, author of Badass Affirmations and The Book of Awesome Girls

In The Ultimate Book of Confidence for Teen Girls, discover transformative self help. Teenage girls are equipped with essential tools to navigate adolescence, embrace their unique selves, and build resilience in this book on confidence (Age 13-18).

Unleash your inner confidence and thrive. This book on confidence empowers teens to build self discipline, cultivate positive thinking, and develop essential life skills. From bettering communication and fostering deep friendships to mastering time management and self-care, this is the ultimate self help teenage girl book. Navigate adolescence with resilience and create an epic life.

A journey of self-discovery and personal growth. This teen girl guidebook covers everything. Build self-discipline, financial literacy, and overcome challenges with grace. With relatable stories and practical tools, this confidence book offers insights that inspire and support teenage girls as they embrace their unique selves, forge their path, and confidently shape their future.

Inside, find:

• Strategies to cultivate positive thinking and overcome self-doubt
• Techniques for bettering communication skills and forming deep friendships
• Valuable resources for shaping a confident and fulfilling future

If you enjoy self-help, teenage girl books like Life Skills for Teens, Teen Girl's Survival Guide, or The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens on the Go, you'll love The Ultimate Book of Confidence for Teen Girls.

A Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
A New York Times Bestseller
Seven starred reviews!

"Jason Reynolds has done it again!...Fresh from start to finish...This is what it could be, should be, if only we were all as lucky as Aria. Girls (and everyone) wait for your Neon!" --Judy Blume, New York Times bestselling author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. and Forever...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds tackles it--you know...it--from the guy's perspective in this stream of consciousness story of a teen boy about to experience a huge first. "Reynolds's foray into romance is as spectacular as expected...Undoubtedly, a story for everyone" (Booklist, starred review).

Twenty-four months ago: Neon gets chased by a dog all around the parking lot of a church. Not his finest moment. And definitely one he would have loved to forget if it weren't for the dog's owner: Aria. Dressed in sweats, a t-shirt, hair in a ponytail. Aria. Way more than fine.

Twenty-four weeks ago: Neon's dad insists on talking to him about tenderness and intimacy. Neon and Aria are definitely in love, and while they haven't taken that next big step...yet, they've starting talking about...that.

Twenty-four days ago: Neon's mom finds her--gulp--bra in his room. Hey! No judging! Those hook thingies are complicated! So he'd figured he'd better practice, what with the big day only a month away.

Twenty-four minutes ago: Neon leaves his shift at work at his dad's bingo hall, making sure to bring some chicken tenders for Aria. They're not candlelight and they definitely aren't caviar, but they are her favorite.

And right this second? Neon is locked in Aria's bathroom, completely freaking out because twenty-four seconds from now he and Aria are about to...about to... Well, they won't do anything if he can't get out of his own head (all the advice, insecurities, and what ifs) and out of this bathroom!

A Sydney Taylor Award Notable Young Adult Book

In this "luminous" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) young adult edition of the bestselling, award-winning memoir The Choice, Holocaust survivor and renowned psychologist Dr. Edith Eva Eger shares her harrowing experiences and gives readers the gift of hope and strength.

Edie is a talented dancer and a skilled gymnast with hopes of making the Olympic team. Between her rigorous training and her struggle to find her place in a family where she's the daughter "with brains but no looks," Edie's too busy to dwell on the state of the world. But life in Hungary in 1943 is dangerous for a Jewish girl.

Just as Edie falls in love for the first time, Europe collapses into war, and Edie's family is forced onto a train bound for the Auschwitz concentration camp. Even in those darkest of moments, Edie's beloved, Eric, kindles hope. "I'll never forget your eyes," he tells her through the slats of the cattle car. Auschwitz is horrifying beyond belief, yet through starvation, unthinkable terrors, and daily humiliations like being forced to dance for a Nazi leader, dreams of Eric sustain Edie. Against all odds, Edie and her sister Magda survive, thanks to their sisterhood and sheer grit.

Edie returns home filled with grief and guilt. Survival feels more like a burden than a gift--until Edie recognizes that she has a choice. She can't change the past, but she can choose how to live and even to love again.

Reality and fiction collide when a shy aspiring writer uses her larger-than-life anonymous blog to sabotage a budding relationship between the new girl in school and her childhood friend in this irresistible rom-com that takes notes from Jane Austen's Emma for the social media age.

Shy, introverted Jane lives out a fantasy life in her online blog, where she writes elaborate posts about a teen girl with a glamorous life and a gorgeous boyfriend--two things Jane definitely doesn't have. She only has her writing and her BFFs Camila and Leo, who she shares everything with--except the fact that she's leading a double life online. Jane's real life and her online life do not mix.

Then a new girl named Brynn, who Jane has had a rough start with, begins cozying up to Leo. Jane knows Brynn's totally wrong for him, so when she finds out Brynn follows her blog, Jane does something risky: She starts using her blog to get her way in real life. But when the lines between fact and fiction start to blur, what does that mean for Jane's anonymity, and the real-life relationships at stake?

The acclaimed superhero saga of Quincredible reaches its apex in a powerful new graphic novel reuniting Eisner Award-nominated series creator/writer Rodney Barnes (Killadelphia) and powerhouse artist Selina Espiritu (Critical Role) for a riveting new adventure featuring everyone's favorite indestructible teen hero!

"Sometimes it's hard to keep fighting when the world doesn't give you a reason to believe it's going to change for the better." Being a teenager is hard enough, but being a newly minted superhero in a world where the bad guys hide in plain sight and manipulate the system to their own selfish ends with no consequences, is perplexing--and scary! But when the going gets tough, the tough have to get SMART! Which is exactly what Quinton West is learning as he continues to try to find his superhero voice to go along with his powers of invulnerability to help his beloved community in the city he calls home: New Orleans!

The instant New York Times bestseller

Britannia meets The Mist--with a touch of Evil Dead--in this illusory fantasy horror about a kingdom left to darkness...

Jude Maddox knows nothing of love or even light. He knows only his grim duty as the Hand of Death, to lead the Knights of the Eternal Star into a land filled with nightmares and certain demise. It's only when he sees her--a young woman with wild, amber eyes who's as fierce, defiant, and swift as the shadow beasts themselves--that he feels the warmth of life in his blood...

The other Knights may fear their lethal commander, with his hard, merciless demeanor. Outcast Kiara Frey sees only a leader, a man who knows how to survive. Someone like her. But wanting him is as treacherous as the shadows themselves...and just as seductive.

With a kingdom on the verge of collapse, the Knights must now venture into the darkest heart of the land and uncover the secrets of the misted shadows, where evil will prey upon their minds and feast on their flesh.

It will betray their senses.
It will surpass their nightmares.
Most of them will die.

But they have no other choice. Because the only way to fight the darkness...is to become it.

The Mistlands Duology is best enjoyed in order.
Reading Order:
Book #1 To Kill a Shadow
Book #2 To Shatter the Night

Between her parents' divorce and being dragged to rural Arizona to help clean her grandpa's house, fifteen-year-old Stella Shaw knows she's in for a miserable summer break. But when her grandpa takes her to watch a roller derby bout, she can't help but be amazed by the hard-hitting sport. And when her mom agrees to let her join the junior boot camp, Stella is eager to start. Even though roller derby is harder than she thought it would be, Stella is determined to succeed. With the help of her new crush, Quinn, Stella prepares to try out for the scrimmage at the end of boot camp. The more she practices, the better she gets-and the closer she grows to Quinn. But when tryouts go disastrously wrong, will Stella be brave enough to confront her fears both on and off the track? Characterized by exciting, fast-paced plots and themes that are relevant for high school students, Horizon's Hi-Lo books are both engaging and easy to read. Short chapters, simple sentence structures, and an accessible format make these books perfect for teen reluctant readers. Horizon books are written at a 2nd- to 3rd-grade reading level with an interest level of ages 14 and up.

My twin sister is the true queen of Aryd. She survives, hiding and clinging to life in the desert, while I reign as the false queen alongside the monstrous King Eidolon. There's only one escape from this gilded prison: Reven. My Shadowraith. My heart. Only the shadows that he struggles to control are growing more sinister, more powerful.

It's just a matter of time before they turn on him...and on me.

Even escape doesn't mean true freedom, though, when we're still on the run from Eidolon's unstoppable armies. And when we discover there's a traitor among us, I have no choice...I must become the queen I was never meant to be.

Because as one evil hunts me, the other loves me more than himself.

And my fate lies with both.

The Dominions series is best enjoyed in order.
Reading Order:
Book #1 The Liar's Crown
Book #2 The Stolen Throne
Book #3 The Shadows Rule All

A Chicago Public Library Best Teen Book of 2024

A 2025 YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction Selection

From award-winning author Mindy McGinnis comes a mesmerizing YA psychological mystery following a teen girl who is grappling with the death of her brother as she starts a new job in the caverns of Ohio--only to become the number one suspect in her coworker's murder. Perfect for fans of Courtney Summers and Kathleen Glasgow.

Neely's monsters don't always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in her closet, and the disembodied voice that shadows her every move become louder, she knows she's in trouble. With a history of mental illness in her family and the suicide of her older brother heavy on her mind, Neely takes a job as a tour guide in the one place her monsters can't follow--the caverns. There . . . she meets Mila. Mila is everything Neely isn't--beautiful, strong, and confident. As the two become closer, Neely's innocent crush grows into something more. When a midnight staff party exposes Neely to drugs, she follows Mila's lead . . . only to have her hallucinations escalate.

When Mila is found brutally murdered in the caverns, Neely has to admit that her memories of that night are vague at best. With her monsters now out in the open and her grip on reality slipping, Neely must figure out who killed Mila . . . and face the possibility that it might have been her.

With her best friends off enjoying Paris and her mom expressing disapproval at every turn, Tamika Warren knows her summer can't get any worse. Then her family gets the news that her great-aunt has fallen into a coma. Tamika is stuck joining her mom in Virginia to prepare Aunt Lati's old farmhouse for when she wakes up. As if that weren't bad enough, a friendly neighbor describes the farmhouse as "haunted." Tamika is stunned from the moment she steps into the farmhouse-but from the beautiful landscape paintings covering every wall, all of them done by Aunt Lati. A developing artist herself, Tamika is eager to know the great-aunt who created these amazing paintings. But Aunt Lati still hasn't woken up from her coma. And the longer Tamika and her mom stay in the farmhouse, the stranger things become. The paintings within the farmhouse seem to react to Tamika's presence, hinting at disturbing secrets, until it seems like the paintings themselves long to ooze out into the real world. But that's not possible, is it? Characterized by exciting, fast-paced plots and themes that are relevant for high school students, Horizon's Hi-Lo books are both engaging and easy to read. Short chapters, simple sentence structures, and an accessible format make these books perfect for teen reluctant readers. Horizon books are written at a 2nd- to 3rd-grade reading level with an interest level of ages 14 and up.