2024 - 2025
Book of the Week
THE VASTER WILDS by LAUREN GROFF
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her.” Jumping back in time to her trek to the “new world” and through a deeply detailed sensory description, Groff takes the reader through a tale of horror and exaltation.
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This book is available to check out from our physical collection.
KINDLING by TRACI CHEE
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
A standalone fantasy set against a war-ravaged world where kindling warfare—the use of elite, magic-wielding teenage soldiers—has been outlawed. In this novel, seven kindlings search for purpose and identity as they prepare for one final battle, each from their own second-person viewpoint.
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TWELFTH KNIGHT by ALEXENE FAROL FOLLMOTH
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
In a modern retelling of Twelfth Night, the online alter-egos of high achieving gamer Viola Reyes and football player Jack Orsino unexpectedly meet in-game. They must face their in-person relationship as they connect through playing, and learn to let each other in.
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LOOKING FOR SMOKE by K.A. COBELL
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
When local girl Loren includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honor Loren's missing sister, Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet reservation. Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found murdered.
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RULES FOR GHOSTING by SHELLY JAY SHORE
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
To save his family's failing funeral home--and his own chance at a queer love story--a reluctant clairvoyant (seeing ghosts makes growing up in a funeral home complicated!) must embrace the gift he long ignored.
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This book is available to check out from our physical collection.
WHEN THE WORLD TIPS OVER by JANDY NELSON
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
With road trips, rivalries, family curses, love stories within love stories within love stories, and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation, this is the intricate, luminous tale of a family’s complicated past and present. And only in telling their stories can they hope to rewrite their futures.
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OUR WICKED HISTORIES by AMY GOLDSMITH
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
After a disastrous accident at her school's Midsummer Ball leads to Meg's suspension, she agrees to attend a Halloween party at her old friends' ancestral home in Ireland in order to make amends, only to discover that the estate has a sordid past of its own.
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blood at the root by LADARRION WILLIAMS
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he never knew he needed at an HBCU for the young, Black, and magical.
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DEAR WENDY by ANN ZHAO
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
In this tale of a budding friendship that hits all the beats and thrills of a will-they-won’t-they romance, aromantic and asexual Wellesley College student Sophie Chi, aka "Dear Wendy," finds herself in an online feud with her relationship advice rival, "Sincerely Wanda," while unwittingly becoming friends in real life, but will their friendship survive when the truth comes out?
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VOTES OF CONFIDENCE: A YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN ELECTIONS by JEFF FLEISCHER
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Fleischer delivers deep background knowledge on the American Government and how the voting system works. There is detailed discussion of various US political parties in and the importance of participation through voting.
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This book is available to check out from our physical collection, as well as on ebook.
dead things are closer than they appear by robin wasley
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
During a magical apocalypse, which has unleashed monsters and murderers, an ordinary teen teams up with a ragtag crew of would-be heroes to save the world as she knows it.
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BURN DOWN, RISE UP by VINCENT TIRADO
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.
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shut up, this is serious by caroline ixta
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Belén Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend. There's also her nerdy, super-Catholic best friend, Leti, who finds herself pregnant senior year. Life is messy. Shut up, This is Serious is a fierce, intimate examination of friendship, chosen family, and the generational cycles we must break to become our truest selves.
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The one that got away with murder by trish lundy
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
An edge of your seat thriller about a teen girl who comes face to face with her dark past in order to help catch a murderer before she becomes the next victim.
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THROWBACK by MAUREEN GOO
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
A Gen Z Korean American girl gets stuck in the '90s with her teenaged mother in this fresh, funny adventure full of heart, humility, humor, and time-crossed romance.
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WHERE TO CHECK IT OUT
This book is available to check out from our physical collection and in audio.