A protagonist crosses the threshold from youth into adulthood.
Francie Nolan grows up in the tenements of early-twentieth-century Brooklyn, watching her dreamer father and iron-willed mother navigate poverty — and discovering that education is the only ladder out…
After his family falls apart, young Wataru enters a fantasy world called Vision where he must complete a quest to change his fate — discovering that courage costs more than he imagined.
Tara Westover grew up in the mountains of Idaho, never attending school, shaped by a survivalist father and a mother who followed. At seventeen she entered a classroom for the first time — and couldn'…
The four March sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy — come of age during the Civil War, each discovering what she wants from life, from love, and from herself.
A memoir of a childhood spent in the desert and in poverty with brilliant, alcoholic, charismatic parents who believed they were giving their children freedom — and what it cost.
Fourteen-year-old Ponyboy Curtis navigates the violent divide between the working-class Greasers and the wealthy Socs, discovering that the world is more complex — and more cruel — than any label can …
Four college friends arrive in New York, and over decades the bonds between them are tested by love, success, and the escalating private horrors of Jude St. Francis — a man whose trauma runs so deep t…
Two sisters — one in NYC, one in the Dominican Republic — discover each other only when their father dies in a plane crash. Told in alternating verse by two authors who made you feel every syllable. A…
Frances and Bobbi are best friends and former lovers — college students who perform spoken word poetry and meet a glamorous married couple who complicate everything they thought they knew about desire…
A Black teen gets into a prestigious mostly-white school, writes letters to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. about navigating systemic racism, and finds his idealism tested when he becomes the victim of a v…
After a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson must survive alone with nothing but a hatchet and his own resourcefulness.
A 15-year-old boy takes an elevator ride down from his brother's murder — at each floor, a ghost appears with a piece of the truth about how this happened. Verse novel about gun violence, grief, and t…
Connell and Marianne move through school, university, and young adulthood — always circling each other.
When Alix Chamberlain''s Black babysitter, Emira, is confronted by a security guard at a high-end grocery store while watching the Chamberlain toddler, the incident triggers a chain of events that wil…
A girl travels to Taiwan after her mother's suicide and discovers a world of impossible color, grief made beautiful, and ancestors who won't let go. Lyrical, heart-shattering, and full of the kind of …
In 1990s LA, a Black teenager with a wealthy white best friend navigates the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict. A coming-of-age story about race, class, complicity, and the summer that breaks every…
Narrated by Death, this is the story of Liesel Meminger, who steals books in Nazi Germany and shares them with her foster father and the Jewish man hiding in their basement — a love letter to words an…
A YA adventure about a young person tangled in the world of mythic South American creatures and impossible choices. Magical realism meets coming-of-age under sky-high stakes.
Twin brothers who are basketball phenoms — until one falls in love and the other falls apart. Told in verse that moves like a crossover dribble: fast, fierce, and devastating. A novel in poems about b…
Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen-year-old cancer patient, falls in love with Gus Waters at a support group. Together they travel to Amsterdam to meet a reclusive author — and reckon with what it means…
In a society without pain, war, or choice, Jonas is selected to hold the community's memories — and discovers a truth that changes everything.
Thirteen-year-old Theo Decker survives a bombing at a New York museum and walks away with a small, famous painting — a secret that shapes the next thirty years of his life.
Amir grows up privileged in Kabul with Hassan, the son of his family's servant. A moment of cowardice in 1975 haunts him for decades — and sends him back to a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to right a…
In a medieval world on the edge of collapse, a young knight's apprentice must complete the final mission of a dying order — a quest that will test everything they know about loyalty, courage, and sacr…
The Vignes twin sisters escape their small Southern Black hometown and swear to never return. One returns years later with her Black daughter. The other lives as a white woman in Virginia with her whi…
In a world where a service alerts you the day you''re going to die, two strangers meet on that day — Mateo and Rufus, both marked, both scared, both determined to make their last day matter. A story a…
Kya Clark is raised alone in the marshes of North Carolina after her family abandons her one by one — growing up wild, learning to read late, and falling under suspicion when a local man is found dead…
In a Roman-inspired empire, a Scholar girl goes undercover in a brutal military academy while a young soldier questions the empire he serves — and their fates become impossibly entangled.
A girl accidentally unleashes an ancient demon from a lamp and has to rally a group of unlikely heroes to save the world. Middle-grade energy meets YA stakes — a Pandava sibling's quest with humor, my…
Carrie White is a 16-year-old girl raised by a fanatically religious mother, bullied at school, and beginning to discover abilities that terrify even her. The prom is supposed to be her one night of b…
In a West African-inspired world where magic was violently suppressed, Zélie Adeyemi fights to restore her people's power before the king destroys what little hope remains.
In 1910 Appalachia, a young woman leaves comfort to teach in a mountain mission school and confronts poverty, disease, and her own faith in ways she never anticipated.
The daughter of the Sun god discovers her powers as a witch and carves a life from myth and exile.
A farm boy finds a dragon egg in the mountains and becomes the first Dragon Rider in a generation — thrust into a war against an evil king he never knew existed.
In a near-future America, Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps. A teenager fights back the only way she knows how — with protest, love, and refusing to disappear.
Dex and Emma meet on the night of their college graduation. Every July 15th for twenty years, we check in on them — the day that shaped them, the day they almost got it right, the day everything fell …
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan — from a pastor's daughter who becomes pregnant by a married man to her great-grandson navigating identity in 1980s Tokyo. An epic about survival, shame, a…
Sadie is a teenage girl who turns up on a podcast host's doorstep with a story about her brother's murder and her own investigation. The podcast host follows her trail — but who is really hunting whom…
In a future where death by disease and accident has been conquered, Scythes are the only ones who can "glean" — end life. Citra and Rowan are apprenticed to a Scythe who will force them to question ev…
A high school freshman stops speaking after a trauma she can't name. Slowly, through art class and a few terrifying allies, she finds her voice again. Raw, vital, and unflinching — the verse format ma…
In medieval Russia, a girl with power over the old spirits must choose between the old world and the new.
Percy Jackson discovers he's the son of a Greek god — and is immediately blamed for stealing Zeus's master lightning bolt, launching a cross-country quest to prevent a war among the Olympians.
Kvothe, now an innkeeper, recounts his legendary past — from poverty to the most feared wizard of the age.
Based on her grandfather''s experience as a Chippewa tribal police officer in North Dakota, Erdrich tells the story of Thomas Wazhashk — who fights to protect his community when the US government begi…
Nine-year-old Rose discovers she can taste the emotions of whoever cooked her food — and the ability turns every meal into an unwanted glimpse into the secret lives of the people she loves.
A peasant girl aces the empire's military exam and discovers a power so dark it may destroy her.
Two Black teen girls start a slam poetry club at their elite private school and become a voice for their generation. Fierce, intersectional, and impossible to put down.
A boy with depression discovers the world's going to end in six months — and no one believes him. He's also deciding whether he even wants to stop it. Haunting, humane, and deeply strange.
A Korean-American girl moves to NYC to escape her glamorous, manipulative older sister — only to discover her sister is hiding a brutal secret. Raw, sexy, and about the ugly-beautiful parts of sisterh…
In future Chicago, society is divided into five factions. Tris Prior discovers she doesn't fit neatly into any of them — which makes her the most dangerous person alive.