Monday, January 27, 2020

Our Favorite Teen Books of 2019

This week, I'm sharing some of our favorite teen books from 2019 . . . .

Dig by A.S. King
Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.

We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bennett
Seventeen-year-olds Revna, the daughter of a traitor, and Linne, the daughter of a general, must use forbidden magic to fly planes in wartime despite their deep dislike of each other.

The Waking Forest by Alyssa Wees
When the lives of a girl, who has terrifying visions, and a witch, who grants wishes to children in the woods, collide in the most unexpected of ways, a dark, magical truth threatens to doom them both.

Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez
Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter.


More Favorites --
96 Words for Love by Rachel Roy
All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney
The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi
A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
Beware the Night by Jessica Fleck
Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai
His Hideous Heart: Thirteen of Edgar Allen Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined by Dahlia Adler
Hungry Hearts by Elsie Chapman & Caroline Tung Richmond
Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron
Lovely War by Julie Berry
Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta
Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett
Someday We Will Fly by Rachel DeWoskin
Spin by L.R. Giles
The Things She's Seen by Ambelin Kwaymullina
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott
We Are Lost and Found by Helene Dunbar
We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
White Rose by Kip Wilson
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
The Wise and the Wicked by Rebecca Podos
You Must Not Miss by Katrina Leno

Check these books out on display at the Arnold Branch through February 14, 2020.

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