By Sherman Alexie
Recommended By Amy B., Children's Librarian

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all–white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

By John Green

Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.

By Jason Reynolds

When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.

By Jennifer Niven

Meeting on the ledge of their school's bell tower, misfit Theodore Finch and suicidal Violet Markey find acceptance and healing that are overshadowed by Finch's fears about Violet's growing social world.

By Tiffany Jackson

Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: a white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine–year–old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it?

By Kristan Higgins
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

When John Frost has a stroke, his family, including his two daughters — perfect Julie and free-spirited Sadie, and his wife of 50 years, are forced to confront the truth about their lives, in this new novel about what family really means.

By Ibi Zoboi

Separated from her detained mother after moving from Haiti to America, Fabiola struggles to navigate the home of her loud cousins and a new school on Detroit's gritty west side, where a surprising romance and a dangerous proposition challenge her ideas about freedom.

By Elizabeth Strout

When Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student, falls in love with her math teacher, the love affair threatens the intimate relationship between Amy and her mother, Isabelle, whose feelings are influenced by the shame of her own past.

By Judy Blume

Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve–year–old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

By Heather Demetrios

Desperate to escape her small California town and the home of her controlling parents, aspiring artist Grace falls in love with Gavin, a charming young man who gradually reveals a controlling and dangerous nature.

By Elin Hilderbrand

Mack Petersen, a hotel manager at a beach resort, knows something has to give: his boss is pressuring him, his girlfriend wants to get married, the bellman is after his girlfriend, an old rival is making deadly threats, and, on top of it all, a hurricane is headed their way.

By Jenny Downham

A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.

By Robin Schneider

Star athlete and prom king Ezra Faulkner's life is irreparably transformed by a tragic accident and the arrival of eccentric new girl Cassidy Thorpe.

By Ann Patchett

When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people are thrown together, including American opera star Roxanne Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan.

By Jason Reynolds

Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.

By David L. Robbins

Set against the backdrop of the Los Banos prison raid––one of the most daringepisodes of World War II - Broken Jewel tells a powerful story of war, love, and survival.

By Steven Galloway

While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty–two friends and neighbors, a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.

By Elizabeth Acevedo

Two sisters mourn their father’s death after his plane crashes on a flight to the Dominican Republic.

By Angie Thomas
Recommended By Adrienne Rein, Library Clerk

A gang leader’s son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one’s brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set 17 years before the events of the award-winning The Hate U Give.

By K.M. Walton
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

When Bull Mastrick and Victor Konig wind up in the same psychiatric ward at age sixteen, each recalls and relates in group therapy the bullying relationship they have had since kindergarten.

By Michael Hassan

A powerful, emotional debut novel about the complicated relationship between a profoundly troubled teenager, Dave "Burn" Burnett, who takes his school hostage at gunpoint and the profoundly untroubled student, Steven "Crash" Crashinsky, who stops him.

By Kwame Alexander

Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.

By Abraham Verghese
Recommended By Jean Buchholtz, Library Clerk

Twin brothers born from a secret love affair between an Indian nun and a British surgeon in Addis Ababa, Marion and Shiva Stone come of age in an Ethiopia on the brink of revolution, where their love for the same woman drives them apart.

By Ka Hancock

Deciding to marry in spite of respective health challenges, Mickey, a man with bipolar disorder, and Lucy, a woman with a ravaging family history of breast cancer, struggle through difficult challenges for 11 years before receiving a surprise that forces them to redefine everything they believe about love.

By Adib Khorram

A Persian–American youth who prefers pop culture to the traditions of his mixed family struggles with clinical depression and the misunderstandings of older relatives while bonding with a boy who helps him embrace his Iranian heritage.

By C.J. Omololu

When her unstable mother dies unexpectedly, sixteen-year-old Lucy must take control and find a way to keep the long-held secret of her mother's compulsive hoarding from being revealed to friends, neighbors, and especially the media.

By Courtney Sheinmel

Lorrie Hollander lives with her unstable aunt Gigi in a decrepit eyesore of a mansion called Edgewater, but when Charlie, the son of an esteemed senator, takes an interest in Lorrie she is ashamed of her lifestyle until she learns Charlie's family is hiding something too, and that their secrets are inextricably tied.

By Francesca Zappia

Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she’s worked for begins to crumble.

By Sandor Marai

Following a forty–one year separation, two men reunite in a castle at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains to share stories and accusations touching on their lives and that of a third person, the now–dead lady of the castle.

By Richard Russo

Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once–successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine, with his partner, Mrs. Whiting, who is the heir to a faded logging and textile legacy.

By Sara Ryan

While attending a summer institute, fifteen-year-old Nic meets another girl named Battle, falls in love with her, and finds the relationship to be difficult and confusing.

By Pam Munoz Ryan

Esperanza's expectation that her 13th birthday will be celebrated with all the material pleasures and folk elements of her previous years is shattered when her father is murdered by bandits.

By Walter Dean Myers

Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

By Rainbow Rowell
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Feeling cast off when her best friend outgrows their shared love for a favorite celebrity, Cath, a dedicated fan-fiction writer, struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words and worrying about her fragile father.

By John Green
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director, Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

By Rohinton Mistry
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey..

By Angela Johnson

When his girlfriend Nia announces that she is pregnant, sixteen–year–old Bobby, a typical urban New York City teenager, must cast aside his life of partying to visit obstetricians and social workers, who try to convince them to give their baby up for adoption, until tragedy strikes.

By Kristin Hannah
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

“A follow-up to the best-selling Firefly Lane returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tully’s mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives (From the Publisher).”

By David Yoon

Torn between his love for his white girlfriend and his sense of duty to the matchmaking parents who made hard sacrifices to move to the United States, a Korean American teen looks for solutions along with a friend who has a similar problem.

By Sarah Addison Allen

In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. This is the story of that enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it.

By Jean Kwok
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

A resolute yet naïve Chinese girl confronts poverty and culture shock with equal zeal when she and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn.

By Sarah Addison Allen

In a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon, two women discover how to find their place in the world–no matter how out of place they feel.

By Abi Daré
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

Adunni, a 14–year– old Nigerian girl who longs for an education, must find a way for her voice to be heard loud and clear in a world where she and other girls like her are taught to believe, through words and deeds, that they are nothing.

By Emma Cline
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian, Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager, Lisa H., Readers' Services Librarian

Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle, only to find herself drawn into a cult and seduced by its charismatic leader.

By Dana Bate
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Seizing the chance to do what she loves after her relationship ends, Hannah Sugarman, poised for an academic career like her famous parents, instead starts an underground supper club, but her own fears and doubts threaten her dreams.

By Angie Thomas
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Tuesday 24, 2019. 1PM.

After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.

By Eishes Chayil
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“After remembering the cause of her best friend Devory’s suicide at age nine, Gittel is determined to raise awareness of sexual abuse in her Borough Park, New York, community, despite the rules of Chassidim that require her to be silent (From the Publisher).”

By Markus Zusak

The dull and drab life of Ed, an underage cab driver with a coffee-addicted dog, takes an unexpected turn when he accidentally stops a bank robbery and finds himself being placed in charge of watching out for the entire town per a visit from the mysterious Ace.

By Jandy Nelson

A story of first love and family loss follows the estrangement between daredevil Jude and her loner twin brother, Noah, as a result of a mysterious event that is brought to light by a beautiful, broken boy and a new mentor.

By Gayle Forman
Series If I Stay
Recommended By Pam Strudler, Programming & Arts Librarian

While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

Became the movie: If I Stay.