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Baby Teeth

MEG GREHAN - Little Island Books
Format: Hardcover

From the multi-award winning author of The Deepest Breath (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021) , a Junior Library Guild Selection, comes a YA verse novel about LGBTQ desire, identity - and vampires. The bloodFeeds the hungerThat threatens everythingIt starts when Claudia offers her a yellow...
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Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything

Justine Pucella Winans - ‎Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

Murder most fowl? In this sardonic and campy YA thriller, an anxious, introverted nonbinary teen birder somehow finds themself investigating a murder with their neighbor/fellow anime lover, all while falling for a cute girl from their birding group...and trying not to get killed next. Sixteen-year-old...
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Cinderella Is Dead

Kalynn Bayron - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

"Wholly original and captivating." - Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of A Curse So Dark and LonelyGirls team up to overthrow the kingdom in this unique and powerful retelling of Cinderella from a stunning new voice that's perfect for fans of A Curse So Dark...
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Clap When You Land

Elizabeth Acevedo - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.Camino Rios lives for the summers when...
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Cold: A Novel

Mariko Tamaki - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Book

This is the story of a boy who died--and a girl who wants to know why. Todd Mayer is dead. Now he's some sort of ghost, hovering over his body, which has just been found in the town park, naked and frozen in the snow. As detectives investigate Todd's homicide, talking to the very...

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Forward March

Skye Quinlan
Format: Hardcover

What's worse? Someone using your face for catfishing or realizing you actually do have a crush on the catfished girl?Harper "Band Geek" McKinley just wants to make it through her senior year of marching band -- and her Republican father's presidential campaign. That was a tall...
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Gearbreakers

Zoe Hana Mikuta - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

We went past praying to deities and started to build them instead...The shadow of Godolia's tyrannical rule is spreading, aided by their giant mechanized weapons known as Windups. War and oppression are everyday constants for the people of the Badlands, who live under the thumb of their...
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Goldie Vance Vol. 1

Hope Larson - BOOM! Box
Format: Paperback

Move over Nancy, Harriet, & Veronica. There's a new sleuth on the block!Sixteen-year-old Marigold "Goldie" Vance lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place. Her mom, who divorced her dad years ago, works as a live mermaid at a club downtown. Goldie has an insatiable...
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Heavy Vinyl: Riot on the Radio

Carly Usdin - BOOM! Box
Format: Paperback

When Chris joins the staff at her local record store, shes surprised to find out that her co-workers share a secret: theyre all members of a secret fight club that take on the patriarchy and fight crime!Starry-eyed Chris has just started the dream job every outcast kid in town wants: working...
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How to Excavate a Heart

Jake Maia Arlow - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Stonewall Honor author Jake Maia Arlow delivers a sapphic Jewish twist on the classic Christmas rom-com in a read perfect for fans of Kelly Quindlen and Casey McQuiston.It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally. With her mom's Subaru.Attempted vehicular manslaughter was not part...
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I Kissed Shara Wheeler: A Novel

Casey McQuiston - ‎Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop and Red, White & Royal Blue comes a debut YA romantic comedy about chasing down what you want, only to find what you need...Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she's...
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I Will Find You Again

Sarah Lyu - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

All the Bright Places meets Ace of Spades in this smart, twisty teen thriller about a girl who can't stop pushing herself to be the best - even after losing her best friend and the love of her life.. Welcome to Meadowlark, Long Island - expensive homes and good schools, ambition and loneliness....
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It Goes Like This

Miel Moreland - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Eva, Celeste, Gina, and Steph used to think their friendship was unbreakable. After all, they've been though a lot together, including the astronomical rise of Moonlight Overthrow, the world-famous queer pop band they formed in middle school, never expecting to headline anything bigger...
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Juliet Takes a Breath

Gabby Rivera

A NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF THE BESTSELLING BOOK! Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to her family and isn't sure if her mom will ever speak to her again. But don't worry, Juliet has something kinda resembling a plan...
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo
Format: Hardcover

"That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other." And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: "Have you ever heard of such a thing?"Seventeen-year-old...
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Love & Other Natural Disasters

Misa Sugiura - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

This delightfully disastrous queer YA rom-com is a perfect read for fans of Jenny Han, Morgan Matson, and Sandhya Menon. When Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance, a fake one wasn't what she had in mind. That was before she met the perfect girl. Willow is gorgeous, glamorous,...
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Nothing Burns As Bright As You

Ashley Woodfolk - Versify
Format: Hardcover

From acclaimed author Ashley Woodfolk,Nothing Burns as Bright as You is an impassioned story about queer love, grief, and the complexity of female friendship that will keep your heart racing, and breaking, until the very last page. Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous...
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Out of Character

Jenna Miller - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Dumplin' meets Geekerella in debut author Jenna Miller's queer, body-positive love story that explores online and offline relationships in all of their messiness.If you asked seventeen-year-old Cass Williams to describe herself, she'd happily tell you she's fat, a lesbian,...
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Rise to the Sun

Leah Johnson - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

From the author of You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson delivers a stunning novel about being brave enough to be true to yourself, and learning to find joy even when times are unimaginably dark.Olivia is an expert at falling in love . . . and at being dumped. But after the fallout...
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She Drives Me Crazy

Kelly Quindlen
Format: Hardcover

After an embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game of the season, Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, Irene Abraham, who is as beautiful as she is mean. When the damage sends Irene's car to the shop for weeks'...
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Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel: A Novel

Sara Farizan - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

At Armstead Academy, everyone knows everything about everyone. Well, everyone thinks they know everything . . .. Leila has made it most of the way through Armstead Academy without having a crush on anyone, which is a relief. As an Iranian American, shes different enough; if word got out that...
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Tell Me How You Really Feel

Aminah Mae Safi - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Sana Khan is a cheerleader and a straight A student. She's the classic (somewhat obnoxious) overachiever determined to win. Rachel Recht is a wannabe director who's obsesssed with movies and ready to make her own masterpiece. As she's casting her senior film project, she knows she's...
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The Henna Wars

Adiba Jaigirdar - Page Street Kids
Format: Hardcover

"Impossible to put down." - Kirkus, starred review Nishat doesn't want to lose her family, but she also doesn't want to hide who she is, and it only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life. Flvia is beautiful and charismatic, and Nishat falls for her instantly....
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The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali

Sabina Khan - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Unable to come out to her conservative Muslim parents, Rukhsana Ali keeps that part of her identity hidden. And that means keeping her girlfriend, Ariana, a secret from them too. Luckily, only a few more months stand between her carefully monitored life at home and a fresh start at Caltech...
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The miseducation of Cameron Post

Emily M Danforth - Balzer + Bray
Format: Book

Set in rural Montana in the early 1990s, emily m. danforth's The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a powerful and widely acclaimed YA coming-of-age novel in the tradition of the classic Annie on My Mind. Cameron Post feels a mix of guilt and relief when her parents die in a car accident....
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The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

Junauda Petrus - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus's bold and lyrical debut is the story of two black girls from very different backgrounds finding love and happiness in a world that seems determined to deny them both.Trinidad. Sixteen-year-old Audre is despondent, having just...
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The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles)

AMY SPALDING - Sky Pony Press
Format: Hardcover

Seventeen, fashion-obsessed, and gay, Abby Ives has always been content playing the sidekick in other people's lives. While her friends and sister have plunged headfirst into the world of dating and romances, Abby's been happy to focus on her plus-size style blog and her dreams of taking...
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The Weight of the Stars

K. Ancrum - Imprint
Format: Hardcover

A vivid, evocative YA lesbian romance about how the universe is full of second chances.Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn't an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the "wrong" side of town. So Ryann becomes her circumstances...
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You Don't Have a Shot

Racquel Marie - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

A queer YA romance about rival soccer players from author Racquel Marie, perfect for fans of She Drives Me Crazy.. Valentina "Vale" Castillo-Green's life revolves around soccer. Her friends, her future, and her father's intense expectations are all wrapped up in the beautiful...
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Youngblood

Sasha Laurens - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

High school sucks. Especially for the undead. For fans of Vampire Diaries and dark academia, two queer teen bloodsuckers at an elite vampire-only boarding school must go up against all of Vampirdom when they uncover a frightening conspiracy on campus.Kat Finn and her mother can barely make...
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Forget Me Not

Alyson Derrick - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Five Feet Apart, this tender solo debut by the coauthor of New York Times bestseller She Gets the Girl is a romantic ode to the strength of love and the power of choosing each other, against odds and obstacles, again and again.....
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Girls Like Girls

Hayley Kiyoko - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Trailblazing pop star, actor and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age romance based on her breakthrough hit song and viral video, GIRLS LIKE GIRLS.. It's summertime and 17-year-old Coley has found herself alone, again. Forced to move to rural Oregon after...
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Late to the Party

Kelly Quindlen - ROARING BROOK PR
Format: Hardcover

From author Kelly Quindlen comes a poignant and deeply relatable story about friendship, self-acceptance, and what it means to be a Real Teenager. Late to the Party is an ode to late bloomers and wallflowers everywhere.
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Imogen, Obviously

Becky Albertalli - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

With humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexuality, identity, and friendship in this timely new novel.Imogen Scott may be hopelessly heterosexual, but she's got the World's Greatest Ally title locked down.She's never missed...
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Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl

Sara Waxelbaum - ‎Inkyard Press; Original edition
Format: Hardcover

"The most delightfully snarky romance I've read this year." - New York Times bestselling author Ashley Poston  This charming YA rom-com follows Margo, who suddenly realizes that she's gay but has no clue how to express her identity, so she enlists out-and-proud Abbie...
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If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

Jen St. Jude - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

We Are Okay meets They Both Die at the End in this YA debut about queer first love and mental health at the end of the world-and the importance of saving yourself, no matter what tomorrow may hold.. Avery Byrne has secrets. She's queer; she's in love with her best friend, Cass;...
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It's Not Like It's a Secret

Misa Sugiura - HarperTeen
Format: Paperback

Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature * 2018 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults * 2018 Rainbow Book List * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2017"Well-paced, brimming with drama, and utterly vital." - Kirkus (starred review) This charming and bittersweet...
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Death at Morning House

Maureen Johnson - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Praise for NINE LIARS: "The exploration of the importance of friendship adds emotional vulnerability to this book, which has a well-developed sense of place and features the series signature humor and layered mystery elements. Immersive and genre-savvy." Kirkus Reviews(starred...
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Where Sleeping Girls Lie

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Format: electronic resource

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie — a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades — a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.An Instant New York Times and Indie Bestseller!A...
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The Blonde Dies First

Joelle Wellington - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adult thriller from the acclaimed author of Their Vicious Games, about a demonic force that acts according to horror movie rules in the spirit of the Scream movies.. Devon is always being left...
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