YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Mary Saracino | No matter what | Ten-year-old Peanut, the oldest girl in a working class Catholic family, finds the burden of being her mother’s confidante too much when her mother, w

Sandra Scoppettone | Trying Hard to Hear You | Camilla is a 16-year-old citizen of the North Fork Long Island community. It is full of thinkers, right-wingers (see what I did there?) and racialized

Lyndsey D’Arcangelo | The Trouble With Emily Dickinson | The Trouble with Emily Dickinson – by Lyndsey D’Arcangelo Josephine Jenkins, better known as JJ, is in her senior year at Sampson Academy. She’s a clo

Julie Anne Peters | It’s Our Prom | When Azure’s principal gives her the chance to turn the school’s traditional (and boring) senior prom into an event that will appeal to everyone, not

Brent Hartinger | Geography Club |

Russel Middlebrook is convinced he’s the only gay kid at Goodkind High School.

Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other th

Madeleine L’Engle | A House Like a Lotus | ‘Seventeen-year-old Polly can accept her dying patron’s lesbianism until Max, overcome by pain and alcohol, attempts to seduce her. While on a working

Carol Dines | Talk to Me | Buoyant, poignant, absorbingly real, Carol Dines writes with humor and unflinching insight in six stories and a novella that capture many voices, amon