Book – Fiction

In this Newbery Honor Award Winner published in 2022, eleven-year-old Maizy Chen travels from Los Angeles with her single mother to spend the summer in Last Chance, Minnesota, to help care for her ailing grandfather and work at the Golden Palace, the family’s Chinese restaurant. Maizy, who hasn’t seen her grandparents since age eight and […]

This picture book is about a child whose family grows over time, beginning with just the child and their mummy, then expanding to include Jani (who becomes the child’s other mummy), David (mummy’s best friend and the child’s known donor), David’s partner Elizabeth, and eventually a new baby who is their half-sibling. A gentle refrain

Seventeen-year-old Jack, an openly and unapologetically gay teen at a prestigious New York City private school, is known throughout school for his active sex life, though the gossip is often far more exaggerated than the reality. When Jack starts writing a frank sex advice column for an online news blog alongside his best friends Jenna

Chloe has spent four years at Willowgrove Christian Academy in small-town Alabama working toward one goal: becoming valedictorian. She moved from California with her two moms and has mostly kept her head down, avoiding gossip and navigating the conservative school environment. Her only real competition is Shara Wheeler—the charming, perfect prom queen who happens to

College freshman Shani arrives for winter break planning to focus solely on her Smithsonian internship studying paleoichthyology (ancient fish fossils)—escapism from her recent breakup. Then she literally runs into May with her mom’s Subaru. Enemies-to-lovers ensues as Shani takes a dog-walking gig that keeps throwing them together. When they’re snowed in together on Christmas Eve,

Sixteen-year-old Mimosa is one of only two aromateurs (love witches) left on the planet. She possesses an extraordinarily sensitive sense of smell allowing her to perceive individual scentprints (like distinctive fingerprints) and craft customized love elixirs to help others fall in love while remaining incurably alone herself. As one of the world’s last aromateurs, Mim

Milo, who lives in Brooklyn with his two moms, and Hollis, who lives in Minnesota with her mom Leigh (her other mom Pam passed away seven years earlier)—who were both conceived via in vitro fertilization using the same anonymous sperm donor. When Milo’s doctor suggests that his biological father undergo genetic testing to help diagnose

Sparrow, an eighth-grade Black girl living in Brooklyn, has always struggled with making friends and finds her primary solace in reading and watching birds. Her one trusted adult is Mrs. Wexler, the school librarian, who has allowed Sparrow to eat lunch in her office and shares her passion for literature. When Mrs. Wexler is killed

17-year-old Montgomery is a misfit living in a small town in Northern California with her two lesbian moms and her sister Tesla. Monty runs the Mystery Club at Jefferson High with her two quirky best friends. When Monty purchases the Eye of Know, a crystal amulet advertised online as having mysterious powers, strange things begin

Seventeen-year-old Brooke’s carefully planned summer—focused on earning money for a car—shifts completely when her stepsister Natalie, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, moves in with her family. When Natalie joins a summer musical theater program, Brooke leaves her job to volunteer backstage and support her, discovering an unexpected passion for theater work and developing an attraction to