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Teens Read Pick of the Month

Every month the SCCLD Teen Librarians choose one book as a great read from the library's Teen collection. This is the list of the latest picks of the month.

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  • 410p. (Grades 9+) It's the height of the Victorian era at Oxford University. Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty attend All Souls College, reserved for the best and brightest to compete for a seat among the prestigious school’s faculty and a coveted…
    Book, 2025New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — / FICTION ANDREWS CLAIRE
  • 316p. (Grades 8+) Historical drama meets magical realism in this action-packed retelling of the Zorro legend. Lola de la Peña, with her parents and brother Victor, are the central family in their small mining community of Coloma in 19th century Alta…
    Book, 2025New York : Wednesday Books, 2025. — / SF PROUDMA SANDRA
  • 288p. (Gr. 10+) Nitasha is so tired. She’s tired of the expectations from her parents, comparisons with her perfect doctor brother, and stress from wanting to fit in at school. On top of that, her best friend seems to have a new best friend and her…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : HarperAlley, 2025. — / GN CHAND
  • 320p. (Gr. 7+) Noodle chef Cai wants to open her own restaurant and help the impoverished area where she lives. The only way to do that seems to be entering the Celestial Banquet, a cooking competition to create a meal for the gods. The winners…
    Book, 2025New York : Sweet July Books, 2025. — / SF LIM ROSELLE
  • 268 p. (Gr. 8+) Harper's back in her mom's rural hometown, Clintville, VA, after her grandparents Nana and Poppy passed away. Her mother has inherited the farm, and she’s dragging Harper along for her senior year. But Harper sees this as an…
    Book, 2025[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : Running Press, [2025] — / FICTION ENGLAND M
  • 384 p. (Gr. 9+) In a world filled with Persephone and Hades retellings, this stands apart. Written in verse, the audiobook (available on Libby) is read by the poet and author Safia Elhillo. If Elizabeth Acevedo is your vibe, this will be too! So…
    Book, 2024New York : Make Me A World, [2024] — / FICTION ELHILLO SAFIA
  • Seventeen-year-old Jenna Chen has spent her life in the shadow of her brilliant cousin, Jessica—a straight-A student, star athlete, and the pride of their elite private school, Havenwood Academy. No matter how hard Jenna works, she can’t seem to…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025] — / FICTION LIANG ANN
  • 272 p. (Gr. 8+) Imagine being stuck working retail while portals to hell spewing monsters open up all over the world. This is Jasper’s life and all he can remember. Ever since he was struck in the head five months ago, all memories of his life…
    Book, 2024[New York, NY] : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — / SF CHO IANX
  • 341 p. (Gr.8+).The Mac family gathers to celebrate Bornday with a cookout every year- the shared birthday of the four cousins, Atlas, Mika, Jason And Pansy, as well as the birthday of the family matriarch, Grannylou. Every Bornday, Grannylou tells…
    Book, 2024New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2024. — / SF PINK RANDI
  • 336p. (Gr. 10+) Can’t wait for the second season of Wednesday? Don’t Let the Forest In has the macabre private school setting, teens that may or may not be in love with each other, and monsters to fight during the night. Thomas is an artist who…
    Book, 2024New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2024. — / SF DREWS C.
  • 349p. (Gr. 7+) St. Bernadette’s is the most prestigious girl’s school in Kuala Lumpur. Khadijah and Rachel are very different girls who know they are both lucky to be students - graduating almost guarantees a girl a bright future. One day a girl in…
    Book, 2024New York : Salaam Reads, [2024] — / FICTION HANNA
  • 400p. (Gr. 7+) It's 2052. The world is trapped in an endless cycle of droughts, superstorms, heat domes, and polar vortexes. But life goes on, at least for now. Stevie, an 18-year-old Cherokee girl, works at the Modern Museum of Art in Texas to save…
    Book, 2024Montclair : Levine Querido, 2024. — / SF ROGERS ANDREA
  • 256p. (Gr. 9+) Eighteen-year-old Mae Mansour refuses to believe what everyone else does—that her missing sister, Inez, is gone for good. Desperate for answers and a way out from under her parents' oppressive grip, Mae jumps at the chance to head to…
    Book, 2024New York : Henry Holt & Company, 2024. — / FICTION METOUI MERIAM
  • 249 p. (Gr. 9+) Flashback to the 2000’s in this homage to mall life as a teenager. Liv Holm is a goth girl in a new town, add her out and proud bisexual lifestyle and you have a recipe for disaster, at least that what she thinks. Liv starts a new…
    Book, 2023New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, [2023] — / GN LETH
  • 384p. (Gr. 10+) Noor Khan has to start the last quarter of her senior year in a new school. Her father abruptly left the family and her mother moved Noor and her sister Amal from Chicago to a small town in Illinois. Noor isn't interested in making…
    Book, 2024New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — / FICTION AHMED SAMIRA
  • 400p. (Gr. 10+) Andres, self described prince, is the son of two celebrities at war with each other. His parents’ ire between each other imprints on him an angry view of the world. However, after a drowning accident, Andres decides to make a deal…
    Book, 2024[Atlanta, Georgia] : Peachtree Teen, [2024] — / FICTION ROMERO R.
  • 385p. (Gr. 10+) Ash Woods is a naturally talented alchemist, and his dream is to study alchemy at the Lancaster College of Alchemy so he can practice legally and professionally. But since he is an orphan from the wrong side of the tracks and lacks…
    Book, 2024[New York] : Tor Teen, [2024] — / SF CALLEND KACEN
  • 384p. (Gr. 7+) Totonou is a college student- all he wants is to go to class and cook and eat delicious curry. Unfortunately one day he is framed for a murder. As he is held in the police station for days. He must use his incredible skills of…
    Book, 2023Santa Barbara, CA : Seven Seas Entertainment, [2023] — / GN DON'T TAMURA V.1-2
  • 343 p. (Gr. 6+) Val has felt cursed in love. Val finds some light when she joins a Lion Dancing group. Luckily, she meets Les, maybe he is the one to break her family love curse. The relationship doesn't go as planned, with Val questioning Les'…
    Book, 2024New York : First Second, 2024. — / GN YANG
  • 404p. (Gr. 9+) Inez Olivera lives in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires, where she has everything she wants.... except her parents who are always away traveling the world. But when Inez learns her parents died tragically, she inherits not only great…
    Book, 2023New York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — / SF IBANEZ ISABEL