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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.

73 items

  • 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…
    BookMontclair : 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…
    BookNew 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…
    BookNew 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…
    BookNew 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…
    Book[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…
    Book[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…
    BookSanta 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…
    BookNew 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…
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — / SF IBANEZ ISABEL
  • p. 126 (Gr. 7+) Charisma, a Black high school student grappling with mounting pressures from home and school, and when frustrations with her family intersect with a conflict at school, she reaches a crossroads, facing a choice that could…
    BookNew York : The New Press, 2023. — / GN COUVSON
  • 416p. (Gr. 9+) Upon her birth, Princess Gwendoline was betrothed to Arthur, son of a lord and descendant of the legendary King Arthur. Just a few problems. One: Gwen and Art have always hated each other with a burning passion. Two: mere…
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — / FICTION CROUCHE LEX
  • 257p. (Gr. 9+) Claire is enjoying her high school experience, playing lacrosse and creating art, when something starts to be wrong with her. She is constantly tired, gains weight, has horrible headaches and can’t concentrate anymore.…
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023. — / GN LORDON
  • 396 p. (Gr. 9+) Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is - the laidback twin, the troublemaker. But as the rising number of missing Indigenous women starts circling closer to home, as her family becomes embroiled in a…
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023. — / FICTION BOULLEY ANGELIN
  • Raquel is the daughter of divorced parents in a very small town. She has two friends (Fred and Luisa) and a boyfriend that she somewhat likes. However, she is drawn to Pardalita, an artistic and intriguing new girl at the school. She just…
    BookMontclair [New Jersey] : Levine Querido, 2023. — / GN ESTRELA
  • Being autistic and selectively mute has made it hard for Ariana to get noticed, regardless of her efforts to express herself through fashion. Until suave, popular Luis Ortega decides to make friends with her in spite of her silence. Ari is…
    BookNew York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers [2023] — / FICTION REYES SONORA
  • Living in the world of your favorite game or novel sounds like a dream- but Siyeon wakes up as Penelope, the villainess in the fantasy game she loved. Now she is stuck on in the game on hard mode, all of the characters hate her, and she…
    BookNew York : Ize Press, 2022. — / GN VILLAIN GWON V.1
  • Sixteen-year-old Olive finds herself stranded on a remote, mysterious island after a traumatic boating accident. With no memory of how she got there, Olive must navigate the harsh and unforgiving terrain while forming unlikely alliances…
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2023] — / FICTION PRESTON NATASHA
  • It’s 1996, imagine waking up in 2122 with no idea how or why you got there. This is what happens to Ren in Project Nought. After overhearing some distressing news, Ren runs away from home, only to end up over 120 years in the future as…
    BookNew York, NY : Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper Alley, [2023] — / GN FUREDI
  • High school senior Alejandra Kim, known as Ale to her friends, is a second-generation Korean Argentine, living in New York. She doesn't feel like she belongs anywhere, not as a scholarship student at her preppy private school, not in her…
    BookNew York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2023] — / FICTION PARK PATRICI
  • Bea Fletcher, great-grandniece of famous mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, loves true mysteries. She specifically loves local-true-crime-unsolved-cases types of mysteries, to the extent that she secretly writes a true crime blog. But when…
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, [2022] — / FICTION KUEHN STEPHAN