March 2020 list by L. Buehler
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The Alcazar
by Amy Ewing
Securing passage to Braxos in the hope of returning home to the City Above the Sky, Sera navigates a home community in turmoil, while Leela investigates the High Priestess’s mysterious plans.
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Color Outside the Lines
by Sangu Mandanna
An anthology of short stories exploring interracial and other relationships, in which differences are front and center, but may or may not matter.
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Girls with Razor hearts
by Suzanne Young
Resolving to shut down the corporation that subjected them to violent experiments, Mena and her fellow escapees from Innovations Academy relocate to a private prep school to take down a powerful investor from the inside.
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Imagine Me
by Tahereh Mafi
A conclusion to the best-selling series finds Juliette, using the identity of “Ella,” teaming up with Warner to secure their future together by bringing down the Reestablishment.
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Layoverland
by Gabby Noone
Awakening on a flight to purgatory after hurting her beloved younger sister, Bea is charged with saving thousands of souls to secure her place in heaven before discovering that one of her first assignments involves helping the boy who caused her fatal accident.
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Saving Savannah
by Tonya Bolden
Savannah Riddle feels suffocated by her life as the daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington, D.C., until she meets a working-class girl named Nella who introduces her to the suffragette and socialist movements and to her politically active cousin Lloyd.
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
by Jason Reynolds
A timely reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America while explaining their endurance and capacity for being discredited.
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The Warrior's Curse
by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Newly crowned Simon attends to royal duties and secretly harbors a love for the exiled Kestra, who embraces her growing magic to help protect the kingdom from the evil Lord Endrick.
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