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A Step from Heaven
by Na An
Young Ju Park is unhappy with her journey to America as her family suffers with financial difficulties and hard times upon their arrival, yet when her father suddenly becomes violent, Young Ju is thankful when he leaves so that their family can start over and make their dream a reality.
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A Time to Dance
by Padma Venkatraman
Losing her leg after a devastating injury, talented Indian dancer Veda begins retraining on her prosthetic leg before falling in love with a young man who approaches dance from a spiritual perspective and who helps Veda to better understand herself and the world.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Leaving the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school, Junior struggles to find his place in his new surroundings in order to escape his destiny back on the reservation.
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All the Broken Pieces
by Ann E. Burg
Although being raised by a loving family in the United States, Matt Pin struggles with the horrific things he saw during the Vietnam War before being airlifted to safety two years prior and now must find a way to come to terms with his past in order to find true happiness in the new life he lives.
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An Ember in the Ashes : a novel
by Sabaa Tahir
Going undercover as a slave in her brutal empire's military academy when her brother is arrested for treason, scholar Laia bonds with a talented but reluctant soldier who is being forced to participate in a ferocious contest to determine the next Martial emperor.
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents and his family that he has never asked before.
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Bombay Blues
by Tanuja Desai Hidier
A long-anticipated sequel to Born Confused finds Indian-American Dimple Rohitbhai Lala questioning her heart in the wake of numerous changes and adventures that take her from India to New York and London.
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Born Confused
by Tanuja Desai Hidier
Seventeen-year-old Dimple, whose family is from India, discovers that she is not Indian enough for the Indians and not American enough for the Americans, as she sees her best friend taking possession of both her heritage and the boy she likes.
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The Boy in the Black Suit
by Jason Reynolds
Working in the local funeral home to support his family after his mother's death and his father's descent into alcoholism, Matt falls in love with a tough girl who never cries and who understands his loneliness. By the author of When I Was the Greatest.
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Call Me By My Name
by John Ed Bradley
Enduring life in a 1960s Louisiana town that is resisting desegregation efforts, quarterback Tater Henry befriends teammate Rodney, whose support falters when Tater falls in love with Rodney's twin sister.
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Diamond Boy
by Michael Williams
Working in the Marange diamond mines in the hope of finding a stone that will change his family's fortunes, 15-year-old Patson Moyo finds his dreams shattered by Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe's brutal regime.
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Every Day
by David Levithan
Waking up in the body of a different person every day and struggling to pass through each experience without raising alarm, "A" endures a lonely existence before falling in love with a girl named Rhiannon, with whom he endeavors to reunite.
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The Fire Horse Girl
by Kay Honeyman
When Jade Moon, born in the unlucky year of the Fire Horse, and her father immigrate to America in 1923 and are detained at Angel Island Immigration Station, Jade Moon is determined to find a way through and prove that she is not cursed.
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Five Flavors of Dumb
by Antony John
Eighteen-year-old Piper becomes the manager for her classmates' popular rock band, called Dumb, giving her the chance to prove her capabilities to her parents and others, if only she can get the band members to get along.
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Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
by Isabel Quintero
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
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Game Seven
by Paul Volponi
Idolizing the father who fled Cuba to pitch professionally in America, 16-year-old Julio dreams of playing for Cuba's national team only to have his prospects overshadowed by his father's defection. By the author of The Final Four.
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Girls Like Us
by Gail Giles
2014 Schneider Family Teen Award Winner. Graduating from their school's special education program, aggressive Quincy and shy Biddy are placed together in their first independent apartment and gradually discover unexpected things they share in common in the face of past challenges and a harrowing trauma.
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The Great Greene Heist
by Varian Johnson
When his ex-girlfriend and an ill-intentioned rival with ties to the principal run for school president, reformed con artist Jackson Greene secretly assembles a crack team to ensure the election is run fairly, an effort that is complicated by Jackson's enduring feelings for his ex.
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How It Went Down
by Kekla Magoon
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
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I am J
by Cris Beam
J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is.
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Kira-kira
by Cynthia Kadohata
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
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Lies We Tell Ourselves
by Robin Talley
The civil rights movement in 1959 Virginia irrevocably changes the lives of two girls: a persecuted black student who is one of the first to attend a newly integrated school, and a white integration opponent's daughter with whom she confronts harsh truths during a school project.
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The Living
by Matt de la Peña
Taking a summer job on a Pacific luxury cruise liner to help his struggling family, Shy anticipates a season of lucrative tips and pretty girlfriends only to have everything radically transformed by a massive California earthquake that jeopardizes the survival of everyone he knows.
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Mexican Whiteboy
by Matt de la Peña
Sixteen-year-old Danny searches for his identity amidst the confusion of being half-Mexican and half-white while spending a summer with his cousin and new friends on the baseball fields and back alleys of San Diego County, California.
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
by Emily M. Danforth
Placed in the custody of a conservative aunt in Montana after losing her parents in a car crash, teen Cameron secretly falls in love with her cowgirl best friend and is cruelly dispatched to a religious conversion camp when the truth about her sexual orientation is discovered.
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None of the Above
by I. W. Gregorio
After being elected as homecoming queen and engaging in a first sexual encounter with her boyfriend, Kristen discovers that she is intersex and possesses male chromosomes, a diagnosis that is leaked to the whole school, throwing Kristin's entire identity into question.
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Of Metal and Wishes
by Sarah Fine
Assisting her father in a ramshackle medical clinic where they attend low-wage factory workers, 16-year-old Wen is shocked when a ghost grants a brutal wish, prompting Wen to appease the ghost and bond with the oppressed laborers.
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The Rock and the River
by Kekla Magoon
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father’s nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African-Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
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Say What You Will
by Cammie McGovern
A girl confined to a wheelchair by cerebral palsy and a boy stymied by an obsessive-compulsive disorder are assigned to spend time together in what becomes a blossoming friendship that neither expected.
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The Secret Sky : A novel of forbidden love in Afghanistan
by Atia Abawi
A tale told from three different perspectives follows the experiences of two teens, a Pashtun and a Hazara, who fight against their cultures and traditions to stay together, and a village boy who betrays them to the local Taliban.
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Shabanu : Daughter of the Wind
by Suzanne Fisher Staples
When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.
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The Shadow Speaker
by Nnedi Okorafor
In West Africa in 2070, after fifteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find Jaa, her father's killer, and upon finding her, she also discovers a greater purpose to her life and to the mystical powers she possesses.
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She is Not Invisible
by Marcus Sedgwick
Taught to recognize patterns in seemingly random events and numbers, blind Laureth Peak and her 7-year-old brother, Benjamin, become tangled in a mystery involving their father's disappearance that requires all of Laureth's skill to enable their survival. By the award-winning author of Revolver.
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
by Becky Albertalli
Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity—and that of his pen pal—will be revealed.
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Ten Things I Hate About Me
by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.
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This Side of Home
by Renée Watson
Twins Nikki and Maya Younger always agreed on most things, but as they head into their senior year they react differently to the gentrification of their Portland, Oregon, neighborhood and the new--white--family that moves in after their best friend and her mother are evicted
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Two Boys Kissing
by David Levithan
A chorus of men who have died of AIDS observes and yearns to help a cross-section of today's gay teens who navigate new love, long-term relationships, coming out, self-acceptance and more in a society that has changed in many ways. By the author of Boy Meets Boy.
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Under a Painted Sky
by Stacey Lee
In 1845 Missouri, Sammy, a Chinese girl, and Annamae, a runaway slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California, facing countless dangers together and forging an unforgettable bond of friendship.
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