June can't let Jess go-but she needs to figure out how to move forward, and how to find the place she really belongs. Except Jess is always on her mind, and she can't deny her feelings anymore, even as Jess starts to pull away from her. But when she befriends two new girls and meets a boy named Sam, who she is instantly drawn to, life in Virginia starts to feel more real. June is miserable at first and counts down the days until she can come back home for the summer. She'll be miles away from her home, from her family, and from Jess.
But after June is expelled from school at the end of her first semester of junior year, she's forced to move to Virginia, to live with her grandmother and attend an all-girls boarding school. Even if June is starting to question if she likes Jess as more than just a friend.
Even if everyone else around her thinks Jess is a bad influence. The two are inseparable and June feels so lucky that they found each other. Seventeen-year-old June is completely wrapped up in her best friend Jess. Set in an Irish town where the church's tight hold has loosened and new freedoms are trying to take root, this sharply contemporary story is witty, gripping, and tinged with mysticism.Īny Place but Here by Sarah Van Name Fans of Morgan Matson and Sarah Dessen will fall in love with this contemporary coming of age story set at a picturesque Virginia boarding school. Shunned by her classmates and struggling to preserve a fledgling romance with Lily's gender-fluid sibling, Roe, Maeve must dig deep into her connection with the cards to search for clues the police cannot find-even if they lead to the terrifying Housekeeper herself. When Lily isn't at school the next Monday, Maeve learns her ex-friend has vanished without a trace. But when Maeve's ex-best friend, Lily, draws an unsettling card called The Housekeeper that Maeve has never seen before, the session devolves into a heated argument that ends with Maeve wishing aloud that Lily would disappear. After Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while cleaning out a closet during her in-school suspension, she quickly becomes the most sought-after diviner at St. This is a novel that every teen needs." -Kacen Callender, author of Felix Ever After "Charming, stunning, and unapologetically queer." -Mason Deaver, bestselling author of I Wish You All the Best and The Ghosts We KeepĪll Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donoghue Stefanie Caponi (Illustrator) Maeve's strangely astute tarot readings make her the talk of the school, until a classmate draws a chilling and unfamiliar card-and then disappears. But with an investigative journalist digging into his past, a father trying to silence him, and the bully frontrunner standing in his way, Mark will have to decide which matters most: perception or truth, when both are just as dangerous. Soon Mark feels emboldened to engage with voters-and even start a new romance. Still, thanks to Scandal and The West Wing, they know where to start: from campaign stops to voter polling to a fashion makeover.
He didn't grow up in this town, and his few friends are all nerds. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark risks his low profile to become a political challenger. Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. The (un)Popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchez's electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student's foray into a no-holds-barred student body president election against the wishes of his politician father. Spanish Language Materials Toggle Dropdown.Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0-18.Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students.Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People.Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List.Walter Award for Outstanding Children's Literature.Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award.Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children.National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award.Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.Finding Children's/YA Literature Toggle Dropdown.