Squishy Crushy Something

Kieran Frank

Deep Hearts YA

The Aziza Chronicles: Awakening

Teen & Young Adult

Roach-Carter, TreVaughn Malik

Literature & Fiction

Kyle Filburn appears to have a picture-perfect life. He's entering his senior year, in a relationship with a great girl, on his high school's three-times-straight state championship soccer team, and an art professor from the local university has invited him to show and sell his work in his gallery.\nBut a chance meeting with a midfielder from a rival high school creates cracks in this picture-perfect life. Kyle develops feelings for this boy, throwing him into confusion. What does he want? And with whom? And when an anonymous patron starts buying his art, Kyle starts to wonder whether he should really be pursuing art school rather than athletics.\nIt becomes crystal clear that this picture-perfect life no longer reflects who Kyle is or who he wants to be...but what does that mean for Kyle?

I Know You're Out There Somewhere

Baumann, Joe

LGBTQ+ Books

My Only Real Friend is the Easter Bunny at the Mall

Bagni, Christina

The Mixtape to the Real Me

Martinez, Jake

Review\n"'When it comes down to it, mixes are love,' 15-year-old Rainey Cobb schools us. Sure enough, Benjamin Roesch has crafted Rainey's coming of age story to be an unforgettable mix tape of teenaged angst, good-natured wit, killer tunes, and family drama. This book reads like an ode to love in all forms: from Rainey's love for her flawed girl-dad, to her burgeoning sexuality, to that triumphant moment when she's able to walk at her own pace, content to be out of sync. A tender and accomplished debut." 
- Celeste Mohammed, author of Pleasantview, winner 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.\nIf you love music, quirky girls searching for themselves, oh, and loads of swoon, this is your next book. A great summer read. Impossibly fresh, funny, and full of humanity, Benjamin Roesch's debut will stay with you long after you close the last page. 
--A.K. Small, author of BRIGHT BURNING STARS\nFunny, poignant, and musically rich, Roesch's debut is the kind of book young teens remember and carry forward, rewinding and replaying whenever it feels like the world doesn't understand them. 
--Amy Klinger, author of In Light of Recent Events\nFifteen-year-old Rainey Cobb never thought meeting someone could actually change her life. But, then again, she’s never met anyone like Juliet.\nIt’s 1995 and The Cobb Family Band, led by Rainey’s rock star parents, has arrived for a week-long gig at the Midwestern resort owned by Juliet’s family. Dazzled by Juliet’s carpe diem attitude, DIY tattoos, and passion for grunge, Rainey falls hard. And when Juliet gives Rainey a mixtape that unlocks her heart’s secret yearnings, Rainey starts seeing herself—and her vagabond, show-biz life—through new eyes.\nIf Rainey quits the band, her parents’ fading career might never recover. But if she doesn’t leap now, she might be stuck forever in a life she didn’t choose…and always wonder who she could have been.

Blowin' My Mind Like a Summer Breeze

Roesch, Benjamin

The Geist exist to ferry ghosts away from dead bodies and into the gates of the afterlife. At least, that’s what Ash Murphy was told after he died in a fiery car crash and became one. 
Ash is forced to leave his old life behind and join the ranks of the mostly invisible, seemingly immortal Geist. And they all seem pretty perky for people who deal with death on a daily basis. 
After years of rejection and isolation, Ash finally has a group of friends he's willing to fight for. Of course, not everyone believes that Geist are doing God's work. Ash discovers this when he attracts the ire of The Brotherhood of Eternity, who believe Geist are actually murdering those they reap. And they will stop at nothing to exorcize every Geist on Earth. 
Ash will do whatever it takes to defend his new family and take down the Brotherhood…or he'll die (again) trying.

Geist (Phantasia)

Kelly, Mark

L.I.F.E. Too

Lawson, Felyx

A vow to an archangel. A web of unspoken love. A commission that could shatter it all.Two years ago, Tammo and Carlo saved Celestina's life-and bound themselves in a sacred vow to the Archangel Michael. Now, Tammo's rare gift as a bird-charmer has made him a favorite of the nobility, and Carlo's voice is taking Angelio's opera world by storm. But beneath beauty and success, tangled feelings churn between the three of them: love, duty, and truths too long unspoken.When the alluring and dangerous Marchesa della Pamina offers Tammo a commission, it sets off a chain of betrayals that threatens to unravel their bond and expose Carlo's secret.Set in a lush, operatic world of masks, angels, and forbidden longing, Masquerade of Finches is a story of courage, found family, and queer identity-featuring a tender portrayal of an asexual, nonbinary eunuch at its heart.

Masquerade of Finches (Angelio)

Hopkinson, Elizabeth

The Reign of Ruth

Faith, Jazel L.

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