- A Second Chance on Earth by Juan Vidal: When sixteen-year-old Marcos travels to Cartagena, Colombia to scatter his late father's ashes, he strikes up a friendship with Camilo, a boy his age who works as a local taxi driver and shares Marcos' love for the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude."
- Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas: Transgender demigod Teo and his friends must battle the Obsidian gods and steal back the sun stone in order to free their fellow semidioses and return Sol to the sky.
- Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White: After being nearly beaten to death for evidence he holds against the corrupt sheriff, sixteen-year-old transgender Miles joins his fellow townsfolk to end the blood feud and oppressive politics that plague his town.
- Guava and Grudges by Alexis Castellanos: Two teens from rival Cuban bakeries create a recipe for disaster when they start to fall for each other.
- Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma: Nineteen-year-old orphan Kidan Adane, heiress to a fallen House of humans tethered to vampiric creatures called draniacs, navigates her duty to foster human-draniac relations, but when her sister is kidnapped, Kidan suspects a draniac and will do anything to find her.
- Luminous Beings : (a quiet film of cosmic fury) by David Arnold: Childhood friends Ty and Burger plan to make a documentary and attend film school together, but Ty's hidden secret challenges their friendship as they navigate the aftermath of a global squirrel apocalypse.
- Rebel Fire by Lin Ann Sei: After escaping Princess Tsukimi, Kurara, refusing to give up on freeing the shikigami -- origami creatures enchanted to life, searches for Suzaku, the greatest shikigami of all, until a bloody confrontation leads to horrifying revelations of the shikigami’s true nature—and her own past.
- The Ghost of You by Michael Gray Bulla: When transgender teen Caleb’s brother dies, Caleb is followed around by a black cat that he names Ghost and must face his grief to discover Ghost’s true purpose while grappling with strained friendships and a possible new romance.
- The Monstrous Kind by Lydia Gregovic: Living in a Regency England beset with a mist that turns humans into monsters, Merrick is summoned home from London by her sister, but her sister has secret plans that may threaten their lives, and the lives of the ruling Manor families.
- When Haru Was Here by Dustin Thao: Eric, a lonely nineteen-year-old grappling with the loss of his best friend, retreats into his imagination and finds solace in a memory of a day spent with a boy named Haru, but Eric's imagination and reality blur together when he walks into a coffee shop and sees Haru.
This blog post reflects the opinions of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of Brooklyn Public Library.
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