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New Year, New Authors: Teen

It's a new year! Start the year off with one of these dazzling young adult debut books!

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  • Attending a new K-pop workshop hoping to reconnect with her ex-BFF and groupmate, 18-year-old former popstar Sunny Lee instead finds herself haunted by ghostly visions while someone inflicts bodily harm on her competitors, forcing her to confront…
    Book, 2023New York : Roaring Brook Press, ©2023.
  • An Ordinary blending in with the Elites to stay alive and out of trouble, Paeydn is thrown into the Purging Trials when she unwittingly saves one of Ilya's princes, a brutal competition to showcase the Elites' powers--the very thing she lacks.
    Book, 2023New York : Simon and Schuster BFYR, ©2023.
  • Multiple formats available. Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She's rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she's a true leading lady is in her own…
    Book, 2021New York, New York : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, ©2021.
  • Seventeen-year-old Jani and her little sister Zosa secure jobs at a glamorous magical hotel, but when Jani realizes that their staff contracts are unbreakable, she embarks on a mission to unravel the mystery of the magic at the heart of the hotel…
    Book, 2022New York City, New York : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, ©2022.
  • Messy Roots

    a Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American

    Gao, Laura
    Seamlessly toggling between past and present, this funny graphic memoir follows a queer Chinese American's immigration to Texas where she just wants to make the basketball team, escape Chinese school, and figure out why she is attracted to girls.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
  • An honors student at Jefferson Academy, seventeen-year-old Keira enjoys developing and playing Slay, a secret, multiplayer online role-playing game celebrating black culture, until the two worlds collide.
    Book, 2019New York, New York : Simon Pulse, ©2019.
  • Multiple formats available. Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protege of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun…
    Book, 2012New York : Henry Holt, 2012.
  • Multiple formats available. After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in…
    Book, 2012New York : Bloomsbury, ©2012.
  • Multiple formats available. Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
    Book, 2021New York : Henry Holt and Company, ©2021.
  • Multiple formats available. Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.