Grade Level: High School
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Fire Escape: How Animals and Plants Survive Wildfires
This nonfiction book by an award-winning author/illustrator team focuses on unique angles to a current topic, including injury rehabilitation efforts, species that use wildfires to their advantage, how to help area repopulation, and the animals that help to prevent/fight wildfires.
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The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee
Mina is trapped in the graphic story she created. Now it’s up to her to save everyone. In the speculative fiction adventure The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee,a teenage artist grapples with her first love, grief, and learning how to take charge of her own life.
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This Book Won’t Burn
Noor discovers hundreds of books by queer and BIPOC authors are being removed from her school library by the school board. Noor can’t sit back and do nothing against this book banning policy, because that goes against everything she believes in.
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Kareem Between
Kareem discovers the U.S. isn’t always a safe place for his family and people, and learns how to find his power and voice. This novel provides a new perspective we desperately need to find hope and empathy in our divided world.
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Bridge Across the Sky
Bridge Across the Sky is a powerful historical novel in verse that follows Tai Go, a Chinese teenager who immigrates to the United States with his family, only to face harsh realities at Angel Island Immigration Station. As they endure racism, humiliating medical exams, and interrogations under the Chinese Exclusion Act, Tai Go experiences the…
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Kill Her Twice
Kill Her Twice by the bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl is a gripping YA murder mystery set in 1930s Los Angeles’s Chinatown. When the Chow sisters—May, Gemma, and Peony—discover the body of their former classmate and silver screen star Lulu Wong, they immediately suspect foul play. As the police and press show little interest…
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Everything We Never Had
Everything We Never Had by the author of Patron Saints of Nothing is a powerful, multi-generational novel exploring the complexities of Filipino American identity, masculinity, and father-son relationships. Spanning nearly a century, the story follows four generations of the Maghabol family. From Francisco’s struggles as a Filipino laborer in 1930s California to his son Emil’s…
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Learning the Traditions of Chuseok Video
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The Making of Yolanda La Bruja
Race, social justice, spirituality, and gun violence are addressed through the eyes of Yolanda, a deaf, gay protagonist who is gifted with the ability to read people’s intentions. Her family ancestry is of Brujas (witches). Can she save her school from a violent attack with her powers?
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The Ping-Pong Queen of Chinatown
Felix Ma, a high school junior, invites Cassie Chow, a senior, to star in his short film as an excuse to see her more. What begins as a lighthearted project turns serious when Felix’s college admissions coach suggests using it for essay material, leading to a drama about the emotional impact of parental expectations.
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Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School
This nonfiction narrative explores Tiffany Jewell’s experiences from elementary school through college, examining systemic racism in the American educational system. It includes various personal narratives and stories from children’s and YA writers of the global majority, aimed at empowering future generations.
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Charming as a Verb
Henri, a popular debater at a prestigious New York City private school, is charming to everyone except Corrine Troy, who blackmails him to help change her image. Henri’s ambition to attend Columbia University is threatened as he navigates this challenge.