3. Monday’s Not
Coming
By Tiffany D.
Jackson
Monday Charles is
missing, and only her
best friend Claudia
seems to notice. As
Claudia digs further
into her friend’s
disappearance, she
wonders how a
teenager can vanish
without anyone caring
that she is gone?
4.
5. Clap When You
Land
By Elizabeth
Acevado
Separated by distance-
and their fathers’
secrets-two girls are
forced to face a new
reality in which their
father is dead and their
lives are forever
altered. And then,
when it seems like
they've lost everything
of their father, they
learn of each other
6.
7. His brother Shawn was
just murdered. And
Will knows the rules.
No crying. No
snitching. Told in short,
fierce staccato
narrative verse, Long
Way Down is a fast and
furious, dazzlingly
brilliant look at
teenage gun violence.
Long Way
Down
By Jason
Reynolds
8.
9. American
Street
By Ibi Zoboi
A young Haitian
immigrant must
adjust to life in the
United States while
dealing with issues
with her family.
Trapped at the
crossroads of an
impossible choice, will
she pay the price for
the American dream?
10.
11. Shirin, a sixteen-year-
old Muslim girl, is
tired of being
stereotyped. When
she meets Ocean
James, she realizes
she has had her
guard up for so long
that she’s not sure
she’ll ever be able to
let it down.
A Very Large
Expanse of Sea
By Tahereh
Mafi
12.
13. Sixteen-year-old Starr
exists in two worlds:
the poor neighborhood
where she lives and the
prep school she
attends. The uneasy
balance between these
worlds is broken when
Starr witnesses the
shooting of a friend at
the hands of a police
officer.
The Hate U Give
By Angie Thomas
14.
15. Dear Martin
By Nic Stone
Justyce McAllister is
top of his class and set
for the Ivy League—
but none of that
matters to the police
officer who just put
him in handcuffs.
Justyce looks to the
teachings of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. for
answers. But do they
hold up anymore?
16.
17. Brown Girl
Dreaming
By Jacqueline
Woodson
Award winning author
Jacqueline Woodson
tells the moving story
of her childhood in
mesmerizing verse. In
vivid poems, she
shares what it was like
to grow up as an
African American in
the 1960s and 1970s.
18.
19. Aristotle and
Dante Discover
the Secrets of the
Universe
By Benjamin Alire
Sáenz
Aristotle is an angry
teen with a brother
in prison. Dante is a
know-it-all who has
an unusual way of
looking at the world.
When they meet at
the pool they forge a
life changing
friendship.
20.
21. Darius the Great
Is Not Okay
By Adib Khorram
Darius Kellner
speaks better
Klingon than Farsi,
and he knows more
about Hobbit social
cues than Persian
ones. He’s a
Fractional Persian—
half, his mom’s
side—and his first-
ever trip to Iran is
about to change his
life.
