Through a summer spent living with the father she has never really known, this graphic novel follows family estrangement and reconciliation, community ties, and a shifting sense of identity. Language barriers and cultural distance are gradually transformed into a process of learning who the other person is.

A summer with a stranger-like father becomes a time to rethink what family means.

Through a summer spent living with the father she has never really known, this graphic novel follows family estrangement and reconciliation, community ties, and a shifting sense of identity. Language barriers and cultural distance are gradually transformed into a process of learning who the other person is.

A summer with a stranger-like father becomes a time to rethink what family means.

Using collecting as its guiding idea, this short-story anthology brings together ten YA writers in different forms and voices. It foregrounds weirdness and experimentation while binding together ideas of possession, memory, identity, and the frictions between people.

Ten stories illuminate the strange appeal of collecting from different angles.

Using collecting as its guiding idea, this short-story anthology brings together ten YA writers in different forms and voices. It foregrounds weirdness and experimentation while binding together ideas of possession, memory, identity, and the frictions between people.

Ten stories illuminate the strange appeal of collecting from different angles.

Using collecting as its guiding idea, this short-story anthology brings together ten YA writers in different forms and voices. It foregrounds weirdness and experimentation while binding together ideas of possession, memory, identity, and the frictions between people.

Ten stories illuminate the strange appeal of collecting from different angles.

Using collecting as its guiding idea, this short-story anthology brings together ten YA writers in different forms and voices. It foregrounds weirdness and experimentation while binding together ideas of possession, memory, identity, and the frictions between people.

Ten stories illuminate the strange appeal of collecting from different angles.

Using collecting as its guiding idea, this short-story anthology brings together ten YA writers in different forms and voices. It foregrounds weirdness and experimentation while binding together ideas of possession, memory, identity, and the frictions between people.

Ten stories illuminate the strange appeal of collecting from different angles.

Using collecting as its guiding idea, this short-story anthology brings together ten YA writers in different forms and voices. It foregrounds weirdness and experimentation while binding together ideas of possession, memory, identity, and the frictions between people.

Ten stories illuminate the strange appeal of collecting from different angles.

Using collecting as its guiding idea, this short-story anthology brings together ten YA writers in different forms and voices. It foregrounds weirdness and experimentation while binding together ideas of possession, memory, identity, and the frictions between people.

Ten stories illuminate the strange appeal of collecting from different angles.

Using collecting as its guiding idea, this short-story anthology brings together ten YA writers in different forms and voices. It foregrounds weirdness and experimentation while binding together ideas of possession, memory, identity, and the frictions between people.

Ten stories illuminate the strange appeal of collecting from different angles.

Using collecting as its guiding idea, this short-story anthology brings together ten YA writers in different forms and voices. It foregrounds weirdness and experimentation while binding together ideas of possession, memory, identity, and the frictions between people.

Ten stories illuminate the strange appeal of collecting from different angles.

Using collecting as its guiding idea, this short-story anthology brings together ten YA writers in different forms and voices. It foregrounds weirdness and experimentation while binding together ideas of possession, memory, identity, and the frictions between people.

Ten stories illuminate the strange appeal of collecting from different angles.

Set against a motel run by a Pakistani immigrant family, this coming-of-age novel traces fractured friendship, family burdens, and the movement from rage toward forgiveness. It follows young people carrying old wounds as they try to face what was broken and keep moving forward.

A story about finding a place to belong between rage and forgiveness.

A coming-of-age mystery about a young Ojibwe woman who confronts her cultural roots while uncovering a drug- and crime-linked conspiracy. Identity, tradition, and justice collide throughout the story.

An autobiographical YA novel in which an Iranian refugee boy tells his own story to classmates who do not believe him.

A surreal young adult novel about white privilege, family secrets, and interlocking lives.

A verse novel about a teenager finding her voice through poetry while navigating family pressure, faith, and first love.

A verse novel about a teenager finding her voice through poetry while navigating family pressure, faith, and first love.

After leaving for college in New York, Marin cuts herself off from everything in her old life and remains alone in the dorm over winter break. When her friend Mabel comes to visit, Marin is forced to face her life with her grandfather, her loss, and the truths she could not say.

Memories sealed inside loneliness gradually loosen when a closest friend arrives.

Marcus Sedgwick’s novel traces a relationship that repeats across time and changing forms.

2010年のハイチ地震を背景に、破壊された都市で生き延びようとする人々の姿を描く群像劇。暗闇と混乱の中での生存、連帯、倫理的選択を鋭く問いかける作品。

小さな町で育つ主人公が、消えた人物や町で起きる奇妙な出来事と向き合いながら成長していく物語。喪失と希望、再生を静かな筆致で描いた現代小説。

On a coast devastated by rising seas, Nailer works ship-breaker crews and is forced into flight and hard choices after meeting the wealthy Nita. In a world of resource scarcity, the novel asks what courage looks like when survival is all that remains.

On a broken future coast, a boy runs to survive.

Cameron is pulled into a strange road trip and, along the way, reconsiders illness, death, friendship, and hope. Black humor and fantasy blend into a story that pushes through the pain of growing up.

On a strange trip, a boy finds both his limits and his hope.

Set at a boarding school, the novel follows Taylor as she pieces together fragmentary memories and past events in search of her roots and place in the world. Friendship, betrayal, and redemption are woven into a layered YA story.

A girl searches for where she belongs by piecing together fragments of memory.

Octavian, having escaped a death sentence, tries to survive in British-occupied Boston and along the southern coast as the Revolutionary War intensifies. The novel explores freedom, loyalty, violence, and belonging on a sweeping historical canvas.

In the midst of the Revolution, Octavian’s search for freedom continues.

Sophomore Frankie becomes fascinated by an all-male secret society and begins to expose how it works from the outside. Using both her romantic life and her intelligence, she unsettles the school’s power structure in a sharp YA novel.

A high school girl’s perspective begins to shake an all-male secret society from within.

After a tidal wave destroys his island home, Mau meets Daphne, the lone survivor of another disaster, and the two begin to rebuild a community. The novel is a forceful YA story about hope after catastrophe and the rethinking of tradition and belief.

After the wave, two survivors begin to build a new community.

A dark, vivid story set between two worlds. Liga raises her daughters in a private heaven, but violence and wildness eventually breach that refuge, forcing the three women to survive in a world where beauty and brutality stand side by side.

A protected refuge is eventually invaded by the violence of the real world.

Ashley, a girl obsessed with Antarctica, travels to the white continent with her grandfather and becomes caught in a desperate struggle to survive in a brutal environment. The novel is a cold, tense adventure shaped by isolation and obsession.

A girl drawn to Antarctica steps into a harsh white world.

Through the yearly encounters between vintner Sobran Jodeau and the angel Xas, the novel intertwines love, faith, desire, and fate. As a romantic fantasy from New Zealand, it combines quiet sensuality with philosophical reflection.

A vintner’s meeting with an angel changes both of them across the years.

Lily senses that something will go wrong at her grandfather’s eightieth birthday gathering and tries to steer the day toward something manageable. Quiet humor and warmth spread through a family full of eccentric adults and younger voices.

A girl tries to hold together one difficult day in a family full of oddities.

Kiriel comes to the human world by inhabiting the body of a possessed boy, and an unexpected turn pushes him to balance duty against feeling. Blending the uncanny with humor, the novel turns faith and desire into a coming-of-age fantasy.

The rules of the supernatural begin to wobble around a demon-possessed boy.

The life of poet Sylvia Plath is traced through a sequence of poems that render creativity, marriage, and emotional instability in layered form. Part biography and part verse performance, the book draws force from language itself.

Sylvia Plath’s life is traced through a sequence of poems.

Three intersecting stories follow Jin Wang, the Monkey King, and Chin-Kee as they explore the discomfort and shifting self-image of life as an Asian American. Blending myth and school-story elements, the graphic novel rethinks how identity is formed.

Myth and school life collide in a story about finding a place to belong.

Raised in eighteenth-century Boston, Octavian comes to understand who he is while living inside an experiment run by scientists and the realities of slavery. Set against the American Revolution, the novel sharply examines intellect, violence, and the meaning of freedom.

In pre-Revolution Boston, a boy learns the cost of freedom and the cruelty of an experiment.

After being dumped nineteen times by girls named Katherine, Colin tries to build a theory that will explain his future while on a road trip with his best friend. Humor and mathematical obsession combine in a novel about rethinking relationships.

After nineteen breakups, a boy turns to theory and travel to find his next step.

The novel alternates between the viewpoints of twin aspiring artists Noah and Jude, unfolding across shifting timelines. It is a lyrical coming-of-age story that intertwines loss, jealousy, love, creativity, family secrets, and renewal.

Set in Nazi Germany, the novel follows Liesel Meminger as she learns to read, steals books, and tries to preserve language and humanity amid war. Narrated by Death, it balances devastation with warmth and acts of resistance.

Miles is drawn to the enigmatic Alaska and learns about friendship, loss, and how to face himself during life at a boarding school. In the aftermath of a life-changing event, the novel carefully layers the emotional turbulence of adolescence.

At boarding school, a boy confronts a mysterious girl and the meaning of loss.

A debut novel about a boarding-school boy drawn to a brilliant girl, then forced to face love, loss, and meaning.

A short-story collection of dark, dreamlike tales that move between the uncanny and the violent.

A photo-rich biography that follows John Lennon’s life from his wartime birth in Liverpool through the Beatles years, his political voice, and his relationship with Yoko Ono. It presents him not as a myth, but as a public figure shaped by creativity, conflict, and constant reinvention.

A photo-biography that brings forward the complex, compelling John Lennon behind the legend.

A novel about an ordinary young man drawn into a mysterious series of tasks that tests courage and responsibility.

Daisy is sent from the United States to stay with relatives on a farm in England, and she slowly settles into life with her cousins just as the wider world begins to collapse into war. In the sealed-off chaos that follows, the novel tests the strength of family bonds and the will to survive.

As war tears through ordinary life, a girl searches for where she belongs in a distant family home.

Matt, a cabin boy aboard the airship Aurora, meets the sharp-minded Kate and is drawn into a mystery involving a lost island and secrets hidden beyond the clouds. It is an adventure story set in a sky-bound age of exploration and danger.

A boy aboard a ship in the sky runs into a hidden island and a dangerous secret.

Sixteen-year-old Chanda tries to hold her life together in southern Africa as HIV/AIDS reshapes her family and community. The novel traces the weight of secrecy and loss while showing the strength and responsibility that can emerge in adolescence.

In a world shadowed by HIV/AIDS, a girl fights to keep her family together.

Turner Buckminster struggles to fit into a Maine coastal town and forms a friendship with Lizzie Bright, a girl from Malaga Island. As prejudice and development pressure threaten her community, he tries to choose what is right even when it puts him at odds with the adults around him.

In a seaside town shaped by prejudice, a boy and girl form a friendship under pressure.

A novel told by a teenage father confronting an unexpected pregnancy and the responsibilities of parenthood.

A coming-of-age novel in which a young woman confronts ambition, loss, and the limits imposed on her life.

A verse novel about troubled teenagers who find temporary refuge and one another in a shared house.

A punk-inflected coming-of-age novel about an isolated teen who finds confidence through friendship and music.

Virginia Shreves is a high school student who feels intensely self-conscious about her body and has to face family pressure, awkward romance, and the fracture her brother's troubles create at home. Moving between humor and pain, the novel traces a teenager's slow work toward accepting both her appearance and her feelings.

A girl uneasy in her own body moves forward while wavering between family, romance, and self-acceptance.

Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers is an award-winning work.

Postcards from No Man's Land remains a work that continues to attract readers.

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer is an award-winning work.

The House of the Scorpion remains a work that continues to attract readers.

My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr is an award-winning work.

My Heartbeat remains a work that continues to attract readers.

Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos is a nonfiction work that traces history and social structures.

Hole in My Life remains a work that continues to attract readers.

The novel follows Young Ju, who moves from Korea to the United States as a child, through family poverty, her father’s violence, and cultural dislocation. It quietly builds the pain of an immigrant family over time.

In the America she imagined as heaven, a girl faces reality.

A peaceful valley protected by an enchanted forest faces danger as the forest’s power fades, and Tilja sets out with her companions to find the magician who can save them. The fantasy joins the weakening of magic with acts of courage.

As magic weakens in the valley, a girl begins to discover her own power.

As a poetry collection inspired by twentieth-century American art, the poems respond to paintings, sculpture, and photographs and reopen the experience of looking at art from another angle. The book gathers acts of artistic response into a single volume.

The poems create new ways of seeing by speaking with works of art.

A boy who believes he is responsible for his father and stepmother’s deaths faces a string of teen suicides in town and the mystery of carved wooden objects. The novel moves as a psychological suspense story shaped by guilt and loss.

Guilt slowly breaks the quiet air of the town.

In verse-like lineation, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn wavers between her determination to go to college, love, changing friendships, and the pressure of faith. The details of everyday life bring out both the strength and uncertainty of adolescence.

Only her wish to go to college remains certain while the girl keeps wavering.

After moving to a coal-mining town, Kit traces his family history and his own growth while confronting Askew, a boy who plays a game called Death, and the memories of his grandfather’s mining past. Ghosts of the past and present friendship overlap throughout the novel.

In the darkness of the mines, a boy meets his family’s memory anew.

Taken by her estranged father to South Africa, where her sister was murdered, Berry faces family rupture and the possibility of reconciliation while carrying anger and grief. The short novel condenses sorrow and the possibility of reconnection into a tight form.

A girl carrying stones on her chest travels with the weight of what has been lost.

When class outcast Christopher Creed disappears, Torey begins to follow the rumors around town and the guilt that his friends carry. The mystery of the disappearance and the atmosphere of bullying grow steadily more unsettling.

The absence of a missing boy brings the town’s secrets to the surface.

Georgia’s diary-style monologue races through love, failure, and self-disgust with humor. School life, crushes, and family annoyances spin together at a quick pace.

Love and failure alike are written straight into the diary.

Fourteen-year-old Shawn, who has severe cerebral palsy, carries a rich inner life that those around him do not recognize while he faces the fear that his father may be planning to end his life. The gap between consciousness and body sustains a quiet tension throughout.

Inside the boy who cannot move, the world turns more vividly than anyone realizes.

Sixteen-year-old Steve is on trial as an accomplice to murder, and he records his experience in a notebook as if it were a film script. The moving trial and his inner turmoil collide, exposing his uncertainty about guilt and self-image.

In the courtroom, the boy keeps recording his life as a film.

After a boy finds a strange man who seems to be part bird and part angel in the garage of his new home, his sick baby sister and unsettled family life press in around him. The novel blends quiet fantasy with the pain of ordinary life.

On the edge of a fragile everyday life, a boy meets something extraordinary.

After reporting a summer party, Melinda becomes isolated and nearly stops speaking, yet slowly begins to face her experience through art class. The novel follows silence and recovery in a sharp first-person voice.

A girl who loses her voice comes closer to the truth through art.

John, a boy carrying the fallout of his parents’ divorce and a deep sense of not fitting in, meets Marisol, who makes zines, and wavers between friendship and romance. The novel tracks adolescent awkwardness and delayed self-understanding through direct conversation.

From handmade zines, the knots between love and friendship begin to loosen.