Staff Favorites–Teen Edition–2024
We asked staff members around the library system what their favorite teen books were this year. Here are their picks: fiction and graphic novels. (Created November 2024)
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Aisle Nine
Aisle Nine, a graphic novel by Ian X. Cho, follows Jasper, whose amnesia may have something to do with his dead-end job in a big-box discount store, his longtime crush on coworker Kyle, or the fact that the world is full of portals to hell that spew out demons on a regular basis.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Ash's Cabin
Ash’s Cabin, Jen Wang’s latest graphic novel, follows Ash, a nonbinary teen whose disaffection with the modern world leads them to seek out their grandfather’s remote wilderness cabin.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: All copies in use
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The Black Girl Survives in This One
The Black Girl Survives in this One, edited by Desiree S. Evans, relates fifteen horror stories by fifteen different Black authors, each one telling a story of Black girls facing down the unspeakable and living to tell the tale.
Format: Book
Availability: All copies in use
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Canto Contigo
In Canto Contigo, by Jonny Garza Villa, Rafael Alvarez leads his high school mariachi band to its eleventh consecutive first prize, and meets, makes out with, and almost hooks up with the cutest boy he’s ever met. That boy turns out to be a rival from another mariachi band, and when they meet again, Rafael must face his feelings for him while grieving for his beloved abuelo.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Celestial Monsters
In the second book of The Sunbearer Trials duology, Celestial Monsters, by Aiden Thomas, transgender demigod Teo and his friends must battle the Obsidian gods to return the sun stone if they want to free the other demigods.
Format: Book
Availability: All copies in use
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Crash Landing
Crash Landing, by Charmaine Anne Li, follows Jay Wong in the last days of summer as she tries to land a kickflip and begs for something to make her senior year different. When Ash shows up with his own amazing moves on the skateboard, Jay thinks he could be the person who changes her life, but his secret may force Jay to decide what’s really important for her future.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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The Deep Dark
In Molly Knox Ostertag’s graphic novel, The Deep Dark, Mags takes on a lot of responsibility for someone so young, including feeding the secret in her basement. When an old friend returns and the two rekindle their budding romance, Mags must face the secret and the decade-old accident that changed her life forever.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: All copies in use
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First Test
In this graphic novel adaptation of Tamora Pierce’s novel First Test, young Kel has the ambition and the strength to join the knights of her kingdom, but monsters may be a weak test compared to the male dominated knighthood she wishes to join.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Flawless Girls
In Flawless Girls, by Anna-Marie McLemore, two sisters are sent by their grandmother to a prominent finishing school, but when one returns with no imperfections and possibly murderous intent, the other must re-enroll to find out what happened to her sister.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Hirayasumi
Keigo Shinzo’s manga series Hirayasumi follows carefree Hiroto, who has no girlfriend and no plan for the future, but who is quite happy with his life. When he unexpectedly inherits the house of a grouchy old neighbor, he must deal with some unexpected emotions, as well as the arrival of his younger cousin, who has her own problems.
Format: Book
Availability: All copies in use
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