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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The Hunger and the Dusk
G. Willow Wilson’s new graphic novel series starts with The Hunger and the Dusk (vol. 1), in which humans and orcs are the last remaining races and still mortal enemies, until they are faced with a group of fearsome humanoids from across the sea and must forge a fragile alliance to defeat them.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
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Infinity Alchemist
In Infinity Alchemist, by Kacen Callender, lower class Ash teaches himself alchemy secretly until he’s found out by Ramsay, who offers to teach Ash all he knows if Ash will only help him find a legendary book of magic.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Lunar New Year Love Story
Gene Luen Yang’s latest graphic novel, Lunar New Year Love Story, follows Val, who has believed in true love for far too long, and has sworn off anything to do with love after a disastrous Valentine’s Day in high school. When she joins a lion dance troupe for Asian New Year, however, she meets two boys who shape her perspective in new ways.
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: All copies in use
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Otherworldly
F. T. Lukens latest novel, Otherworldly, follows nonbinary Ellery and Knox, a magical being who helps humans with their magical bargains. When Ellery helps Knox evade the shades hunting him, Knox agrees to help Ellery reveal the cause of the perpetual winter that has devastated their world.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic
In A Suffragist’s Guide to the Antarctic, by Yi Shun Lai, young American Clara lies about her age and citizenship to join a British expedition to the South Pole, but when the ship is marooned on an ice floe, her determination to promote women’s rights takes a back seat to survival.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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When the World Tips Over
Jandy Nelson’s novel, When the World Tips Over, tells how the three siblings Dizzy, Miles, and Wynton all encounter in their own way a girl named Cassidy, who helps them uncover an old curse on their family and deal with the loss of their father.
Format: Book
Availability: All copies in use
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