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Teen Staff Picks (July 2024)

Check out our latest staff favorites for teen reading.

Chicago Public Library

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  • Kit is in bardo, the 49days between death and rebirth in Buddhist tradition. She and her family reflect on her life as she travels through this state and they all process her death. Even though Kit's family members practice their religion…
    Paperback[Hoboken, New Jersey] : Levine Querido, [2024] — PN6727.L44F6789 2024
  • If you’re looking for inspiration, you’ll find it in this gorgeously illustrated book of poetry. The author writes about her upbringing in the Jamaican-American community in Portland, Oregon, and the experiences of Black women in different…
    BookNew York : Kokila, [2024] — PS3623.A87335B58 2024
  • Jackson plays the part of stage manager of his high school’s theater program very well, but when his crush Liam joins the cast of the fall musical, he finds himself thrust into the spotlight. He’s never felt so strongly about anyone, but…
    PaperbackNew York : Dial Books, [2024] — FIC KHORRAM
  • Samira is a "bad girl" - with an unwarranted reputation in her Sudanese community in DC, her relationship with her mom has become strained. She finds herself grounded with no phone on summer break so she begins sharing her poetry online.…
    BookNew York : Make Me A World, [2024] — FIC ELHILLO
  • In the town of Dalmeia in the Kingdom of Gifford, local witch Jeanne lives in the Forest of No Return with her giant guardian cat, Tortara. No one in the kingdom gives Jeanne the respect she deserves for killing the Demon King, and now she…
    Paperback[Los Angeles, CA] : Seven Seas Entertainment, [2024] — PN6790.J34C3813 2024 v. 1
  • When iconic country singer Decklee Cassel dies in Nashville, she leaves behind clues to find her final album and a three-million-dollar prize. Superfan Darren Purchase and her best friend Kendall Wilkinson leave their hometown of Mayberry,…
    PaperbackNew York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, [2024] — FIC VORIS
  • Don “TheDragonWilson” Jones gets literally knocked off his feet by Sam Steadman at a karate tournament and asks her to prom. All they want to do is slow dance, but her jerk ex Luke offers his friends $500 to beat up Don and Don’s evil ex…
    PaperbackNew York : First Second, [2024] — PN6727.S674K37 2024
  • Jo-Lynn Kirby has really been through it, and like most young girls she's been blamed for the awful things boys and grown men have done to her. It's just what happens to "girls like her". But when pretty, nice Maddie Price goes missing,…
    BookNew York, NY : Bloomsbury YA, [2024] — FIC ADAMO
  • Right Here, Right Now explores how each moment could change the course of the future. In one reality, Elise dies in a car accident on her way to work, but in another, she lives. In both, her cousin Liam and her childhood friend Anna bond…
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — FIC DUNLAP
  • It's always been just Kat and her mom so when Kat's mom, Jamie, says she needs to go alone to a billionaire's birthday party to complete her one last job as a jewelry thief, Kat tricks her mom and drags herself along to the sprawling New…
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2024] — FIC MCMANUS