Staff Picks

More than being a movie about racing cars, it's a movie about standing by your passions, your beliefs, and your friends--regardless if you win or lose.

Twitter wars have never been so adorable. A teen romance about dealing with other people's baggage (via your mom's corporate Twitter account!) while managing your own (homework, college interviews, swim team drama, cute boy on the diving team etc...))

Read powerfully by David Keith, Lewis gives his reader's many ways to cross "that" bridge. Whatever bridge that may be, the only way to do so is with love.

Pony is a trans boy who has moved to a new high school for his senior year. On the first day, he catches the eye of the most popular cheerleader at the school. The ending is heart-melting.

This book covers a wide range of topics, including how to deal with others, how valuable a friend can be even without speaking, and how a good dessert can be as a grounding technique.

Alternate history steampunk turns this Frankenstein retelling into a battle for equality in a world where people with clockwork prosthetics are marginalized.

In the near future where the majority of animal species have gone extinct comes the haunting and beautifully written story of an Irish woman who sets out to follow the migration of one remaining flock of birds to the Arctic.

When seventeen-year-old Tana wakes up following a party in the aftermath of a violent vampire attack, she travels to Coldtown with her ex-boyfriend who has been bitten, and a mysterious vampire boy they meet along the way.

Mimi Lee is an animal lover who gets mixed up in the suspicious death of a truly unlikeable puppy mill owner. With the help of her talking cat, Marshmallow, she works to get off the suspect list.

If you're looking for a story that contains alien abductions, high school drama, and magic realism with a Latinx protagonist... look no further than Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything.

An intriguing fantasy world with a metal based magic system unlike anything I have read. The characters grab you from the get go.

This Tween Graphic Novel is full of tween smirks, sass, and awesome, colorful superpowers. Great for anyone who likes origin stories, for younger readers who have read HiLo or The Gumazing Gum Girl, or older readers who love awesome girl superheroes.

You feel each emotion of every character so vibrantly: laughter, great sorrow, guilt and shame, the tender moments of blooming love, that you feel you live in this community of projects in 1969 New York.

You'll find escape rooms, zombie challenges, and robot butlers in this fun romcom for teens!

You know when someone tells you they are fine, just fine, completely fine, totally fine. Just. Fine. This is a book about that. Elinor is tragic and a little heart breaking, but you will root for her, nevertheless.

The first in a charming, whimsical, and action-packed series. The spellbinding setting and creatures (trolls, giants, elves with no hands...) will transport you to a magical world you’ll wish was real. Now also a popular Netflix series!

Interesting, fun, and just a wee bit disturbing. Makes me glad I didn’t live in the Victorian era.

The fastest family on the block is forced to slow down when a sloth comes to visit, giving them time to gain a greater appreciation of the things they have. A cute book (with an adorable sloth in it!) to share with a toddler who has to go go go!

Enjoy this exploration of wildlife and the author's life in this unique memoir.

The author's writing style lends itself so well to the premise that you often forget that this is meant to be a book for a younger audience. A must-read for any Pratchett fan or lover of the little people.