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Woman's Voices in Teen Fiction

Celebrate the diverse experiences of women with this collection of materials for young adults.

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  • When Kori Anderson, who has a connective tissue disorder, and her popular older sister, Kira, participate in a pharmaceutical company's clinical trial, she begins to discover strange powers and hopes to discover the truth about these abilities--and…
    Graphic Novel, 2024Burbank, CA : DC Comics, 2024. — GARCIA
  • Lara Jean didn't expect to really fall for Peter. She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren't. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever. When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean's feelings for him return…
    Book, 2019New York : Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2019. — YA HAN
  • After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
    Book, 2022New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — YA AHMED
  • Imogen Scott may be hopelessly heterosexual, but shes got the Worlds Greatest Ally title locked down. . . . She even has two queer best friends. There's Gretchen, a fellow high school senior, who helps keep Imogen's biases in check. And then there's…
    Book, 2023New York : Balzer+Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — YA ALBERTAL
  • The unlikely friendship between Syrian American boxer Khadija and Syrian refugee Leene reveals the pressures and expectations of the perfect Syrian daughter and the repercussions of the Syrian Revolution both at home and abroad.
    Book, 2023New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — YA SHUKAIRY
  • Book smart teen Lola's summer plans are derailed when she is sent to live with her grandmother in Mexico City and learns a family secret that changes her life forever.
    Book, 2023New York : Kokila, [2023] — YA CERON
  • The first book in an epic fantasy series set in an Arabian-inspired land with secret spice magic. Raised to protect her nation from the monsters lurking in the sands, sixteen-year-old Imani must fight to find her brother, whose betrayal is now the…
    Book, 2023New York : Delacorte Press, [2023] — YA IBRAHIM
  • The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love--even where they are not supposed to.
    Book, 2023New York, New York : Dial Books, [2023] — YA MARQUIS
  • In Northwest Resistance , Echo travels to 1885, a period of turmoil. The settlers from the East are arriving daily, and the Métis and First Nations of the Northwest face hunger and uncertainty as their traditional way of life is threatened. The…
    Book, 2020Winnipeg, Manitoba : Highwater Press, 2020. — VERMETTE vol 3
  • Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay - Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington…
    Book, 2020New York : Scholastic Press, [2020] — JOHNSON
  • After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Dutton Books, 2017. — LACOUR
  • My Eyes Are Up Here is a razor-sharp debut about a girl struggling to rediscover her sense of self in the year after her body decided to change all the rules.
    Book, 2020New York : Dutton Books, [2020] — ZIMMERMA
  • In her last few weeks at Northern Virginia's elite Chawton School, eighteen-year-old Jemima Kincaid works to up-end its patriarchal traditions and, in the process, finds the freedom she has always sought.
    Book, 2020New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. — HATTEMER
  • Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc.
    Graphic Novel, 2015New York : HarperTeen, [2015] — STEVENSO
  • In 2049, as the President of the United States waits to be sworn in, she reflects on senior year in high school when she and her three dear friends vied for the attention of the future First Gentleman.
    Book, 2020New York : Poppy/Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — WATSON
  • Surviving the City, is a story about womanhood, friendship, resilience, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan's Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an…
    Book, 2018Winnipeg, Manitoba : HighWater Press, 2018. — SPILLETT
  • Faith Herbert is a pretty regular teen, aside from the small matter of recently discovering she can fly. She soon notices that both animals and people have begun to vanish from her town. Only Faith seems able to connect the dots to a new designer…
    Book, 2020New York : Balzer & Bray, [2020] — MURPHY
  • A graphic memoir recounts the years Walden spent competitively figure skating, before her developing love of art and first girlfriend causes her to question the insular world of figure skating.
    Graphic Novel, 2017New York : First Second, 2017. — WALDEN
  • A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman's struggles with self-esteem and body image issues. All Marie-Noelle wants is to be thin and beautiful.
    Graphic Novel, 2021Toronto : Groundwood Books, 2021. — HEBERT
  • The events of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein unfold from the perspective of Elizabeth Lavenza, who is adopted as a child by the Frankensteins as a companion for their volatile son Victor.
    Book, 2018New York : Delacorte Press, [2018] — WHITE