Malinda Lo
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The summer of 2013 in the Bay is a momentous one for eighteen-year-old Aria Tang West, for the working-class queer community she finds herself in, and for her artist grandmother.
Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends--one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West.Aria expects...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Chinese American teenager Jess Wong's best friend Angie falls in love with a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess expects heartbreak. But when everybody's secrets start to be revealed, the stakes quickly elevate from love or loneliness to life or death" --
4) Adaptation
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a series of plane crashes caused by birds, seventeen-year-old Reese and her debate-team partner, David, receive medical treatment at a secret government facility and become tangled in a conspiracy that is, according to Reese's friend, Julian, connected with aliens and UFOs.
5) Ash
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
1050L
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
6) Huntress
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-olds Kaede and Taisin are called to go on a dangerous and unprecedented journey to Tanlili, the city of the Fairy Queen, in an effort to restore the balance of nature in the human world.
7) Inheritance
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When teens Reese and David are kidnapped after revealing that they were adapted with alien DNA, Reese is forced to reconcile her new love for David, a human, with feelings for Amber, an Imrian, and make a world-changing choice.
Publisher
Running Press Teens
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 275 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A diverse, inclusive young adult anthology featuring 15 short stories that re-imagine or subvert popular romance and rom-com tropes by some of the biggest names in YA"--
Fake relationships. Enemies to lovers. Love triangles and best friends, mistaken identities and missed connections. This collection of genre-bending and original stories celebrates how love always finds a way, featuring powerful flora, a superhero and his nemesis, a fantastical...
9) All out
Language
English
Description
Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape the world around them. Seventeen of the best young adult authors across the queer spectrum have come together to create a collection of beautifully written diverse historical fiction for teens. From a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in war-torn 1870s Mexico featuring a transgender soldier, to an asexual girl discovering her identity amid the...
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects fourteen stories that delve into the obsession with life's unknowns and the prospect of altering the future, by such authors as Meg Cabot, Diana Peterfreund, and Michael Grant.