Grade 9

Twenty-first-century minimalism is an increasingly mainstream response to global environmental crises such as climate change, the garbage glut, fast fashion, and other manifestations of the… Read More →

Los Angeles. 1943. The summer of the Zoot Suit Riots. Flaca and Cuata have a problem. It's bigger than being grounded by their strict ma. It's bigger than fights with the soldiers stationed… Read More →

Managing debt and credit is a vital part of financial literacy. This book teaches teenagers how to understand loans, navigate credit, and use these tools to their advantage. It breaks down… Read More →

After aliens attack Earth, Sanjay is trapped inside his high school. A local group puts the school on lockdown, claiming they're looking out for the students. But when the teachers start to… Read More →

When he was fifteen, Kevin took a car for a joyride and got in an accident that seriously injured a pedestrian. Now known as "Strider" in juvie, he has spent more than two years incarcerated, Read More →

The Fresh Start Lock-In was supposed to bring the students of Bridgewater closer together. Jackie didn't think it would work, but she didn't think she'd have to fight for her life, either. A… Read More →

In this romance set in the world of gaming, a lonely teen finds himself crushing on a girl—both in his favorite video game and in real life. In Kristopher Mielke’s romance set in the world of Read More →

Trans teen Journey has the chance to play an epic game of Dungeons & Dragons. Surprise encounters are common in D&D, but what Journey doesn't expect is to reconnect with an ex-friend… Read More →

A travesty. A violation. An ecstasy. A disappointment. An instant. A lie. A theft. A rite of passage. Whatever you call it, there's only one first time. A.S. King, Melvin Burgess, Keith… Read More →

Claudia Jones is missing. Her classmates are thinking the worst . . . or at least the weirdest. It couldn't be an alien abduction, right? None of Claudia's classmates at Blithedale High know Read More →

"I don't realize I'm crying until he glances at me. For a moment, I see the look of anguish in his eyes, then he blinks it away and slips off into the water. I immediately think of the gator. Read More →

A quiet, hardworking man, Lou Gehrig is one of the most underrated baseball players of all time. Although he repeatedly outscored, outhit, and outplayed his teammates Babe Ruth and Joe… Read More →

Alex, a Latino transgender teen, is struggling to balance his feelings for a real-life crush on a Jewish boy in his class and the relationship he has with a boy he knows online—only to find… Read More →

Insecure about her body and unhappy at home, Emmy will do anything to be liked. But after rumors spread about her sexual experience, Emmy leaves her hometown to stay with family in Vancouver. Read More →

Lydia has had a passion for climate issues for as long as she can remember. After a fall at school, her well-meaning friends and family are against her getting out on the streets to protest, Read More →

A teen with bipolar disorder fights for survival in Ella Grace Foutz's memoir in verse. Foutz weaves an intimate and gripping chronicle of her experience with mental illness. Amidst the… Read More →

Between one and two million people in the United States are known to have lupus. But many more people may have it and not know it. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease, which means the… Read More →

Mina's summer is shaping up well: she's got her dream job and, with the way her new coworker is flirting, maybe a new girlfriend as well. The lingerie store where they both work might… Read More →

Two Scottish generals, Macbeth and Banquo, are on their way home from successful battles when they encounter three witches. With the prophecies of power and fame they give him swirling… Read More →