Black History Month 2026: Books for Teens

Thirteen-year-old Candace discovers a portal in her locker that connects her across time and space with two other women who also had the same locker as girls, and the three go on to investigate the origins of the portal.

Together, Tamar and Fayard have lived a thousand lives. But in each life, one thing remains the same–their love for each other.

Jay discovers that the mountain resort where he lives and works with his friends and family is also a doomsday oasis for the rich and powerful, who expect top-notch customer service even as the world outside disintegrates.

A twelve-year-old Black girl deals with fear, grief, pain, and suffering caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and America’s history of enslavement and racist violence.

Scott Free, a student at the Goodness Academy on the planet Apokolips, wants to escape to Earth but falls in love with the head of the Female Furies–the one person tasked with ensuring he never escapes.

In order to save her poverty-stricken community, eighteen-year-old Eden enters a dating competition hoping to steal the heart and the riches of the heir to an elite corporation responsible for many environmental crimes.

In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam’s mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.

When he is arrested teen Darius Logan is sure he headed for prison, but instread he is offered the opportunity to join the Super Justice Force, where he discovers he has powers he did not know about, which may help save the post-Attack world from an alien enemy.

A high school junior teams up with a hacker during a police brutality protest to shut down a device that creates an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out.

In 2172, when much of the world is unlivable, sisters Onyii and Ify dream of escaping war-torn Nigeria and finding a better future together but are, instead, torn apart.