YA Contemporary Romance
If like many other readers you are waiting to get your hands on Ali Hazelwood’s YA romance Check & Mate (or if you have already read it and are experiencing a serious book hangover), then you may be looking for other YA contemporary romance books to read while you wait. This list contains recent YA contemporary romance books featuring a diverse array of characters and all the feels that you’ve been craving.
It’s Playtime!
Fred Rogers said, “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” For parents and caregivers, this is a great reminder of the value to children of time spent playing games, enjoying movement, and exercising their imaginations.
Queer YA Fantasy & Sci-Fi Graphic Novels
Experience the joy of being queer where anything is possible with these queer sci-fi and fantasy graphic novels for teens. Witches, werewolves, aliens, mermaids, superheroes, knights, spaceships, castles, magic, and much more await you!
Spooky Middle Grade Books
It’s officially spooky season, so there is no better time than now to curl up with a good, scary book. Prepare to meet malevolent ghosts, terrifying shape-shifting spirits, murderous scarecrows and more in these stories. That is, if you think you’re brave enough.
Coffee & Book Pairings
Looking for the perfect book to usher in pumpkin spice season? Check out these perfect pairings and pick up a cup from Yinz Coffee!
Build a Better World—Together
Shared projects, friendly greetings, and cheerful exploration are some of the ways that the characters in the books below embody the idea of creating community. So check out some of these stories then consider making a plan to connect with the folks in your neighborhood.
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Children’s Books
Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month with these great children’s selections! For more titles that highlight Hispanic and Latine authors and stories, check out what’s available in our catalog as well as our Libby collection.
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month covers such a large swath of people, experiences, histories, languages, and perspectives that it is impossible to choose just a few writers to highlight. Here are eight exciting anthologies that pack in as many types of writing and kinds of authors as possible –– poetry, speculative fiction, realistic fiction, and history through literature and research are all represented here.
Banned Books: Teen Fiction
Check out this list of teen fiction titles to broaden your horizon this Banned Books Week!
Stuck in the Situationship
The couples in these stories might not even get together – or they might have to fight for a happy ending – but some sort of revelation or catharsis is guaranteed by the end of the book. From messy divorces to first dates, from strangers to childhood friends, there’s a situationship for everyone on this list.