Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about.With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems.Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.

Historical fiction turns zombie apocalypse.

Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville—derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities—and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It’s a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society’s expectations.

But that’s not a life Jane wants. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston’s School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn’t pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose. But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems.

Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha

hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders

beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother

summoned forth souls.

But everything changed the night magic

disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king,

maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and

her people without hope.

Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and

strike against the monarchy. With the help of a

rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the

crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic

for good.

Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires

prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet

the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she

struggles to control her powers and her growing

feelings for an enemy.

"Speak up for yourself―we want to know what you

have to say." From the first moment of her freshman

year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a

big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She

is friendless―an outcast―because she busted an

end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now

nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her.

Through her work on an art project, she is finally

able to face what really happened that night: She

was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still

attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her.

Orange Is the New Black meets Walter Dean Myer’s Monster in this gritty, twisty, and haunting debut by Tiffany D. Jackson about a girl convicted of murder seeking the truth while surviving life in a group home.

Mary B. Addison killed a baby.

Allegedly. She didn’t say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: a white baby had died while under the care of a churchgoing black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it?

There wasn’t a point to setting the record straight before, but now she’s got Ted—and their unborn child—to think about. When the state threatens to take her baby, Mary’s fate now lies in the hands of the one person she distrusts the most: her Momma. No one knows the real Momma. But does anyone know the real Mary?

Prestigious. Powerful. Privileged. This is Fullbrook Academy.

Jules Devereux just wants to keep her head down, avoid

distractions, and get into the right college, so she can leave Fullbrook and its old-boy social codes behind.

Jamie Baxter feels like an imposter at Fullbrook, but the

hockey scholarship that got him in has given him a chance

to escape his past and fulfill the dreams of his parents and

coaches, whose mantra rings in his ears: Don’t disappoint us.

As Jules and Jamie’s lives intertwine, and the pressures to

play by the rules and to keep the school’s toxic secrets, they

are faced with a powerful choice: remain silent while others

get hurt, or stand together against the ugly, sexist traditions of an institution that believes it can do no wrong.

Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do

not move out of their parents’ house after high school graduation.

Perfect Mexican daughters never abandontheir family.

But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga’s

role.

Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga

dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her

family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too.

Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing

out every possible way Julia has failed.

But it’s not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have

been as perfect as everyone thought. With the help of her best

friend Lorena, and her first love, first everything boyfriend Connor,

Julia is determined to find out. Was Olga really what she seemed?

Or was there more to her sister’s story? And either way, how can

Julia even attempt to live up to a seemingly impossible ideal?

Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa

mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five

years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor

was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound

by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to

hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal

him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s

tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a

grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.

Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who

grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find

himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is

also the story of that young man’s relationship with his

fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his

teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the

cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.

Courtney Cooper and Jupiter Sanchez (Coop & Jupe!) have been next-door neighbors and best friends since they were seven-years-old. She's his partner-in-crime and other half. But lately, Cooper can't ignore he might want something more than friendship from Jupiter.

When Rae Chin moves to town she can't believe how lucky she is to find Coop and Jupe. Being the new kid is usually synonymous with pariah, but around these two, she finally feels like she belongs. She's so grateful she wants to kiss him...and her.

Jupiter has always liked girls. But when Rae starts dating Cooper, Jupe realizes that the only girl she ever really imagined by his side was her.

One story. Three sides. No easy answers.

One teenager in a skirt.One teenager with a lighter.

One moment that changes both of their lives forever.If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and facing life imprisonment. The case garnered international attention, thrusting both teenagers into the spotlight.

Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable.

When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuriwants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can’t stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as Zuri and Darius are forced to find common ground, their initial dislike shifts into an unexpected understanding.

But with four wild sisters pulling her in different directions, cute boy Warren vying for her attention, and college applications hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to find her place in Bushwick’s changing landscape, or lose it all.

In a timely update of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, critically acclaimed author Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic.

Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri’s got massive shoes to fill.

But it’s hard to get your come up when you’re labeled a hoodlum at school, and your fridge at home is empty after your mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral…for all the wrong reasons.

Bri soon finds herself at the center of a controversy, portrayed by the media as more menace than MC. But with an eviction notice staring her family down, Bridoesn’t just want to make it—she has to. Even if it means becoming the very thing the public has made her out to be.