I Miss You, I Hate This

I Miss You, I Hate This by Sara Saedi Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Publishing Date: October 11, 2022 Book Info Five Feet Apart meets Kate in Waiting in this timely story of two best friends navigating the complexities of friendship while their world is turned upside down by a global pandemic. The lives of high school seniors Parisa…

Love from Mecca to Medina

Title: Love From Mecca to Medina Author: S.K. Ali Publisher: Salaam Reads Publication Date: October 18th, 2022 Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance Book Info Adam and Zayneb. Perfectly matched. Painfully apart. Adam is in Doha, Qatar, making a map of the hijrah, a historic migration from Mecca to Medina and worried about where his next…

Love from Mecca to Medina

Title: Love From Mecca to Medina Author: S.K. Ali Publisher: Salaam Reads Publication Date: October 18th, 2022 Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance Book Info Adam and Zayneb. Perfectly matched. Painfully apart. Adam is in Doha, Qatar, making a map of the hijrah, a historic migration from Mecca to Medina and worried about where his next…

Something Great

Title: Something Great Author/illustrator: Jeanette Bradley ISBN: 9781646141715 Publisher: Levine Querido Publication Date: September 20. 2022 Preorder:Bookshop, signed copies at Books on the Square Book Info Voila! Quinn spent the morning in their workshop, and they emerged with Something Great! But what is it?  No one seemed to understand that Something Great isn't supposed to…

We deserve monuments

Roaring Brook Press | On sale November 29, 2022 | ISBN: 9781250816559 | Hardcover | Ages 14-18 | 384 pages |$18.99 Book Info Small-town drama, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in this YA debut that explores how racial violence can ripple down through generations.  What’s more important? Knowing the truth or keeping the peace?  Seventeen-year-old…

Well, that was Unexpected

Well, That Was Unexpected by Jesse Q. Sutanto Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Romance Publishing Date: September 27, 2022 Book Info An outrageous, laugh-out-loud YA rom-com about a girl who’s whisked from LA to her mother’s native Indonesia to get back to her roots and finds herself fake-dating the son of one of the wealthiest families…

Other Ever Afters

Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman Genre: Young Adult Graphic Novel Publishing Date: September 20, 2022 Book Info Once upon a time . . . happily ever after turned out differently than expected. In this new, feminist, queer fairy-tale collection, you’ll find the princesses, mermaids, knights, barmaids, children, and wise old…

As long as the lemon trees grow

As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh Genre: Young Adult Historical Fiction Publishing Date: September 13, 2022 Book Info Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She had a normal…

Bad at Love

Bad at Love by Gabriela Martins Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Romance Publishing Date: August 2, 2022 Book Info Ever since Daniel moved to L.A. from Brazil to join the band Mischief & Mayhem, he’s become the tabloids’ bad boy. Paparazzi follow him and girls swoon over him . . . except for Sasha, who hates…

Alliana, Girl of Dragons

Alliana, Girl of Dragons by Julie AbeGenre: Middle Grade FantasyPublishing Date: August 2, 2022 Book Info Once upon a time, Alliana believed in dreams and fairy tales as sweet as spun-sugar clouds. Alliana wished on shooting stars, sure that someday she and her grandmother would be able to travel to the capital city to see…