2022 Recommendations

January - GRAPHIC NOVEL - Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel by Jason Reynolds

February - THRILLER - The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson

March - PRINTZ AWARD WINNER - The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

April - NONFICTION - Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer

May - SCIENCE FICTION - Steelstriker by Marie Lu

June - REALISTIC FICTION - Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp

July - MYSTERY - The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

August - DYSTOPIAN - Z Is for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien

 

2021 Recommendations

January - FANTASY - Havenfall by Sara Holland

February - GRAPHIC - The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by K. Woodward-Maynard

March- PRINTZ AWARD WINNER - Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri 

April - THRILLER - What She Found in the Woods by Josephine Angelini

May - SCIENCE FICTION - Escaping Eleven by Jerri Chisholm

June - NONFICTION - The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph

July - MYSTERY - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

August - DYSTOPIAN - The First 7 by Laura Pohl

September - REALISTIC - Indivisible by Daniel Aleman

October - FANTASY - Lore by Alexandra Bracken

November - BIOGRAPHY- One Kid's Extraordinary Journey by Magdalena Newman

December - HISTORICAL - A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia

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2020 Recommendations

January -  The Last 8 by Laura Pohl
February - Frankly in Love by David Yoon
March - The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe by Ally Condie
April - n/a
May - n/a
June - n/a
July - They Went Left by Monica Hesse
August - The Loop by Ben Oliver
September - The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones by Daven McQueen
October -  All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban
November - Parachutes by Kelly Yang                                                                                        December - Kent State by Deborah Wiles