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With evocative memoirs, complex love stories, and socially-conscious supervillains, these graphic books offer new windows into our world.

While we're rethinking everything, how would you better serve youth in your community? SLJ is supporting a project to devise a new, crowdsourced vision for libraries. 

These titles avoid classic romance tropes and tackle topics of race, feminism, and being true to yourself, all with humor and heart.

These thrilling teen novels will keep readers up on hot summer nights.

Tackling everything from racism to politics and elections to sexual abuse, these works of YA nonfiction will leave teens informed and inspired to help make a better world.

These adult novels—historical, thriller, fantasy, and more—are sure to appeal to teens looking outside of YA fare.

Warning: These 18 titles may induce giggle fits or milk-out-the-nose laughing. 

These YA authors don’t flinch from the tough stuff, exploring harassment, privilege, racism, family expectations, and more, but these tender, utterly intimate books are also laced with humor and understanding. Looking for more summer reading recommendations? SLJ is publishing lists all summer long—from family stories to mysteries to teen reads. 

In honor of Pride Month, these debut authors discuss their LGBTQIA+ themed YA books.