Booklists

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and these titles, which include YA and middle grade fiction, picture books, and nonfiction, are perfect to recommend to readers both this month and year-round.

Dolley Madison and intrepid traveler Marianne North are but two of the engaging heroines who appear in this month's list of books we found star-worthy. 

With protagonists who are 18 and older, more and more young adult books are examining early adulthood. These realistic, historical, fantasy, and thriller novels will appeal to teens, with characters navigating the messiness of life after adolescence.

In love, off camping, eating hot dogs, and getting ready for school pictures, these stories of Arab American life are relevant to every reader.

April is Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month. Share these YA memoirs and nonfiction works about devastation and hope now, and year round.

From Charlie Parker and Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison and Ada Lovelace, remarkable individuals get the graphic treatment in these titles recommended for grades 3 and up.

With gorgeous words with affecting narratives, these middle grade and YA #OwnVoices titles provide excellent listening for National Poetry Month and beyond.

Hand these nail-biters to teens drawn to the movie based on Patrick Ness's novel The Knife of Never Letting Go.

Hand these novels for fans of this reboot of the 1984 Karate Kid movie, in which Johnny Lawrence has grown up and opened his own dojo.