Take a look at our new book picks for teens and young adults this June! Includes titles by Faridah Abike-Iyimide, Camille Chong, Britney Brouwer and more.
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The Heirs
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Everyone has heard of the Button heirs: the five genius children of infamous billionaire Leontes Button. Adopted and trained under the ‘Button Method’, they’ve had no choice but to be brilliant.
But brilliance comes at a deadly price. Because at their father’s tenth annual Prodigy Ball, Leontes Button is murdered. As long-buried secrets come to light, one thing is clear: everyone at the ball had reason to want him dead.
After all, their father was especially good at making enemies.
She’s a Knockout
Britney Brouwer
Annie Armani’s life changed with one knockout punch. She’s not a scrappy nobody any longer – she’s the Junior MMA Champion, the star of a new documentary, with a high-profile fight on the horizon and the chance of earning the kind of money her broken family desperately needs.
Secretly though, Annie’s terrified. The punch was a fluke and she’s still reeling from her brother Marc’s recent death. Now Annie has to contend with nosy producers, adoring fans and (worst of all) her feelings for her hot new sparring partner, Jake Duff, who has his own reasons for joining her team.
With her future and her heart on the line, can Annie prove she’s got what it takes to be a knockout sports star?
Love, Gods and Sinners
Camille Chong
Harper and Tia are roommates, and interns at the same tech company. They clash, they fight, they flirt. And, under cover of night, the two of them adopt secret identities and head out on missions across the city for their respective magical clans.
Tia is the beautiful descendant of the Moon Goddess, and Harper is secretly Raven, the leader-in-waiting of the feared and villainous Foxes. When each is tasked by their clan to kill the other, a deceitful game of cat-and-mouse begins.
And Harper and Tia will start to understand that the concepts of right and wrong can be just as complicated – and dangerous – as falling in love.
A Prince Among Pirates
Katie Abdou
Headstrong, reckless, and utterly unsuited for the stodgy House of Lords, Kit has spent years dodging his father’s stern disapproval and delighting in clandestine rendezvous. But time is running out.
With an arranged marriage looming and the confines of white wigs and stiff decorum closing in, Kit is desperate to escape a life that feels completely wrong for him. His solution? A wildly impulsive decision that lands him aboard the Deliverance, a galleon captained by the infuriatingly charismatic Reggie Sharpe.
With a devil-may-care attitude and a delicious grin, Captain Sharpe commands the waves with his crew of misfits – who all turn out to be pirates. Before Kit can say ‘wrong ship’, he’s trading ballroom etiquette for rum-soaked camaraderie, explosive gunfights, and, perhaps most excitingly, heart-stopping kisses under the stars.
But life at sea holds just as many secrets as treasures.
The Secret World of Briar Rose
Cindy Pham
A century ago, Princess Amelia was cursed into eternal sleep, leaving the kingdom of Gyldan in ruins. Sixteen-year-old thief Corin dismisses the story as a fairy-tale – until her sister Elly runs away to find the sleeping princess.
Corin follows her sister’s trail to a buried, ancient castle and a portal to Amelia’s subconscious. Elly has found a paradise of ice castles, sunflower mazes and star-filled oceans, where the sleeping princess’s dream alter-ego, Briar Rose, lives in eternal spring – and even the demon who cursed her, Malicine, reigns over a wintry wonderland.
When Corin learns about Amelia’s past – and the secrets hidden deep in this world of dreams – she must decide whether to stay – or return to the waking world, with all its horrors, and fight for a better life.
Encore!
Miles Toriko Burks
Former childhood best friends Clayton Noguchi and Aron Santos are forced to partner up in their senior year theatre class. Where once they were thick as thieves, now the two sit on opposite ends of the high school social spectrum, as a theatre nerd and the popular jock.
But despite all that has changed around and between them, they still can’t help but gravitate towards one another, and soon enough the boys are tentatively rekindling their friendship with improv, movie nights, late facetime conversations – and their growing feelings for one another.