2026-2027 HS Name That Book

Admission

Buxbaum, Julie


School Library Journal, May 2020. Publishers Weekly, March 2020. Horn Book, November 2020. An affluent teen who thinks she is headed off to the college of her dreams, must reckon with the truth and possibly her own guilt when her mother is arrested in a college admissions bribery scandal.
Date Published:2020

Descent

Smith, Roland, 1951-,


Mountain-climbing prodigy Peak Marcello faces his toughest challenge yet as he descends into Tibet and goes head-to-head with an old enemy.
Date Published:2020

The dividing sky

Tew, Jill,


School Library Journal starred, October 2024. Publishers Weekly, July 2024. Kirkus starred, August 2024. Booklist, August 2024. In 2364, eighteen-year-old Liv Newman dreams of a future beyond her lower-class life in the Metro. As a Proxy, she uses the neurochip in her brain to sell memories to wealthy clients. Maybe a few illegally, but money equals freedom. So when a customer offers her a ludicrous sum to go on an assignment in no-man's-land, Liv accepts. Now she just has to survive. Rookie Forceman Adrian Rao believes in order over all. After discovering that a renegade Proxy's shady dealings are messing with citizens' brain chemistry, he vows to extinguish the threat. But when he tracks Liv down, there's one problem: her memories are gone.
Date Published:2024

School Library Journal starred, October 2024. Publishers Weekly, July 2024. Kirkus starred, August 2024. Booklist, August 2024. In 2364, eighteen-year-old Liv Newman dreams of a future beyond her lower-class life in the Metro. As a Proxy, she uses the neurochip in her brain to sell memories to wealthy clients. Maybe a few illegally, but money equals freedom. So when a customer offers her a ludicrous sum to go on an assignment in no-man's-land, Liv accepts. Now she just has to survive. Rookie Forceman Adrian Rao believes in order over all. After discovering that a renegade Proxy's shady dealings are messing with citizens' brain chemistry, he vows to extinguish the threat. But when he tracks Liv down, there's one problem: her memories are gone.

Date Published:2024

Family Force V, Book 1

Braly, Matthew, 1988-,


"Skybound Comet." "Rated ages 12+"--Back cover. School Library Journal, April 2025. Kirkus Review, May 2025. Welcome to the world of Family Force V, where kaiju attacks barely make the news, and 15-year-old Maise Shiraki's life couldn't be more complicated. On one hand, she's a socially awkward girl with a crush and a passion for art, but on the other, she's one member of an alien-fighting family of superheroes--The Moon Troopers. Turns out, being a superhero is hard--almost as hard as being a teenager--and Maise...well, she kinda sucks at both.
Date Published:2025

"Skybound Comet." "Rated ages 12+"--Back cover. School Library Journal, April 2025. Kirkus Review, May 2025. Welcome to the world of Family Force V, where kaiju attacks barely make the news, and 15-year-old Maise Shiraki's life couldn't be more complicated. On one hand, she's a socially awkward girl with a crush and a passion for art, but on the other, she's one member of an alien-fighting family of superheroes--The Moon Troopers. Turns out, being a superhero is hard--almost as hard as being a teenager--and Maise...well, she kinda sucks at both.

Date Published:2025

Kill her twice

Lee, Stacey, (Stacey Heather),


Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal starred, Lulu Wong, silver screen star and Chinatown's pride, is found dead by the Chow sisters May, Gemma, and Peony--Lulu's former classmates--in a Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, stable in 1932. Suspecting foul play, when the police appear decidedly nonchalant about investigating, the sisters take it upon themselves to seek justice for Lulu--especially when it becomes evident someone in government wants to use Lulu's death to paint Chinatown as a den of violence and corruption, justifying tearing it down to build the Union Station railway depot.
Date Published:2024

Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal starred, Lulu Wong, silver screen star and Chinatown's pride, is found dead by the Chow sisters May, Gemma, and Peony--Lulu's former classmates--in a Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, stable in 1932. Suspecting foul play, when the police appear decidedly nonchalant about investigating, the sisters take it upon themselves to seek justice for Lulu--especially when it becomes evident someone in government wants to use Lulu's death to paint Chinatown as a den of violence and corruption, justifying tearing it down to build the Union Station railway depot.

Date Published:2024

The last bloodcarver

Le, Vanessa, 1999-,


Nhika, a young woman hiding in the fringes of society, must use her forbidden healing ability to cure the only witness to a murder.
Date Published:2024

On again, awkward again

Kelly, Erin Entrada,


ALA Booklist. Horn Book. Kirkus Reviews. High school freshmen, Pacy and Cecil, share a look of love at first sight that sparks a series of mistakes and awkward interactions that become part of their love story.
Date Published:2025

Thieves' gambit

Lewis, Kayvion.,


Seventeen-year-old Ross Quest, a master thief, enters the Thieves' Gambit, a competition consisting of dangerous, international heists, in order to save her mother's life.
Date Published:2023

Very dangerous things

Munoz, Lauren,


Publishers Weekly, May 2025. At the Dr. James Everett School of Criminology, a murder mystery game goes wrong when the student playing the victim is actually murdered, and soon, junior Dulce Castillo sets out to find the culprit.
Date Published:2025

Where you see yourself

Forrest, Claire,


Effie Galanos' goals for her senior year include her navigating her way through her high school that is not really wheelchair-friendly, getting into the perfect college, and getting her crush Wilder to accompany her to the prom--but by spring she is beginning to see herself entirely differently.
Date Published:2023