2026-2027 HS Name That Book

Borrow my heart

West, Kasie,


Wren is used to being called a control freak, but she's found sticking to the list of rules she created for herself helps her navigate life. When a cute guy named Asher walks through the door of her neighborhood coffee shop, the rulebook goes out the window. When she overhears that he is being catfished by his online crush, Wren makes an uncharacteristically impulsive decision: she pretends to be the girl he's waiting for to save him from embarrassment. Suddenly she's fake-dating a boy she knows nothing about. But will he forgive her when he finds out she's not who she says she is?
Date Published:2024

Wren is used to being called a control freak, but she's found sticking to the list of rules she created for herself helps her navigate life. When a cute guy named Asher walks through the door of her neighborhood coffee shop, the rulebook goes out the window. When she overhears that he is being catfished by his online crush, Wren makes an uncharacteristically impulsive decision: she pretends to be the girl he's waiting for to save him from embarrassment. Suddenly she's fake-dating a boy she knows nothing about. But will he forgive her when he finds out she's not who she says she is?

Date Published:2024

Hearts overboard

Dean, Becky,


Includes excerpt from: Picture perfect boyfriend. Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, After a public breakup with her boyfriend Caleb, high school junior Savannah Moore is determined to prove that she's not a bore, like he said she was, and lays out a plan to be adventurous during a two-week family cruise to Alaska. However, when she learns her school rival Tanner will be on the trip, she is determined he won't spoil her fun. But soon Tanner learns of her plans and offers to help her succeed in winning Caleb back if she'll help him decide on a college major. Together they experience all the fun Alaska has to offer and discover that beneath their rivalry, they have more in common than they think.
Date Published:2024

Includes excerpt from: Picture perfect boyfriend. Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, After a public breakup with her boyfriend Caleb, high school junior Savannah Moore is determined to prove that she's not a bore, like he said she was, and lays out a plan to be adventurous during a two-week family cruise to Alaska. However, when she learns her school rival Tanner will be on the trip, she is determined he won't spoil her fun. But soon Tanner learns of her plans and offers to help her succeed in winning Caleb back if she'll help him decide on a college major. Together they experience all the fun Alaska has to offer and discover that beneath their rivalry, they have more in common than they think.

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

Queen bee : an anti-historical Regency romp /

Howard, Amalie,


"Revenge is her opening move. Love might be the endgame"--cover. Lady Ela Dalvi knows the exact moment her life was forever changed--when her best friend, Poppy, betrayed her without qualm over a boy, the son of a duke. She was sent away in disgrace, her reputation ruined. Nearly three years later, eighteen-year-old Ela is consumed with bitterness and a desire for revenge. Her enemy is quickly joining the crème de la crème of high society while she withers away in the English countryside. With an audacious plan to get even, Ela disguises herself as a mysterious heiress and infiltrates London's elite. But when Ela reunites with the only boy she's ever loved, she begins to question whether vengeance is still her greatest desire. In this complicated game of real-life chess, Ela must choose her next move: Finally bring down the queen or capture the king's heart?
Date Published:2023

"Revenge is her opening move. Love might be the endgame"--cover. Lady Ela Dalvi knows the exact moment her life was forever changed--when her best friend, Poppy, betrayed her without qualm over a boy, the son of a duke. She was sent away in disgrace, her reputation ruined. Nearly three years later, eighteen-year-old Ela is consumed with bitterness and a desire for revenge. Her enemy is quickly joining the crème de la crème of high society while she withers away in the English countryside. With an audacious plan to get even, Ela disguises herself as a mysterious heiress and infiltrates London's elite. But when Ela reunites with the only boy she's ever loved, she begins to question whether vengeance is still her greatest desire. In this complicated game of real-life chess, Ela must choose her next move: Finally bring down the queen or capture the king's heart?

Date Published:2023

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