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

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

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

I witnessed : the Lizzie Borden story /

Kraatz, Jeramey,


Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Presents a fictionalized graphic novel focused on fourteen-year-old Charlie Churchill who believes he witnessed the murder of Lizzie Borden's parents Andrew and Abby Borden in 1892. Charlie embarks on his own investigation when no one believes what he saw.
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

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

We were warned

Ichaso, Chelsea,


School Library Journal, February 2025. Booklist, February 2025. Everyone knows the legend of Fairport Village: twenty-five years ago, a shocking murder closed the place down. This year, the ruins will be bulldozed at last. But tonight, it's not too late to die.
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