Turtles All the Way Down
John Green

As an avid John Green fan, I was extremely excited to hear he has a new book out. It absolutely delivers. It blends his signature ill-fated love story with mystery and puts an unapologetic spotlight on a tough topic: anxiety disorders. Aza has extreme anxiety and her “thought spirals” control her every waking hour. But when she hears that Davis's father has gone missing (Davis is an old friend she met at “dead parent” camp) and that the reward for finding him is a hundred thousand dollars, she decides to investigate. In the process, she and Davis rekindle their friendship. This wouldn’t be a John Green book without a little romance, but Aza’s germaphobia and anxiety complicate things and threaten their burgeoning relationship. Can Aza get her anxiety under control and will Davis’s father ever be found? You’ll have to read this gem to find out.

Spinning
Tillie Walden

In this graphic memoir, you follow Tillie as she navigates moving, puberty, sexuality, and every other aspect of growing up as a girl.
Tillie’s world has revolved around her intense ice skating classes for almost all her life. As Tillie grows up, she struggles with losing her passion for the sport and trying to figure out where she fits in the world without it. The reader watches as Tillie realizes she no longer wants to skate and aches to help her find her voice.

Bad Girls with Perfect Faces
Lynn Weingarten

Sasha’s best friend Xavier was finally getting over his cheating ex-girlfriend Ivy, but that was before they bumped into each other and she begged him to take her back. Sasha knows the drill and sees her friend headed for more heartbreak, so she hatches a plan—pose as a guy online to make Ivy lose interest in Xavier. But Sasha’s plan doesn’t go quite as planned and now there’s evidence to hide and more people to deceive. And just when you think you have it all figured out, another character steps in to throw your entire perception out the window. The twist ending was brilliant and the thrilling story kept me reading all night.

One of Us is Lying
Karen M. McManus

Five students walk into detention; only four of them walk out alive. Simon, the publisher of a notorious gossip app, goes into anaphylactic shock and dies when his water cup is laced with peanut oil. Everyone in the room with him has a motive: they each had a secret Simon knew and planned to reveal to the high school through his app. With reputations and their futures on the line, the race is on to discover who in that room did it. The twist is that everyone has secrets to hide and everyone is lying.

The Hazel Wood
Melissa Albert

Alice and her mother, Ella, have spent her entire life running away from the bad luck that follows them wherever they go. It seems that their luck has finally changed when Ella marries a rich businessman and moves Alice in with him and his daughter. But Ella soon goes missing and the only thing left behind is a message warning Alice to stay away from the Hazel Wood. Alice immediately connects the dots and realizes that her mother’s disappearance and her recently deceased grandmother’s fairy tales are connected through the mysterious Hazel Wood. Alice must team up with a fellow classmate to begin the search for her mother, but neither could have expected how close to reality Alice’s grandmother’s stories really were.