by Rick Riordan (2005)
Percy Jackson is a twelve-year-old boy diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia who discovers he is actually a demigod son of Poseidon. When Zeus’s master lightning bolt is stolen, Percy is accused of the crime and must embark on a cross-country quest across America to find the real thief and prevent war among the gods.
Leigh Bardugo
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone: he needs a crew of six dangerous outcasts.
Fridrik Erlings
Josh Stephenson's thirteenth year starts with a baffling sequence of events, including an odd gift from his estranged father, the arrival of his flirty seventeen-year-old female cousin, locker-room teasing about certain embarrassing anatomical changes, and wondering if dreams of love can ever come true.
Jenny Han
Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good and magical happens at the Cousins Beach house with Conrad and Jeremiah. But during one unforgettable summer, the boys finally look at Belly in an entirely new light.
Angie Thomas
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer.