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SJPL Mock Printz 2025

A list of the book selections for the San José Public Library Mock Printz 2025 committee.

San José Public Library

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  • Graphic Novel / Romance. Also available in eBook. "Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's pretty sure she's cursed—no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love.…
    BookNew York : First Second, 2024. — YA FICTION Lunar
  • Realistic fiction. Also available in eBook and eAudiobook. "Belén Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff, but nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She’s at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her…
    BookNew York : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024. — YA FICTION Ixta
  • Fantasy. Also available in eBook and eAudiobook. "A bloodcarver who can alter human biology with just a touch, Nhika, seen as a monster who kills for pleasure, is bought by a girl who needs her to heal the last person who saw her father's…
    BookNew York : Roaring Brook Press, 2024. — YA FICTION Le
  • LGBTQIA+ / Thriller. Also available in eBook and eAudiobook. "A thief who steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries while targeting Mr. Black, the man responsible for his mother's death, Icarus Gallagher…
    BookNew York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — YA FICTION Ancrum
  • Rising From the Ashes

    Los Angeles, 1992 : Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire

    Yoo, Paula,
    Nonfiction. Also available in eBook and eAudiobook. "Based on 100+ personal interviews as seen through the eyes and experiences of those who were there, this compelling, nuanced account of Los Angeles' 1992 uprising, which erupted in…
    BookNew York : Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. — YA 305.8009 Yoo
  • Mental Illness. Also available in eBook and eAudiobook. "Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads…
    BookNew York : Labyrinth Road, 2024. — YA FICTION Cole
  • Novel in Verse / Romance. Also available in eBook and eAudiobook. "When aspiring photographer Jude and former dancer Florence, who has a degenerative eye disease, meet at their sleepaway camp’s closing celebration, called Sunrise Night,…
    BookNew York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — YA FICTION Zentner
  • Graphic Novel / Survival. Also available in eBook. "Leaving modern society behind for the California wilderness, Ash searches for an escape from the miserable feeling of alienation that haunts their daily life but discovers that making the…
    BookNew York : First Second, 2024. — YA FICTION Ash's cabin
  • Historical Fiction. Also available in eBook and eAudiobook. "Set in the 1930s to today, four generations of Filipino American boys grapple with identity, masculinity, and father-son relationships." -- Novelist.
    BookNew York : Kokila, 2024. — YA FICTION Ribay
  • Horror. Also available in eBook and eAudiobook. "Growing up in Slater, Isadora Chang never felt at ease in the repressive small town, even before she realized she was bisexual--but after the deaths of two childhood friends, Slater went…
    BookNew York : Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint, 2024. — YA FICTION Lee
  • Coming of Age / Romance. Also available in eBook and eAudiobook. "A first-time sexual experience from the guy's perspective in this unfiltered stream-of-consciousness story about teen boy Neon, who is about to experience a huge first with…
    BookNew York : Atheneum, [2024] — YA FICTION Reynolds
  • Magical Realism. Also available in eBook and eAudiobook. "When she suddenly gains access to the files for a lifetime of security-camera videos -- her lifetime -- Jane, who lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion while her mother…
    BookNew York, New York : Dutton Books, 2024. — YA FICTION King