CCBC Choices 2024 -- Teens (ages 12 and up)

The Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison compiles a yearly list of excellent books for youth readers.
 

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1. Always the almost: a novel

Book cover for Always the almost.
Author:
Underhill, Edward
Notes:
Fiction for Young Adults;14-up
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eBook
Description:
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Miles Jacobson has two New Year's resolutions: 1) win back his ex-boyfriend (and star of the football team) Shane McIntyre, and 2) finally beat his slimy arch-nemesis at the Midwest's biggest classical piano competition. But that's not going to be so easy. For one thing, Shane broke up with Miles two weeks after Miles came out as trans, and now Shane's stubbornly ignoring him, even when they literally bump into each other....

2. Dear Mothman

Book cover for Dear Mothman.
Author:
Gow, Robin
Notes:
Fiction for Children;9-12
Formats:
Book, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla eBook
Description:
After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.

3. Only this beautiful moment

Book cover for Only this beautiful moment.
Author:
Nazemian, Abdi
Notes:
Fiction for Young Adults;14-up
Formats:
Book, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this sweeping intergenerational story, examining queer identity at the end of different decades, follows three boys in the same Iranian family as they each gain a new understanding of their history, culture--and themselves.