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BPL Teen Services Picks: Best YA Books of 2022

Check out some of our favorite YA releases of 2022! And head over to our "BPL's Most Popular YA Books of 2022" list to see our other top picks!

Boston Public Library

33 items

  • Teen Graphic Novel. Lu and Fassen are from different worlds and separate solar systems, so when the war of Fassen's world invades Lu's peaceful home, they find themselves at the forefront of a battle they hoped would never happen.
    eBookRandom House Children's Books, 2022
  • Teen Fiction. Arden is struggling to hang on: her mom left the family, her dad and brother refuse to talk about it, she's trying to figure out her sexuality, and her best friend keeps ditching her for his new girlfriend.
    BookNew York : Amulet Books, 2022.
  • Teen Fiction. Exhausted by main character Kavya and her nemesis Ian's years-long feud, their friends hatch a plan to end their rivalry through a series of challenges. But as the competition heats up, so too does the romantic tension.
    BookNew York : Viking, 2022.
  • Teen Scifi Fantasy. (Book 2.) When the leaders of the Order reveal that they will do everything in their power to keep Bree a secret, Bree and her friends must go on the run so she can learn how to control her new powers.
    eBookSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2022
  • Teen Fiction. At their elite boarding school, five teens are brought together by a writing group where life-changing friendships are born--and secrets are revealed.
    eBookHarperCollins, 2022
  • The Chosen One

    a First-generation Odyssey

    Brown, Echo,
    Teen Fiction. Echo is a first-year, first-generation Black student at a predominantly white college. Now a small fish in a big pond, Echo must find a way to take charge of her future.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
  • Coven

    A Graphic Novel

    Dugan, Jennifer
    Teen Graphic Novel. After members of her coven are murdered, sixteen-year-old Emsy moves across the country with her parents to master her neglected craft in order to find the killer and protect her coven.
    eBookPenguin Young Readers Group, 2022
  • Teen Fiction. After her adoption story goes viral, Janey starts to question whether she wants to begin the search for her bio family, while also trying to navigate her crush on the way-out-of-her-league Gwen Fairfax.
    eBookHarperCollins, 2022
  • Teen Graphic Novel. (Book 5.) Nicholas and his team get invited to the prestigious Halverton Training Camp, where they come face-to-face with the best teams in the country. Does the fractured team from King's Row stand a chance?
    Graphic NovelLos Angeles, CA : Boom! Box, [2022] — Fence
  • Teen Fiction. After finally landing the starring role on a buzzy new K-drama, Hana must learn to balance onscreen and offscreen rivalries... and romances.
    eBookHarperCollins, 2022
  • Teen Fiction. Amber McCloud's dream is to become cheer captain at the end of the year, but after the football team's quarterback is replaced by a girl, Amber feels pressure to ice her out even as she finds herself falling for her.
    eBookSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2022
  • Teen Scifi Fantasy. Half-Black witch Shay Johnson is cast as the lead in her school musical and must decide between exposing her predatory drama teacher and getting the scholarship she desperately needs.
    eBookPenguin Young Readers Group, 2022
  • Teen Fiction. When two longtime rivals end up on the same hockey team, their rivalry quickly blossoms into something unexpected.
    eBookHenry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2022
  • Teen Fiction. In this Cyrano retelling, Sam begins helping her ex-boyfriend/current best friend to win over cool girl Ros, only to start falling for her herself.
    eBookFarrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2022
  • Teen Fiction. Georgia has been surrounded by people in love her whole life, but she's never really understood it. Now in college, she starts to understand a new part of her identity: asexual/aromantic.
    eBookScholastic Inc., 2022
  • Teen Fiction. After the death of the grandmother who raised them, twin sisters must come back together to solve the mystery of their parents' murder.
    BookNew York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — FIC
  • Teen Fiction. On her 18th birthday, Hilde leaves the orphanage she grew up in and heads to Berlin. Hilde finds work (and love) at a queer nightclub in the city, but soon her happiness is threated by the rise of the Nazis.
    eBookHarperCollins, 2022
  • Teen Fiction. When Elena's childhood best friend, who is now a K-Pop idol, reappears in her life, she finds herself caught up in a world she never could have imagined.
    BookDisney-Hyperion 2022
  • Teen Fiction. Just before graduation, Ophelia's her identity as a boy-crazy romantic is challenged by a crush on a new female friend and she struggles with rediscovering herself means.
    eBookFeiwel & Friends, 2022
  • Teen Mystery. Fifteen-year-old Najwa Bakri begins investigating the mysterious death of her best friend and Scrabble Queen, Trina, when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages.
    eBookSalaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2022