Rainbow Reads

A high school student campaigns to be prom queen in the hopes of winning a college scholarship.

After her house is destroyed by a tornado, 12-year-old Ivy must navigate changing relationships with her family and friends.

Talented artist Felix Love strives to earn a scholarship to his dream college, while also trying to figure out the identity of the cruel bully who has been targeting him.

Rick realizes that his best friend is a bully and attempts to forge his own identity as he navigates middle school.

After receiving calls from Death-Cast informing them that they have less than 24 hours to live, strangers Mateo and Rufus connect through an app called Last Friend.

A young activist, an Iranian immigrant, and a flamboyant fashionista navigate love and friendship in New York City in 1989.

This graphic novel weaves fairy tales into the story of a Vietnamese-American boy struggling to communicate with his parents.

Ellie, a Native American girl with supernatural powers, attempts to solve a family member's murder.

The town of Lucille is supposed to be a safe place. But when fifteen-year-old Jam learns that there is a monster on the loose, she must join forces with a supernatural creature in order to hunt it down.

High school senior Danny Cheng is grappling with his identity as an artist, the death of a classmate, and a painful crush on his best friend. When he finds evidence that his parents are hiding a painful secret, his determination to uncover the truth will change his life forever.

When his father is selected to train for a NASA mission to Mars, 17-year-old Cal must move to Houston with his family and participate in a space-themed reality show called StarWatch. As he attempts to uncover secrets about the show and the space program, Cal also finds himself falling for a fellow "Astrokid."

Aristotle and Dante are two teenagers with classical names and loner attitudes. When their paths cross, they develop a friendship that will change their lives.

Two separate stories — the first told in illustrations and the second in prose — combine to create a marvelous whole in this book from the Caldecott-winning author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

In this funny and heartwarming novel, sixteen-year-old Simon Spier finds himself in the middle of a real-life drama when a classmate threatens to expose his secrets. Learn these words from Becky Albertalli's award-winning debut.

Inside, George knows that she is a girl. When her class puts on a production of Charlotte's Web, she is not allowed to try out for the role of Charlotte — but with the help of her best friend, George is determined to show the world who she really is.

First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is working to ensure his mother's reelection; but when he falls for his old rival, the Prince of Wales, they unintentionally spark an international incident.

After a heart transplant, Sunny St. James resolves to reinvent herself — but she must navigate complicated relationships with her new best friend and with the mother who abandoned her.

When Ollie moves across the country, he discovers that he now attends the same school as his summer crush.

Ash is under the thumb of a heartless stepmother and torn between a promise to the menacing fairy Sidhean and her feelings for Kaisa, the king's huntress. Learn these words from Malinda Lo's lyrical retelling of the Cinderella story.

In this prequel to Ash, two 17-year-old girls, Kaede and Taisin, must fight unearthly creatures and their own feelings to save their kingdom. Learn these words that Malinda Lo uses to build an enchanting fantasy world.

While searching for her lost dog, Snapdragon meets Jacks, an old woman who is supposedly a witch — and who has a surprising connection to Snapdragon's family.

After being thrown out of their parents' house, nonbinary teen Ben De Backer moves in with their sister and attempts to navigate their anxiety disorder and an intense new friendship.

In this award-winning graphic novel, Freddy struggles to break free from an unhealthy relationship.

Z, a witch-turned-zombie, and Aysel, a werewolf, befriend one another when they are shunned by members of their community.

Is the world worth saving? That's the question Henry Denton must answer when aliens give him the power to save—or destroy—the planet. Learn these words from the novel by Shaun David Hutchinson.

Alex hates being a bruja, a witch — but when her family disappears, she must embrace her powers in order to save them.

Darius has always struggled to fit in: he suffers from depression, he is bullied at school, and he can never seem to meet his father's high expectations. When Darius's family travels to Iran to visit his grandparents, Darius finds a place where he belongs, and a true friendship, for the first time.

Coop and his neighbor Jupiter are best friends — despite Coop's unrequited crush. But when Rae moves to town, she threatens to disrupt their friendship.

After the death of her parents, a teenage girl struggles with her identity.

Every day, A wakes up in a different body—but what happens when A falls in love? Author David Levithan explores the nature of identity in this thought-provoking novel.

In this collaboration by popular novelists John Green and David Levithan, the lives of two teenagers named Will Grayson intersect unexpectedly.

After his father is killed, Moss struggles with anxiety and panic attacks. Increasingly frustrated by violence and injustice at his underfunded Oakland high school, he tries to harness his anger to bring about meaningful change in his community.

In this hilarious novel, 13-year-old Nate sneaks off to New York City to audition for a role in a Broadway play. Learn this list in which the vocabulary from the novel takes center stage. Break a leg!

Jude and Noah are talented, artistic, impassioned teenagers—and fraternal twins. In this novel, they take turns telling the story of how their family falls apart—and comes together again.

Marin moved across the country for college to try to escape her past. But when her best friend comes to visit, Marin must finally confront the memories she left behind. Learn key vocabulary from this novel, winner of the 2018 Printz Award.

In this sequel to Simon vs. the Homo-Sapiens Agenda, Leah Burke navigates difficulties during her senior year: her mom's new relationship, college admissions, tensions among her friends, and a painful crush.

When her strict parents send her sister Cilla away, Evie writes letters to deal with her feelings of loss and a complicated crush on a friend.

Arthur and Ben couldn't be more different. Arthur, a Jewish teenager from Georgia, is in New York City for a summer internship that he hopes will help him get into an Ivy League college. Ben, a native New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, is attending summer school so that he can avoid repeating 11th grade. Find out what happens when a series of coincidences brings these two together.

Born on the U.S. Virgin Islands during a hurricane, Caroline has always considered herself unlucky: she is bullied at school, her mother has disappeared, and, worst of all, she seems to be haunted by a spirit. But a new friendship will force Caroline to face her problems and perhaps turn her luck around.

As her dad prepares to remarry, twelve-year-old Bea reflects on her parents divorce and looks forward to developing a relationship with her new stepsister.

King tries to help his best friend escape a troubled home while coping with the death of his brother.

In this unflinching memoir, George M. Johnson interweaves personal history with reflections on systemic oppression.

When Silas Wade gives a presentation on his favorite baseball player, he inadvertently reveals a personal secret.

Drawing on real-life interviews, journals, and transcripts, this play reflects on the life and murder of college student Matthew Shepard.

In this graphic novel, a teenager faces bullies and learns to accept himself during a summer at camp.

As Ada begins college and looks toward the future, she also needs to come to terms with her past.

After her family moves to the insular small town of Unity Valley, Astrid feels unable to open up to her parents and confused by her relationships with her friends — so she explores her feelings by imagining conversations with passengers in the airplanes that fly overhead.

A teenager considers a radical memory-altering procedure to help deal with his father's death and challenging relationships.

In this graphic novel, Mads's idyllic life is upended when she must come to terms with a surprising family secret and a crush on her best friend.

When the Tox begins to infect students at the Raxter School for Girls, Hetty attempts to discover the truth about the mysterious illness — and the disappearance of her best friend.

In this popular graphic novel, Callie works on the stage crew of her school's spring musical while trying to navigate friendships and crushes.

In this novel, James Howe introduces four middle-schoolers who decide to take a stand against cruel name-calling. Study this essential vocabulary from a book all about the power of words.

During one eventful summer, Bug grapples with grief, change, and identity while investigating a ghostly presence.

Fifteen-year-old Danny is gifted with superpowers and is determined to prove that as a transgender girl, she can be the world's greatest superhero.

Middle graders Bug and Frankie form a close friendship when they team up to uncover the identity of the LA-area criminal called the Midnight Marauder.

Set in Dublin, Ireland, Nishat and her childhood friend Flávia contend one another in a high school contest to create the best henna business.

Twelve-year-old Zora Lee Johnson and Andrea Byrd meet at a summer camp in Michigan and discover they have more in common than their musical talents.

High school senior Chloe Green has been working hard to become the valedictorian of Willowgrove Christian Academy, so when her main competition, Shara Wheeler, suddenly disappears, she is determined to find her and prove that the honor has been fairly earned.

When all the young people of their tiny Polish village emigrate to America, Ashmedai the demon eventually convinces Uriel the angel to follow them to the rumored Golden Land.

When sixteen-year-old Harrison Meredith finds out that his best friend Linus Munro is moving away, he plans a surprise day of adventures.

Based on the classic novel The Great Gatsby, this work follows the story of Nicolás Caraveo, a seventeen-year-old transgender boy who moves to New York and meets his mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby, another transgender boy with an extravagant and decadent lifestyle.

Sixteen-year-old Yamilet Flores is a queer Mexican-American girl who navigates Catholic school and first love while learning to be authentic to herself.

Named after her Native American mother, eighteen-year-old Louisa Norquay must decide whether she wants to meet her criminal father in order to save her family's ice cream business and pay for an education at Canada's University of Alberta.

Seventh grader Sam Marino is determined to win the contest that would decide which historical figure would be honored with a statue in front of New York's Staten Island Borough Hall.

In this second book of the series, high school seniors Aristotle Mendoza and Dante Quintana struggle to find places and ways for them to safely figure out what love means to them.

In a small town in Indiana, twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor struggles against bullies to follow his grandfather’s advice to find one thing he’s really good at and become the best at it.

When seventeen-year-old Avery Anderson moves from Washington, D.C. to a small town in Georgia, she encounters conflicts linked to painful family secrets.

In a small Minnesota town, tenth grader Carl explains how developing human relationships is not easy with daily farm chores, and without a cell phone and computer.

In this memoir, the author recounts for her children how growing up in 1980s Jordan led to the founding of both a championship-winning soccer team and a nonprofit organization, Fugees Family, which provide athletic and academic opportunities for refugees and immigrants in the United States.

Three generations of Jafarzadeh men (Babak, Saeed, and Mahmoud), while sharing stories from their teenage years in Tehran and Los Angeles, discover they have more in common than just their Iranian blood.