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CRRL Teens: 2023-2024 Cafe Book Top Teen Picks

Teens participating in our Cafe Book program, a partnership with area schools, voted these books their favorite picks of the school year!

Central Rappahannock Regional Library

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  • A girl who hates going to the salon learns to embrace her natural hair in this gorgeous graphic novel.
    Graphic Novel, 2022New York : First Second Books, [2022] — 741.5973 Or
  • Inspired by her favorite true-crime podcast, Piper Gray starts a podcast of her own, investigating an unsolved cold case with ties to her new high school.
    Book, 2023New York : Christy Ottaviano Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — FICTION Hen
  • This middle school update of The Breakfast Club unravels the mystery behind why five very different students all find themselves pulled into the principal's office for questioning.
    Graphic Novel, 2022New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2022. — 741.5973 Go
  • New Zealander teen Ren Mittal wakes up in a lab and is informed that he's been pulled out of his life in the 90s and brought to the year 2122 for a time-travel exchange program in this fast-paced sci-fi graphic novel.
    Graphic Novel, 2023New York, NY : Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] — 741.5993 Fu
  • Christina, one of the only Asian American students at her school, sees the upcoming tryouts for the cheerleading team as her chance to fit in and belong. But will all her hard work and practice pay off?
    Graphic Novel, 2022New York, NY: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2022. — 741.5973 So
  • In this dark contemporary fairy tale in verse, an aspiring violinist discovers a Jewish cemetery in Prague and meets the kind ghost of a teen boy and a sinister man with no shadow.
    Book, 2022Atlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Teen, [2022] — FICTION Rom
  • Myra struggles to fit in at her elite academy on the Moon, where humanity has fled after an environmental disaster. Then she stumbles across a mysterious hidden garden.
    Book, 2022New York : Pixel+Ink, [2022] — FICTION Bar
  • When a teen girl takes over her father's struggling veterinary practice, she learns that he has secretly been treating magical creatures and begins to unravel the mystery behind his murder.
    Book, 2023New York : Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2023] — FICTION Mon