The Summer I Learned to Fly
By Dana Reinhardt
Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.
This Thing Called the Future
By J. L. Powers
Fourteen-year-old Khosi's mother wants her to get an education to break out of their South African shantytown, although she herself is wasting away from an untreated illness, while Khosi's grandmother, Gogo, seeks help from a traditional Zulu healer.
Americapedia
By Andisheh Nouraee, Daniel Ehrenhaft, & Jodi Lyn Anderson
This is a crash course in history, government, and more, with a satirical spin on what readers might normally find in a textbook.
Department 19
By Will Hill
After watching his father's brutal murder, sixteen-year-old Jamie Carpenter joins Department 19, a secret government agency, where he learns of the existence of vampires and the history that ties him to the team destined to stop them.
Akata Witch
By Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.
Withering Tights
By Louise Rennison
Self-conscious about her knobby knees but confident in her acting ability, fourteen-year-old Tallulah spends the summer at a Yorkshire performing arts camp that, she is surprised to learn, is for girls only.
What It's Like
By Jeff Belanger
Twelve ordinary people share their extraordinary experiences, from surviving a shark attack to exploring the North Pole to climbing Mt. Everest with no legs.
Will Work for Prom Dress
By Aimee Ferris
Seventeen-year-old Quigley and her best friend Anne have big plans to prepare for prom, including working to earn money for dresses, but both girls seem to have chosen their prospective dates badly as Anne's family crisis affects them all.
Illegal
By Bettina Restrepo
Nora, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl, faces the challenges of being an illegal immigrant in Texas when she and her mother cross the border in search of Nora's father.
The Grumpy Girl's Guide to Good Manners
By Rachel Aboukhair
The author describes proper behavior for girls, as learned during her stay at an "etiquette camp".
Voice of the Undead
By Jason Henderson
After a fire damages his boarding school in Switzerland, fourteen-year-old Alex and his friends move to the girls' school across the lake, where supernatural happenings are disturbing the peace, and in the meantime, more Van Helsing family secrets are revealed.
When the Stars Go Blue
By Caridad Ferrer
Soledad Reyes decides to dance Carmen as part of a drum and bugle corps competition, not knowing if it will help or harm her chance of becoming a professional ballet dancer but eager to pursue new options, including a romance with the boy who invited her to audition.
White Crow
By Marcus Sedgwick
Sixteen-year-old Rebecca moves with her father from London to a small, seaside village, where she befriends another motherless girl and they spend the summer together exploring the village's sinister history.
