Black Love - Young Adult Fiction

Books from the young adult collection that highlight the spectrum of black love.

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Book cover for "Ain't burned all the bright"
Star rating for Ain't burned all the bright
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
"A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it means to not be able to breathe, and how the people and things you love most are actually the oxygen you most need"--
Book cover for "All the things we never knew"
Star rating for All the things we never knew
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
"Carli and Rex have an immediate connection, an understanding that must mean first love, but family secrets, disappointments--and basketball, which holds center stage in both their lives--all create complications"--
Book cover for "Blackout"
Star rating for Blackout
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Notes:
This is an anthology of short stories. MC rep: black gay male x black gay male
Description:
"Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark"--
Book cover for "A chorus rises"
Star rating for A chorus rises
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Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Once Portland-famous and now infamous, seventeen-year-old Naema Bradshaw is an Eloko--a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore--who navigates a personal and public reckoning, confronts the limits of her privilege, and discovers the nature of her Black girl magic.
Book cover for "Clap when you land"
Star rating for Clap when you land
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Notes:
MC Rep: Afro-Dominican female, Afro-Dominican American lesbian female; Black wIw LI
Description:
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
Book cover for "The Davenports"
Star rating for The Davenports
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love--even where they are not supposed to.
Book cover for "Dear Haiti, love Alaine"
Star rating for Dear Haiti, love Alaine
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
When a school presentation goes very wrong, Alaine Beauparlant finds herself suspended, shipped off to Haiti, and writing the report of a lifetime.
Book cover for "Excuse me while I ugly cry"
Star rating for Excuse me while I ugly cry
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Quinn keeps lists of everything--from the days she's ugly cried, to 'Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud' and all the boys she'd like to kiss. Her lists keep her sane. By writing her fears on paper, she never has to face them in real life. That is, until her journal goes missing . . . Then an anonymous account posts one of her lists on Instagram for the whole school to see and blackmails her into facing seven of her greatest fears, or else her...
Book cover for "Felix ever after"
Star rating for Felix ever after
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Notes:
MC Rep: Black queer trans questioning demiboy; Black Bengali queer male LI
Description:
Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.
Book cover for "Happily ever afters"
Star rating for Happily ever afters
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
"Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She's rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she's a true leading lady is in her own writing--in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend and #1 devoted reader. When Tessa is accepted into the creative writing program of a prestigious art school, she's excited to finally let her stories...
Book cover for "Highly suspicious and unfairly cute"
Star rating for Highly suspicious and unfairly cute
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
Description:
"From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud story about a quirky content creator and a clean-cut athlete testing their abilities to survive the great outdoors--and each other. Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect. He's a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top in all his classes . . . except the ones he shares with his ex-best friend, Celine. Celine Bangura is...
Book cover for "Little & Lion"
Star rating for Little & Lion
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
Notes:
MC Rep: Black Jewish bisexual female; Korean/Black straight male LI who is Heard of Hearing due to MĆ©niĆØre’s disease; Latina pansexual female LI
Description:
"Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her [stepbrother] Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons"--
Book cover for "Love is a revolution"
Star rating for Love is a revolution
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
Harlem teenager Nala is looking forward to a summer of movies and ice cream until she falls in love with the very woke Tye and pretends to be a social activist.
Book cover for "One of the good ones"
Star rating for One of the good ones
Average Rating:
4 stars
Notes:
MC Rep: Black straight female; Black lesbian female; Black (straight?) female
Description:
"When teen social activist and history buff Kezi Smith is killed under mysterious circumstances after attending a social justice rally, her devastated sister Happi and their family are left reeling in the aftermath. As Kezi becomes another immortalized victim in the fight against police brutality, Happi begins to question the idealized way her sister is remembered. Perfect. Angelic. One of the good ones. Even as the phrase rings wrong in her mind--why...
Book cover for "Opposite of always"
Star rating for Opposite of always
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
After falling for Kate, her unexpected death sends Jack back in time to the moment they first met, but he soon learns that his actions have consequences when someone else close to him dies.
Book cover for "Rise to the sun"
Star rating for Rise to the sun
Average Rating:
4 stars
Notes:
MC Rep: Black bisexual female x Black lesbian female
Description:
Three days. Two girls. One life-changing music festival. Toni is reeling in the wake of the loss of her roadie father and desperate to figure out where her life will go from here -- so she's heading back to the festival that taught her to love music in a last ditch effort to rediscover her passion. Olivia is a hopeless romantic whose heart has just taken a beating (again), and is beginning to believe that someone like her may never find "the one"...
Book cover for "The stars and the blackness between them"
Star rating for The stars and the blackness between them
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MC Rep: Black Trinidadian lesbian female x Black lesbian female
Description:
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Audre and Mabel, both young women of color from different backgrounds, fall in love and figure out how to care for each other as one of them faces a fatal illness.

18. Swing

Book cover for "Swing"
Star rating for Swing
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Noah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. But as Noah's love life and Walt's baseball career begin, the letters alter everything.
Book cover for "This wicked fate"
Star rating for This wicked fate
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Briseis races to save her family even as she discovers more about their ties to ancient goddesses and deadly curses"--
Book cover for "The voting booth"
Star rating for The voting booth
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
The first year they're eligible to vote, Marva and Duke meet at their polling place and, over the course of one crazy day, fall in love.