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 "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 "Kings of B'more"
Star rating for Kings of B'more
Description:
Propelled by his best friend's impending move out of state and inspired by Ferris Bueller's Day Off, sixteen-year-old Harrison plans a farewell through Baltimore that includes a road trip, their first Pride, and a rooftop dance party.
Book cover for "The meet-cute project"
Star rating for The meet-cute project
Average Rating:
2 stars
Description:
High school junior Mia, who hates romantic comedies, must endure the "meet-cute" encounters her best friends set up to help her find a date for her sister's wedding.
Book cover for "Nothing burns as bright as you"
Star rating for Nothing burns as bright as you
Description:
"Two girls. One wild and reckless day. Years of tumultuous history unspooling like a thin, fraying string in the hours after they set a fire. They were best friends. Until they became more. Their affections grew. Until the blurry lines became dangerous. Over the course of a single day, the depth of their past, the confusion of their present, and the unpredictability of their future is revealed. And the girls will learn that hearts, like flames, aren't...

5. 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 is kind of an epic love story"
Star rating for This is kind of an epic love story
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
Notes:
MC Rep: Black bisexual male; Latinx gay male LI who is Heard of Hearing
Description:
Budding screenwriter Nate, sixteen, finds his conviction that happy endings do not happen in real life sorely tested when his childhood best friend and crush, Oliver James Hernandez, moves back to town.