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 "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 "Full disclosure"
Star rating for Full disclosure
Average Rating:
4 stars
Notes:
MC Rep: Black HIV+ questioning bisexual female; Black (straight?) male LI
Description:
Simone, seventeen, HIV-positive and in love for the first time, decides that facing potential bullies head-on may be better than protecting her secret.
Book cover for "Instructions for dancing"
Star rating for Instructions for dancing
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Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
"After picking up a book from the library, Yvette--who has given up on love--gains the ability to see how other people's romantic relationships will end"--
Book cover for "Let's talk about love"
Star rating for Let's talk about love
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Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
In this young adult novel, Alice, afraid of explaining her asexuality, has given up on finding love until love finds her.
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 Ménière’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 "Love radio"
Star rating for Love radio
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Prince Jones, a self-professed teen love doctor known for his radio segment on the local hip-hop station, believes he can get the bookish, anti-romance Dani Ford to fall in love with him in three dates.
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 "Zyla & Kai"
Star rating for Zyla & Kai
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The story of how a cynic and a hopeless romantic become friends, fall in love, and break up unfolds from their different perspectives.