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 "Lark & Kasim start a revolution"
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MC Rep: Black neurodivergent mga nonbinary MC
Description:
Seventeen-year-old nurodivergent and nonbinary Lark pretends that they are the creator of a viral thread that their ex-best friend, Kasim, accidentally posted onto their Twitter account, declaring his unrequited love, but living a lie takes its toll on Lark, forcing them to deal with their own messy emotions.
Book cover for "Last chance dance"
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3.5 stars
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Leila is crushed when Dev, her boyfriend of four years, breaks up with her right before graduation. Just when she's thinking she wasted her entire high school experience on a dead-end relationship, her best friend Bree reminds her that Last Chance Dance is just around the corner. A high school tradition, the Last Chance Dance gives all the students one last opportunity to find love before they graduate. All Leila has to do is submit three unrequited...
Book cover for "Let's talk about love"
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3.5 stars
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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"
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Average Rating:
3.4 stars
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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 in winter Wonderland"
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"Seventeen-year-olds Trey and Ariel embark on a hate-to-love journey when they band together to save Trey's family's business, the longest-running Black-owned bookshop in London."--
Book cover for "Love is a revolution"
Star rating for Love is a revolution
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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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"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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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 "Love times infinity"
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As high school junior Michie plans for her future and explores a new relationship, she tries to reconcile with some uncomfortable truths about her life which becomes more complicated when she is contacted by her estranged mother.
Book cover for "The marvelous"
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MC Rep: Black questioning lesbian female; Black wlw female; Black wlw female
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"... follows three teens locked together in a mansion, competing for a big cash prize in a competition run by a mysterious heiress."--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "The meet-cute project"
Star rating for The meet-cute project
Average Rating:
2 stars
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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 "My week with him"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Nikki can't wait to leave Texas and follow her dreams of a music career . . . After a painful betrayal by her sister and a heated argument with their mother, Nikki is kicked out and finds herself homeless. She decides to go to California to pursue her singing career. When her best friend, Malachai, discovers her plan to flee Texas, he begs her to spend the remainder of spring break with him. He believes that over the course of a week, he can convince...
Book cover for "Nothing burns as bright as you"
Star rating for Nothing burns as bright as you
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"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...
Book cover for "Now that I've found you"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Following in the footsteps of her überfamous grandma, eighteen-year-old Evie Jones is poised to be Hollywood's next big star. That is until a close friend's betrayal leads to her being blacklisted. Fortunately, Evie knows just the thing to save her floundering career: a public appearance with America's most beloved actress--her grandma Gigi, aka the Evelyn Conaway. The only problem? Gigi is a recluse who's been out of the limelight for almost twenty...
Book cover for "One of the good ones"
Star rating for One of the good ones
Average Rating:
4 stars
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MC Rep: Black straight female; Black lesbian female; Black (straight?) female
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"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 "One true loves"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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While on a post-graduation Mediterranean cruise with her family, Lenore Bennett meets a hopeless romantic with a ten-year plan who helps her find something she's been looking for--love.
Book cover for "Only on the weekends"
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MC Rep: Black gay male; Black closeted gay male (possible) LI, white trans male (possible) LI
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The son of a film director, Mack grows up on set and into a hopeless romantic -- one who falls hard for the handsome and popular Karim, who eventually notices him back, right before Mack has to relocate to Scotland. Not wanting to lose his first love, Mack asks Karim to be long-distance, but while they're trying, fearless and confident Finlay shows up on set, and Mack's world turns upside down yet again.
Book cover for "Opposite of always"
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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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 "Reggie and Delilah's year of falling"
Star rating for Reggie and Delilah's year of falling
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"From the NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Happily Ever Afters comes a dual POV rom-com about Reggie and Delilah, who fall in love through missed connections and chance meetings on holidays over the course of a year. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han, with crossover appeal for readers of Jasmine Guillory and Talia Hibbert romances. Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She...
Book cover for "Rise to the sun"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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MC Rep: Black bisexual female x Black lesbian female
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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 "So many beginnings"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
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At the Freedman's Colony of Roanoke Island, a haven for the recently emancipated, the four March sisters--Meg, Joanna, Bethlehem, and Amethyst--come into their own as independent young Black women together facing love, sickness, heartbreak, and new horizons.