All you knead is love by Guerrero, Tanya 

Paperback(Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2022)

BTSB #: 406063 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.5 MG Lexile: 640

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Baking - Fiction Bread - Fiction Grandmothers - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Abused women - Fiction Barcelona (Spain) - Fiction Spain - Fiction

Summary: Banished from her abusive home for a summer with her estranged grandmother in Barcelona, twelve-year-old Alba feels hope and love while exploring a newly discovered passion for baking bread.

And we call it love by Vink, Amanda 

Paperback(West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing, 2019)

BTSB #: 909902 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 3.3 UG Lexile: 500

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Novels in verse Best friends - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Abused women - Fiction Dating (Social customs) - Fiction

Summary: Clare and Zari are best friends. They write music together, go everywhere together, and they know everything about the other. At least they did before Zari started dating Dion. The more Zari falls for Dion, the less she has time for anything else. When Zari starts to show up to school with half-hidden bruises, Clare knows there's something darker about this relationship that has to be stopped.

Grown by Jackson, Tiffany D. 

Paperback(HarperCollins, 2021)

BTSB #: 482756 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 3.9 UG Lexile: 560 HL

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: African American women singers - Fiction Rhythm and blues musicians - Fiction African American singers - Fiction Homicide - Fiction Abused women - Fiction Sexual abuse - Fiction

Summary: When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now he's dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point to Enchanted.

Grown by Jackson, Tiffany D. 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins, 2020)

BTSB #: 482764 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 3.9 UG

Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: African American women singers - Fiction Rhythm and blues musicians - Fiction African American singers - Fiction Homicide - Fiction Abused women - Fiction Sexual abuse - Fiction

Summary: When Enchanted Jones wakes with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night, no one-the police and Korey's fans included-has more questions than she does. All she really knows is that this isn't how things are supposed to be. Korey was Enchanted's ticket to stardom.

Grown by Jackson, Tiffany D. 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2020)

BTSB #: P08424 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-17   


Genres: Mystery Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: African American women singers - Fiction Rhythm and blues musicians - Fiction African American singers - Fiction Homicide - Fiction Abused women - Fiction Sexual abuse - Fiction

Summary: When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now he's dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point to Enchanted.

How to build a heart by Padian, Maria 

Paperback(Algonquin Young Readers, 2021)

BTSB #: 695252 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-18   
AR: 4.3 UG

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Habitat for Humanity International, Inc. - Fiction Home - Fiction Single-parent families - Fiction Latinos (U.S.) - Fiction High schools - Fiction School stories Abused women - Fiction

Summary: Izzy Crawford's family has been selected for a new home by Habitat for Humanity, near where the very attractive Sam lives, but just when her neighbor and best friend needs her most.

Miosotis Flores never forgets by Burgos, Hilda Eunice 

BTSB Prebound(Tu Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 173443 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.1 MG Lexile: 640 F&P: X

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Family life - Fiction Abused women - Fiction Dominican Americans - Fiction

Summary: When Miosotis Flores discovers that her sister Amarilis's fiance is physically abusive to her, she must decide how to help, while also caring for a rescue dog and pursuing better grades in school.

Seven dirty secrets by Richards, Natalie D. 

Paperback(Sourcebooks Fire, 2021)

BTSB #: 751647 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4.3 UG Lexile: 610 HL

Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Treasure hunt (Game) - Fiction Brothers - Fiction Abused women - Fiction Dating (Social customs) - Fiction Columbus (Ohio) - Fiction

Summary: On her eighteenth birthday, Cleo is given clues for a mysterious scavenger hunt that sends her around Columbus, Ohio, and through her past relationship with Declan, who drowned on a group rafting trip the previous year.

We can be heroes by McCauley, Kyrie 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins, 2021)

BTSB #: 618748 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   


Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: School shootings - Fiction Gun control - Fiction Abused women - Fiction Social media - Fiction Mural painting and decoration - Fiction Ghosts - Fiction

Summary: After a girl is killed by her ex-boyfriend in a school shooting, her two best friends attempt to memorialize her in a town economically dependent on the shooter's family,