2023 TAYSHAS List

Abuela, don't forget me

Ogle, Rex


Abuela's house -- To and from -- Gifts and fists -- An education -- Senior year -- There and back again -- Now. Booklist, August 2022. Junior Library Guild. Kirkus Review, July 2022. Pub Weekly, August 2022. School Library Journal starred, October 2022. "Rex Ogle's companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother's legacy. In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on--to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted, and to offer safety when darkness closed in. Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction, Abuela's red-brick house in Abilene, Texas, offered Rex the possibility of home, and Abuela herself the possibility for a better life. Abuela, Don't Forget Me is a lyrical portrait of the transformative and towering woman who believed in Rex even when he didn't yet know how to believe in himself"--Provided by the publisher.
Date Published:2022

Abuela's house -- To and from -- Gifts and fists -- An education -- Senior year -- There and back again -- Now. Booklist, August 2022. Junior Library Guild. Kirkus Review, July 2022. Pub Weekly, August 2022. School Library Journal starred, October 2022. "Rex Ogle's companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother's legacy. In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on--to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted, and to offer safety when darkness closed in. Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction, Abuela's red-brick house in Abilene, Texas, offered Rex the possibility of home, and Abuela herself the possibility for a better life. Abuela, Don't Forget Me is a lyrical portrait of the transformative and towering woman who believed in Rex even when he didn't yet know how to believe in himself"--Provided by the publisher.

Date Published:2022

Ain't burned all the bright

Reynolds, Jason,


"A Caitlyn Dlouhy book." Booklist starred, December 2021. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, January 2022. Horn Book Starred, March 2022. Kirkus Starred, November 2021. Pub Weekly, November 2021. School Library Journal starred, May 2022. "A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2022

All my rage

Tahir, Sabaa,


Booklist starred, February 2022. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, March 2022. Horn Book, May 2022. Junior Library Guild. Kirkus Starred, January 2022. Library Media Connection starred, March 2022. Publishers Weekly Annex, March 2022. School Library Journal starred, December 2021. A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.
Date Published:2022

Booklist starred, February 2022. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, March 2022. Horn Book, May 2022. Junior Library Guild. Kirkus Starred, January 2022. Library Media Connection starred, March 2022. Publishers Weekly Annex, March 2022. School Library Journal starred, December 2021. A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.

Date Published:2022

All of us villains

Foody, Amanda,


"A Tom Doherty Associates Book." "Every generation, seven families select a champion to compete in a tournament to the death for control of high magick--the most powerful resource in the world--but this year, a salacious tell-all book draws reporters, tourists, and government agents to Ilvernath to watch the bloody curse unfold and some of the champions are determined to thwart their destinies and rewrite their stories"--OCLC.
Date Published:2022

"A Tom Doherty Associates Book." "Every generation, seven families select a champion to compete in a tournament to the death for control of high magick--the most powerful resource in the world--but this year, a salacious tell-all book draws reporters, tourists, and government agents to Ilvernath to watch the bloody curse unfold and some of the champions are determined to thwart their destinies and rewrite their stories"--OCLC.

Date Published:2022

And we rise : the Civil Rights Movement in poems

Martin, Erica (Halcyenda Erica),


Booklist, March 2022. Library Media Connection starred, August 2022. School Library Journal starred, January 2022. ". . . Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement-from the well-documented events that shaped the nation's treatment of Black people, beginning with the 'Separate but Equal' ruling-and introduces lesser-known figures and moments that were just as crucial to the Movement and our nation's centuries-long fight for justice and equality"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2023

Booklist, March 2022. Library Media Connection starred, August 2022. School Library Journal starred, January 2022. ". . . Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement-from the well-documented events that shaped the nation's treatment of Black people, beginning with the 'Separate but Equal' ruling-and introduces lesser-known figures and moments that were just as crucial to the Movement and our nation's centuries-long fight for justice and equality"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2023

Burn down, rise up

Tirado, Vincent,


Booklist, April 2022. Horn Book, July 2022. Kirkus Review, March 2022. Library Media Connection, March 2022. Publishers Weekly, April 2022. School Library Journal, June 2022. "When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process"--OCLC.
Date Published:2022

Booklist, April 2022. Horn Book, July 2022. Kirkus Review, March 2022. Library Media Connection, March 2022. Publishers Weekly, April 2022. School Library Journal, June 2022. "When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process"--OCLC.

Date Published:2022

Fadeaway

Vickers, E. B. (Elaine B.),


Kirkus Review, January 2021. School Library Journal, December 2020. "At 8:53 pm, thousands of people watched as Jake Foster secured the state title for his basketball team with his signature fadeaway. But by the next morning, he's disappeared without a trace. Nobody has any idea where he is: not his best friend who knows him better than anyone else; not his ex-girlfriend who may still have feelings for him; not even his little brother, who never expected Jake to abandon him. Rumors abound regarding Jake's whereabouts. Was he abducted? Did he run away to try to take his game to the next level? Or is it something else, something darker--something they should have seen coming? Told from the points of view of those closest to Jake, this . . . novel reminds us that the people we think we know best are sometimes hiding the most painful secrets"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2021

Kirkus Review, January 2021. School Library Journal, December 2020. "At 8:53 pm, thousands of people watched as Jake Foster secured the state title for his basketball team with his signature fadeaway. But by the next morning, he's disappeared without a trace. Nobody has any idea where he is: not his best friend who knows him better than anyone else; not his ex-girlfriend who may still have feelings for him; not even his little brother, who never expected Jake to abandon him. Rumors abound regarding Jake's whereabouts. Was he abducted? Did he run away to try to take his game to the next level? Or is it something else, something darker--something they should have seen coming? Told from the points of view of those closest to Jake, this . . . novel reminds us that the people we think we know best are sometimes hiding the most painful secrets"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2021

Fat chance, Charlie Vega

Maldonado, Crystal,


Booklist, January 2021. Kirkus Starred, January 2021. School Library Journal, February 2021. Overweight sixteen-year-old Charlie yearned for her first kiss while her perfect best friend, Amelia, fell in love, so when she finally starts dating and learns the boy asked Amelia out first, she is devastated.
Date Published:2021

How Moon Fuentez fell in love with the universe

Vasquez Gilliland, Raquel,


Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, July2021. Kirkus Starred, June2021. Pub Weekly, August2021. School Library Journal, July2021. When seventeen-year-old Star Fuentez reaches social media stardom, her polar-opposite twin, Moon, becomes "merch girl" on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers and the grumpy but attractive Santiago Philips.
Date Published:2021

Letters to a young athlete

Bosh, Chris, 1984-,


Includes index. When you ain't nothing but tired -- You have to find your why (and it can't be fame or money) -- The gift of hunger -- Cultivating the mind -- Communication is key -- Sweep away your ego -- Leaders lead -- Take care of yourself -- Don't let 'em get to you -- The name on the front of the jersey is what counts -- Winning and losing: not too high, not too low -- Do the work. Do. The. Work. Junior Library Guild. "A self-help memoir based on the author's life and NBA career (in letter form)"--Provided by the publisher.
Date Published:2021

Includes index. When you ain't nothing but tired -- You have to find your why (and it can't be fame or money) -- The gift of hunger -- Cultivating the mind -- Communication is key -- Sweep away your ego -- Leaders lead -- Take care of yourself -- Don't let 'em get to you -- The name on the front of the jersey is what counts -- Winning and losing: not too high, not too low -- Do the work. Do. The. Work. Junior Library Guild. "A self-help memoir based on the author's life and NBA career (in letter form)"--Provided by the publisher.

Date Published:2021

The lost Dreamer

Huerta, Lizz,


Booklist, February 2022. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, April 2022. Junior Library Guild. Kirkus Review, February 2022. Publishers Weekly Annex, May 2022. School Library Journal, May 2022. In this fantasy inspired by ancient Mesoamerica, a lineage of seers defiantly resists the shifting patriarchal state that would see them destroyed.
Date Published:2022

Nothing more to tell

McManus, Karen M.


Booklist, August 2022. Kirkus Starred, June 2022. Pub Weekly, July 2022. School Library Journal starred, September 2022. "Brynn Gallagher uses her internship at a new true crime show to investigate the unsolved murder of her favorite teacher, uncovering secrets about her school, her teacher, and her ex-best friend in the process"--OCLC.
Date Published:2022

Punching bag

Ogle, Rex


Booklist starred, September 2021. Publishers Weekly, October 2021. School Library Journal starred, November 2021. "The true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who . . . mapped his experience of hunger in 'Free Lunch,' here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate, fierce mother; and charts the trajectory of his stepdad's anger. Hovering over Rex's story is the talismanic presence of his unborn baby sister. Through it all, Rex threads moments of grace and humor . . .--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2023

Booklist starred, September 2021. Publishers Weekly, October 2021. School Library Journal starred, November 2021. "The true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who . . . mapped his experience of hunger in 'Free Lunch,' here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate, fierce mother; and charts the trajectory of his stepdad's anger. Hovering over Rex's story is the talismanic presence of his unborn baby sister. Through it all, Rex threads moments of grace and humor . . .--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2023

The silence that binds us

Ho, Joanna,


Junior Library Guild. In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
Date Published:2022

This poison heart

Bayron, Kalynn,


Booklist starred, June 2021. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), June 2021. Junior Library Guild. Kirkus Review, May 2021. Library Media Connection, August 2021. Pub Weekly, April 2021. Teenaged Briseis, who possesses a supernatural power over plants, even poisonous ones, inherits a dilapidated estate in rural New York and must protect herself and her family from centuries-old secrets that threaten their lives.
Date Published:2021

Booklist starred, June 2021. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), June 2021. Junior Library Guild. Kirkus Review, May 2021. Library Media Connection, August 2021. Pub Weekly, April 2021. Teenaged Briseis, who possesses a supernatural power over plants, even poisonous ones, inherits a dilapidated estate in rural New York and must protect herself and her family from centuries-old secrets that threaten their lives.

Date Published:2021

Vinyl moon

Browne, Mahogany L.,


Booklist, January 2022. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), January 2022. Kirkus Review, November 2021. Pub Weekly, December 2021. School Library Journal, January 2022. "A teen girl reeling from the scars of a past relationship finds healing and hope in the words of strong Black writers and the new community she builds in Brooklyn, New York"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2022

We can be heroes

McCauley, Kyrie,


Booklist, October 2021. Kirkus Review, July 2021. Library Media Connection, August 2021. Publishers Weekly Annex, August 2021. Publishers Weekly, August 2021. School Library Journal starred, September 2021. "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"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2021

Booklist, October 2021. Kirkus Review, July 2021. Library Media Connection, August 2021. Publishers Weekly Annex, August 2021. Publishers Weekly, August 2021. School Library Journal starred, September 2021. "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"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2021

The weight of blood

Jackson, Tiffany D.,


Junior Library Guild. "When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation...Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington. After a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life. But some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret...one that will cost them all their lives"--From the publisher's web site.
Date Published:2022

Junior Library Guild. "When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation...Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington. After a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life. But some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret...one that will cost them all their lives"--From the publisher's web site.

Date Published:2022