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

The awakening of Malcolm X

Shabazz, Ilyasah,


Sequel to X : a novel. Booklist, December 2020. Kirkus Starred, November 2020. School Library Journal starred, April 2021. While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.
Date Published:2021

The box in the woods

Johnson, Maureen, 1973-,


Booklist starred, May 2021. Horn Book, July 2021. Junior Library Guild. Kirkus Starred, May 2021. Publishers Weekly, May 2021. School Library Journal, June 2021. "Amateur sleuth Stevie Bell needs a good murder. After catching a killer at her high school, she's back at home for a normal (that means boring) summer. But then she gets a message from the owner of Sunny Pines, formerly known as Camp Wonder Falls--the site of the notorious unsolved case, the Box in the Woods Murders. Back in 1978, four camp counselors were killed in the woods outside of the town of Barlow Corners, their bodies left in a gruesome display. The new owner offers Stevie an invitation: Come to the camp and help him work on a true crime podcast about the case. Stevie agrees, as long as she can bring along her friends from Ellingham Academy. Nothing sounds better than a summer spent together, investigating old murders. But something evil still lurks in Barlow Corners. When Stevie opens the lid on this long-dormant case, she gets much more than she bargained for. The Box in the Woods will make room for more victims. This time, Stevie may not make it out alive"--From the publisher's web site.
Date Published:2021

Booklist starred, May 2021. Horn Book, July 2021. Junior Library Guild. Kirkus Starred, May 2021. Publishers Weekly, May 2021. School Library Journal, June 2021. "Amateur sleuth Stevie Bell needs a good murder. After catching a killer at her high school, she's back at home for a normal (that means boring) summer. But then she gets a message from the owner of Sunny Pines, formerly known as Camp Wonder Falls--the site of the notorious unsolved case, the Box in the Woods Murders. Back in 1978, four camp counselors were killed in the woods outside of the town of Barlow Corners, their bodies left in a gruesome display. The new owner offers Stevie an invitation: Come to the camp and help him work on a true crime podcast about the case. Stevie agrees, as long as she can bring along her friends from Ellingham Academy. Nothing sounds better than a summer spent together, investigating old murders. But something evil still lurks in Barlow Corners. When Stevie opens the lid on this long-dormant case, she gets much more than she bargained for. The Box in the Woods will make room for more victims. This time, Stevie may not make it out alive"--From the publisher's web site.

Date Published:2021

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

Concrete rose

Thomas, Angie,


School Library Journal starred. Booklist starred, January2021. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), January2021. Horn Book Starred, March2021. Kirkus Starred, December2020. School Library Journal starred, December2020. "A gang leader's son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one's brutal murder"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2021

The counselors

Goodman, Jessica, 1990-,


Booklist, May 2022. Kirkus Review, April 2022. Publishers Weekly, March 2022. School Library Journal, August 2022. After a traumatic school year, camp counselor Goldie Easton is excited to reunite with her two best friends at an elite summer camp, but when a local boy is found dead on the grounds, all three must reveal a dark secret to find the murderer.
Date Published:2022

Dead flip

Farizan, Sara,


Booklist starred, July 2022. Kirkus Review, July 2022. Publishers Weekly Annex, August 2022. Growing up, Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another. Now it's 1993, Sam has been missing for six years, and Cori and Maz aren't speaking anymore. How could they be, when Cori is sure Sam is dead and Maz thinks he may have been kidnapped by a supernatural pinball machine?
Date Published:2022

Booklist starred, July 2022. Kirkus Review, July 2022. Publishers Weekly Annex, August 2022. Growing up, Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another. Now it's 1993, Sam has been missing for six years, and Cori and Maz aren't speaking anymore. How could they be, when Cori is sure Sam is dead and Maz thinks he may have been kidnapped by a supernatural pinball machine?

Date Published:2022

Eat your heart out

deVos, Kelly,


Booklist starred, May 2021. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), June 2021. Kirkus Review, May 2021. School Library Journal, June 2021. Six disgruntled teens are forced to spend their winter break at fat camp during Flagstaff, Arizona's worst blizzard in a century, only to find that Camp Featherlite is even worse than expected because it is crawling with genetically-modified monsters.
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

Full flight

Schumacher, Ashley,


Kirkus Starred, January 2022. Publishers Weekly Annex, February 2022. School Library Journal, May 2022. Told in alternating perspectives, in a small town in Texas, mellophone player Weston Ryan and saxophonist Anna James are forced to work together on a duet for their school's marching band competition.
Date Published:2022

Hollow fires

Ahmed, Samira, (Fiction writer),


Booklist, March 2022. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2022. Horn Book, July 2022. Kirkus Starred, March 2022. Library Media Connection, January 2022. Pub Weekly, March 2022. School Library Journal starred, August 2022. "After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school"--OCLC.
Date Published:2022

Booklist, March 2022. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2022. Horn Book, July 2022. Kirkus Starred, March 2022. Library Media Connection, January 2022. Pub Weekly, March 2022. School Library Journal starred, August 2022. "After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school"--OCLC.

Date Published:2022

Horror hotel

Fulton, Victoria,


Kirkus Review, December 2021. Chrissy has always been able to see ghosts, and when her friend Chase realized it he turned her affliction into an internet sensation, with the help of Emmaline, the technology expert and Kiki, the presenter; now they are planning to film an episode in an infamously haunted hotel in Los Angeles, but they may be tackling something really dangerous because Chrissy is seeing the terrifying shadow man who started appearing to her when her mother was dying of cancer--and there is an internet troll who keeps sending death threats to the group.
Date Published:2022

Kirkus Review, December 2021. Chrissy has always been able to see ghosts, and when her friend Chase realized it he turned her affliction into an internet sensation, with the help of Emmaline, the technology expert and Kiki, the presenter; now they are planning to film an episode in an infamously haunted hotel in Los Angeles, but they may be tackling something really dangerous because Chrissy is seeing the terrifying shadow man who started appearing to her when her mother was dying of cancer--and there is an internet troll who keeps sending death threats to the group.

Date Published:2022

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

Huda F are you

Fahmy, Huda


Booklist, November 2021. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), October 2021. Junior Library Guild. Kirkus Review, October 2021. Publishers Weekly, October 2021. "Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old town, Huda knew exactly who she was: She was the hijabi girl. But in Dearborn, everyone is the hijabi girl. Huda is lost in a sea of hijabis, and she can't rely on her hijab to define her anymore. She has to define herself. So she tries on a bunch of cliques, but she isn't a hijabi fashionista or a hijabi athlete or a hijabi gamer. She's not the one who knows everything about her religion or the one all the guys like. She's miscellaneous, which makes her feel like no one at all. Until she realizes that it'll take finding out who she isn't to figure out who she is"--Book jacket.
Date Published:2021

Booklist, November 2021. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), October 2021. Junior Library Guild. Kirkus Review, October 2021. Publishers Weekly, October 2021. "Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old town, Huda knew exactly who she was: She was the hijabi girl. But in Dearborn, everyone is the hijabi girl. Huda is lost in a sea of hijabis, and she can't rely on her hijab to define her anymore. She has to define herself. So she tries on a bunch of cliques, but she isn't a hijabi fashionista or a hijabi athlete or a hijabi gamer. She's not the one who knows everything about her religion or the one all the guys like. She's miscellaneous, which makes her feel like no one at all. Until she realizes that it'll take finding out who she isn't to figure out who she is"--Book jacket.

Date Published:2021

The lesbiana's guide to Catholic school

Reyes, Sonora,


Booklist, April 2022. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2022. Kirkus Review, March 2022. Library Media Connection, May 2022. Publishers Weekly, April 2022. School Library Journal, July 2022. Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.
Date Published:2022

Booklist, April 2022. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2022. Kirkus Review, March 2022. Library Media Connection, May 2022. Publishers Weekly, April 2022. School Library Journal, July 2022. Sixteen-year-old Mexican American Yami Flores starts Catholic school, determined to keep her brother out of trouble and keep herself closeted, but her priorities shift when Yami discovers that her openly gay classmate Bo is also annoyingly cute.

Date Published:2022

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