11 Jul 2025
Becoming Who You Are: Young Adult Books That Hit Deep
From identity crises to quiet revolutions, these stories are about teens becoming their truest selves. Some fight the system, others fight their own fears, but all come out braver on the other side.
The ADHD Advantage
by Yvonne Joseph
Release Date: June 10, 2025
‘The ADHD Advantage’ is your empowering guide to thriving with ADHD. Using science-backed strategies, quick rituals, and relatable tools helps you boost focus, set boundaries, and embrace your unique brain, without shame or burnout. Just 20 minutes a day can change everything.
Pretty Girl County
by Lakita Wilson
Release Date: July 1, 2025
Girls like Reya Samuels always come from Prince George’s County. Reya is rich and she’s not afraid to show it—she wears designer clothes, drives a custom pink Audi, and lives in a neighborhood tucked behind a fancy cast iron gate. She works hard, but she can get anything she wants with a snap.
The Duchess
by T.J. Starc
Release Date: July 4, 2025
Duchess Azolaria “Zola” Thalassa Varnai has everything-status, privilege, power. And none of it feels like hers. At twenty-one, she’s in line for Lysvenia’s throne, but all she dreams about is freedom. Until freedom arrives in the form of Commander Reya Stravik: the King’s most stoic, disciplined soldier assigned to be her personal bodyguard. Older, sharp-eyed, and impossible to read, Reya is everything Zola isn’t, and everything she can’t stop wanting.
Rogue Witch of Havenwood
by Theresa Field
Release Date: June 26, 2025
He called her his little star. Then he burned her world to ash. Elara was seven when her godfather Silas, the man her parents trusted above all others, arrived with torches and zealots to purge their village of “unworthy” magical bloodlines. She watched from the woods as he personally set fire to her home, her parents’ screams echoing through the night while he smiled. Everyone she loved. Everyone who ever mattered. Gone because their magic wasn’t “pure” enough for his twisted vision.
Vesuvius
by Cass Biehn
Release Date: June 10, 2025
The end is coming. The gods are watching. This thrilling historical fantasy set in the days before Mount Vesuvius destroys Pompeii is a meet-cute with an explosive fallout. Clever thief Felix slips from city to city to survive the present and escape a past he can’t remember. When Felix steals a divine artifact—Mercury’s helmet—from a temple in Pompeii, pieces of his forgotten past begin to surface.
The Truth About Fireflies
by Sasha Hibbs
Release Date: July 4, 2025
Seventeen-year-old football player, Brayden Anderson has his entire life planned out. He’s going to work with his dad’s construction business after graduation, support all the local sports teams, and maybe even go on to coach some of them. What did he never expect? To collide with peculiar, music-savant, Laurel Bennett.
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