This Month in Teen Books: January 2025

Reading recommendations for teens
January 15, 2025
What We Are Reading
Here is a quote from library staff about the books in the newest list of recommended picks:
 
Kagurabachi by Takeru Hokazono: “The action is cinematic, the art style is dark and moody, and the characters are interesting (the villains especially have all been entertaining so far).”



What’s Hot This Month
Celebrate a new year of reading adventures with these stories about books and libraries.
   
Featured Title
Book cover for First Love Language.First Love Language by Stefany Valentine
Taiwanese American Catie Carlson has never fit in with her white family. As much as she loves her stepmom and stepsister, she yearns to understand more about her culture and find her biological mother.
 
So Catie is shocked when an opportunity comes knocking on her door: Her summer spa coworker, Toby, says he'll teach her Mandarin. In exchange, she needs to teach him how to date so he can finally work up the courage to ask out his crush. The only problem is that Catie doesn't actually have any dating experience. But she can fake it.
 
With her late father's copy of The Five Love Languages and all his annotated notes, Catie becomes the perfect dating coach. Or so she thinks. As she gets dangerously close to Toby and to finding out what really happened to her biological mom, she realizes that learning the language of love might be tougher than she thought.

What’s New This Month
Manga readers take note: the new volumes of Spy X Family, Komi Can’t Communicate, Blue Lock Episode Nagi, and Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun are on the way. Also incoming are new titles from authors like Emma Lord, Ann Liang, Neal Shusterman, Brigid Kemmerer, Channelle Desamours, Kamilah Cole, Libba Bray, and more.
   
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