GIFTS FOR YOUNG ADULT READERS

“What’s Coming To Me” by Francesca Padilla is contemporary thriller about a teenage girl who gets revenge on her predatory boss while grappling with her mother’s chronic illness. $18.99 at bookshop.org

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In “Ain’t Burned All the Bright,” Jason Reynolds tackles the realities of the pandemic and what it means to be a young Black person in America in both text and Riverstone Books.

After a terrorist attack and subsequent rise in anti-Islamic sentiment, three Muslim girls start an online blog to form community in “You Truly Assumed” by Laila Sabreen. As the website rises in popularity, hatred increases, threatening the blog and the girls. Listen to the author’s interview with the Bridges and Bookspodcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. $18.99 at bookshop.org.