One of the best parts of my job is ordering new books for the Edge–reading the reviews, seeing what popular authors come up with next, or finding out about an upcoming sequel to an old favorite. Read on to find out about some of the new YA fiction titles coming to our shelves this month.

Clementine and Danny Save the World (and Each Other) by Livia Blackburne
Grades 8 and up
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“Classmates Clementine Chan, an anonymous tea blogger and student journalist, and Danny Mok, who’s spent most of his life working at his family’s tea shop, are barely on each other’s radars at school. But their secret online personae have been disagreeing with each other for years over Clementine’s reviews of local tea establishments and her opinions about social issues in their Chinatown community. When a large corporation buys out the plaza that houses Danny’s family’s shop, intending to redevelop, Clementine and Danny resolve to preserve the plaza with a student initiative.” –Publisher's Weekly

I’m Not Here to Make Friends by Andrew Yang
Grades 8 and up
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“Six Asian American teens live together for a month as part of a reality show. Chinese American Sabine Zhang is thrilled to get out of Moline, Illinois, and appear on Hotel California, a small reality series that centers on six Asian high schoolers living together for four weeks…. A charming, crowd-pleasing debut.” –Kirkus Reviews

Fatima Tate Takes the Cake by Khadijah VanBrakle
Grades 9 and up
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“Seventeen-year-old Fatima Tate feels in control only while indulging her passion for baking, relinquishing major life decisions to her conservative Black Muslim parents. Juggling charter school, daily prayers, hanging out with best friend Zaynab, and crushing on fellow soup kitchen volunteer Raheem is all in a day’s work. Though she aspires to become a pastry chef, her working-class parents steer her toward more stable careers. Fate intervenes with an arranged marriage proposal from Raheem and a spot in a teen baking contest.” –Kirkus Reviews

The King Is Dead by Benjamin Dean
Grades 9 and up
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“In this wild ride of a mystery and social commentary, James assumes the role of king and all that it entails after the passing of his father. But being a monarch in the UK is different for James; he’s the first Black king, and he has to keep his sexuality a secret. When his boyfriend goes missing and a spiteful tabloid begins hinting at stories only the royal family should know, James races to uncover the leaker and where his boyfriend went.” –Booklist

Rana Joon and the One and Only Now by Shideh Etaat
Grades 9 and up
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“High school senior Rana finds a way to honor her late best friend—and express her own voice. It’s almost one year since Louie’s sudden death, and the loss feels just as fresh as the day Rana heard the news of his car accident. Fast friends who first bonded over a Tupac concert and rap, Louie pushed Rana to explore her interest in poetry and encouraged her to speak her truth. Feeling inspired for the first time since losing Louie, Iranian American Rana decides to fulfill his dream: competing in the Way of the Wu rap battle. First prize: opening for Wu-Tang.” –Kirkus Reviews

Give Me a Sign by Anna Sortino
Grades 7 and up
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“A Deaf teen from the Chicago suburbs explores her identity at summer camp. Seventeen-year-old Lilah was born severely deaf. Though she’s able to get by with hearing aids, FM units at school, and lip reading, she feels disconnected from the hearing world around her. Camp Gray Wolf, designed for deaf and blind kids, was the only place where she could use ASL and accept her deafness. But the rising high school senior hasn’t been there since eighth grade. Feeling pulled back to the community, she applies for a counselor position. But camp isn’t perfect either—her signing isn’t fluent, and she feels like she doesn’t totally fit in with the Deaf world.” –Kirkus Reviews

Secret of the Moon Conch by David Bowles and Guadalupe García McCall
Grades 8 and up
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“In 2019, the night before she plans to flee Mexico for the U.S. seeking safety and her father, Sitlali discovers a conch in ocean waves. Five centuries earlier, in 1521, Calizto, who is under threat from Spanish invaders in the Aztec Empire, finds the same sacred conch, associated with the goddess of the moon. Magically connected, at first through thoughts and then with physical senses increasing with the moon's waxing, the two teens separated by time form a friendship that blossoms into a smoldering, centuries-defying romance.” –Horn Book

Everyone Wants to Know by Kelly Loy Gilbert
Grades 9 and up
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“For Honor Lo, family is all there is. The youngest of five siblings, she and her twin brother, Atticus, have spent most of their lives as public figures, first on TV as the subjects of their parents' hit reality series Lo and Behold and now as tabloid fodder. While their parents maintain momentum in careers where they're famous for being famous (think Chip and Joanna Gaines), and their elder siblings rake in the residuals as Instagram influencers, Honor and Atticus are finishing high school. Honor alone tries to protect her privacy and cherishes the time her family can be alone together, so when her parents shock social media by splitting up, her world is upended.” –Booklist

Murder on a School Night by Kate Weston
Grades 10 and up
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“Channeling the 1980s cult classic Heathers right down to the croquet set, Weston (Diary of a Confused Feminist) flaunts cozy English charm and puerile slapstick comedy in this propulsive mystery. Unpopular aspiring journalist Kerry would rather be enjoying a peaceful rom-com movie marathon at home than attending the party where she finds that fellow high school senior Selena, a member of the Les Populaires clique, has been suffocated with a menstrual cup. Desperate to clear her name, classmate and party host Heather Stevens—leader of Les Populaires and heir to her family’s V-Lyte period product fortune—hires Kerry and her equally unpopular best friend Annie, an amateur sleuth, to investigate Selena’s death. While Annie is convinced this is their ticket into the popular crowd, Kerry worries after her friend’s increasingly risky maneuvers around solving the crime. When two more deaths occur, the friends debate whether their investigation is worth their own safety.” –Publisher's Weekly