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Found & Chosen Family

For some people, the family found and chosen fills a void that the family they're born to could never fill. These books are full of characters who have found in each other love, friendship, support, and sometimes adventure!

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  • Ketterdam is a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price–and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his…
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015. — TEEN BARDUGO
  • Alexis has always been able to rely on two things: her best friends, and the magic powers they all share. Their secret is what brought them together, and their love for each other is unshakeable—even when that love is complicated by…
    BookNew York : Simon Pulse, 2020. — TEEN GAILEY
  • On her eighteenth birthday, Hilde leaves her orphanage, and heads out into a tumultuous 1930s Berlin, filled with the protests, antisemitism, and anti-homosexual views marking the cusp of war. She stumbles into Café Lila and finds a job in…
    BookNew York, NY : Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — TEEN WILSON
  • It’s 1889 and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets of Paris and dredged up ancient secrets. No one keeps tabs on dark truths better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. When the…
    BookNew York : Wednesday Books, 2019. — TEEN CHOKSHI
  • Teenage Wiccan Mila could not care less what you think about her Doc Martens, her attitude, or her weight because she knows that, no matter what, her BFF Riley is right by her side. So when Riley and mean girls June and Dayton die under…
    Book[New York] : Razorbill, [2018] — TEEN ANDERSO
  • Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now change-averse Simon has to…
    BookNew York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015] — TEEN ALBERTA
  • In a world ruled by fierce warrior queens, a grand empire was built upon the backs of Phoenix Riders--legendary heroes who soared through the sky on wings of fire--until a war between two sisters ripped it all apart. Sixteen years later,…
    BookNew York, NY : Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2019. — TEEN PAU PRE
  • After her family is killed by corrupt warlord Aric Athair and his bloodthirsty army of Bullets, Caledonia Styx is left to chart her own course on the dangerous and deadly seas. She captains her ship, the Mors Navis, with a crew of girls…
    Book[New York] : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2018. — TEEN PARKER
  • Now that Arek has finally managed to (somewhat clumsily) behead the evil king (turns out magical swords yanked from bogs don’t come pre-sharpened), he and his rag-tag group of quest companions are at a bit of a loss for what to do…
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2022] — TEEN LUKENS
  • As the tomboy daughter of the town’s preacher, Billie McCaffrey has always struggled with fitting the mold of what everyone says she should be. She’d rather wear sweats, build furniture, and get into trouble with her solid group of…
    BookNew York, NY : Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — TEEN STEVENS
  • Brooklyn, 1998. Biggie Smalls was right: Things done changed. But that doesn’t mean that Quadir and Jarrell are cool letting their best friend Steph’s music lie forgotten under his bed after he’s murdered. With the help of Steph’s younger…
    BookNew York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — TEEN JACKSON
  • Corayne an-Amarat can feel the strange darkness growing in her world, and soon discovers that she is the last of an ancient lineage. She is the last hope to save the world from destruction, and she is joined by a band of unlikely…
    BookNew York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021] — TEEN AVEYARD
  • Sky is openly gay but under the radar in insular Rock Ledge, Michigan. He decides to make a splashy Promposal, but his plans are leaked by an anonymous, homophobic hacker. His classmates turn Sky's thirty-day promposal countdown into a…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2021] — TEEN COUCH
  • Tomorrow, the Wildcat varsity field hockey squad will play the first game of their new season. But at tonight's team sleepover, everything hinges on the midnight initiation ceremony. It is the only facet of being a Wildcat that the girls…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2020] — TEEN VIVIAN
  • Nimue's connection to dark magic made a feared outcast in her Druid village, but her fate is forever altered when her entire village is slaughtered by Red Paladins. Charged by her dying mother to reunite an ancient sword with a legendary…
    BookNew York, New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2019] — TEEN WHEELER
  • Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them–until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her. His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the…
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Scholastic Press, 2012. — TEEN STIEFVA