Start with high-confidence multigenerational ya stories books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Princess Lessons
Unknown author
Butterfly Yellow
Thanhhà Lai, Thanhhà Lại
Concrete Rose
Angie Thomas
Tall Water
SJ Sindu, Dion MBD
Shut Up, This Is Serious
Carolina Ixta
The Astonishing Color of After
Emily X.R. Pan
Brownstone
Samuel Teer, Mar Julia
We Are Not Free
Traci Chee
Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Adib Khorram
The Peach Rebellion
Wendelin Van Draanen
Everything We Never Had
Randy Ribay
You Bring the Distant Near
Mitali Perkins
A Step From Heaven
An Na
The Story That Cannot Be Told
J. Kasper Kramer
When It's Your Turn for Midnight
Blessing Musariri
