Start with high-confidence us historical ya books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Never Fall Down
Patricia McCormick
Jesse
Gary Soto
Buried Onions
The Big Burn
Jeanette Ingold
Nothing Burns As Bright As You
Ashley Woodfolk
We Are Not Free
Traci Chee
Everything We Never Had
Randy Ribay
To the Bone
Alena Bruzas
Fallen Angels
Walter Dean Myers, JD Jackson
Where Wolves Don't Die
Anton Treuer
Ricochet River
Robin Cody
