Teen Book Lists

"When Ren wakes up in 2122, he thinks he might be hallucinating…he’s not! Tech conglomerate Chronotech sponsors a time-travel program to help students in 2122 learn what history was really like and Ren is one of them. On top of it all, he learns that his memory will be wiped of all things 2122 before he’s sent back to the '90s. And when he crosses paths with the absolute last person he expected to see in the future, he has a bigger problem on his hands: What if Chronotech isn't the benevolent organization they claim to be, and he and his fellow subjects are in great danger?: (Description from Novelist)

"Back to the Future meets The Joy Luck Club in this YA contemporary romance about a Korean American girl sent back to the '90s to (reluctantly) help her teenage mom win Homecoming Queen. Being a first-generation Asian American immigrant is hard. You knowwhat's harder? Being the daughter of one. Samantha Kang has never gotten along with her mother, Priscilla-and has never understood her bougie-nightmare, John Hughes high school expectations. After a huge fight between them, Sam is desperate to move forward-but instead, finds herself thrown back. Way back. To her shock, Sam finds herself back in high school . . . in the '90s . . . with a 17-year-old Priscilla. Now this Gen Z girl must try to fit into an analog world. She's got the fashion down, but everything else is baffling. What is "microfiche"? What's with the casual racism and misogyny? And why does it feel like Priscilla is someone she could actually be . . . friends with? Sam's blast to the past has her finding the right romance in the wrong time while questioning everything she thought she knew about her mom . . . and herself. Will Sam figure out what she needs to do to fix things for her mom so that she can go back to a time she understands? Brimming with heart and humor, Maurene Goo's time-travelromance asks big questions about what exactly one inherits and loses in the immigrant experience"-- Provided by publisher.

"After reliving the same day for months, eighteen-year-old Barrett reluctantly teams up with her nemesis Miles to escape the time loop, and soon finds herself falling for him, but what she does not know is what they will mean to each other if they finallymake it to tomorrow." (description from catalog)

"The story of an out-of-time romance between Jude and Novo, two teens looking for a way to connect to the world" (description provided by publisher)

"A modern-day gay teen time travels back to 1985 and wonders if he can help change the past without changing his future. Cuban American Luis Gonzalez, student body president, staff favorite, theater kid, principal's secretary, and general busybody, is out and proud at his small, conservative boarding school. Luis's big hope is to make his school allow people of any gender identity to go to functions as dates, mainly so he can attend prom with his boyfriend Cheng. But before that can happen, he gets knocked out and lands in 1985, suddenly attending school with his future parents. He's less concerned with solving the problem of how he got there than with what he can do to solve the problems his new 1985-era friends encounter, especially when it comes to homophobia and the fate of his parents' classmate Chaz. Interfering might change Chaz's future for the better, but what will it mean for Luis's own fate?" (description from School Library Journal)

Merida is transported to the past where she and her teenage mother Elinor band together to bridge the rift between Clans MacCameron and DunBroch. Published from Catalog.