NaNoWriMo

It’s National Novel Writing Month! Get some motivation for this year or inspiration for next year’s challenge with these young adult fiction books about teen writers, journalists, and poets.  

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Angel of Greenwood

In 1921 in the “Black Wall Street” of Tulsa, Oklahoma, seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson, a troublemaker with a secret passion for reading, and sixteen-year-old Angel Hill, a loner whose peers disregard her as a “goody-goody,” find themselves suddenly spending a lot of time together when their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library. But as the two grow closer, their lives change drastically after a white mob destroys their community and leaves the residents displaced. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on OverDrive/Libby and as an eAudiobook on Hoopla.   


The Downstairs Girl

1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady’s maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for ‘the genteel Southern lady. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudiobook on OverDrive/Libby and Hoopla.   


Emergency Contact

When Penny Lee heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind. Sam is stuck, literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there too; he knows that this is the chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director, but right now life is really testing him.  

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudiobook on OverDrive/Libby.   


Final Draft

Eighteen-year-old Laila Piedra is a biracial aspiring author whose creative writing teacher always told her she has a special talent, so when he suddenly dies and is replaced by Nadiya Nazarenko, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who is sadistically critical and perpetually unimpressed, Laila grows obsessed with gaining the woman’s approval and is led to believe she must choose between perfection and sanity, but rejecting her all-powerful mentor may be the only way for Laila to thrive. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudiobook on Hoopla.   



Off the Record

A teen journalist uncovers the #metoo scandal of the decade: a bigshot Hollywood director is taking advantage of cast members. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudiobook on OverDrive/Libby.