Need read recommendations for your Winter Break, try this YA titles with some wintery vibes!
How to Excavate a Heart by Jack Maia Arlow
Shani’s winter plan, focus on her paleoichthyology internship and forget her recent breakup, derails when she literally hits May with her mom’s car and then keeps running into her. Snowed in together on Christmas Eve, Shani must decide whether she’s ready to risk her heart again or keep things a temporary winter fling.
How to excavate a heart | Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library
What Light by Jay Asher
When Sierra falls for Caleb, a boy who made a terrible mistake years before, she is determined to help him find forgiveness, despite the disapproval and suspicions they meet.
What light | Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library
Blame It on the Mistletoe by Beth Garrod
When influencer Elle and Christmas-loving Holly swap homes for the holidays, both hope the change will fix what’s missing in their lives. But as festive plans collide with old heartbreaks, they discover that a perfect Christmas might look nothing like they expected.
Blame it on the mistletoe | Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library
Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
Once best friends, now bitter rivals, star athlete Bradley Graeme and conspiracy-loving Celine Bangura can’t stand each other, until they’re paired in a wilderness survival course. Forced to rely on each other to win, they must confront their shared past and decide whether it’s too late to start again.
Highly suspicious and unfairly cute | Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library
This Winter by Alice Oseman
This festive novella follows Tori Spring and her brother Charlie as they face a Christmas shaped by grief, love, and complicated feelings. As Tori tries to block out the sadness just for one day, she must decide what “happy” really means.
This winter: a Heartstopper novella | Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library
Snow Globe by Soyoung Park
Given the opportunity to enter Snowglobe, the last place on Earth that's warm, where its residents, in exchange for fame, fortune and safety, broadcast their lives 24/7 to the less fortunate outside, Chobahm discovers reality is a lie--and the truth is out of reach.
Snowglobe | Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library
Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
When witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally interrupts the Dance of the Seasons and awakens the interest of the elemental spirit of Winter, she requires the help of the six-inch-high, sword-wielding, sheep-stealing Wee Free Men to put the seasons aright.
Wintersmith | Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subjects of gruesome experiments in the far North.
The golden compass | Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
Shiver | Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library
Finding My Elf by David Valdes
While home for winter break, Cameron takes a job as a Christmas elf and finally finds his "people" and possibly "the one" in the fakest consumerist nightmare place on Earth where he least expected it.