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Parachutes

Kelly Yang - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

Speak enters the world of Gossip Girl in this modern immigrant story from New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang about two girls navigating wealth, power, friendship, and trauma. They're called parachutes: teenagers dropped off to live in private homes and study in the United...
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One of the Good Ones

Maika Moulite
Format: Hardcover(Original)

A shockingly powerful exploration of the lasting impact of prejudice and the indomitable spirit of sisterhood that will have readers questioning what it truly means to be an ally, from sister-writer duo Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite, authors of Dear Haiti, Love Alaine.ISN'T BEING...
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Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream

Julissa Arce - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times} A remarkable true story from social justice advocate and national bestselling author Julissa Arce about her journey to belong in America while growing up undocumented in Texas.Born in the picturesque town of Taxco, Mexico, Julissa...
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Clap When You Land

Elizabeth Acevedo - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.Camino Rios lives for the summers when...
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Laughing at My Nightmare

Shane Burcaw - Square Fish
Format: Paperback

With acerbic wit and a hilarious voice, Shane Burcaws Laughing at My Nightmare describes the challenges he faces as a twenty-one-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to having a girlfriend and everything in between, Shane handles his situation with humor and a "you-only-live-once"...
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Punching the Air

Ibi Zoboi - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo. The story that I thought...
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Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir

Liz Prince - Zest Books
Format: Paperback

Growing up, Liz Prince wasn't a girly girl, dressing in pink tutus or playing Pretty Pretty princess like the other girls in her neighborhood. But she wasn't exactly one of the guys either, as she quickly learned when her Little League baseball coach exiled her to the outfield instead...
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Light It Up

Kekla Magoon - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Told in a series of vignettes from multiple viewpoints, Kekla Magoon's Light It Up is a powerful, layered story about injustice and strength -- as well as an incredible follow-up to the highly acclaimed novel How It Went Down.A girl walks home from school. She's tall for her age....
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How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

TIM FEDERLE - Wednesday Books
Format: Paperback

An all-star collection of essays about activism and hope, edited by bestselling YA authors Tim Federle and Maureen Johnson.Now, more than ever, young people are motivated to make a difference in a world they're bound to inherit. They're ready to stand up and be heard - but with much to shout...
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The Black Flamingo

Dean Atta - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover

A fierce coming-of-age verse novel about identity and the power of drag, from acclaimed UK poet and performer Dean Atta. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Jason Reynolds, and Kacen Callender. Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what...
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Give Me Some Truth

ERIC GANSWORTH - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover

Carson Mastick is entering his senior year of high school and desperate to make his mark, on the reservation and off. A rock band -- and winning Battle of the Bands -- is his best shot. But things keep getting in the way. Small matters like the lack of an actual band, or his brother getting...
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The Silence Between Us

Alison Gervais - Blink
Format: Hardcover

Moving halfway across the country to Colorado right before senior year isn't Maya's idea of a good time. Leaving behind Pratt School for the Deaf where she's been a student for years only to attend a hearing school is even worse. Maya has dreams of breaking into the medical field and is determined...
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Pet

Akwaeke Emezi - Make Me a World
Format: Hardcover

Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look?There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors...
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Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

Ibi Zoboi - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today - Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and Black in America.Black is...sisters navigating...
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The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

Junauda Petrus - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Told in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus's bold and lyrical debut is the story of two black girls from very different backgrounds finding love and happiness in a world that seems determined to deny them both.Trinidad. Sixteen-year-old Audre is despondent, having just...
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This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

Kheryn Callender - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

~Lambda Literary Award finalist for the best LGBT YA novel of 2018~A fresh, charming rom-com perfect for fans of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Boy Meets Boy about Nathan Bird, who has sworn off happy endings but is sorely tested when his former best friend, Ollie, moves back to town.Nathan...
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Dread Nation

Justina Ireland - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestseller * Six starred reviewsAt once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar - a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet.Jane...
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Picture Us In The Light

Kelly Loy Gilbert - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

"Picture me madly in love with this moving, tender, unapologetically honest book."-Becky Albertalli, #1 best-selling author of Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Six starred reviews! Read the critically acclaimed novel that everyone is raving about. Danny Cheng has always...
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All American Boys

Jason Reynolds - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover

A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature. In this Coretta Scott King Honor Award-winning novel, two teens - one black, one white - grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their...
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Internment

Samira Ahmed - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Rebellions are built on hope.Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend...
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Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance

Bethany Morrow
Format: Hardcover


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Color outside the Lines: Stories about Love

Sangu Mandanna - Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover

This modern, groundbreaking YA anthology explores the complexity and beauty of interracial and LGBTQ+ relationships where differences are front and center.When people ask me what this anthology is about, I'm often tempted to give them the complicated answer: it's about race, and about how being...
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They Called Us Enemy

George Takei - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback

New York Times Bestseller!A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage,...
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Frankly in Love

David Yoon - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller and #1 Indie Bestseller!Two friends. One fake dating scheme. What could possibly go wrong?Frank Li has two names. There's Frank Li, his American name. Then there's Sung-Min Li, his Korean name. No one uses his Korean name, not even his parents....
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Butterfly Yellow

Thanhha Lai - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Ibi Zoboi, and Erika L. Sanchez, this gorgeously written and deeply moving own voices novel is the YA debut from the award-winning author of Inside Out & Back Again. 4 starred reviews!In the final days of the Vit Nam War, Hng takes her little brother,...
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Benjamin Alire Saenz - Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A lyrical novel about family and friendship from critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire Senz.Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing...
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Patron Saints of Nothing

Randy Ribay - Kokila
Format: Hardcover

A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall....
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Hearts Unbroken

Cynthia Leitich Smith - Candlewick
Format: Paperback

Winner of an American Indian Youth Literature Award New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith turns to realistic fiction with the thoughtful story of a Native teen navigating the complicated, confusing waters of high school - and first love.When Louise Wolfe's first...
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