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Those Pink Mountain Nights
Jen Ferguson - Heartdrum
Format: Hardcover
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In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past tense, the hum of connections that cannot be severed, and one week in a small, snowy town that changes everything.... |
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Forever Is Now
Mariama J. Lockington - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant and lyrical young adult novel-in-verse about a Black teen coming of age in an anxiety-inducing world, from the author of For Black Girls Like Me and In the Key of Us.. I'm safe here.. That's how Sadie feels, on a perfect summer day, wrapped in her girlfriend's arms.... |
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Shut Up, This Is Serious
Carolina Ixta - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable YA debut about two Latina teens growing up in East Oakland as they discover that the world is brimming with messy complexities, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Erika L. Sánchez.Belén Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe... |
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Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim
Patricia Park - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A multicultural teen struggles to fit into her elite prep school, her diverse Queens neighborhood, and even her own home. A hilarious, poignant, and powerful YA novel from the award-winning author of Re Jane.
"Simply brilliant!" - David Yoon, New York Times best-selling author... |
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The Boyfriend Wish
Swati Teerdhala - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover
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A charming romantic comedy about a South Indian American teen girl who makes a wish upon a flower for her perfect boyfriend ... and then a new boy moves in right next door. With love triangles, prank wars, and a sizzling sweet romance - this is perfect for fans of Sandhya Menon and Jenny... |
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Kween
Vichet Chum - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover
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A searing, joyful YA debut about a queer Cambodian American teen's journey to find her voice and step into her legacy, perfect for fans of Ibi Zoboi and Elizabeth Acevedo.Soma Kear's verses have gone viral. Trouble is, she didn't exactly think her slam poetry video through.... |
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House Party
justin a. reynolds - Joy Revolution
Format: Hardcover
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Ten bestselling, critically acclaimed authors deliver a fresh novel of interconnected stories that follows a group of young adults over the course of a few wild, transformative hours at an epic house party!. The biggest event of the year is happening, and you're invited! Join us for Florence... |
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The Luis Ortega Survival Club
Sonora Reyes - Balzer Bray
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the National Book Award Finalist The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School comes a revenge story told with nuance, heart, and the possibility of healing. An ideal next read for fans of Laurie Halse Anderson.Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic... |
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My Week with Him
Joya Goffney - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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From Joya Goffney of Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry, comes a stirring YA coming-of-age, best friends-to-lovers romance about a girl named Nikki who plans to run away from small-town Texas, but ultimately finds that her oldest friend, Mal, just might be the one who's been there for her all along.... |
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No Boy Summer
Amy Spalding - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover
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Lydia and her younger sister Penny make a pact to avoid boy drama for the summer - but Lydia can't help looking for a loophole when she falls for a cute girl. Lydia Jones and her younger sister Penny have had it with boy drama. Last year was marred by relationship disasters for both... |
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Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution
KACEN CALLENDER - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover
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From National Book Award-winner Kacen Callender, a contemporary YA that follows Lark's journey to speak the truth and discover how their own self-love can be a revolution Lark Winters wants to be a writer, and for now that means posting on their social media accounts--anything to build... |
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Love & Resistance
Kara H.L. Chen - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover
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Moxie meets Mary H.K. Choi in this funny, whip-smart YA debut about love, resistance, and the enduring friendships that make it all worthwhile. Seventeen-year-old Olivia Chang is at her fourth school in seven years. Her self-imposed solitude is lonely but safe. At Plainstown High, however,... |
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Some Kind of Hate
Sarah Darer Littman - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A critical, heart-wrenching, and hopeful book that not only shows how and why the seeds of hatred grow into a destructive force, but also the importance of owning one's actions..." -- Liza Wiemer, author of the Sydney Taylor Notable Book The AssignmentDeclan Taylor is furious... |
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All That It Ever Meant
Blessing Musariri - Norton Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Family, grief, ghosts, and a mystery: this clever and compelling young adult novel heralds a masterful new voice from Zimbabwe.Mati's family is reeling from the death of Mati's mother. Her Baba has drawn into himself, her sister Chichi is rebelling, and her young brother Tana is desperate... |
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Briarcliff Prep
Brianna Peppins - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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Set at a luxe, aspirational boarding school inspired by the author's beloved alma mater Spelman College, this debut is a captivating celebration of the friends we choose, the family we protect, and the love we owe ourselves.It's fourteen-year-old Avielle "Avi" LeBeau's... |
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Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. Daunis dreams of studying medicine, but when her family is struck by tragedy, she puts her future on hold... |
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Brighter Than the Moon
David Valdes - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Spin Me Right Round, a fresh, modern story about learning how to love--starting with yourself--as three teens who know each other online meet up and find themselves questioning everything.Shy foster kid Jonas and self-assured vlogger Shani met online, and so far, that's... |
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Kings of B'more
R ERIC THOMAS - Kokila
Format: Hardcover
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Two Black queer best friends face their last day together with an epic journey through Baltimore in this magnetic YA debut by bestselling author of Here for It R. Eric Thomas.With junior year starting in the fall, Harrison feels like he's on the precipice of, well, everything. Standardized... |
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The Chandler Legacies
Abdi Nazemian - Balzer Bray
Format: Book
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A novel about the enclosed world of privilege and silence at an elite boarding school and the unlikely group of friends who dare challenge the status quo through their writing.
Beth Kramer is a “townie” who returns to her sophomore... |
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TJ Powar Has Something to Prove
JESMEEN KAUR DEO - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A charming rom-com about high school debater TJ Powar who - after becoming the subject of an ugly meme - makes a resolution to stop shaving, plucking, and waxing, and prove that she can be her hairy self and still be beautiful...but soon finds this may be her most difficult debate yet.... |
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Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl
Joya Goffney - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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Joya Goffney, author of the acclaimedExcuse Me While I Ugly Cry,delivers a powerful second novel about a preacher's daughter in small-town Texas and her journey toward loving herself and her body, filled with heart, humor, family drama, and a dynamic love triangle.Perfect for fans ofNot... |
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Queen of the Tiles
Hanna Alkaf
Format: Hardcover
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They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen's Gambit in the world of competitive Scrabble when a teen girl is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend a year after the fact when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages.CATALYST 13 points noun:... |
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Gideon Green in Black and White
Katie Henry
Format: Hardcover
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Truly Devious meets Turtles All the Way Down in critically acclaimed author Katie Henry's YA contemporary comedic mystery, a hilarious send-up of the hardboiled detective genre that spotlights family, friendship, and love. Gideon's short-lived run as a locally famous boy detective... |
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No Filter and Other Lies
Crystal Maldonado - Holiday House
Format: Book
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You should know, right now, that I'm a liar.
They're usually little lies. Tiny lies. Baby lies. Not so much lies as lie adjacent.
But they're still lies.
Twenty one-year-old... |
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Man o' War
Cory McCarthy - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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An achingly honest and frequently hilarious coming-of-age novel about an Arab American trans swimmer fighting to keep their head above water in a landlocked Midwestern town.River McIntyre has grown up down the street from Sea Planet, an infamous marine life theme park slowly going out of business... |
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The Other Side of Perfect
Mariko Turk - Poppy
Format: Hardcover
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Alina Keeler was destined to dance, but then a terrifying fall shatters her leg&;and her dreams of a professional ballet career along with it.After a summer healing (translation: eating vast amounts of Cool Ranch Doritos and binging ballet videos on YouTube) , she is forced to trade... |
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Running
Sylvester, Natalia - CLARION BOOKS
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When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Marianna Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero--while the whole country is watching. |
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Not So Pure and Simple
Lamar Giles - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover
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An Indie Next List Pick!In his first contemporary teen novel, critically acclaimed author and two-time Edgar Award finalist Lamar Giles spotlights the consequences of societal pressure, confronts toxic masculinity, and explores the complexity of what it means to be a "real man."Del... |
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Once Upon a Quinceaera
Monica Gomez-Hira
Format: Hardcover
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"Eighteen-year-old Carmen takes on a summer internship that has her reuniting with estranged family for an over-the-top quinceanera, reluctantly reconnecting to a long-lost ex-boyfriend, and finding happiness in the chaos"-- |
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When You Were Everything
Woodfolk, Ashley - DELACORTE PR
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For fans of Nina LaCour's We Are Okay and Adam Silvera's History Is All You Left Me, this heartfelt and ultimately uplifting novel follows one sixteen-year-old girl's friend breakup through two concurrent timelines--ultimately proving that even endings can lead to new beginnings.... |
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After the Shot Drops
Randy Ribay - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful novel about friendship, basketball, and one teen's mission to create a better life for his family. Written in the tradition of Jason Reynolds, Matt de la Pea, and Walter Dean Myers, After the Shot Drops now has 3 starred reviews! * "Belongs on the shelf alongside... |
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Loveless
Alice Oseman - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Love, Simon and I Wish You All the Best, a funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of a girl who realizes that love can be found in many ways that don't involve sex or romance.From the marvelous author of Heartstopper comes an exceptional YA novel about discovering... |
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Alma Presses Play
Tina Cane - Make Me a World
Format: Hardcover
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Alma's life is a series of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and she's halfway through becoming a woman. But as long as she can listen to her Walkman, hang out with her friends on the stoops of the Village,... |
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