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Rana Joon and the One and Only Now
Shideh Etaat - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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This lyrical coming-of-age novel for fans of Darius the Great Is Not Okay and On the Come Up, set in southern California in 1996, follows a teen who wants to honor her deceased friend's legacy by entering a rap contest.. Perfect Iranian girls are straight A students, always polite,... |
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My Father, The Panda Killer
Jamie Jo Hoang - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant coming-of-age story told in two alternating voices: a California teenager railing against the Vietnamese culture, juxtaposed with her father as an eleven-year-old boat person on a harrowing and traumatic refugee journey from Vietnam to the United States.. San Jose, 1999. Jane... |
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Freedom Swimmer
Wai Chim - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields.When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't... |
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Redemption Prep
Samuel Miller - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover
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Twin Peaks meets Riverdale in this twisty atmospheric mystery from the critically acclaimed author of A Lite Too Bright, Samuel Miller, about the search for a missing girl at an elite prep school.Everyone knows Emma. Neesha's her best friend, Aiden's her basketball star boyfriend,... |
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All You Have to Do
Autumn Allen - Listening Library
Format: Hardcover
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Powerful, thought-provoking, and heartfelt, this debut YA novel by author Autumn Allen is a gripping look at what it takes (and takes and takes) for two Black students to succeed in prestigious academic institutions in America.In ALL YOU HAVE TO DO, two Black young men attend prestigious... |
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An Impossible Thing to Say
Arya Shahi - Allida
Format: Hardcover
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The Poet X meets A Very Large Expanse of Sea in a bold novel-in-verse starring a Persian American teen navigating his first crush, his family's post-9/11 dynamics, andthe role of language in defining who we are."A dazzling story with a whole lot of heart. Read it." - Michael... |
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Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win: A Novel
Susan Azim Boyer - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover
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Most Anticipated YA by BuzzfeedA fresh spin on the cult-classic Election meets Darius the Great Is Not Okay in Jasmine Zumideh Needs a Win when an international incident crashes into a high school election, and Jasmine is caught between doing the right thing and chasing her dream.It's... |
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The Turning Pointe
Vanessa L. Torres - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A bold and emotionally gripping novel about a teenage Latinx girl finding freedom through dance and breaking expectations in 1980s Minnesota. When sixteen-year-old Rosa Dominguez pirouettes, she is poetry in pointe shoes. And as the daughter of a tyrant ballet Master, Rosa seems destined... |
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Torch
Lyn Miller-Lachmann - Carolrhoda Lab ®
Format: Hardcover
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Three teens struggle to carve out futures for themselves under a totalitarian regime.Czechoslovakia, 1969Seventeen-year-old Pavol has watched his country's freedoms disappear in the wake of the Soviet Union's invasion. He's seen his own dreams disappear too. In a desperate,... |
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Destination Unknown
Bill Konigsberg - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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From Stonewall Award winner Bill Konigsberg, a remarkable, funny, sexy, heartbreaking story of two teen boys finding each other in New York City at the height of the AIDS epidemic.The first thing I noticed about C.J. Gorman was his plexiglass bra. So begins Destination Unknown -- it's... |
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Dead flip
Sara Farizan - Algonquin
Format: Hardcover
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Edge-of-your-seat YA horror perfect for fans of Stranger Things Growing up, Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another. Now it's 1992, Sam has been missing for five years, and Cori and Maz aren't speaking... |
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Music from Another World
Talley, Robin - INKYARD PR
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It's summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can't be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy's... |
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Time Will Tell
Barry Lyga - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Four teens have dug up the time capsule that their parents buried in 1986 and never bothered to recover. But in addition to the expected ephemera of mixtapes, Walkmans, photographs, letters, toys, and assorted junk, Elayah, Liam, Marcie, and Jorja discover something sinister: a hunting... |
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All My Rage: A Novel
Sabaa Tahir - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover
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Lahore, Pakistan. Then.Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Cloud's Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now.Salahudin and Noor... |
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The Peach Rebellion
Wendelin Van Draanen - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of The Running Dream comes a heart-swelling historical tale of friendship, family, and the power of sisterhood to help heal the wounds of the past and step boldly into the future.Ginny Rose and Peggy were best friends at seven, picking peaches on hot summer days. Peggy's... |
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Becoming Beatriz
Tami Charles - Charlesbridge Teen
Format: Hardcover
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Beatriz dreams of a life spent dancing--until tragedy on the day of her quinceaera changes everything.Up until her fifteenth birthday, the most important thing in the world to Beatriz Mendez was her dream of becoming a professional dancer and getting herself and her family far from the gang... |
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When the Ground Is Hard
Malla Nunn - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Edgar Award nominee stuns in this heartrending tale set in a Swaziland boarding school where two girls of different castes bond over a shared copy of Jane Eyre.Adele Joubert loves being one of the popular girls at Keziah Christian Academy. She knows the upcoming semester at school... |
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The House of One Thousand Eyes
MICHELLE BARKER - Annick Press
Format: Hardcover
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Who can Lena trust to help her find out the truth?Life in East Germany in the early 1980s is not easy for most people, but for Lena, it's particularly hard. After the death of her parents in a factory explosion and time spent in a psychiatric hospital recovering from the trauma, she is sent... |
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Baby and Solo
Lisabeth Posthuma - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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Seventeen-year-old Joel Teague has a new prescription from his therapist - a part-time job - the first step toward the elusive Normal life he's been so desperate to live ever since The Bad Thing happened. Lucky for Joel, ROYO Video is hiring. It's the perfect fresh start - Joel... |
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All These Bodies
Kendare Blake - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover
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Sixteen bloodless bodies. Two teenagers. One impossible explanation. In this edge-of-your-seat mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake, the truth is as hard to believe as it is to find. Summer 1958. A gruesome killer plagues the Midwest, leaving behind a trail of bodies... |
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Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger
Margarita Engle - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The people of Cuba are living in el perodo especial en tiempos de paz - the special period in times of peace. That's what the government insists that this era must be called, but the reality behind these words is starvation. Liana is struggling to find enough to eat. Yet hunger has also... |
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Like a Love Story
Abdi Nazemian - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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"A love letter to queerness, self-expression, and individuality (also Madonna) that never shies away from the ever-present fear within the queer community of late '80s New York, Like a Love Story made me feel so full - of hope, love, courage, pride, and awe for the many people... |
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Kent State
Deborah Wiles - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, a masterpiece exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four American students protesting the Vietnam War.May 4, 1970.Kent State University.As protestors roil the campus, National Guardsmen... |
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo
Format: Hardcover
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"That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other." And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: "Have you ever heard of such a thing?"Seventeen-year-old... |
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Let Me Hear a Rhyme
Tiffany D Jackson - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this striking new novel by the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly and Monday's Not Coming, Tiffany D. Jackson tells the story of three Brooklyn teens who plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he's still alive. Brooklyn, 1998. Biggie Smalls was right:... |
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The Black Kids
Christina Hammonds Reed - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"Infused with honesty, heart, and humor, The Black Kids is a true love letter to Los Angeles, highlighting the beauty and flaws of the city, and the people who call it home." - Brandy Colbert, award-winning author of Little & Lion Perfect for fans of The Hate U Give, this... |
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The Weight of Our Sky
Hanna Alkaf - Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut.Melati Ahmad looks like your typical movie-going, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. Unlike most other... |
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Don't Breathe a Word
Jordyn Taylor - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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"A fast-paced, exhilarating story about a boarding school shrouded in secrecy and the girl who will do anything to right the institution's wrongs." - Jessica Goodman, Indiebound bestselling author of They Wish They Were UsCritically acclaimed author Jordyn Taylor weaves an addictive... |
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Give Me Some Truth
ERIC GANSWORTH - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover
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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 Fountains of Silence
Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, unforgettable portrait of love, silence, and secrets amidst a Spanish dictatorship.Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco,... |
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Before We Were Free
Julia Alvarez
Format: Paperback
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Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her To Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government's secret police terrorize her remaining fa |
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The Awakening of Malcolm X
Ilyasah Shabazz - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The Awakening of Malcolm X is a powerful narrative account of the activist's adolescent years in jail, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz along with 2019 Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe award-winning author, Tiffany D. Jackson.
No one can be at peace until he has his freedom.
In... |
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We Were Promised Spotlights
Sproul, Lindsay - G P PUTNAM
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post meets Everything Leads to You in this queer young adult novel. Taylor Garland's good looks have earned her the admiration of everyone in her small town. She's homecoming queen, the life of every party, and she's on every boy's most-wanted... |
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Girls Like Us
Randi Pink - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover
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In Girls Like Us, Randi Pink masterfully weaves four lives into a larger story-as timely as ever-about a woman's right to choose her future.Four teenage girls. Four different stories. What they all have in common is that they're dealing with unplanned pregnancies.In rural Georgia,... |
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A Very Large Expanse of Sea
NOT AVAILABLE. - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature!From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful, heartrending contemporary novel about fear, first love, and the devastating impact of prejudice.It's 2002, a year after... |
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