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So Let Them Burn
Kamilah Cole - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Format: Hardcover
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Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who's forced to choose between saving her sister or protecting her homeland - perfect for fans of Iron Widow and The Priory of the Orange Tree. Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods.... |
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Ghost Roast
Shawneé Gibbs - Versify Format: Hardcover
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Ghost Roast delivers a paranormal adventure full of first crushes, lost histories, and the impossible task of fitting in when your dad is a professional ghosthunter. A stand-alone YA graphic novel from authors Shawneé and Shawnelle Gibbs and artist Emily Cannon!For as long as she can remember,... |
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Seven Minutes in Candyland
Brian Wasson - Quill Tree Books Format: Hardcover
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"A debut with razor-sharp wit and irresistible charm. Get ready to be swept off your feet by this heart-stopping rom-com that will have you falling head over heels with Wasson's fresh voice." - Kim Johnson, author of This Is My America This multilayered YA rom-com about follows... |
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Only on the Weekends
DEAN ATTA - BALZER BRAY Format: Hardcover
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From the Stonewall Award-winning author of The Black Flamingo comes a romantic coming-of-age novel in verse about the beautiful - and sometimes painful - fallout of pursuing the love we deserve. The ideal next read for fans of Kacen Callender, Elizabeth Acevedo, and Becky Albertalli.Fifteen-year-old... |
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Blackward
Lawrence Lindell - Drawn and Quarterly Format: Paperback
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Black, weird, awkward and proud of it. Welcome to the club!Tired of feeling like you don't belong? Join the club. It's called the Section. You'd think a spot to chill, chat, and find community would be much easier to come by for nerdy, queer punks. But when four longtime, bookish... |
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The Forest Demands Its Due
Kosoko Jackson - HarperAudio Format: Audiobook
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Everyone's Thinking It
Aleema Omotoni - HarperAudio Format: Hardcover
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Out of Body
Nia Davenport - Balzer Bray Format: Hardcover
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A high-stakes, propulsive YA thriller with a body-swap twist thoughtfully exploring themes of friendship and identity, perfect for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson.Seventeen-year-old Megan Allen has been jumping from friend group to friend group in her high school, trying on identities like outfits.... |
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The Blackwoods
Brandy Colbert - Balzer Bray Format: Book
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The Blackwoods. Everyone knows their name.
Blossom Blackwood burst onto the silver screen in 1962, and in the decades that followed, she would become one of the most celebrated actors of our time—and the matriarch of the most famous Black family in Hollywood. To her great-granddaughters,... |
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That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 1)
Brittany N. Williams - Amulet Books Format: Hardcover
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A stunning YA fantasy debut, perfect for fans of Holly Black and Justina Ireland, about a Black girl (and sword expert) fighting a Fae uprising in Shakespearean London. Sixteen-year-old Joan Sands is a gifted craftswoman who creates and upkeeps the stage blades for William Shakespeare's... |
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My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (Remixed Classics, 6)
Kalynn Bayron - Feiwel & Friends Format: Hardcover
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A teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance -- and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger -- in misty Victorian London, in Kalynn Bayron's My Dear Henry, a gothic YA remix of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, sixth in the Remixed Classics series.London,... |
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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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Cool. Awkward. Black.
Karen Strong - Viking Books for Young Readers Format: Hardcover
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Real or imaginary, geekdom is where it's at in this multi-genre YA anthology that celebrates "the geek," with stories by some of today's top bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors.. Contributors include Amerie, Kalynn Bayron, Terry J. Benton-Walker, Roseanne A. Brown,... |
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There Goes the Neighborhood
Jade Adia - Disney-Hyperion Format: Hardcover
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A raised fist against the destructive forces of gentrification and a love letter to communities of color everywhere, Jade Adia's unforgettable debut tells the darkly hilarious story of three best friends willing to do whatever it takes to stay together.The gang is fake, but the fear... |
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Promise Boys
Nick Brooks - Henry Holt and Co. Format: Hardcover
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The Hate U Give meets One Of Us Is Lying in Nick Brooks's Promise Boys, a trailblazing, blockbuster YA mystery about three teen boys of color who must investigate their principal's murder to clear their own names -- for fans of Angie Thomas, Jason Reynolds, and Karen McManus."A... |
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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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Play the Game
Charlene Allen - Katherine Tegen Books Format: Hardcover
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From debut author Charlene Allen comes a captivating YA contemporary mystery and coming-of-age story, celebrating the power of friendship, first love, and exploring the criminal justice system from the lens of restorative justice. Perfect for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, and Maureen... |
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Love Radio
Ebony LaDelle - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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Hitch meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this witty and romantic teen novel about a self-professed teen love doctor with a popular radio segment who believes he can get a girl who hates all things romance to fall in love with him in only three dates.Prince Jones is the guy with all the answers... |
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Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling
Elise Bryant - Balzer Bray Format: Hardcover
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From the NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Happily Ever Afters comes a dual POV rom-com about Reggie and Delilah, who fall in love through missed connections and chance meetings on holidays over the course of a year. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han, with crossover appeal... |
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Daughters of Oduma
Moses Ose Utomi - Atheneum Books for Young Readers Format: Hardcover
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An elite female fighter must reenter the competition to protect her found family of younger sisters in this scintillating young adult fantasy inspired by West African culture, perfect for fans of The Gilded Ones and Creed.. Eat. Dance. Fight. This is the life of the girls who compete in the Isle's... |
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Last Chance Dance
Lakita Wilson - Viking Books for Young Readers Format: Hardcover
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An utterly charming YA romance perfect for fans of Elise Bryant and Leah Johnson. . "An ode to love in all its beautiful chaos. Leila is funny, irreverent, and next-level charming, and her story is an actual joyride. Sheer delight through and through."--Becky Albertalli, New York... |
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The Minus-One Club
Kekla Magoon - Henry Holt and Co. Format: Hardcover
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From the Coretta Scott King and Printz Honor-winning author of How It Went Down, Light It Up, and Revolution In Our Time comes a moving contemporary YA novel about the bonds between a group of teens whose lives have been upended by tragedy.Fifteen-year-old Kermit Sanders knows grief and its all-encompassing... |
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Burn Down, Rise Up
Vincent Tirado - Sourcebooks Fire Format: Hardcover
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Mysterious disappearances. An urban legend rumored to be responsible. And one group of friends determined to save their city at any cost. Stranger Things meets Jordan Peele in this utterly original debut from an incredible new voice.For over a year, the Bronx has been plagued by sudden... |
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Survive the Dome
Kosoko Jackson - Sourcebooks Fire Format: Hardcover
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The Hate U Give meets Internment in this pulse-pounding thriller about an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out during a city-wide protest.Jamal Lawson just wanted to be a part of something. As an aspiring journalist, he packs... |
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Turning
Joy L. Smith - Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Format: Hardcover
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In this raw, searingly honest debut young adult novel, a former aspiring ballerina must confront her past in order to move forward from a devastating fall that leaves her without the use of her legs.Genie used to fouetté across the stage. Now the only thing she's turning are the wheels... |
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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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Instructions for Dancing
Nicola Yoon - Delacorte Press Format: Hardcover
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Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with... |
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You Should See Me in a Crown
Leah Johnson - Scholastic Press Format: Hardcover
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Becky Albertalli meets Jenny Han in a smart, hilarious, black girl magic, own voices rom-com by a staggeringly talented new writer.Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan... |
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Things We Couldn't Say
Jay Coles - Scholastic Press Format: Hardcover
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From one of the brightest and most acclaimed new lights in YA fiction, a fantastic new novel about a bi Black boy finding first love . . . and facing the return of the mother who abandoned his preacher family when he was nine.There's always been a hole in Gio's life. Not because... |
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Buckhead
SHOBO COKER
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What strange secrets lie in the mysterious town of Buckhead, USA?An astonishing Afrofuturist series from Shobo Coker (Outcasts of Jupiter) and George Kambadais (The Black Ghost) that blends the immigrant experience, African myth, and weird science in Small Town USA. Toba and h |
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Wings of Ebony
J. Elle - Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Format: Hardcover
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"Make a way out of no way" is just the way of life for Rue. But when her mother is shot dead on her doorstep, life for her and her younger sister changes forever. Rue's taken from her neighborhood by the father she never knew, forced to leave her little sister behind, and whisked... |
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Charming as a Verb
Ben Philippe - Balzer Bray Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning author of The Field Guide to the North American Teenager comes a whip-smart and layered romantic comedy. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han. Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. He is a star debater and popular student at the prestigious... |
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The Meet-Cute Project
Rhiannon Richardson Format: Hardcover
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Mia's friends love rom-coms. Mia hates them. They're silly, contrived, and not at all realistic. Besides, there are more important things to worry about - like how to handle living with her bridezilla sister, Sam, who's never appreciated Mia, and surviving junior year juggling... |
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Love Is a Revolution
Renée Watson Format: Hardcover
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When Nala Robertson reluctantly agrees to attend an open mic night for her cousin-sister-friend Imani's birthday, she finds herself falling in instant love with Tye Brown, the MC. He's perfect, except . . . Tye is an activist and is spending the summer putting on events for the community... |
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Legendborn
Tracy Deonn - Simon Pulse Format: Hardcover
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Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn's YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic.After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old... |
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